Michael D. Windham

The paper investigates the evolution and reversal of woodiness in flowering plants, finding that drought supports persistence while reduced frost drives gains and increased frost leads to loss.

This study reclassifies B. calcarea from Boechera to Parryodes, revealing its placement in an ancestral clade of Arabideae through cytogenetic, phylogenetic, and repeatome analyses.

The paper sequences and analyzes the genome of Boechera falcata, revealing its phylogenetic relationship to North American relatives and structural chromosome features.