Plastome

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From plastid + -ome.

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