“…The Arabidopsis -type telomeric repeat sequences T 3 AG 3 are most like AG 3 T 3 , which are still the most frequent even in woody plants—such as species of Abies [ 37 ], Aralia [ 41 ], Cycas [ 39 ], Dendropanax [ 41 ], Eleutherococcus [ 41 ], Kalopanax [ 41 ], Malus [ 23 ], Picea [ 23 ], Pinus [ 23 , 40 , 42 , 43 , 44 ], Populus [ 35 ], Podocarpus [ 46 ], and Zamia [ 23 , 61 ]—but has been shown to be absent in species of Cestrum , Sessea , and Vestia [ 14 ]. Nevertheless, these sequences cannot be entirely equated, due to the existence of at least ten variable telomere sequences (T x A y G z ) n —including TAG 3 [ 4 ], TA 2 G 2 [ 5 ], T 2 AG 2 [ 6 ], T 2 AG 3 [ 7 ], TA 2 G 3 [ 5 ], T 3 AG 3 [ 8 , 9 , 10 ], T 4 AG 3 [ 12 ], A 2 TG 6 [ 13 ], T 2 AT 2 AG 3 [ 7 ], and T 6 AG 3 [ 14 , 15 ]—and at least seven variants, such as TCAG 2 [ 16 ], T 2 AG 2 C [ 17 ], T 2 CAG 2 [ 18 ], T 3 CAG 2 [ 18 ], C 3 TA 3 [ 19 ], T 2 N 4 AG 3 [...…”