In 1993, Mark Chase and 41 coauthors published phylogenetic analyses of two very large data sets of nucleotide sequences of the chloroplast gene rbcL, which encodes the large subunit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase. Their paper was important for several reasons. These analyses were (and still are) among the largest ever attempted using parsimony. The assembly of such a large number of ...

background: saffron (crocus sativus l.) is a common but very expensive herbal medicine. as an important traditional medicine, it has an outstanding effect in treating irregular and painful menstruation. recently, the over-demand tendency of saffron results in an unusual phenomenon in the medicinal markets. adulterants and saffron-like substitutes are intentionally mixed into medicinal markets a...

Plastids are usually uni-parentally inherited and genetic recombination between these organelles is seldom observed. The genus Pseudo-nitzschia, a globally relevant marine diatom, features bi-parental plastid inheritance in the course of sexual reproduction. This observation inspired the recombination detection we pursued in this paper over a ~1,400-nucleotide-long region of the plastidial rbcL...

How AAA+ chaperones conformationally remodel specific target proteins in an ATP-dependent manner is not well understood. Here, we investigated the mechanism of the AAA+ protein Rubisco activase (Rca) in metabolic repair of the photosynthetic enzyme Rubisco, a complex of eight large (RbcL) and eight small (RbcS) subunits containing eight catalytic sites. Rubisco is prone to inhibition by tight-b...

Data is presented in support of a phylogenetic reconstruction of the species-rich early-divergent angiosperm genus Goniothalamus (Annonaceae) (Tang et al., Mol. Phylogenetic Evol., 2015) [1], inferred using chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) sequences. The data includes a list of primers for amplification and sequencing for nine cpDNA regions: atpB-rbcL, matK, ndhF, psbA-trnH, psbM-trnD, rbcL, trnL-F, trn...

Gilmore, S.1 and Hill, K.D. (National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia; 1 Present address: Division of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia) 1997. Relationships of the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) and a molecular phylogeny of the Araucariaceae. Telopea 7(3): 275–291. Sequences were obtained for the r...