The grade of early-diverging eudicots includes five major lineages: Ranunculales,
Trochodendrales, Buxales, Proteales and Sabiaceae. To examine the evolution of plastome …

Phylogenetic relationships in Rosaceae have long been problematic because of frequent
hybridisation, apomixis and presumed rapid radiation, and their historical diversification has …

More than 190 plastid genomes have been completely sequenced during the past two
decades due to advances in DNA sequencing technologies. Based on this unprecedented …

We use multiple photosynthetic, chlororespiratory, and plastid translation apparatus loci and
their associated noncoding regions (ca. 16 kb per taxon, prior to alignment) to make strongly …

Evolutionary relationships among plants have been inferred primarily using chloroplast data.
To date, no study has comprehensively examined the plastome for gene tree conflict. Using …

Reconstructing the origin and evolution of land plants and their algal relatives is a
fundamental problem in plant phylogenetics, and is essential for understanding how critical …

As molecular phylogenetic analyses incorporate evergreater numbers of loci, cases of
cytonuclear discordance–the phenomenon in which nuclear gene trees deviate significantly …

Although Pentapetalae (comprising all core eudicots except Gunnerales) include≈ 70% of
all angiosperms, the origin of and relationships among the major lineages of this clade have …

Comprising 501 genera and around 14,000 species, Papilionoideae is not only the largest
subfamily of Fabaceae (Leguminosae; legumes), but also one of the most extraordinarily …

Abstract Background and Aims Theaceae, with three tribes, nine genera and more than 200
species, are of great economic and ecological importance. Recent phylogenetic analyses …