The study of plant mitochondria started in earnest around 1950 with the first isolations of
mitochondria from animal and plant tissues. The first 35 years were spent establishing the …

The large mitochondrial genomes of angiosperms are unusually dynamic because of
recombination activities involving repeated sequences. These activities generate …

Simple Summary Research on plant epigenetics aims to understand how endogenous,
biotic, and abiotic factors regulate plant development and growth independent of changes in …

Apart from their agronomic importance in hybrid seed production, mutations that encode
cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) provide a means to probe the role of the mitochondrion in …

Plant mitochondria have a complex and peculiar genetic system. They have the largest
genomes, as compared to organelles from other eukaryotic organisms. These can expand …

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 …

Since the endosymbiont origin from α‐Proteobacteria, mitochondrial genomes have
undergone extremely divergent evolutionary trajectories among eukaryotic lineages …

Plant mitochondrial genomes have excessive size relative to coding capacity, a low mutation
rate in genes and a high rearrangement rate. They also have abundant non-tandem repeats …

It is generally assumed that mitochondrial genomes are uniparentally transmitted,
homoplasmic and nonrecombining. However, these assumptions draw largely from early …

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 …