Plastomes on the edge: the evolutionary breakdown of mycoheterotroph plastid genomes

SW Graham, VKY Lam, VSFT Merckx - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We examine recent evidence for ratchet‐like genome degradation in mycoheterotrophs,
plants that obtain nutrition from fungi. Initial loss of the NADH dehydrogenase‐like (NDH) …

Lemnaceae and Orontiaceae are phylogenetically and morphologically distinct from Araceae

NP Tippery, DH Les, KJ Appenroth, KS Sree… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Duckweeds comprise a distinctive clade of pleustophytic monocots that traditionally has
been classified as the family Lemnaceae. However, molecular evidence has called into …

Monocot plastid phylogenomics, timeline, net rates of species diversification, the power of multi‐gene analyses, and a functional model for the origin of monocots

TJ Givnish, A Zuluaga, D Spalink… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study We present the first plastome phylogeny encompassing all 77 monocot
families, estimate branch support, and infer monocot‐wide divergence times and rates of …

A new carnivorous plant lineage (Triantha) with a unique sticky-inflorescence trap

Q Lin, C Ané, TJ Givnish… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Carnivorous plants consume animals for mineral nutrients that enhance growth and
reproduction in nutrient-poor environments. Here, we report that Triantha occidentalis …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogenomic analyses of Alismatales shed light into adaptations to aquatic environments

LY Chen, B Lu, DF Morales-Briones… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Land plants first evolved from freshwater algae, and flowering plants returned to water as
early as the Cretaceous and multiple times subsequently. Alismatales is the largest clade of …

Evolutionary and phylogenetic aspects of the chloroplast genome of Chaenomeles species

J Sun, Y Wang, Y Liu, C Xu, Q Yuan, L Guo, L Huang - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Chaenomeles (family Rosaceae) is a genus of five diploid species of deciduous spiny
shrubs that are native to Central Asia and Japan. It is an important horticultural crop …

Phylogenomic resolution of order-and family-level monocot relationships using 602 single-copy nuclear genes and 1375 BUSCO genes

PR Timilsena, EK Wafula, CF Barrett… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We assess relationships among 192 species in all 12 monocot orders and 72 of 77 families,
using 602 conserved single-copy (CSC) genes and 1375 benchmarking single-copy …

Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships

OA Pérez‐Escobar, S Dodsworth… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
PREMISE The inference of evolutionary relationships in the species‐rich family Orchidaceae
has hitherto relied heavily on plastid DNA sequences and limited taxon sampling. Previous …

Dynamic evolution and phylogenomic analysis of the chloroplast genome in Schisandraceae

B Li, Y Zheng - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Chloroplast genomes of plants are highly conserved in both gene order and gene content,
are maternally inherited, and have a lower rate of evolution. Chloroplast genomes are …

Resolving the systematic positions of enigmatic taxa: manipulating the chloroplast genome data of Saxifragales

W Dong, C Xu, P Wu, T Cheng, J Yu, S Zhou… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurately resolving the phylogeny of enigmatic taxa is always a challenge in phylogenetic
inference. Such uncertainties could be due to systematic errors or model violations. Here …