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Plant Mitochondrial Genome Diversity: The Genomics Revolution

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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 diversity. Genome sizes range from 20 kilobases in some green algae to several megabases in certain angiosperms. The repertoire of genes, introns, repeats, and RNA editing is also variable, as is the amount of DNA integrated from foreign sources, including the plastid, nucleus, and other species. Genome structure is labile due to recombination involving large and small repeats, which produces multiple genomic arrangements within species and loss of synteny among species. In this review, we describe the range of diversity among plant mitochondrial genomes, discuss how the genomics revolution has advanced our understanding of this diversity, and stress the importance of future studies to resolve remaining uncertainties

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Acknowledgements

We thank Alan Christensen, Volker Knoop, Sally Mackenzie, David Smith, Jonathan Wendel and Paul Wolf for providing comments and corrections to improve the manuscript and Wenhu Guo for help in compiling the intron distribution information in Fig. 9.5. Research in the Mower Lab on plant mitochondria is funded by the National Science Foundation (IOS-1027529 and MCB-1125386) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AJA was funded by a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship (1F32GM080079-01A1).

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  1. Center for Plant Science Innovation and Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA

    Jeffrey P. Mower

  2. Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Daniel B. Sloan

  3. Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

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Mower, J.P., Sloan, D.B., Alverson, A.J. (2012). Plant Mitochondrial Genome Diversity: The Genomics Revolution. In: Wendel, J., Greilhuber, J., Dolezel, J., Leitch, I. (eds) Plant Genome Diversity Volume 1. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1130-7_9

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