The plastome of land plants is often considered to be highly conserved in sequence,
structure, and content. This is particularly true for nonvascular land plants, for which few …

Past endosymbiotic events allowed photosynthetic organisms to flourish and evolve in
terrestrial areas. The precursor of chloroplasts was an ancient photosynthetic …

Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi (Lamiaceae) is the source of the well-known traditional
Chinese medicine “HuangQin”(Radix Scutellariae). Natural sources of S. baicalensis are …

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

Ginkgo biloba is a famous living “fossil” and has played an important role in the evolution of
the Plant Kingdom. Here, the complete chloroplast genome of G. biloba was sequenced and …

The gymnosperm genus Cycas is the sole member of Cycadaceae, and is the largest genus
of extant cycads. There are about 115 accepted Cycas species mainly distributed in the …

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

As a gymnosperm group, cycads are known for their ancient origin and specialized coralloid
root, which can be used as an ideal system to explore the interaction between host and …

Over the past decade, Ulva compressa, a cosmopolitan green algal species, has been
identified as a component of green tides in the Yellow Sea, China. In the present study, we …

The rapid increase in plastome availability on GenBank has greatly deepened our
understanding of plastomic evolution and plastid phylogenomics in gymnosperms. The …