The chicken or the egg? Plastome evolution and a novel loss of the inverted repeat in papilionoid legumes
C. Lee, I.-S. Choi, D. Cardoso, H. C. de Lima, M. F. Wojciechowski, R. K. Jansen, T. A. Ruhlman
This study analyzes plastome evolution in papilionoid legumes, identifying a novel loss of the inverted repeat in a genistoid taxon and highlighting recombination's role in plastome structural changes.
bioRxiv · Feb 4, 2021Plant Biology