Molecular dating of phylogenetic trees is a growing discipline using sequence data to co‐
estimate the timing of evolutionary events and rates of molecular evolution. All molecular …

With the continual progress of sequencing techniques, genome-scale data are increasingly
used in phylogenetic studies. With more data from throughout the genome, the relationship …

The aerial parts of plants are host to taxonomically structured bacterial communities.
Members of the core phyllosphere microbiota can protect Arabidopsis thaliana against foliar …

Phylogenetic signal is the tendency for closely related species to display similar trait values
as a consequence of their phylogenetic proximity. Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are …

Background The dramatic progress in sequencing technologies offers unprecedented
prospects for deciphering the organization of natural populations in space and time …

Phylogenetic signal is the tendency of related species to resemble each other more than
species drawn at random from the same tree. This pattern is of considerable interest in a …

The search for traits associated with plant invasiveness has yielded contradictory results, in
part because most previous studies have failed to recognize that different traits are important …

A central question in biology is how biodiversity influences ecosystem functioning.
Underlying this is the relationship between organismal phylogeny and the presence of …

Enabling food security requires access to a broad range of genetic resources to facilitate
crop breeding. This need is increased in a climate change scenario, which will require the …

To cope with environmental challenges, plants produce a wide diversity of phytochemicals,
which are also the source of numerous medicines. Despite decades of research in chemical …