Phylogenomics and the flowering plant tree of life

C Guo, Y Luo, LM Gao, TS Yi, HT Li… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

Deep reticulation: the long legacy of hybridization in vascular plant evolution

GW Stull, KK Pham, PS Soltis, DE Soltis - The Plant Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hybridization has long been recognized as a fundamental evolutionary process in plants
but, until recently, our understanding of its phylogenetic distribution and biological …

Phylogenomic approaches untangle early divergences and complex diversifications of the olive plant family

W Dong, E Li, Y Liu, C Xu, Y Wang, K Liu, X Cui, J Sun… - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Deep-branching phylogenetic relationships are often difficult to resolve
because phylogenetic signals are obscured by the long history and complexity of …

Phylogenomic conflict analyses in the apple genus Malus sl reveal widespread hybridization and allopolyploidy driving diversification, with insights into the complex …

BB Liu, C Ren, M Kwak, RGJ Hodel… - Journal of Integrative …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenomic evidence from an increasing number of studies has demonstrated that
different data sets and analytical approaches often reconstruct strongly supported but …

Phylogenomic relationships and species identification of the olive genus Olea (Oleaceae)

WP Dong, JH Sun, YL Liu, C Xu… - … of Systematics and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The olive genus Olea includes c. 30–40 taxa in three subgenera (Olea, Tetrapilus, and
Paniculatae) within the family Oleaceae. Historically, the Olea genus was classified into four …

Genome of tetraploid sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.)'Montmorency'identifies three distinct ancestral Prunus genomes

CZ Goeckeritz, KE Rhoades, KL Childs… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) is a valuable fruit crop in the Rosaceae family and a hybrid
between progenitors closely related to extant Prunus fruticosa (ground cherry) and Prunus …

Synthesis of nuclear and chloroplast data combined with network analyses supports the polyploid origin of the apple tribe and the hybrid origin of the Maleae …

RGJ Hodel, EA Zimmer, BB Liu, J Wen - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plant biologists have debated the evolutionary origin of the apple tribe (Maleae; Rosaceae)
for over a century. The “wide-hybridization hypothesis” posits that the pome-bearing …

Nuclear phylogenomics of angiosperms and insights into their relationships and evolution

G Zhang, H Ma - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Angiosperms (flowering plants) are by far the most diverse land plant group with over
300,000 species. The sudden appearance of diverse angiosperms in the fossil record was …

Unlocking plum genetic potential: Where are we at?

F Sottile, C Caltagirone, G Giacalone, C Peano… - Horticulturae, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plums are a large group of closely related stone fruit species and hybrids of worldwide
economic importance and diffusion. This review deals with the main aspects concerning …

The draft genome of Spiraea crenata L. (Rosaceae) – the first complete genome in tribe Spiraeeae

L Laczkó, S Jordán, S Póliska, HV Rácz, NA Nagy… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Spiraea crenata L. is a deciduous shrub distributed across the Eurasian steppe zone. The
species is of cultural and horticultural importance and occurs in scattered populations …