Figure 1.

Comparison of lupine chloroplast rps16 coding-sequences with legume rps16 sequences (Glycine max and Lotus japonicus) and Cucumis sativus rps16 sequence (outgroup). The ribosomal protein S16 domain is indicated between brackets. The presence of a pre-mature stop codon within the rps16 functional domain of L. albus and L. micranthus is represented by a black asterisk. The black triangle denotes the position of rps16 intron. It is important to note that the five lupine species present incorrect splicing sites according to.⁵⁹