Jeffrey D. Palmer

TL;DR: It is found that recombination between anciently related sequences is more frequent than previously appreciated and creates functional mitochondrial genes of chimeric origin and has implications for the widespread use of mitochondrial atp1 in phylogeny reconstruction.

TL;DR: In this paper, a chloroplast DNA restriction-site variation was surveyed for all 21 species, five non-autonymic subspecies and six putative F1 hybrids of tetraploid giant lobelias from eastern Africa (Lobeliaceae, Lobelia subgenus Tupa section Rhynchopetalum; 95 accessions), the Brazilian L. organensis, and all four hexaploid Chilean species of section Tupa.

TL;DR: Each of the three fern chloroplast genomes exists as an equimolar population of two isomeric circles differing only in the relative orientation of their two single copy regions, inferred to result from high frequency intramolecular recombination between paired inverted repeat segments.

TL;DR: The nuclear genome sequence of Amborella trichopoda, the sister species to all other extant angiosperms, will be an exceptional resource for plant genomics.

TL;DR: These studies, which have produced the largest molecular data set for any plant family, have allowed us to perform phylogenetic comparisons from the intraspecific to the interfamilial levels and to sequenced the gene encoding the large subunit of ribulose-l,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (rbcL).