We announce here the first complete chloroplast genome sequence of Lagerstroemia guilinensis (Lythraceae, Myrtales), a species endemic to the Guilin limestone area, along with its genome structure and functional gene annotations. The plant was collected from Guilin, Guangxi, China, and deposited as a germplasm accession of the Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University Collection (ZAFU 150714...

Lagerstroemia (crape myrtle) is an important plant genus used in ornamental horticulture in temperate regions worldwide. As such, numerous hybrids have been developed. However, DNA sequence resources and genome information for Lagerstroemia are limited, hindering evolutionary inferences regarding interspecific relationships. We report the complete plastid genome of Lagerstroemia fauriei. To our...

Abstract Insect nesting boxes and hotels have the potential to provide shelter overwintering sites for beneficial insect communities such as pollinating bees, wasps, earwigs, other predatory arthropods. This study evaluated arthropod visitation consumer-ready, commercially available over a 2-yr period. were placed on mature river birch (Betula nigra L.) crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica in gar...

This is the first record of winter eggs of the holocyclic monoeceous crapemyrtle aphid Tinocallis kahawaluokalani (Kirkaldy) on Lagerstroemia indica L., in Brazil. The shiny black eggs were observed since early autumn, laid on small folds and crevices of the branches. In order to evaluate and model the egg abundance and distribution, four branches from the cardinal points of 10 plants of two ag...

Abstract. Saensouk S, P. 2023. Palynology of the genus Lagerstroemia (Lythraceae) in Thailand. Biodiversitas 24: 3222-3229. Pollen morphology from Thailand was poorly reported. This study aimed to pollen 17 species by applying acetolysis under a light microscope and scanning electron microscope. described with distinctive features morphology, i.e., size, shape, exine sculpturing, character aper...

The Ebony series of crepe myrtle ( Lagerstroemia indica ) cultivars includes several (Ebony Embers, Fire, Flame, Glow, and Ivory), marketed today under the Black Diamond ® brand. These are relatively new unique for their dark foliage, but with little information concerning performance in north-central Texas, especially low-input landscapes. study was conducted from 2014 to 2017 at three locatio...