The family Ranunculaceae, a member of early-diverging eudicots that is increasingly being
used as a model for the study of plant developmental evolution, has been the focus of …

Pulsatilla (Ranunculaceae) consists of about 40 species, and many of them have
horticultural and/or medicinal value. However, it is difficult to recognize and identify wild …

Abstract Species of Podophylloideae (Berberidaceae, Ranunculales) are of great
pharmacogenetic importance and represent the classic biogeographic disjunction between …

Background Molecular research revealed that some of the European Calypogeia species
described on the basis of morphological criteria are genetically heterogeneous and, in fact …

Organellar genomes of liverworts are considered as one of the most stable among plants,
with rare events of gene loss and structural rearrangements. However, not all lineages of …

Background The mitogenomes of vascular plants are one of the most structurally diverse
molecules. In the present study we characterize mitogenomes of a rare and endangered …

Thalictrum is a phylogenetically and economically important genus in the family
Ranunculaceae, but is also regarded as one of the most challengingly difficult in plants for …

Scrophularia ningpoensis, a perennial medicinal plant from the Scrophulariaceae family, is
the original species of Scrophulariae Radix (SR) in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. This …

The Scrophularia incisa complex is a group of closely related desert and steppe subshrubs
that includes S. incisa, S. kiriloviana and S. dentata, which are the only S. sect. Caninae …

Aneura pinguis is known as a species complex with several morphologically indiscernible
species, which are often reproductively isolated from each other and show distinguishable …