Abstract Background Polystachya Hook. is a large pantropical orchid genus (c. 240 species)
distributed in Africa, southern Asia and the Americas, with the center of diversity in Africa …

Background Paphiopedilum is the largest genus of slipper orchids. Previous studies showed
that the phylogenetic relationships of this genus are not well resolved, and sparse taxon …

Abstract The thylakoid NAD (P) H dehydrogenase-like (NDH) complex is a large protein
complex that reduces plastoquinone and pumps protons into the lumen generating …

In order to understand the evolution of the orchid plastome, we annotated and compared
124 complete plastomes of Orchidaceae representing all the major lineages in their …

Background The taxonomy and infrageneric delimitation of Phalaenopsis Blume has been
significantly disputed due to some overlapping morphological features between species …

Photosynthesis includes a set of redox reactions that are the source of reducing power and
energy for the assimilation of inorganic carbon, nitrogen and sulphur, thus generating …

Resurrection plants, which are the" gifts" of natural evolution, are ideal models for studying
the genetic basis of plant desiccation tolerance. Here, we report a high-quality genome …

To advance our knowledge of orchid relationships and timing of their relative divergence, we
used 76 protein-coding genes from plastomes (ptCDS) and 38 protein-coding genes from …

Introgression can produce novel genetic variation in organisms that hybridize. Sympatric
species pairs in the carnivorous plant genus Sarracenia L. frequently hybridize, and all …

Background Plastid genomes (plastomes) have long been recognized as highly conserved
in their overall structure, size, gene arrangement and content among land plants. However …