More than a spiny morphology: plastome variation in the prickly pear cacti (Opuntieae)

M Köhler, M Reginato, JJ Jin, LC Majure - Annals of Botany, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Plastid genomes (plastomes) have long been recognized as highly conserved
in their overall structure, size, gene arrangement and content among land plants. However …

[HTML][HTML] Plastome variations reveal the distinct evolutionary scenarios of plastomes in the subfamily Cereoideae (Cactaceae)

J Yu, J Li, Y Zuo, Q Qin, S Zeng, H Rennenberg… - BMC Plant …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The cactus family (Cactaceae) has been reported to have evolved a
minimal photosynthetic plastome size, with the loss of inverted-repeat (IR) regions and NDH …

[HTML][HTML] Plastomes of Bletilla (Orchidaceae) and Phylogenetic Implications

S Han, R Wang, X Hong, C Wu, S Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The genus Bletilla is a small genus of only five species distributed across Asia, including B.
chartacea, B. foliosa, B. formosana, B. ochracea and B. striata, which is of great medicinal …

Plastid phylogenomic insights into relationships, divergence, and evolution of Apiales

DF Xie, C Xie, T Ren, BN Song, SD Zhou, XJ He - Planta, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Main conclusion Members of Apiales are monophyletic and radiated in the Late
Cretaceous. Fruit morphologies are critical for Apiales evolution and negative selection and …

More than a prickly morphology: plastome variation in the prickly pear cacti (Opuntieae)

M Köhler, M Reginato, JJ Jin, LC Majure - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Plastid genomes (plastomes) have long been recognized as highly conserved in their
overall structure, size, gene arrangement and content among land plants. However, recent …