Common oat (Avena sativa) is an important cereal crop serving as a valuable source of
forage and human food. Although reference genomes of many important crops have been …

Members of Polygonatum are perennial herbs that have been widely used in traditional
Chinese medicine to invigorate Qi, moisten the lung, and benefit the kidney and spleen …

Background Zingiberoideae is a large and diverse subfamily of the family Zingiberaceae.
Four genera in subfamily Zingiberoideae each possess 50 or more species, including …

Uncaria, a perennial vine from the Rubiaceae family, is a typical Chinese traditional
medicine. Currently, uncertainty exists over the Uncaria genus' evolutionary relationships …

Paraboea (Gesneriaceae) distributed in the karst areas of South and Southwest China and
Southeast Asia, is an ideal genus to study the phylogeny and adaptive evolution of karst …

The chloroplast genome (plastome) of angiosperms (particularly photosynthetic members) is
generally highly conserved, although structural rearrangements have been reported in a few …

Background Massive parallel sequencing technologies have enabled the elucidation of
plant phylogenetic relationships from chloroplast genomes at a high pace. These include …

Urticeae sl, a tribe of Urticaceae well-known for their stinging trichomes, consists of more
than 10 genera and approximately 220 species. Relationships within this tribe remain poorly …

Abstract Background Species in genus Amomum always have important medicinal and
economic values. Classification of Amomum using morphological characters has long been …

Coleanthus subtilis (Tratt.) Seidel (Poaceae) is an ephemeral grass from the monotypic
genus Coleanthus Seidl, which grows on wet muddy areas such as fishponds or reservoirs …