“…Yasui et al (1998) suggested that heterostylous self-incompatibility have broken down many times independently during diversification of Fagopyrum species in the molecular phylogenetic study for 12 Fagopyrum species. Moreover, phylogenetic relations of Fagopyrum species have been inferred from molecular information such as isozyme variability, RFLP analyses of cpDNA (Ohnishi and Matsuoka, 1996), nucleotide sequences of ITS regions of rbc L-acc D and nuclear ribosomal DNA (Yasui and Ohnishi, 1998a,b;Ohsako and Ohnishi, 1998;Ohsako et al, 2001), trn K (UUU) intron, and trn C (GCA)-rpo B spacer (Ohsako and Ohnishi, 2000) as well as morphological data (Hirose et al, 1994(Hirose et al, , 1995Ohnishi and Matsuoka, 1996;Ohsako and Ohnishi, 1998;Ohsako et al, 2002). All these studies illustrated that each phylogenetic tree strongly supported division of Fagopyrum species into two groups, the cymosum and urophyllum groups.…”