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Plastomes of heterotrophs went through varying degrees of degradation along with the transition from autotrophic to heterotrophic lifestyle. Here, we identified the plastome of mycoheterotrophic species  Burmannia itoana  and compared it with those of its reported relatives including three autotrophs and one heterotroph ( Thismia tentaculata ) in Dioscoreales.  B .  itoana  yields a rampantly degraded plastome reduced in size and gene numbers at the advanced stages of degradation. Its length is 44,463 bp with a quadripartite structure.  B. itoana  plastome contains 33 tentatively functional genes and six tentative pseudogenes, including several unusually retained genes. These unusual retention suggest that the inverted repeats (IRs) regions and possibility of being compensated may prolong retention of genes in plastome at the advanced stage of degradation. Otherwise, six rearrangements including four inversions (Inv1/Inv2/Inv3/Inv4) and two translocations (Trans1/Trans2) were detected in  B. itoana  plastome vs. its autotrophic relative  B. disticha . We speculate that Inv1 may be mediated by recombination of distinct tRNA genes, while Inv2 is likely consequence of extreme gene losses due to the shift to heterotrophic lifestyle. The other four rearrangements involved in IRs and small single copy region may attribute to multiple waves of IRs and overlapping inversions. Our study fills the gap of knowledge about plastomes of heterotroph in  Burmannia  and provides a new evidence for the convergent degradation patterns of plastomes en route to heterotrophic lifestyle.

Plastome of mycoheterotrophicBurmannia itoanaMak. (Burmanniaceae) exhibits extensive degradation and distinct rearrangements