Selected Publications
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Cyanobacterial photosystem II reaction center design in tobacco chloroplasts increases biomass in low light
Yuan Zhang, Gennady Ananyev, Aki Matsuoka, G. Charles Dismukes† and Pal Maliga† (2022) Plant Physiology https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac578
Engineering the plastid and mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants
Nature Plants (2022) 8, 996-1006, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01227-6
Multiple sgRNAs for one-step inactivation of the duplicated acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase 2 (ACC2) genes in Brassica napus
LaManna, L.M., Parulekar, M.S. & Maliga, P. (2022) Plant Physiol. 189: 178-187
Prospects for reengineering Agrobacterium tumefaciens for T-DNA delivery to chloroplasts
Aki Matsuoka and Pal Maliga (2021) Plant Physiol. 186: 215-220. DOI:10.1093/plphys/kiab081
Independent translation of ORFs in dicistronic operons, synthetic building blocks for polycistronic chloroplast gene expression.
Yu Q, Tungsuchat-Huang T, Verma K, Radler MR, Maliga P (2020) Plant J. 103, 2318-2329. doi: 10.1111/tpj.14864
New Tools for Engineering the Arabidopsis Plastid Genome.
Yu, Q., Lamanna, L.M., Kelly, M.E., Lutz, K.A. and Maliga, P. (2019) Plant Physiol. 181: 394-398. DOI:10.1104/pp.19.00761
Engineered RNA-binding protein for transgene activation in non-green plastids.
Yu Q, Barkan A, Maliga P. (2019) Nat Plants. 5:486-490.
Engineered PPR proteins as inducible switches to activate the expression of chloroplast transgenes.
Rojas M, Yu Q, Williams-Carrier R, Maliga P, Barkan A. (2019) Nat Plants. 5:505-511.
Efficient plastid transformation in Arabidopsis
Yu, Q., Lutz, K.A. and Maliga, P. (2017) Plant Physiol. 175: 186-193.
Cell-to cell movement of mitochondria in plants
Gurdon, C., Svab, Z., Feng, Y. Kumar, D., and P. Maliga, P. (2016) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113: 3395-400.
Cell-to-cell movement of plastids in plants
Thyssen G, Svab Z, & Maliga P (2012). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109: 2439-2443.
Visual marker and Agrobacterium-delivered recombinase enable the manipulation of the plastid genome in greenhouse-grown tobacco plants
Tungsuchat-Huang, T. & Maliga, P. (2012) Plant J. 70: 717-725.
Plastid biotechnology: food, fuel and medicine for the 21st century
Maliga, P. and Bock, R. (2011) Plant Physiol. 155: 1501-1510.