Is the East Asian flora ancient or not?

YS Chen, T Deng, Z Zhou, H Sun - National Science Review, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The East Asian flora (EAF) is a key biodiversity hotspot for understanding the origin
and evolution of Northern Hemisphere floras, but there is an ongoing debate on whether it is …

Plastid phylogenomic insights into relationships of all flowering plant families

HT Li, Y Luo, L Gan, PF Ma, LM Gao, JB Yang, J Cai… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Flowering plants (angiosperms) are dominant components of global terrestrial
ecosystems, but phylogenetic relationships at the familial level and above remain only …

The fructan syndrome: Evolutionary aspects and common themes among plants and microbes

M Versluys, O Kirtel, E Toksoy Öner… - Plant, Cell & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fructans are multifunctional fructose‐based water soluble carbohydrates found in all
biological kingdoms but not in animals. Most research has focused on plant and microbial …

Monocot plastid phylogenomics, timeline, net rates of species diversification, the power of multi‐gene analyses, and a functional model for the origin of monocots

TJ Givnish, A Zuluaga, D Spalink… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study We present the first plastome phylogeny encompassing all 77 monocot
families, estimate branch support, and infer monocot‐wide divergence times and rates of …

Quartet sampling distinguishes lack of support from conflicting support in the green plant tree of life

JB Pease, JW Brown, JF Walker… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Phylogenetic support has been difficult to evaluate within the green
plant tree of life partly due to a lack of specificity between conflicted versus poorly informed …

Orchid historical biogeography, diversification, Antarctica and the paradox of orchid dispersal

TJ Givnish, D Spalink, M Ames, SP Lyon… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Orchidaceae is the most species‐rich angiosperm family and has one of the broadest
distributions. Until now, the lack of a well‐resolved phylogeny has prevented analyses of …

Complete chloroplast genome of Lilium ledebourii (Baker) Boiss and its comparative analysis: lights into selective pressure and adaptive evolution

M Sheikh-Assadi, R Naderi, M Kafi, R Fatahi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Lilium ledebourii (Baker) Boiss is a rare species, which exhibits valuable traits.
However, before its genetic diversity and evolutionary were uncovered, its wild resources …

Phylogenomic resolution of order-and family-level monocot relationships using 602 single-copy nuclear genes and 1375 BUSCO genes

PR Timilsena, EK Wafula, CF Barrett… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We assess relationships among 192 species in all 12 monocot orders and 72 of 77 families,
using 602 conserved single-copy (CSC) genes and 1375 benchmarking single-copy …

Phylogenomics of Orchidaceae based on plastid and mitochondrial genomes

YX Li, ZH Li, A Schuiteman, MW Chase, JW Li… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
To advance our knowledge of orchid relationships and timing of their relative divergence, we
used 76 protein-coding genes from plastomes (ptCDS) and 38 protein-coding genes from …

Dynamic evolution and phylogenomic analysis of the chloroplast genome in Schisandraceae

B Li, Y Zheng - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Chloroplast genomes of plants are highly conserved in both gene order and gene content,
are maternally inherited, and have a lower rate of evolution. Chloroplast genomes are …