Photosynthetic Mutant Library

Project Goals

• Generate a saturated collection of Mu-induced non-photosynthetic maize mutants
• Use the mutant collection as a forward and reverse genetic resource to:
  1. determine the roles of nuclear genes of known sequence but unknown function that encode chloroplast-localized proteins
  2. identify and clone new nuclear genes that are required for the biogenesis of a functional chloroplast