Members of the flowering plant family Cucurbitaceae harbor the largest known mitochondrial
genomes. Here, we report the 1685-kb mitochondrial genome of cucumber (Cucumis …

Closely related cucurbit species possess eightfold differences in the sizes of their
mitochondrial genomes. We cloned mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) fragments showing strong …

The mitochondrial genomes of seed plants are unusually large and vary in size by at least
an order of magnitude. Much of this variation occurs within a single family, the …

Background The melon belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, whose economic importance
among vegetable crops is second only to Solanaceae. The melon has a small genome size …

Plant mitochondrial genomes are usually assembled and displayed as circular maps based
on the widely-held view across the broad community of life scientists that circular genome …

Size and Organization Higher plant mitochondrial genomes are much larger and more
complex than those of other organisms. They vary in size from about 200 kb in Brassica …

The mitochondrial genomes of seed plants are exceptionally fluid in size, structure, and
sequence content, with the accumulation and activity of repetitive sequences underlying …

Genome size and complexity vary tremendously among eukaryotic species and their
organelles. Comparisons across deeply divergent eukaryotic lineages have suggested that …

Although plants generally show maternal transmission of the organellar genomes, previous
research has demonstrated that the mitochondrial (mt) genome of cucumber is paternally …

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