Plastid phylogenomic analysis of green plants: a billion years of evolutionary history

MA Gitzendanner, PS Soltis, GKS Wong… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study For the past one billion years, green plants (Viridiplantae) have
dominated global ecosystems, yet many key branches in their evolutionary history remain …

Plastome phylogenetics: 30 years of inferences into plant evolution

MA Gitzendanner, PS Soltis, TS Yi, DZ Li… - Advances in botanical …, 2018 - Elsevier
From restriction site analyses to whole plastid genome sequences, our understanding of
green plant (Viridiplantae;~ 500,000 extant species) evolutionary relationships over the past …

From algae to angiosperms–inferring the phylogeny of green plants (Viridiplantae) from 360 plastid genomes

BR Ruhfel, MA Gitzendanner, PS Soltis… - BMC evolutionary …, 2014 - Springer
Background Next-generation sequencing has provided a wealth of plastid genome
sequence data from an increasingly diverse set of green plants (Viridiplantae). Although …

Plastid phylogenomic insights into relationships of all flowering plant families

HT Li, Y Luo, L Gan, PF Ma, LM Gao, JB Yang, J Cai… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Flowering plants (angiosperms) are dominant components of global terrestrial
ecosystems, but phylogenetic relationships at the familial level and above remain only …

Plastome phylogenomic study of Gentianeae (Gentianaceae): widespread gene tree discordance and its association with evolutionary rate heterogeneity of plastid …

X Zhang, Y Sun, JB Landis, Z Lv, J Shen, H Zhang… - BMC Plant …, 2020 - Springer
Background Plastome-scale data have been prevalent in reconstructing the plant Tree of
Life. However, phylogenomic studies currently based on plastomes rely primarily on …

Complete plastid genomes from Ophioglossum californicum, Psilotum nudum, and Equisetum hyemale reveal an ancestral land plant genome structure and resolve …

F Grewe, W Guo, EA Gubbels, AK Hansen… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2013 - Springer
Background Plastid genome structure and content is remarkably conserved in land plants.
This widespread conservation has facilitated taxon-rich phylogenetic analyses that have …

Complete plastome sequences of Equisetum arvense and Isoetes flaccida: implications for phylogeny and plastid genome evolution of early land plant lineages

KG Karol, K Arumuganathan, JL Boore, AM Duffy… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2010 - Springer
Background Despite considerable progress in our understanding of land plant phylogeny,
several nodes in the green tree of life remain poorly resolved. Furthermore, the bulk of …

Plastid genome sequencing, comparative genomics, and phylogenomics: current status and prospects

L Gao, YJ SU, T Wang - Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Green plants (Viridiplantae) include around 450,000–500,000 species, of great diversity and
have important roles in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Here, as part of the One …

Structural diversity among plastid genomes of land plants

JP Mower, TL Vickrey - Advances in botanical research, 2018 - Elsevier
The plastome of land plants is often considered to be highly conserved in sequence,
structure, and content. This is particularly true for nonvascular land plants, for which few …