1. Plant Taxonomy: An Historical Perspective, Current Challenges and Perspectives
Germinal Rouhan and Myriam Gaudeul
2. Guidelines for the Choice of Sequences for Molecular Plant Taxonomy
Pascale Besse
3. Leaf Tissue Sampling and DNA Extraction Protocols
Kassa Semagn
4. DNA Extraction from Herbarium Specimens
Lenka Záveská Drábková
5. Analysis of Variation in Chloroplast DNA Sequences
Berthold Heinze, Agnieszka Koziel-Monte, and Daniela Jahn
6. Mitochondrial Genome and Plant Taxonomy
Jérôme Duminil
7. Nuclear Ribosomal RNA Genes: ITS Region
Pascale Besse
8. New Technologies for Ultra-High Throughput Genotyping in Plant Taxonomy
David Edwards, Manuel Zander, Jessica Dalton-Morgan, and Jacqueline Batley
9. Development of Microsatellite Enriched Libraries
Hélène Vignes and Ronan Rivallan
10. Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and Derived Techniques
K. Nirmal Babu, M. K. Rajesh, K. Samsudeen, Divakaran Minoo, E. J. Suraby, K. Anupama, and Paul Ritto
11. Multilocus Profiling with AFLP, ISSR and SAMPL
Luis F. Goulao and Cristina M. Oliveira
12. Transposon Based Tagging: IRAP, REMAP and iPBS
Ruslan Kalendar and Alan H. Schulman
13. Phylogenetic Reconstruction Methods: An Overview
Alexandre De Bruyn, Darren P. Martin, and Pierre Lefeuvre
14. The Application of Flow Cytometry for Estimating Genome Size and Ploidy Level in Plants
Jaume Pellicer and Ilia J. Leitch
15. Molecular Cytogenetics (FISH and Flurochrome Banding): Resolving Species Relationships and Genome Organisation
Sonja Siljak-Yakovlev, Fatima Pustahija, Vedrana Vicic, and Odile Robin
16. GISH: Resolving Interspecific and Intergeneric Hybrids
Nathalie Piperidis
17. On the Relevance of Molecular Tools for the Taxonomy Revision in Malvales, Malvaceae s.l. and Dombeyoideae
Timothée Le Péchon and Luc D. B. Gigord
18. What Has Molecular Systematics Contributed to Our Knowledge of the Plant Family Proteaceae?
Peter Weston
