Due to the environmental problems caused by the accumulation of significant amounts of waste from peanut cultivation, it seems necessary to provide a solution for the reuse of this organic waste. Therefore, this experiment was conducted to investigate the possibility of using compost of peanut shells in potting Begonia rex. This research was based on randomized complete block desi...

Begonia cataracta and B. voluptuaria are described as new species incerta is noted a record for Laos. Descriptions, illustrations photographs provided the record. Preliminary conservation assessments made two which assessed Vulnerable Critically Endangered respectively.

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite primers were developed for Begonia luzhaiensis (Begoniaceae) to assess genetic diversity and population genetic structure. METHODS AND RESULTS Based on the transcriptome data of B. luzhaiensis, 60 primer pairs were selected for initial validation, of which 16 yielded polymorphic microsatellite loci in 57 individuals. The number of alleles observed for these...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Transcriptome sequence data were used to design microsatellite primers for two widespread Central American Begonia species, B. heracleifolia and B. nelumbiifolia, to investigate population structure and hybridization. • METHODS AND RESULTS The transcriptome from vegetative meristem tissue from the related B. plebeja was mined for microsatellite loci, and 31 ...

Recent, rapid radiations make species-level phylogenetics difficult to resolve. We used a multiplexed, high-throughput sequencing approach to identify informative genomic regions to resolve phylogenetic relationships at low taxonomic levels in Begonia from a survey of sixteen species. A long-range PCR method was used to generate draft plastid genomes to provide a strong phylogenetic backbone, i...