Being organelles present in higher plants and algae, and containing the entire machinery for
the process of photosynthesis and their own genetic system, chloroplasts have played …

The chloroplast genomes of angiosperms usually have a stable circular quadripartite
structure that exhibits high consistency in genome size and gene order. As one of the most …

Camellia is the largest genus in the family Theaceae. Due to phenotypic diversity, frequent
hybridization, and polyploidization, an understanding of the phylogenetic relationships …

The complete chloroplast genome of the medicinal plant Rheum palmatum
L.(Polygonaceae) has been reconstructed from the whole-genome Illumina sequencing …

The increasingly wide application of chloroplast (cp) genome super‐barcode in taxonomy
and the recent breakthrough in cp genetic engineering make the development of new cp …

Background The number of completely sequenced plastid genomes available is growing
rapidly. This array of sequences presents new opportunities to perform comparative …

With the development of next-generation sequencing technology and bioinformatics tools,
the process of assembling DNA sequences has become cheaper and easier, especially in …

Direct sequencing of total plant DNA using next generation sequencing technologies
generates a whole chloroplast genome sequence that has the potential to provide a barcode …

Chloroplast genomes of plants are highly conserved in both gene order and gene content,
are maternally inherited, and have a lower rate of evolution. Chloroplast genomes are …

A number of chloroplast genomes have been sequenced and many more are in the pipeline.
We have investigated the information contained in completely sequenced chloroplast …