Background Carnivorous plants are an ecological group of approx. 810 vascular species
which capture and digest animal prey, absorb prey-derived nutrients and utilize them to …

Background Deep-branching phylogenetic relationships are often difficult to resolve
because phylogenetic signals are obscured by the long history and complexity of …

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 …

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

Hypericum perforatum (St. John's Wort) is a medicinal plant from the Hypericaceae family.
Here, we sequenced the whole chloroplast genome of H. perforatum and compared the …

Mycoheterotrophy is an alternative nutritional strategy whereby plants obtain sugars and
other nutrients from soil fungi. Mycoheterotrophy and associated loss of photosynthesis have …

Background Herbaria are valuable sources of extensive curated plant material that are now
accessible to genetic studies because of advances in high-throughput, next-generation …

Nuclear and plastid (chloroplast) genomes experience different mutation rates, levels of
selection, and transmission modes, yet key cellular functions depend on their coordinated …

With the advent of next-generation sequencing technologies, whole-plastome data can be
obtained as a byproduct of low-coverage sequencing of the plant genomic DNA. This …

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 …