The research employed comparative genomics to analyze the chloroplast genomes of C. meiocarpa (CKX/XG) and C. oleifera (HZP), focusing on genome structures, repetitive sequences, IR region ...

Chloroplast DNA reveals that a grass may not be a grass Date: April 28, 2010 Source: American Journal of Botany Summary: Researchers recently investigated the evolution of grasses, one of the most ...

A new bioinformatics strategy provides a time- and cost-efficient method to assemble a chloroplast genome using whole-genome sequencing. In a new study, researchers extracted whole-genome sequence ...

A new bioinformatics strategy provides a time- and cost-efficient method to assemble a chloroplast genome using whole-genome sequencing. In a new study published in Applications in Plant Sciences ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) in nuclear DNA in plants serves as a ...

The chloroplast is derived from an ancestral cyanobacterial genome and still retains it plasticity. This means that lineages can have profoundly different clock rates of plastid evolution. Here, we ...

However, chloroplast DNA is maintained and inherited completely separately from nuclear DNA. Every cell can contain multiple chloroplasts, each with many identical copies of the chloroplast DNA.

Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) plays an important role in revealing the origin of species, biological evolution, and kinship between different species. C. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

If grafts somehow allow inter-species travel for chloroplasts, researchers can wonder about other cell organs. Mitochondria, which convert food to stored energy, also have DNA useful for creating ...

Chloroplasts principally encode the photosynthetic machinery in Viridiplantae. It has long been accepted that in photosynthetic plants chloroplast genomic structure is uniquely stable as it is ...