Abstract Background Oat (Avena sativa L.) is a recognized health-food, and the contributions
of its different candidate A-genome progenitor species remain inconclusive. Here, we report …

Amomum villosum is an important medicinal and edible plant with several
pharmacologically active volatile oils. However, identifying A. villosum from A. villosum var …

Evolutionary relationships among plants have been inferred primarily using chloroplast data.
To date, no study has comprehensively examined the plastome for gene tree conflict. Using …

The genus Cardiocrinum (Endlicher) Lindley (Liliaceae) comprises three herbaceous
perennial species that are distributed in East Asian temperate-deciduous forests. Although …

Juglans L.(walnuts and butternuts) is an economically and ecologically important genus in
the family Juglandaceae. All Juglans are important nut and timber trees. Juglans regia …

The orchid family Orchidaceae is one of the largest angiosperm families, including many
species of important economic value. While chloroplast genomes are very informative for …

Fagaceae is one of the largest and economically important taxa within Fagales. Considering
the incongruence among inferences from plastid and nuclear genes in the previous …

Background The chloroplast genome is important for plant development and plant evolution.
Nelumbo nucifera is one member of relict plants surviving from the late Cretaceous …

We present the first phylogenomic analysis of relationships among all ten families of Liliales,
based on 75 plastid genes from 35 species in 29 genera, and 97 additional plastomes …

The re-colonization of aquatic habitats by angiosperms has presented a difficult challenge to
plants whose long evolutionary history primarily reflects adaptations to terrestrial conditions …