Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)–based methods are widely used to isolate DNA
from plant tissues, but the unique chemical composition of secondary metabolites among …

Phytophthora infestans, the cause of potato late blight, is infamous for having triggered the
Irish Great Famine in the 1840s. Until the late 1970s, P. infestans diversity outside of its …

Following the discovery in the late 1980s that hard tissues such as bones and teeth preserve
genetic information, the field of ancient DNA analysis has typically concentrated upon these …

Speciation is a continuous process driven by genetic, geographic, and ecological barriers to
gene flow. It is widely investigated in multicellular eukaryotes, yet we are only beginning to …

The primary domestication of olive (Olea europaea L.) in the Levant dates back to the
Neolithic period, around 6,000–5,500 BC, as some archeological remains attest. Cultivated …

The cereal grass barley was domesticated about 10,000 years before the present in the
Fertile Crescent and became a founder crop of Neolithic agriculture. Here we report the …

The genus Cucurbita (squashes, pumpkins, gourds) contains numerous domesticated
lineages with ancient New World origins. It was broadly distributed in the past but has …

Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) was one of the first domesticated plants, and the only one
with a global distribution during pre-Columbian times. Although native to Africa, bottle gourd …

Herbaria archive a record of changes of worldwide plant biodiversity harbouring millions of
specimens that contain DNA suitable for genome sequencing. To profit from this resource, it …

Premise Herbaria harbor a tremendous number of plant specimens that are rarely used for
molecular systematic studies, largely due to the difficulty in extracting sufficient amounts of …