Transgenic plants expressing MinD or MinE and an efficient method for plant chloroplast transformation and gene expression

摘要

The present invention concerns transgenic plant which contain large chloroplasts. The transgenic plant of the present invention comprises within its genome a foreign MinD or MinE gene or a foreign gene which expresses a protein which has the same functional activity as the Arabidopsis thaliana MinD or MinE protein. The present invention further concerns a method of producing the transgenic plants of the present invention which contain large chloroplasts. Finally, the present invention concerns a method of transforming the chloroplasts genome of the transgenic plants of the present invention which contain large chloroplasts.