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The plastid genome (plastome ) has proved a valuable source of data for evaluating evolutionary relationships among angiosperms. Through basic and applied approaches, plastid transformation technology offers the potential to understand and improve plant productivity, providing food, fiber, energy, and medicines to meet the needs of a burgeoning global population. The growing genomic resources available to both phylogenetic and biotechnological investigations is allowing novel insights and expanding the scope of plastome research to encompass new species. In this chapter, we present an overview of some of the seminal and contemporary research that has contributed to our current understanding of plastome evolution and attempt to highlight the relationship between evolutionary mechanisms and the tools of plastid genetic engineering.
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Support for this study was provided by the National Science Foundation (DEB-0717372 to R.K.J. and IOS-1027259 and DEB-1853024 to R.K.J. and T.A.R.), the Sidney F. and Doris Blake Professorship in Systematic Botany to R.K.J., and the Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation (to T.A.R. and R.K.J.). The authors thank J. Chris Blazier for comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
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Ruhlman, T.A., Jansen, R.K. (2021). Plastid Genomes of Flowering Plants: Essential Principles. In: Maliga, P. (eds) Chloroplast Biotechnology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2317. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1472-3_1
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