Comparative and Evolutionary Analyses on the Complete Plastomes of Five Kalanchoe Horticultural Plants.

ABSTRACT: Many species of the genus Kalanchoe are important horticultural plants. They have evolved the Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthetic pathway to allow them to be better adapted to dry environments. Despite their importance, it is still debating whether Kalanchoe is monophyletic, and understanding the past diversification of this genus requires a tremendous amount of effort and work being devoted to the studies of morphological and molecular characters of this genus. However, molecular information, plastic sequence data, in particular, reported on Kalanchoe species is scarce, and this has posed a great challenge in trying to interpret the evolutionary history of this genus. In this study, plastomes of the five Kalanchoe species, including Kalanchoe d

SUBMITTER: Tian X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8429837 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature