Chloroplasts play a crucial role in sustaining life on earth. The availability of over 800
sequenced chloroplast genomes from a variety of land plants has enhanced our …

Free‐living cyanobacteria were entrapped by eukaryotic cells~ 2 billion years ago, ultimately
giving rise to chloroplasts. After a century of debate, the presence of chloroplast DNA was …

Background Camellia is an economically and phylogenetically important genus in the family
Theaceae. Owing to numerous hybridization and polyploidization, it is taxonomically and …

Although the chloroplast genome contains many noncoding regions, relatively few have
been exploited for interspecific phylogenetic and intraspecific phylogeographic studies. In …

Geraniaceae plastid genomes are highly rearranged, and each of the four genera already
sequenced in the family has a distinct genome organization. This study reports plastid …

Quercus is considered economically and ecologically one of the most important genera in
the Northern Hemisphere. Oaks are taxonomically perplexing because of shared …

Background Cymbidium orchids, including some 50 species, are the famous flowers, and
they possess high commercial value in the floricultural industry. Furthermore, the values of …

Geraniaceae plastid genomes (plastomes) have experienced a remarkable number of
genomic changes. The plastomes of Erodium texanum, Geranium palmatum, and Monsonia …

Background The number of completely sequenced plastid genomes available is growing
rapidly. This array of sequences presents new opportunities to perform comparative …

Plant cells possess two more genomes besides the central nuclear genome: the
mitochondrial genome and the chloroplast genome (or plastome). Compared to the gigantic …