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Raison d’être of the plastid repeat

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Creation of a plastid genome without an inverted repeat in Nicotiana tabacum reveals a role for the inverted repeat in gene dosage and the regulation of replication by total DNA content rather than copy number.

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Fig. 1: Comparison of plastomes in wild type and the IR-less lines and the predictions and experimental validation of five different hypotheses regarding IR function in the plastome.

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