Economically, legumes (Fabaceae) represent the second most important family of crop
plants after the grass family, Poaceae. Grain legumes account for 27% of world crop …

Trifolium, the clover genus, is one of the largest genera of the legume family. We conducted
parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses based on nuclear ribosomal DNA internal …

Molecular phylogenies provide a framework to discuss relationships in the vast temperate
herbaceous radiation of papilionoid legumes comprised of tribes Galegeae …

Elucidating the phylogenetic relationships of the legumes is essential for understanding the
evolutionary history of events that underlie the origin and diversification of this family of …

Trifolium L. is an economically important genus that is characterized by variable karyotypes
relating to its ploidy level and basic chromosome numbers. The advent of genomic …

Group II introns comprise the majority of noncoding DNA in many plant chloroplast genomes
and include the commonly sequenced regions trnK/matK, the rps16 intron, and the rpl16 …

Abstract Tribes Trifolieae and Vicieae along with Cicereae and Galega (Galegeae) form a
monophyletic group that has been designated informally as the “vicioid clade”. There is …

Because of their particular biology, seed beetles exhibit a strong relationship with their larval
host plants. In Europe, however, field data have long been scarce and unreliable. The …

Thirty-one clover species with significant agronomic value, originating from Eurasia, Africa
and America, were analyzed to reveal their nuclear DNA content and propidium iodide/4, 6 …

A comparative anatomical study of 20 Trifolium species was carried out using light and
scanning electron microscopy in order to investigate the structure of their vegetative and …