The ancient DNA revolution of the past 35 years has driven an explosion in the breadth,
nuance, and diversity of questions that are approachable using ancient biomolecules, and …

Background The world's herbaria contain millions of specimens, collected and named by
thousands of researchers, over hundreds of years. However, this treasure has remained …

Salvia miltiorrhiza has been an economically important medicinal plant. Previously, an S.
miltiorrhiza mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) assembled from Illumina short reads …

Species trees have traditionally been inferred from a few selected markers, and genome‐
wide investigations remain largely restricted to model organisms or small groups of species …

Herbarium collections are natural history collections and as such, are repositories of plant
biodiversity and have been central to botanical knowledge for over four centuries. The Index …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Reconstruction of plant phylogeny has heavily relied on single‐
gene or multigene plastid data. New sequencing methods have led to an increasing number …

Using massive parallel sequencing, which has become known as second-generation
sequencing, some of the classic roadblocks to using herbarium DNA have been overcome …

The olive family, Oleaceae, is a group of woody plants comprising 28 genera and ca. 700
species, distributed on all continents (except Antarctica) in both temperate and tropical …

Premise Resolving relationships within order Commelinales has posed quite a challenge,
as reflected in its unstable infra‐familial classification. Thus, we investigated (1) …

The mitogenome is rarely used to reconstruct the evolutionary history of plants, contrary to
nuclear and plastid markers. Here, we evaluate the usefulness of mitochondrial DNA for …