2.5. RNA Editing Site Identification and Validation

To identify RNA editing sites, we extracted both DNA and RNA from the whole genome. We used PhyloSuite [45] software to extract the protein-coding genes (PCGs) of the studied taxa. For our prediction of C-to-U RNA editing events in plant mitochondria, we employed Deepred-Mt [49], a program that uses deep characterization learning. This program used default parameters to predict each PCG for the selected species.