Members of the order Rhizobiales include those capable of nitrogen fixation in nodules as
well as pathogens of animals and plants. This lifestyle diversity has important implications …

Pollination is one of the most important plant-animal interactions driving the joint
diversification and evolution of seed plants and animals. Typically classified as a mutualistic …

Floral phyllotaxis is a relatively robust phenotype; trimerous and pentamerous arrangements
are widely observed in monocots and core eudicots. Conversely, it also shows variability in …

The origin of the angiosperms, or flowering plants, is a major question of evolutionary
biology, famously described by Charles Darwin as an abominable mystery, This group arose …

Researchers working on evolutionary developmental plant biology are inclined to choose
non-model taxa to address how specific features have been acquired during ontogeny and …

Monocots are remarkably homogeneous in sharing a common trimerous pentacyclic floral
Bauplan. A major factor affecting monocot evolution is the unique origin of the clade from …

Mapanioideae (besides Cyperoideae the other subfamily of Cyperaceae) is divided in two
tribes (Hypolytreae and Chrysitricheae) in which the reproductive units (spicoids) are …

Due to its ancient origin in the Permian and the high proportion of beetle-pollinated taxa
within ancestral magnoliid lineages, it has been hypothesized that beetles were among the …

Abiotic framework conditions of terrestrial evolution are quite different from aquatic habitats.
Low density of air reduces the impacts of air currents and dampens to much lower extents …

Life on the Earth is about 4 billion years old. The evolution of the biological systems
(phylogenesis) is conventionally described as Darwinian. However, the life and the …