Land plants possess some of the most unusual mitochondrial genomes among eukaryotes.
However, in early land plants these genomes resemble those of green and red algae or …

Background Mitochondrial gene loss and functional transfer to the nucleus is an ongoing
process in many lineages of plants, resulting in substantial variation across species in …

The mitochondrial genome of Liriodendron tulipifera exhibits many ancestral angiosperm
features and a remarkably slow evolutionary rate, while mitochondrial genomes of other …

Mitochondrial sequences are an important source of data in animal phylogenetics,
equivalent in importance to plastid sequences in plants. However, in recent years plant …

Camellia gigantocarpa is one of the oil-tea trees whose seeds can be used to extract high-
quality vegetable oil. To date, there are no data on the mitochondrial genome of the oil-tea …

Background Spirodela polyrhiza is a species of the order Alismatales, which represent the
basal lineage of monocots with more ancestral features than the Poales. Its complete …

Plant mitochondrial (mt) genomes are species specific due to the vast of foreign DNA
migration and frequent recombination of repeated sequences. Sequencing of the mt …

Background Organelle genome studies of Fabaceae, an economically and ecologically
important plant family, have been biased towards the plastid genome (plastome). Thus far …

Apostasia shenzhenica belongs to the subfamily Apostasioideae and is a primitive group
located at the base of the Orchidaceae phylogenetic tree. However, the A. shenzhenica …

Complete mitochondrial genome sequences are now available for representatives of all
major clades of land plants except for the ferns (monilophytes). More than 30 chondrome …