The chicken or the egg? Plastome evolution and an independent loss of the inverted repeat in papilionoid legumes

C Lee, IS Choi, D Cardoso, HC de Lima… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The plastid genome (plastome), while surprisingly constant in gene order and content
across most photosynthetic angiosperms, exhibits variability in several unrelated lineages …

More than a spiny morphology: plastome variation in the prickly pear cacti (Opuntieae)

M Köhler, M Reginato, JJ Jin, LC Majure - Annals of Botany, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Plastid genomes (plastomes) have long been recognized as highly conserved
in their overall structure, size, gene arrangement and content among land plants. However …

Structural and gene composition variation of the complete mitochondrial genome of Mammillaria huitzilopochtli (Cactaceae, Caryophyllales), revealed by de novo …

D Cruz Plancarte, S Solórzano - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Background Structural descriptions of complete genomes have elucidated evolutionary
processes in angiosperms. In Cactaceae (Caryophyllales), a high structural diversity of the …

Insights into chloroplast genome evolution across Opuntioideae (Cactaceae) reveals robust yet sometimes conflicting phylogenetic topologies

M Köhler, M Reginato, TT Souza-Chies… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Chloroplast genomes (plastomes) are frequently treated as highly conserved among land
plants. However, many lineages of vascular plants have experienced extensive structural …

Unprecedented Intraindividual Structural Heteroplasmy in Eleocharis (Cyperaceae, Poales) Plastomes

C Lee, TA Ruhlman, RK Jansen - Genome Biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Plastid genomes (plastomes) of land plants have a conserved quadripartite structure in a
gene-dense unit genome consisting of a large inverted repeat that separates two single …

Phylogenomics and biogeography of the Mammilloid Clade revealed an intricate evolutionary history arose in the Mexican Plateau

DA Chincoya, S Arias, F Vaca-Paniagua, P Dávila… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cacti account for nearly 1440 species, most of them native to the American
continent. These succulent plants are the most ubiquitous elements of the arid ecosystems …

Plastome evolution in the Caesalpinia group (Leguminosae) and its application in phylogenomics and populations genetics

P Aecyo, A Marques, B Huettel, A Silva, T Esposito… - Planta, 2021 - Springer
Main conclusion The chloroplast genomes of Caesalpinia group species are structurally
conserved, but sequence level variation is useful for both phylogenomic and population …

Genetic and evolutionary analyses of plastomes of the subfamily Cactoideae (Cactaceae) indicate relaxed protein biosynthesis and tRNA import from cytosol

G Morais da Silva, A de Santana Lopes… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Cactaceae arose ca. 30–35 million years ago (Mya) and comprises keystone
species of arid and semiarid biomes. Various specific features related to morphology …

The complete plastomes of red fleshed pitaya (Selenicereus monacanthus) and three related Selenicereus species: insights into gene losses, inverted repeat …

Q Qin, J Li, S Zeng, Y Xu, F Han, J Yu - Physiology and Molecular Biology …, 2022 - Springer
Selenicereus is a genus of perennial shrub from the family Cactaceae, and some of them
play an important role in the food industry, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and medicine. To …

The plastome of Melocactus glaucescens Buining & Brederoo reveals unique evolutionary features and loss of essential tRNA genes

TP Dalla Costa, MC Silva, A de Santana Lopes… - Planta, 2022 - Springer
Main conclusion The plastome of Melocactus glaucescens shows unique rearrangements,
IR expansion, and unprecedented gene losses in Cactaceae. Our data indicate tRNA import …