Classification of tribe Cardueae in natural subtribes has always been a challenge due to the
lack of support of some critical branches in previous phylogenies based on traditional …

Camellia is an economically, ecologically and phylogenetically valuable genus in the family
Theaceae. The frequent interspecific hybridization and polyploidization makes this genus …

The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) DNA marker is routinely used for fungal identification
but gives a clear result for only three out of four powdery mildew samples. A search for new …

Whole-genome sequencing is at the cutting edge of life sciences in the new millennium.
Since the first genome sequencing of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana in 2000, whole …

Tea is the most popular non-alcoholic caffeine-containing and the oldest beverage in the
world. In this study, we de novo assembled the chloroplast (cp) and mitochondrial (mt) …

Cultivated carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is the most important member in the
Apiaceae family in terms of economy and nutrition and is considered the second most …

Background With an ever-growing number of published genomes, many low levels of the
Tree of Life now contain several species with enough molecular data to perform shallow …

Compared to traditionally used plastid or ribosomal markers, nuclear gene markers provide
many advantages for molecular systematics of plants, and high-throughput sequencing …

Premise Disjunct distributions have been commonly observed in mountain plant species
and have stimulated phylogeographic and phylogenetic research. Here we studied Alyssum …

Premise of the Study Polyploidy has been long recognized as an important force in plant
evolution. Previous studies had suggested widespread occurrence of polyploidy and the …