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ArticlePlant diversity2026

Complex plastome structural variation caused by intermolecular and intramolecular recombination accounts for leaf variegation in

Kainan Ma, Shuaixi Zhou, Ying Liu, Renchao Zhou

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Article in Plant diversity, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Kainan MaSchool of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
Shuaixi ZhouSchool of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
Ying LiuSchool of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
Renchao ZhouSchool of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.

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Abstract

Plastome variation, including single spontaneous nucleotide substitutions and single insertions/deletions, is the major source of leaf variegation in plants. Additionally, one recent study has showed that a simple plastome structural variation, which is induced by one pair of small inverted repeats, can also result in leaf variegation. Here we show a complex plastome structural variation caused by intermolecular and intramolecular recombination across three pairs of small inverted repeats accounts for leaf variegation in a widely cultivated shrub

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HeteroplasmyPlastomeRecombinationSmall repeatsStructural variationVariegation

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