Nicotiana benthamiana is the most widely used experimental host in plant virology, due
mainly to the large number of diverse plant viruses that can successfully infect it …

Land plants have had the reputation of being problematic for DNA barcoding for two general
reasons:(i) the standard DNA regions used in algae, animals and fungi have exceedingly …

The allotetraploid plant Nicotiana tabacum (common tobacco) is a major crop species and a
model organism, for which only very fragmented genomic sequences are currently available …

Nicotiana benthamiana is a widely used model plant species for the study of fundamental
questions in molecular plant-microbe interactions and other areas of plant biology. This …

We propose in this paper to use three regions of plastid DNA as a standard protocol for
barcoding all land plants. We review the other markers that have been proposed and …

A phylogeny of Solanaceae is presented based on the chloroplast DNA regions ndhF and
trnLF. With 89 genera and 190 species included, this represents a nearly comprehensive …

Molecular data have had a profound impact on the field of plant systematics, and the
application of DNA-sequence data to phylogenetic problems is now routine. The majority of …

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling plays a central role in transducing
extracellular stimuli into intracellular responses, but its role in mediating plant responses to …

Chromosome number is the karyotype feature most commonly used in cytotaxonomical
analyses. The chromosome number can be a plesiomorphic characteristic of a large clade …

Background In studies looking at individual polyploid species, the most common patterns of
genomic change are that either genome size in the polyploid is additive (ie the sum of …