Article
Highly rearranged and size-variable chloroplast genomes in conifers II clade (cupressophytes): evolution towards shorter intergenic spacers.
Plant biotechnology journal - 1 Apr 2014
Wu Chung-Shien, Chaw Shu-Miaw
Abstract excerpt
Although conifers are of immense ecological and economic value, bioengineering of their chloroplasts remains undeveloped. Understanding the chloroplast genomic organization of conifers can facilitate their bioengineering. Members of the conifer II clade (or cupressophytes) are highly diverse in both morphologic features and chloroplast genomic organization. We compared six cupressophyte chloroplast genomes...
Topics
- Chloroplasts
- DNA, Chloroplast
- DNA, Intergenic
- DNA, Plant
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Rearrangement
- Genome Size
- Genome, Chloroplast
- Genomic Structural Variation
- Molecular Sequence Annotation
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- Plant Leaves
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Tracheophyta