Saleha Ashfaq

Comparative chloroplast genomics of 75 Asparagus species reveals conserved genome architecture, gene-specific positive selection, and chloroplast–nuclear phylogenetic discordance

The chloroplast genome offers a compact, maternally inherited resource for resolving evolutionary relationships in plants, yet in Asparagus it has received limited genus-wide attention relative to recent nuclear genomic efforts. Here, we de novo assembled 35 chloroplast genomes:...