Mitochondria are vital organelles that perform a variety of fundamental functions ranging
from the synthesis of ATP through to being intimately involved in programmed cell death …

Most of higher plant species are hermaphroditic and male-sterility is often considered as an
accident of development. In fact among the multiple possible causes of male-sterility, the …

For> 20 years, the enigmatic behavior of plant mitochondrial genomes has been well
described but not well understood. Chimeric genes appear, and occasionally are …

The plant mitochondrial genome is retained in a multipartite structure that arises by a
process of repeat-mediated homologous recombination. Low-frequency ectopic …

Background The mitochondrial genome of higher plants is unusually dynamic, with
recombination and nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) activities producing variability in …

Plant and animal mitochondrial genomes, although quite distinct in size, structure,
expression and evolutionary dynamics both may exhibit the state of heteroplasmy—the …

The plant mitochondrial genome is characterized by a complex, multipartite structure. In
cytoplasmic male-sterile (CMS) common bean, the sterility-inducing mitochondrial …

The plant mitochondrial genome is recombinogenic, with DNA exchange activity controlled
to a large extent by nuclear gene products. One nuclear gene, MSH1, appears to participate …

Mitochondrial heteroplasmy is defined as the coexistence of divergent mitochondrial
genotypes in a cell. The ratio of the alternative genomes may be variable, but in plants, the …

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) has attracted great interest because of its application in
crop breeding. Despite increasing knowledge of CMS, not much is understood about its …