Seed dispersal is a fundamental life history trait in plants. Although the recent surge of
interest in seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) has added greatly to knowledge on the …

Succulent plants represent a large functional group of drought-resistant plants that store
water in specialized tissues. Several co-adaptive traits accompany this water-storage …

Hernández-Ledesma P., Berendsohn WG, Borsch Th., Mering S. von, Akhani H., Arias S.,
Castañeda-Noa I., Eggli U., Eriksson R., Flores-Olvera H., Fuentes-Bazán S., Kadereit G …

A revised and updated classification for the families of flowering plants is provided. Many
recent studies have yielded increasingly detailed evidence for the positions of formerly …

Succulent plants are widely distributed, reaching their highest diversity in arid and semi‐arid
regions. Their origin and diversification is thought to be associated with a global expansion …

• Premise of the study: The opuntias (nopales, prickly pears) are not only culturally,
ecologically, economically, and medicinally important, but are renowned for their taxonomic …

• Premise of the study: Cactaceae is one of the most charismatic plant families because of
the extreme succulence and outstanding diversity of growth forms of its members. Although …

• Premise of the study: Land‐plant plastid genomes have only rarely undergone significant
changes in gene content and order. Thus, discovery of additional examples adds power to …

Traditional classifications of the suborder Portulacineae recognize six families: Basellaceae,
Cactaceae, Didiereaceae, Halophytaceae, Hectorellaceae, and Portulacaceae. However …

Bayesian, maximum‐likelihood, and maximum‐parsimony phylogenies, constructed using
nucleotide sequences from the plastid gene region trnK‐matK, are employed to investigate …