Gymnosperms represent an ancient lineage that diverged from early spermatophytes during
the Devonian. The long fossil records and low diversity in living species prove their complex …

While hybridization has recently received a resurgence of attention from systematists and
evolutionary biologists, there remains a dearth of case studies on ancient, diversified hybrid …

Understanding plant evolution and diversity in a phylogenomic context is an enormous
challenge due, in part, to limited availability of genome-scale data across phylodiverse …

Phylogenetic analyses using genome-scale data sets must confront incongruence among
gene trees, which in plants is exacerbated by frequent gene duplications and losses. Gene …

Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135?
170 million years ago, angiosperms—or flowering plants—are the most diverse and species …

Contents Summary 1170 I. Introduction 1170 II. Six key questions 1172 III. Three key
challenges 1177 IV. Conclusions 1181 Acknowledgements 1182 References 1183 …

After decades of molecular phylogenetic studies, the deep phylogeny of gymnosperms has
not been resolved, and the phylogenetic placement of Gnetales remains one of the most …

Highlights•Angiosperms derive from MRCAs structured in 7 protochromosomes with∼ 10
000 protogenes.•Modern plant genomes evolved from MRCAs through recurrent …

Magnoliid genomes provide novel insight into early angiosperm evolution, showing how
whole-genome duplication and proliferation of transposable elements have shaped these …

While there has been strong support for Amborella and Nymphaeales (water lilies) as
branching from basal-most nodes in the angiosperm phylogeny, this hypothesis has recently …