Editorial: Structural variation of the chloroplast genome and related bioinformatics tools.

This document is an editorial published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science. It discusses the analysis of plastomes, which are the genomes of plant chloroplasts, and related bioinformatics tools. The editorial emphasizes the importance of comprehensive studies on plastomes for plant phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular identification. It also mentions the challenges in assembling and analyzing plastomes with unique features and introduces a research topic on this subject, which includes ten research articles. The document suggests that future research should focus on studying plastomes in parasitic plants, saprophytic plants, and plants living in extreme environments. [Extracted from the article]