“…Therefore, ITS was a most practical option (Baldwin et al, 1995). Divergence between ITS sequences has been used in phylogenetic studies of many families, such as Asteraceae (Baldwin, 1991(Baldwin, , 1992Kim and Jansen, 1994;Kim et al, 1999;Ganders et al, 2000;Vilatersana et al, 2000), Hamamelidaceae (Shi et al, 1999), Polemoniaceae (Ferguson et al, 1999), Apiaceae (Lee and Downie, 1999), Cruciferae (Mayer and Soltis, 1999), and Orchidaceae (Cox et al, 1997). In these families, ITS was proven valuable for examining relationships within genera and among the more closely related genera.…”