The genus Stylosanthes includes nitrogen-fixing and drought-tolerant species of considerable economic importance for perennial pasture, green manure and land recovery. Stylosanthes scabra is adapted to variable soil...
Tag - chloroplast genome
Alex Assiry
The first plastid genome for the plant parasite family Cytinaceae
Parasitic plants are a noticeable exception to the evolutionary stability of the plastid genome, but only some parasite lineages have been sequenced so far. Roquet et al. provide the complete plastome of Cytinus...
botanyone
Plastid phylogenomics of the cool-season grass subfamily: Clarification of relationships among early-diverging tribes
Whole plastid genomes (plastomes) are being sequenced rapidly from across the green plant tree of life, and phylogenetic analyses of these are increasing resolution and support for relationships that were unresolved in...
AoBPLANTS
Plants, the inside story
Flowering plants devoid of leaves, roots, shoots and some without chloroplast DNA. Are they really plants? Discuss!
Nigel Chaffey