Organellar-genome analyses from the lycophyte genus Isoetes L. show one of the highest frequencies of RNA editing in land plants

• Published in: Frontiers in plant science Vol. 15; p. 1298302
• Main Authors: Pereira, Jovani Bernardino de Souza, Oliveira, Renato Renison Moreira, Vasconcelos, Santelmo, Dias, Mariana Costa, Caldeira, Cecı́lio Frois, Quandt, Dietmar, Oliveira, Guilherme, Prado, Jefferson
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 12.03.2024
• Subjects: evolutionary adaptation; lycophytes; mitogenome; Plant Science; plastome; protein-coding regions; RNA modification; RNA modification; evolutionary adaptation; plastome; mitogenome; lycophytes; vascular seed-free plants; protein-coding regions

RNA editing is a post-transcriptional process that challenges the central dogma of molecular biology by modifying RNA sequences, introducing nucleotide changes at specific sites, and generating functional diversity beyond the genomic code, especially when it concerns organellar transcripts. In plant...