Abstract

Minicircular organelle genomes exist in diverse species but have never been observed in plants- that is, until now. The mitochondrial genome of the holoparasite Rhopalocnemis phalloides comprises 21minicircles, which are extremely heteroplasmic, providing an exceptional example of convergent organelle evolution across disparate lineages.

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