The origin and speciation of orchids

OA Pérez‐Escobar, D Bogarín… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Orchids constitute one of the most spectacular radiations of flowering plants. However, their
origin, spread across the globe, and hotspots of speciation remain uncertain due to the lack …

Temporal collections to study invasion biology

AS Kim, JM Kreiner, F Hernández, DG Bock… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biological invasions represent an extraordinary opportunity to study evolution. This is
because accidental or deliberate species introductions have taken place for centuries …

Revised Species Delimitation in the Giant Water Lily Genus Victoria (Nymphaeaceae) Confirms a New Species and Has Implications for Its Conservation

LT Smith, C Magdalena, NAS Przelomska… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Reliably documenting plant diversity is necessary to protect and sustainably benefit from it.
At the heart of this documentation lie species concepts and the practical methods used to …

Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships

OA Pérez‐Escobar, S Dodsworth… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
PREMISE The inference of evolutionary relationships in the species‐rich family Orchidaceae
has hitherto relied heavily on plastid DNA sequences and limited taxon sampling. Previous …

Plastome Evolution in the Hyperdiverse Genus Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) Using Phylogenomic and Comparative Analyses: Large-Scale Expansion and …

N Wei, OA Pérez-Escobar, PM Musili… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
With c. 2,000 species, Euphorbia is one of the largest angiosperm genera, yet a lack of
chloroplast genome (plastome) resources impedes a better understanding of its evolution. In …

Thermo-chemical potential of solid waste seed biomass obtained from plant Phoenix dactylifera and Aegle marmelos L. Fruit core cell

DB Pal, AK Tiwari, N Prasad, N Srivastava… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study explores thermo-chemical potential of two biomasses namely; Phoenix
dactylifera seed (PDS) and Aegle marmelos L core (AMP). These biomasses contain high …

Towards the identification of wild African date palms in Kerkennah Islands from Tunisia by morphometric and genetic analyses

W Saffar, H Bourguiba, E Cherif, N Chabrillange… - Scientia horticulturae, 2022 - Elsevier
Wild relatives constitute an invaluable resource for crop breeding and are key components
to understand their domestication history. Date palm is one of the oldest fruit crops …

Whole mitochondrial and chloroplast genome sequencing of Tunisian date palm cultivars: diversity and evolutionary relationships

H Hamza, S Villa, S Torre, A Marchesini… - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is the most widespread crop in arid
and semi-arid regions and has great traditional and socioeconomic importance, with its fruit …

What lies behind a fruit crop variety name? A case study of the barnī date palm from al‐'Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia

M Gros‐Balthazard, V Battesti, JM Flowers… - Plants, People …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement The oasis of al‐'Ulā is subject to a vast development operation by
the central government of the Saudi monarchy. Agriculture is not strictly speaking the first …

Genotyping‐by‐sequencing informs conservation of Andean palms sources of non‐timber forest products

N Peñafiel Loaiza, AH Chafe… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation and sustainable management of lineages providing non‐timber forest
products are imperative under the current global biodiversity loss. Most non‐timber forest …