Premise of the Study The domestication history of melon is still unclear. An African or Asian
origin has been suggested, but its closest wild relative was recently revealed to be an …

Cucurbitaceae contain c. 800 species in 130 genera and are among the economically most
important families of plants. We inferred their phylogeny based on chloroplast DNA …

Papaya (Carica papaya) is a crop of great economic importance, and the species was
among the first plants to have its genome sequenced. However, there has never been a …

Lycium comprises approximately 70 species and is disjunctly distributed in temperate to
subtropical regions in South America, North America, southern Africa, Eurasia, and …

• Premise of the study: The clusioid clade includes five families (ie, Bonnetiaceae,
Calophyllaceae, Clusiaceae ss, Hypericaceae, and Podostemaceae) represented by 94 …

CpDNA variation in Japanese beech, Fagus crenata (Fagaceae), was studied in 45
populations distributed throughout the species' range. Two cpDNA regions were sequenced …

The genetic architecture of quantitative traits is determined by both Mendelian and polygenic
factors, yet classic examples of plant domestication focused on selective sweep of newly …

Magnolia (disjuncts), however, have similar chemical profiles. A molecular phylogeny of
Magnoliaceae was constructed to reveal phylogenetic relationships of taxa by sequencing …

The Cucurbitales are a clade of rosids with a worldwide distribution and a striking
heterogeneity in species diversity among its seven family members: the Anisophylleaceae …

Coding regions of the rbcL and matK genes of cpDNA were sequenced to analyze
phylogenetic relationships of the family Liliaceae sensu stricto, including the major 16 …