… Most of the additional DNA found in plant mitochondrial genomes consists of large … , plant
mtDNA does not exist as large circular DNA molecules but mostly as a collection of linear DNA …

… "plant mtDNA" will be used in this chapter to refer to angiosperm genomes. Like all other
characterized mitochondrial genomes, plant mtDNA … In addition, plant mtDNA encodes at least …

… and mode of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) evolution in … plant mtDNAs is roughly 4 times
slower than in land plant chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) and 100 times slower than in animal mtDNA. …

… reasons for structural diversity in plant mitochondrial DNA, we used long-read (PacBio) and
short-read (Illumina) sequencing data to assemble and compare mitochondrial genomes of …

… molecular structure of plant mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has … of mitochondrial genomes from
numerous plant species have … not the predominant form of plant mtDNA and have revealed …

… plant mtDNA provide an attractive reservoir of phylogenetic information to trace the phylogeny
of older land plant … of land plant mitochondrial evolution from a phylogenetic perspective. …

… mitochondrial genome of plants is a challenge to molecular evolutionary biologists. Its content
is highly dynamic: plant mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) … than for nuclear DNA. These features …

… In the case of higher plant mitochondria, extraordinary differences in mitochondrial … genome
probably resembles the primitive form of plant mitochondrial genome. Nucleotide sequences …

… characteristic of plant mitochondrial genetic … the mitochondrial DNA. In line with, or as a
consequence of its complex physical organization, replication of the plant mitochondrial DNA is …

… mitochondrial DNA; mechanisms of mitochondrial genome divergence (in animal, fungal and
plant mtDNA); origin of mitochondrial DNA… the pathways of mitochondrial genome evolution…