Chloroplast genomes: diversity, evolution, and applications in genetic engineering

H Daniell, CS Lin, M Yu, WJ Chang - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
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 …

Green giant—a tiny chloroplast genome with mighty power to produce high‐value proteins: history and phylogeny

H Daniell, S Jin, XG Zhu… - Plant biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Plastid phylogenomic insights into relationships of all flowering plant families

HT Li, Y Luo, L Gan, PF Ma, LM Gao, JB Yang, J Cai… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Flowering plants (angiosperms) are dominant components of global terrestrial
ecosystems, but phylogenetic relationships at the familial level and above remain only …

Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

NJ Wickett, S Mirarab, N Nguyen… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Reconstructing the origin and evolution of land plants and their algal relatives is a
fundamental problem in plant phylogenetics, and is essential for understanding how critical …

[HTML][HTML] The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification

H Sauquet, M Von Balthazar, S Magallón… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and a series of important palaeobotanical
discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of angiosperm diversification. Yet, the …

Diversification of Rosaceae since the Late Cretaceous based on plastid phylogenomics

SD Zhang, JJ Jin, SY Chen, MW Chase… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic relationships in Rosaceae have long been problematic because of frequent
hybridisation, apomixis and presumed rapid radiation, and their historical diversification has …

The Amborella Genome and the Evolution of Flowering Plants

Amborella Genome Project, VA Albert, WB Barbazuk… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Introduction Darwin famously characterized the rapid rise and early diversification of
flowering plants (angiosperms) in the fossil record as an “abominable mystery.” Identifying …

The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function

S Wicke, GM Schneeweiss, CW Depamphilis… - Plant molecular …, 2011 - Springer
This review bridges functional and evolutionary aspects of plastid chromosome architecture
in land plants and their putative ancestors. We provide an overview on the structure and …

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group - Botanical Journal of the …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
A revised and updated classification for the families of flowering plants is provided. Many
recent studies have yielded increasingly detailed evidence for the positions of formerly …

From algae to angiosperms–inferring the phylogeny of green plants (Viridiplantae) from 360 plastid genomes

BR Ruhfel, MA Gitzendanner, PS Soltis… - BMC evolutionary …, 2014 - Springer
Background Next-generation sequencing has provided a wealth of plastid genome
sequence data from an increasingly diverse set of green plants (Viridiplantae). Although …