Like their nuclear counterpart, the plastid and mitochondrial genomes of plants have to be
faithfully replicated and repaired to ensure the normal functioning of the plant. Inability to …

Plants have unique biological attributes of great interest to researchers investigating
population dynamics. Yet, until recently, organelle DNA had been seldom utilized for …

The field of comparative plastid genomics has burgeoned during the past decade, largely
due to the availability of rapid, less expensive genome sequencing technologies. Currently …

Geraniaceae plastid genomes (plastomes) have experienced a remarkable number of
genomic changes. The plastomes of Erodium texanum, Geranium palmatum, and Monsonia …

The wild rice species Oryza rufipogon with wide intraspecific variation is thought to be the
progenitor of the cultivated rice species Oryza sativa with two ecotypes, japonica and indica …

DNA double-strand breaks are highly detrimental to all organisms and need to be quickly
and accurately repaired. Although several proteins are known to maintain plastid and …

Minute inversions (4 bp in length), associated with probable hairpin secondary structures,
were inferred from comparative analysis of rpl16 intron sequences from the chloroplast …

The genetic differentiation of nuclear, mitochondrial (mt) and chloroplast (cp) genomes was
investigated by Southern and PCR analysis using 75 varieties of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa …

We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the chloroplast genome of wild rice,
Oryza nivara and compared it with the corresponding published sequence of relative …

Background Understanding population structure of the wild progenitor of Asian cultivated
rice (O. sativa), the Oryza rufipogon species complex (ORSC), is of interest to plant breeders …