Methods This study uses maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of chloroplast DNA (atpB–rbcL, trnL–trnF, trnS–trnG, psbA–trnH) and nuclear ribosomal DNA [internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and external transcribed spacer (ETS)] from 24 out of c. 37 ingroup taxa, beast molecular dating, and the dispersal–extinction–cladogenesis method (Lagrange) to reconstruct ancestral geographica...

Solanum is a genus which belongs to Solanaceae family, includes many species of cropsor medicinal plants as eggplant, tomato, potato, twoleaf nightshade, etc. Number are used herbs in Vietnam up 41, one those procumbens Lour., often treat hepatitis or cirrhosis. The needs planting this plant rising up, but it still lacks studies based on DNA barcode Solanum, order prevent the confusion raw mate...

The phylogeny of the species Epilobium in Kurdistan Region-Iraq was investigated by using six in-group species: E. anatolicum Hausskn. subsp. anatolicum, hirsutum L., obscurum Schreber, parviflorum rechingeri Raven., tetragonum L. and one out-group related genus: Ludwingia grandiflora (Michx.) Greuter & Burdet, based on trnL-F intergenic region chloroplast DNA internal transcribed spacer (I...

Within the tribe Abildgaardieae, the relationships between Fimbristylis and its relatives have not been certain, and the limits of Fimbristylis have been unclear, with Bulbostylis and Abildgaardia variously combined with it and each other. The relationships and limits of tribes Abildgaardieae and Arthrostylideae and their genera were evaluated across 49 representative species using parsimony an...

Seventy-four nucleotide sequences from the ITS regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA and 76 from the trnL-trnF spacer of chloroplast DNA were used to address the origin of tetraploid Cardamine amporitana, the conspecifity of central Italian and northeastern Spanish populations, and the possible cause for such geographic disjunction. Because of the complex lineage relationships in Cardamine, the samp...

Abstract The aim of DNA barcoding is to enable fast and accurate species identification. However, universal plant barcodes often do not provide species-level discrimination, especially in taxonomically complex groups. Here we use Lauraceae for the design evaluation strategies, considering: (1) efficacy taxon-specific barcode regions compared with discrimination; (2) how extent intra- interspeci...

Eranthis Salisb. (Ranunculaceae) is a herbaceous plant genus, including few species disjunctively distributed throughout the temperate zone from Southeastern Europe to Eastern Asia. Until recently, only sibirica DC. was known in South Siberia, being considered endemic and tertiary relict. Not long ago, tanhoensis Erst also described Siberia. We report here reconstruction of phylogenetic relatio...

The genus Crocus L. of Iridaceae family contains about 160 species and is considered as a complex group plant taxa with regard to evolutionary phylogenetic events. Inter-specific hybridization gene flow contribute genetic homogeneity in one hand high within variability content overlaps caused resolution problem. In spite extensive molecular studies this genus, nothing known DNA sequences or Sin...

Food habits of the Moroccan dorcas gazelle, Gazella dorcas massaesyla, previously investigated in the 1980s using microhistological fecal analysis, in the M'Sabih Talaa Reserve, west central Morocco, were re-evaluated over three seasons (spring, summer and autumn 2009) using the trnL approach to determine the diet composition and its seasonal variation from fecal samples. Taxonomic identificati...