Current Science

Mettu Madhavi Reddy ¹, Kandasamy Ulaganathan ¹

Affiliations
1 Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007, IN

Abstract

Mitochondria play a key role in plant development, energy production, metabolism and cell homeostasis. Plant and animal mitochondria differ with respect to their genomes. Plant mitochondrial genome is generally larger compared to those of animals (208 kb-11.3 Mb) and is present in relatively fewer copies.

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