Structure, gene composition, divergence time and phylogeny analysis of the woody desert species Neltuma alba, Neltuma chilensis and Strombocarpa strombulifera.

Neltuma alba (Algarrobo blanco), Neltuma chilensis (Algarrobo Chileno) and Strombocarpa strombulifera (Fortuna) are some of the few drought resistant trees and shrubs found in small highly fragmented populations, throughout the Atacama Desert. We reconstructed their plastid genomes using de novo assembly of paired-end reads from total genomic DNA. We found that the complete plastid genomes of N.

Comparative analysis of the complete mitogenome of : a native tree surviving in the Atacama Desert.

Chañar ( (Gill., ex Hook. & Arn.

Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of ( tribe ) from Atacama region of Chile.

Sporadic rains in the Atacama Desert reveal a high biodiversity of plant species that only occur there. One of these rare species is the "Red añañuca" (), formerly known as . Many species of in the Atacama Desert are dangerously threatened, due to massive extraction of bulbs and cutting of flowers.