SWL1

• Symbol: SWL1
• MSU: LOC_Os04g42030
• RAPdb: Os04g0497900

• A mutable albino allele in rice reveals that formation of thylakoid membranes requires the SNOW-WHITE LEAF1 gene., 2013, Plant Cell Physiol.

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• The variegated albino phenotype was caused by insertion and excision of nDart1-0 in the 5'-untranslated region of the SWL1 gene predicted to encode an unknown protein with the N-terminal chloroplast transit peptide
• This study revealed that SWL1 is essential for the beginning of thylakoid membrane organization during chloroplast development
• In the swl1 mutant, formations of grana and stroma thylakoids and prolamellar bodies were inhibited