The global change scenarios highlight the urgency of clarifying the mechanisms driving the
determination of wood traits in forest trees. Coniferous xylem is characterized by the …

Abstract Siberian larch (Larix Mill.) forests dominate vast areas of northern Russia and
contribute important ecosystem services to the world. It is important to understand the past …

Climate change is expected to cause major shifts in boreal forests which are in vast areas of
Siberia dominated by two species of the deciduous needle tree larch (Larix). The species …

Aim The continental‐scale distribution of plant functional types, such as evergreen and
summergreen needle‐leaf forest, is assumed to be determined by contemporary climate …

Background The mitogenomes of vascular plants are one of the most structurally diverse
molecules. In the present study we characterize mitogenomes of a rare and endangered …

In eukaryotic genomes, cycles of repeat expansion and removal lead to large-scale genomic
changes and propel organisms forward in evolution. However, in conifers, active repeat …

Climate warming alters plant composition and population dynamics of arctic ecosystems. In
particular, an increase in relative abundance and cover of deciduous shrub species …

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a widely used genetic tool in modern hybrid rice
breeding. Most genes conferring rice gametophytic CMS are homologous to orf79 and co …

Five Larix species (L. griffithii, L. speciose, L. himalaica, L. kongboensis, and L. potaninii var.
australis), have survived on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) under specific climate …

Pulsatilla patens is a rare and endangered species in Europe and its population resources
have significantly decreased over the past decades. Previous genetic studies of this species …