We thank Dr.Peng-Fei Ma for improving the manuscript.We also thank the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions.The study was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program,Chinese Academy of Sciences,China(XDB 31000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970232);the Large-scale Scientific Facilities of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,China(2017-LSF-GBOWS-02);the technological leading talent project of Yunnan,China(2017HA014).
Cytidine-to-uridine(C-to-U)RNA editing is common in coding regions of organellar genomes throughout land plants.In most cases RNA editing alters translated amino acids or creates new start codons,potentially confounds...