Plant mitochondria–past, present and future

IM Møller, AG Rasmusson, O Van Aken - The Plant Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Plant mitochondrial genome diversity: the genomics revolution

JP Mower, DB Sloan, AJ Alverson - Plant genome diversity volume 1: plant …, 2012 - Springer
Mitochondrial genomes are remarkably diverse among green plants, and the explosion of
genome sequencing over the last 30 years has greatly expanded our understanding of this …

Rapid evolution of enormous, multichromosomal genomes in flowering plant mitochondria with exceptionally high mutation rates

DB Sloan, AJ Alverson, JP Chuckalovcak, M Wu… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Genome size and complexity vary tremendously among eukaryotic species and their
organelles. Comparisons across deeply divergent eukaryotic lineages have suggested that …

Repeats of unusual size in plant mitochondrial genomes: identification, incidence and evolution

EL Wynn, AC Christensen - G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Plant mitochondrial genomes have excessive size relative to coding capacity, a low mutation
rate in genes and a high rearrangement rate. They also have abundant non-tandem repeats …

Origins and recombination of the bacterial-sized multichromosomal mitochondrial genome of cucumber

AJ Alverson, DW Rice, S Dickinson, K Barry… - The Plant …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Members of the flowering plant family Cucurbitaceae harbor the largest known mitochondrial
genomes. Here, we report the 1685-kb mitochondrial genome of cucumber (Cucumis …

The “fossilized” mitochondrial genome of Liriodendron tulipifera: ancestral gene content and order, ancestral editing sites, and extraordinarily low mutation rate

AO Richardson, DW Rice, GJ Young, AJ Alverson… - BMC biology, 2013 - Springer
Background The mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants vary greatly in size, gene
content, gene order, mutation rate and level of RNA editing. However, the narrow …

The complete mitochondrial genome of the early flowering plant Nymphaea colorata is highly repetitive with low recombination

S Dong, C Zhao, F Chen, Y Liu, S Zhang, H Wu… - Bmc Genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants (angiosperms) are highly dynamic in
genome structure. The mitogenome of the earliest angiosperm Amborella is remarkable in …

[HTML][HTML] The minicircular and extremely heteroplasmic mitogenome of the holoparasitic plant Rhopalocnemis phalloides

R Yu, C Sun, Y Zhong, Y Liu, MV Sanchez-Puerta… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
The plastid and nuclear genomes of parasitic plants exhibit deeply altered architectures, 1–
13 whereas the few examined mitogenomes range from deeply altered to conventional. 14 …

Plant mitochondrial genome evolution and cytoplasmic male sterility

Z Chen, N Zhao, S Li, CE Grover, H Nie… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Mitochondria are responsible for providing energy currency to life processes in the
molecular form of ATP and are therefore typically referred to as the power factories of cells …

Variation in mitogenome structural conformation in wild and cultivated lineages of sorghum corresponds with domestication history and plastome evolution

S Zhang, J Wang, W He, S Kan, X Liao, DR Jordan… - BMC Plant …, 2023 - Springer
Background Mitochondria are organelles within eukaryotic cells that are central to the
metabolic processes of cellular respiration and ATP production. However, the evolution of …