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 …

Crape myrtles are economically important ornamental trees of the genus Lagerstroemia
L.(Lythraceae), with a distribution from tropical to northern temperate zones. They are …

Citrus species are fruit trees with great economic value worldwide and have been
domesticated and cultivated for several years. Although numerous phylogenetic taxonomy …

Machilus is a large (c. 100 sp.) genus of trees in the family Lauraceae, distributed in tropical
and subtropical East Asia. Both molecular species identification and phylogenetic studies of …

Kaempferia galanga and Kaempferia elegans, which belong to the genus Kaempferia family
Zingiberaceae, are used as valuable herbal medicine and ornamental plants, respectively …

Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle (Simaroubaceae) is a deciduous tree widely distributed
throughout temperate regions in China, hence suitable for genetic diversity and evolutionary …

The family Passifloraceae consists of some 700 species classified in around 16 genera.
Almost all its members belong to the genus Passiflora. In Brazil, the yellow passion fruit …

China is a second center of oak diversity but with less intensively systematic studies. Here,
with 49 species representing all four sections in China, we firstly gave insight into the …

Commiphora gileadensis and C. foliacea (family Burseraceae) are pantropical in nature and
known for producing fragrant resin (myrrh). Both the tree species are economically and …