The field of plant molecular systematics is expanding rapidly, and with it new and refined
methods are coming into use. This paper reviews recent advances in experimental methods …

The coding region of the matK gene and two intergenic spacers, psbA‐trnH and trnL (UAA)‐
trnF (GAA), of cpDNA were sequenced to study phylogenetic relationships of 32 Paeonia …

Chloroplast DNA sequences are a primary source of data for plant molecular systematic
studies. A few key papers have provided the molecular systematics community with …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

Tertiary macrofossils of the flowering plant family Leguminosae (legumes) were used as
time constraints to estimate ages of the earliest branching clades identified in separate …

Phylogenetic analysis of 330 plastid matK gene sequences, representing 235 genera from
37 of 39 tribes, and four outgroup taxa from eurosids I supports many well‐resolved …

The pantropical Zingiberaceae is the largest family in the order Zingiberales with 53 genera
and over 1200 species. Classifications of the family first proposed in 1889 and refined by …

• Premise of the study: Noncoding chloroplast DNA (NC‐cpDNA) sequences are the staple
data source of low‐level phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies of angiosperms. We …

The field of systematic biology has been revitalized and transformed during the last few
decades by the confluence of phylogenetic thinking with ready access to the tools of …

Phylogenetic resolution is often low within groups of recently diverged taxa due to a paucity
of phylogenetically informative characters. We tested the relative utility of seven noncoding …