An analysis of over 10 000 plant genome sizes (GSs) indicates that most species have
smaller genomes than expected given the incidence of polyploidy in their ancestries …

Fundamental differences in the distribution of oceans and landmasses in the Northern and
Southern Hemispheres potentially impact patterns of biological diversity in the two areas …

Background Next-generation sequencing has provided a wealth of plastid genome
sequence data from an increasingly diverse set of green plants (Viridiplantae). Although …

Inferring the intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of species diversification and phenotypic disparity
across the tree of life is a major challenge in evolutionary biology. In green plants, polyploidy …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Angiosperm leaves manifest a remarkable diversity of shapes that range from
developmental sequences within a shoot and within crown response to microenvironment to …

Plants have utterly transformed the planet, but testing hypotheses of causality requires a
reliable time‐scale for plant evolution. While clock methods have been extensively …

The plant kingdom exhibits diverse bodyplans, from single-celled algae to complex
multicellular land plants, but it is unclear how this phenotypic disparity was achieved. Here …

Increasingly robust understanding of angiosperm phylogeny allows more secure
reconstruction of the flower in the most recent common ancestor of extant angiosperms and …

Molecular data on relationships within angiosperms confirm the view that their increasing
morphological diversity through the Cretaceous reflected their evolutionary radiation …