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Plant Sci."],"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    <jats:italic>Crataegus<\/jats:italic>\n                    spp. plants are valuable horticultural crops because of their extensive use in Chinese herbal medications, cosmetics, food production, and other industries. However, the wide variety of species, similar morphological characteristics, inherent hybridization, apomixis, and polyploidy have led to confusion in terms of their taxonomic status. Herein, a total of 18 complete chloroplast genomes including 17\n                    <jats:italic>Crataegus<\/jats:italic>\n                    species and 1\n                    <jats:italic>Mespilus<\/jats:italic>\n                    species were newly sequenced and comprehensively analyzed for comparative genomics and phylogenetic relationships. The 18 chloroplast genomes possessed typical quadripartite structures with lengths from 159,638 to 159,973 bp in size. These chloroplast genomes encode 119\u2013131 genes, including 37 transfer RNA (rRNA) genes, 8 ribosomal RNA (tRNA) genes, and 74\u201385 protein-coding genes (PCGs). In addition, 23\u201354 long repeat sequences and 74\u201387 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) were detected. The examination of Ka\/Ks ratios for 18 chloroplast genomes revealed that the\n                    <jats:italic>rpoC2<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene was significantly positively selected. Additionally, we identified nine distinct hotspot regions (\n                    <jats:italic>infA<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>ndhC<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>pasl<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>rps19<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>ndhC~trnV-UAC<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>psbZ~trnG-UCC<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>rpl33~rps18<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>trnH-GUG~psbA<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>trnR-UCU~atpA<\/jats:italic>\n                    ), and verified that\n                    <jats:italic>ndhC~trnV-UAC<\/jats:italic>\n                    might be used as a foundation for subsequent molecular marker studies aimed at identifying\n                    <jats:italic>Crataegus<\/jats:italic>\n                    species. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic trees using chloroplast genome sequences consistently revealed genetic relationships among\n                    <jats:italic>Crataegus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Mespilus<\/jats:italic>\n                    species, and confirmed the taxonomic status of\n                    <jats:italic>Crataegus<\/jats:italic>\n                    accessions (GSSZ, JRY, RR2H, RR3H, ZWSZ). The results of divergence time showed that the crown age of C. subg. Crataegus was about 33.487 Ma, and then started to diverge into the C. subg. Americanae and C. subg. Sanguineae around 27.059 Ma. Based on the results of molecular evidence, we speculate that genus\n                    <jats:italic>Crataegus<\/jats:italic>\n                    originated earliest from European-derived species within C. subg. Crataegus. Biogeographic and molecular dating analyses suggested that China represented a putative maternal origin of\n                    <jats:italic>Crataegus<\/jats:italic>\n                    species. The complete chloroplast genomes of\n                    <jats:italic>Crataegus<\/jats:italic>\n                    not only enable the resolution of phylogenetic relationships within the genus but also offer novel insights into chloroplast genome structure variation and evolution. Additionally, the identified divergent DNA regions hold significant utility for species identification and phylogenetic reconstruction in\n                    <jats:italic>Crataegus<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpls.2026.1767012","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,11]],"date-time":"2026-02-11T06:50:43Z","timestamp":1770792643000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Comparative genomic and phylogenetic analyses of Crataegus chloroplast genomes: insights for evolution and identification"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Xinyu","family":"Sun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University","place":["Shenyang, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mingqi","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University","place":["Shenyang, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Baipeng","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University","place":["Shenyang, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University","place":["Shenyang, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University","place":["Shenyang, China"]},{"name":"National Field GeneBank for Hawthorn","place":["Shenyang, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuexue","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University","place":["Shenyang, China"]},{"name":"National Field GeneBank for Hawthorn","place":["Shenyang, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"581","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ygeno.2019.04.010","article-title":"Chloroplast genome of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (Malvaceae): Comparative analyses and identification of mutational hotspots","volume":"112","author":"Abdullah","year":"2020","journal-title":"Genomics"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"3030","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bty220","article-title":"IRscope: an online program to visualize the junction sites of chloroplast genomes","volume":"34","author":"Amiryousefi","year":"2018","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2583","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btx198","article-title":"MISA-web: a web server for microsatellite prediction","volume":"33","author":"Beier","year":"2017","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"844","DOI":"10.1002\/cbf.1515","article-title":"Antimicrobial activity of endemic Crataegus tanacetifolia (Lam.) 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