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SUBMITTER: Konyves K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8592052 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Könyves Kálmán K Bilsborrow Jordan J Christodoulou Maria D MD Culham Alastair A David John J
PeerJ 20211112
Amaryllidaceae is a widespread and distinctive plant family contributing both food and ornamental plants. Here we present an initial survey of plastomes across the family and report on both structural rearrangements and gene losses. Most plastomes in the family are of similar gene arrangement and content however some taxa have shown gains in plastome length while in several taxa there is evidence of gene loss. <i>Strumaria truncata</i> shows a substantial loss of <i>ndh</i> family genes while th ...[more]