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SUBMITTER: Choi IS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6496590 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi In-Su IS Jansen Robert R Ruhlman Tracey T
Genome biology and evolution 20190401 4
The plant genome comprises a coevolving, integrated genetic system housed in three subcellular compartments: the nucleus, mitochondrion, and the plastid. The typical land plant plastid genome (plastome) comprises the sum of repeating units of 130-160 kb in length. The plastome inverted repeat (IR) divides each plastome monomer into large and small single copy regions, an architecture highly conserved across land plants. There have been varying degrees of expansion or contraction of the IR, and i ...[more]