Plant Diversity and Evolution

This study sequenced 166 Macadamia genotypes to analyze genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships, revealing extensive reticulate evolution and chloroplast capture events.

The paper merges lineage-specific and universal baiting kits to improve phylogenomic inference, showing high gene recovery and benefits of combining kits.

This study uses phylogenomic analysis to show two independent origins of dioecy in Asparagus, linked to range expansions from southern Africa and bursts of diversification.

This study uses phylogenomic data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of Cypripedium, revealing rapid radiation and hybridization events.

This study examines the vascular polymorphism in Serjania piscatoria, identifying developmental and evolutionary patterns of vascular variants in its stems.

The paper introduces a method for phylogenetic biogeography that incorporates dynamic paleogeography models and explicit geographic ranges to infer ancestral locations and dispersal paths.

The paper uses genomic data to show that Nicotiana section Suaveolentes colonized Australian deserts by adapting to arid conditions in the Pilbara region starting 5 million years ago.

This study sequences and analyzes the plastid genome of Degranvillea dermaptera, revealing the most reduced plastome in the Orchidoideae subfamily and providing insights into plastome evolution in leafless, heterotrophic orchids.

This study uses morphometrics and phylogenomics to analyze coca species and their relatives, revealing gene flow and taxonomic implications for coca classification.

This study analyzes plastome degeneration in the orchid genus Dipodium using phylogenomic data to understand the evolution of mycoheterotrophy and plastid gene loss.

This study uses off-target reads from nuclear genomic data to build a plastome phylogeny in Rubioideae, finding cytonuclear discordance and novel relationships.

This study maps phylogenetic diversity and endemism in Astragalus across temperate arid regions, identifying climate factors driving diversity patterns and biogeographic gateways.

This study investigates the evolutionary impact of myrmecophytism in Macaranga plants, finding it is plastic and not necessarily linked to increased diversification rates.

The paper investigates the biogeographic history of North American Thermopsideae by analyzing genetic data from Eurasian taxa, finding a single dispersal event and cytonuclear discordance due to hybridization.

The paper resolves conflicting phylogenetic relationships in legumes by identifying independent whole genome duplications in six subfamilies, with evidence of ancient hybridization in three.

This study investigates the role of de novo mutation and introgression in the ecological diversification of Penstemon subgenus Dasanthera, finding parallel evolution of flower color through independent mutations and genome-wide patterns of introgression.

This study uses nanopore sequencing to assemble and analyze the plastome of Ceratophyllum submersum, confirming its phylogenetic placement within angiosperms.

The paper develops target capture probes and a bioinformatics pipeline for phylogenomic studies in rosewoods and legumes, revealing new species and gene tree discordance.

The paper uses molecular data to show that blue and red flowered plants in Lysimachia species are polyphyletic and suggests new species names based on phylogenetic analysis.

The paper sequenced and analyzed the chloroplast genome of Stemona sessilifolia, identifying structural variations and gene loss compared to its counterfeits.

The paper analyzes chloroplast genomes of 3265 Angiosperm taxa to construct a phylogenetic tree and assesses the taxonomic status of teak (Tectona grandis L.f) within Lamiaceae.

The paper confirms the hybrid origin of Cryptocoryne xpurpurea nothovar. purpurea using DNA sequencing data from ITS and trnK-matK regions.

The paper sequences and analyzes the chloroplast genome of American elm, identifying genetic differences with related species and providing resources for genetic diversity studies.

The paper assembles and analyzes plastid genomes of five Nicotiana species to study molecular evolution, positive selection, and the maternal origin of N. rustica.

The paper reports chloroplast genomes of two Pothoideae species, identifying IR contraction/expansion effects on gene duplication and mutation rates.

The paper reports complete chloroplast genomes of 14 mangrove species and performs phylogenetic and genomic comparative analyses to understand their evolutionary relationships.

This study sequences the complete chloroplast genome of Psoralea corylifolia, identifies repeats, and performs phylogenetic and barcoding analysis.

This study evaluates the robustness of RADseq data for reconstructing evolutionary networks from gene trees in Medicago species, finding that network reconstructions are sensitive to assembly parameters and filters.

This study reports the complete chloroplast genome of Castanopsis sclerophylla, analyzes its structure, and compares it with related species to understand evolutionary relationships.

The paper reconstructs the phylogenetic relationships and estimates the divergence times of Blumea DC. in China using nrDNA ITS and cpDNA trnL-F sequences, finding monophyly and divergence during the Oligocene and Miocene.