@article{f631244841ee4970980c58ca01e78440,
title = "Comparative plastome analyses and phylogenetic applications of the Acer section Platanoidea",
abstract = "The Acer L. (Sapindaceae) is one of the most diverse and widespread genera in the Northern Hemisphere. Section Platanoidea harbours high genetic and morphological diversity and shows the phylogenetic conflict between A. catalpifolium and A. amplum. Chloroplast (cp) genome sequencing is efficient for the enhancement of the understanding of phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic revision. Here, we report complete cp genomes of five species of Acer sect. Platanoidea. The length of Acer sect. Platanoidea cp genomes ranged from 156,262 bp to 157,349 bp and detected the structural variation in the inverted repeats (IRs) boundaries. By conducting a sliding window analysis, we found that five relatively high variable regions (trnH-psbA, psbN-trnD, psaA-ycf3, petA-psbJ and ndhA intron) had a high potential for developing effective genetic markers. Moreover, with an addition of eight plastomes collected from GenBank, we displayed a robust phylogenetic tree of the Acer sect. Platanoidea, with high resolutions for nearly all identified nodes, suggests a promising opportunity to resolve infrasectional relationships of the most species-rich section Platanoidea of Acer.",
keywords = "Acer, Chloroplast genome, Phylogenetics, Sect. platanoidea, Sequence divergence, Structural variation",
author = "Tao Yu and Jian Gao and Huang, {Bing Hong} and Buddhi Dayananda and Ma, {Wen Bao} and Zhang, {Yu Yang} and Liao, {Pei Chun} and Li, {Jun Qing}",
note = "Funding Information: Author Contributions: T.Y. and J.G. conceived and designed the work; J.G. and Y.Y.Z. collected samples; T.Y., version of the manuscript. J.G. and B.H.H. performed the experiments and analysed the data; T.Y. and J.G. wrote the manuscript; P.C.L., W.B.M., B.D. and J.Q.L. critically reviewed the manuscript. All authors gave final approval of the paper. Demonstration of Extremely Rare Wild Plant Population” of National Key Research and Development Program (2F0u1n6dYiFnCg0:50T3h1i0s6)retoseJa.Qrc.Lh. ,wthaesMfiinniasntrcyiaolflySciseunpcpeoarntdedT ebchynothloeg yporfogTaraiwma n{\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}(Rgerainnttrnodumucbtieorn: 10T8e-c2h6n28o-lBo-g0i0e3s -0a0n1d) Demonstration of Extremely Rare Wild Plant Population{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} of National Key Research and Development Program hybridization of Maple (Acer L.) in East Asia” of National Natural Science Foundation of China (41901063) to J.G. Funding Information: This research was financially supported by the program {"}Reintroduction Technologies and Demonstration of Extremely Rare Wild Plant Population{"} of National Key Research and Development Program (2016YFC0503106) to J.Q.L., the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (grant number: 108-2628-B-003-001) and National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) to P.C.L. and {"}The biogeographical feature and competitive hybridization of Maple (Acer L.) in East Asia{"} of National Natural Science Foundation of China (41901063) to J.G. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 by the authors.",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3390/F11040462",
language = "English",
volume = "11",
journal = "Forests",
issn = "1999-4907",
publisher = "MDPI AG",
number = "4",
}