More than a prickly morphology: plastome variation in the prickly pear cacti (Opuntieae)
M. Kohler, M. Reginato, J.-J. Jin, L. C. Majure
The paper investigates plastome variation in prickly pear cacti, finding significant structural and genetic differences across species, including gene loss and IR region changes.
bioRxiv · Mar 13, 2023Plant Biology