**Meet the editor**

Dr. Zubaida Yousaf is working as an associate professor in the Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore. She joined this institute in 2009 as an assistant professor. She got her postdoc from South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China, in 2011, funded by TWAS-CAS. She has authored 45 research articles and 4 books and contributed 6 chapters in international editors' books. She has overseen more than 40 MS theses and supervised 5 PhD students.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Phylogenetics 1**

Ogueri Nwaiwu

Eliane Barbosa Evanovich dos Santos

Chapter 2 **Phylogeny of Three Palmwine Yeasts Genera 25**

**Identification of Basidiomycetes 43**

**Components Analyses 59**

Chapter 3 **Importance of Molecular and Phylogenetic Analyses for**

Chapter 4 **Genetic Diversity in Banana and Plantains Cultivars from**

Samina Sarwar, Qudsia Firdous and Abdul Nasir Khalid

Kusolwa, Cornel L. Rweyemamu and Amon P. Maerere

**Eastern DRC and Tanzania Using SSR and Morphological Markers, Their Phylogenetic Classification and Principal**

Dowiya Benjamin Nzawele, Antoine Kanyenga Lubolo, Paul M.
