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Evidence for horizontal transfer of mitochondrial DNA to the plastid genome in a bamboo genus.
Scientific reports - 23 Jun 2015
Ma Peng-Fei, Zhang Yu-Xiao, Guo Zhen-Hua, Li De-Zhu
Abstract excerpt
In flowering plants, three genomes (nuclear, mitochondrial, and plastid) coexist and intracellular horizontal transfer of DNA is prevalent, especially from the plastid to the mitochondrion genome. However, the plastid genomes are generally conserved in evolution and have long been considered immune to foreign DNA. Recently, the opposite direction of DNA transfer from the mitochondrial to the plastid genome has...
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