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We have determined the nucleotide sequence at the junction of the large single copy (LSC) region and the right and left members of the large inverted repeat, IRA and IRB, respectively, of the petunia chloroplast (cp) genome. As in Nicotiana debneyi and spinach (Zurawski et al. 1984), coding sequences of rps19 of petunia overlap the junction of IRB and LSC. Immediately into the LSC region upstream of IRA in the petunia cp genome are two small insertions relative to N. debneyi that occur at sites just inside IRA of N. debneyi. We discuss how these additions in one copy of the large inverted repeat of an N. debneyi like ancestor to petunia resulted in shortening of the petunia large inverted repeat by 8 bases and in the resultant slight movement of rps19 farther into LSC. On a larger scale, the large inverted repeat in the tobacco, N. debneyi and petunia lineage relative to a spinach-like ancestor may have sustained several contractions due to deletions between short direct repeats found within IRA and the IRA/LSC junction. We also show how the large inverted repeat of N. debneyi instead may have been expanded relative to a tobacco-like ancestor by insertion into the large inverted repeat of bases between short inverted repeat sequences in LSC and the LSC/IRB junction.
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Aldrich, J., Cherney, B.W. & Williams, C. Sequence analysis of the junction of the large single copy region and the large inverted repeat in the petunia chloroplast genome. Curr Genet 14, 487–492 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00521274
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