Structural Variation of the Chloroplast Genome and Related Bioinformatics Tools

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Structural Variation of the Chloroplast Genome and Related Bioinformatics Tools is written by Tapan Kumar Mohanta and published by Frontiers Media SA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 2832548113 (ISBN 10) and 9782832548110 (ISBN 13).

The plastid genome has been the most important source of data for the reconstruction of plant phylogeny and taxonomic studies. With the rapid advancement of sequencing technology and bioinformatics, it has become laboratory routine work for obtaining plastid genomes (plastome), and population studies can be performed using chloroplast genome data. However, plastid genomes with specific characters such as pseudogenes, gene losses, gene duplications, gene rearrangements, widespread intra-individual polymorphisms, large-scale horizontal gene transfer, etc. have not been systematically studied. For example, plastomes of several saprophytic plants were confirmed to have lost many photosynthesis genes. The IR region of some plants decreased to several hundred base pairs, disappears completely, increased by dozens of kb, or repeat in the same direction. Most of these chloroplast structural variations are related to import plant evolution or special environmental adaptation, but their mechanisms are still unclear and effective analytical tools are lacking.