plastome

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noun

The part of the genome of a photosynthetic plant found in its plastid

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Meanings

nounplastome (plural plastomes)

plural plastomes

  1. The part of the genome of a photosynthetic plant found in its plastid

    The subset includes Bambusa oldhamii (NC_012927), Zea mays (NC_001666) and all species in which plastomes were generated in this study using NGS Divergence dates were estimated using BEAST v2.1.2 and parameters were set in BEAUTi.

    2015 July 11, Joseph L. Cotton et al., “Resolving deep relationships of PACMAD grasses: a phylogenomic approach”, in BMC Plant Biology, volume 15, →DOI

Origin

From plastid + -ome.

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Anagrams

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