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 …

A study in BMC Evolutionary Biology represents the most comprehensive effort to clarify the
phylogeny of green plants using sequences from the plastid genome. This study highlights …

The plastid genomes of early-diverging angiosperms were among the first land plant
plastomes investigated. Despite their importance to understanding angiosperm evolution, no …

The field of comparative plastid genomics has burgeoned during the past decade, largely
due to the availability of rapid, less expensive genome sequencing technologies. Currently …

Background Molecular evolutionary studies share the common goal of elucidating historical
relationships, and the common challenge of adequately sampling taxa and characters …

Based on the recent hypothesis on the origin of eukaryotic phototrophs, red algae, green
plants, and glaucophytes constitute the “primary photosynthetic eukaryotes”(whose plastids …

The plastid organelle is essential for many vital cellular processes and the growth and
development of plants. The availability of a large number of complete plastid genomes could …

Background Plastid genome structure and content is remarkably conserved in land plants.
This widespread conservation has facilitated taxon-rich phylogenetic analyses that have …

Plastid genomes are an invaluable resource for plant biological studies. However, the
number of completely sequenced plant plastid genomes is still small compared with the vast …

Phylogenomics is a new synthesized discipline which combines genomics with
phylogenetics. Phylogenomics based on chloroplast genomes has shown many great …