Background Unravelling domestication processes is crucial for understanding how species
respond to anthropogenic pressures, forecasting crop responses to future global changes …

Almonds (Prunus dulcis) are one of the most consumed tree-nuts worldwide, with
commercial production in arid environments such as California, Spain, and Australia. The …

Wild almond species accumulate the bitter and toxic cyanogenic diglucoside amygdalin.
Almond domestication was enabled by the selection of genotypes harboring sweet kernels …

Abstract Background Epilithic sister genera Oresitrophe and Mukdenia (Saxifragaceae)
have an epilithic habitat (rocky slopes) and a parapatric distribution in East Asia, which …

Morella rubra (Myricaceae), also known as Chinese bayberry, is an economically important,
subtropical, evergreen fruit tree. The phylogenetic placement of Myricaceae within Fagales …

The origins of cultivated chrysanthemums have attracted considerable attention, but they
remain poorly known. Here, we reconstructed the phylogeny of representative well‐known …

Abstract Information on the distribution of genetic variation is essential to preserve olive
germplasm from erosion and to recover alleles lost through selective breeding. In addition …

Domestication is an excellent model to study diversification and this evolutionary process
can be different in perennial plants, such as fruit trees, compared to annual crops. Here, we …

Jujube (family Rhamnaceae) is an important economic fruit tree in China. In this study, we
reported 26 chloroplast (cp) sequences of jujube using Illumina paired-end sequencing. The …

Aim Phylogeography of fruit trees is challenging due to recurrent exchanges between
domesticated and wild populations. Here we tested the eastern refugium hypothesis (ERH) …