The evolution of geophytes in response to different environmental stressors is poorly
understood largely due to the great morphological variation in underground plant organs …

Herbaceous plants collectively known as geophytes, which regrow from belowground buds,
are distributed around the globe and throughout the land plant tree of life. The geophytic …

Many species from across the vascular plant tree‐of‐life have modified standard plant
tissues into tubers, bulbs, corms, and other underground storage organs (USOs), unique …

Premise Geophytes—plants that typically possess a bulb, corm, tuber, and/or rhizome—
have long captured the attention of hobbyists and researchers. However, despite the …

Testing adaptive hypotheses about how continuous traits evolve in association with
developmentally structured discrete traits, while accounting for the confounding influence of …

Abstract Background and Aims Alpine cushion plants can initially facilitate other species
during ecological succession, but later on can be negatively affected by their development …

The fossil record suggests stomata-like pores were present on the surfaces of land plants
over 400 million years ago. Whether stomata arose once or whether they arose …

Premise Evolutionary studies require solid phylogenetic frameworks, but increased volumes
of phylogenomic data have revealed incongruent topologies among gene trees in many …

Understanding the factors driving ecological and evolutionary interactions of economically
important plant species is important for agricultural sustainability. The geography of crop …

Not all plant traits from all regions have been standardized or databased. Some ecosystems,
such as tropical grasslands, are under-represented in such databases owing to the difficulty …