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 …

Despite the enormous diversity among parasitic angiosperms in form and structure, life-
history strategies, and plastid genomes, little is known about the diversity of their …

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 …

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

RNA editing is a process that results in the production of a messenger RNA with nucleotide
sequences that differ from those of the template DNA1, and provides another mechanism for …

Over the past 20 years, researchers investigating the mitochondria of plants have been
astonished by the phenomenal variation these organelles display relative to their …

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 …