Background Chloroplast genome resources can provide useful information for the evolution
of plant species. Tea plant (Camellia sinensis) is among the most economically valuable …

Camellia is an economically, ecologically and phylogenetically valuable genus in the family
Theaceae. The frequent interspecific hybridization and polyploidization makes this genus …

Background Cultivated tea is one of the most important economic and ecological trees
distributed worldwide. Cultivated tea suffer from long-term targeted selection of traits and …

Background Camellia is an economically and phylogenetically important genus in the family
Theaceae. Owing to numerous hybridization and polyploidization, it is taxonomically and …

The comparison of chloroplast genome (cpDNA) sequences among different plant species is
an important source of plant molecular phylogenetic data. In this paper, the cpDNA …

Background Camellia, comprising more than 200 species, is a valuable economic
commodity due to its enormously popular commercial products: tea leaves, flowers, and high …

Camellia oleifera is one of the four largest woody edible oil plants in the world with high
ecological and medicinal values. Due to frequent interspecific hybridization, it was difficult to …

Among the four species of Echinacanthus (Acanthaceae), one distributed in the West
Himalayan region and three restricted to the Sino-Vietnamese karst region. Because of its …

Qat (Catha edulis, Celastraceae) is a woody evergreen species with great economic and
cultural importance. It is cultivated for its stimulant alkaloids cathine and cathinone in East …

Clethra fargesii, an essential ecological and endemic woody plant of the genus Clethra in
Clethraceae, is widely distributed in Central China. So far, there have been a paucity of …