“…To date, many gene markers have been employed in the phylogenetic study of the Apiaceae (Downie et al, 2001Kadereit and Kadereit, 2005;Zhou et al, 2008Zhou et al, , 2009Spalik et al, 2009Spalik et al, , 2014, such as nrDNA ITS region, chloroplast DNA gene (rbcL and matK), intergenic spacer (psbI-5'trnK and rps16-5'trnK), and intron (rpl16, rps16, and rpoC1) sequences. Among these, the ITS region is the most frequently used marker.…”