The relative and absolute frequencies of angiosperm sexual systems: dioecy, monoecy, gynodioecy, and an updated online database

SS Renner - American Journal of botany, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Separating sexual function between different individuals carries risks,
especially for sedentary organisms. Nevertheless, many land plants have unisexual …

Plant sex chromosomes defy evolutionary models of expanding recombination suppression and genetic degeneration

SS Renner, NA Müller - Nature plants, 2021 - nature.com
Hundreds of land plant lineages have independently evolved separate sexes in either
gametophytes (dioicy) or sporophytes (dioecy), but 43% of all dioecious angiosperms are …

Phylogenetic insights into Andean plant diversification

F Luebert, M Weigend - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Andean orogeny is considered as one of the most important events for the development of
current plant diversity in South America. We compare available phylogenetic studies and …

Watermelon origin solved with molecular phylogenetics including L innaean material: another example of museomics

G Chomicki, SS Renner - New Phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Type specimens are permanently preserved biological specimens that fix the usage of
species names. This method became widespread from 1935 onwards and is now obligatory …

Evolutionary history of fire‐stimulated resprouting, flowering, seed release and germination

BB Lamont, T He, Z Yan - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fire has shaped the evolution of many plant traits in fire‐prone environments: fire‐resistant
tissues with heat‐insulated meristems, post‐fire resprouting or fire‐killed but regenerating …

On the rarity of dioecy in flowering plants

J Käfer, GAB Marais, JR Pannell - Molecular Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dioecy, the coexistence of separate male and female individuals in a population, is a rare
but phylogenetically widespread sexual system in flowering plants. While research has …

Carica papaya: comprehensive overview of the nutritional values, phytochemicals and pharmacological activities

OR Alara, NH Abdurahman, JA Alara - Advances in traditional medicine, 2020 - Springer
Carica papaya is a perennial large herbaceous plant known for diverse biological activities.
Different parts of this plant such as seeds, leaves, fruits, peels, roots, and stems have been …

Freezing and water availability structure the evolutionary diversity of trees across the Americas

RA Segovia, RT Pennington, TR Baker… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The historical course of evolutionary diversification shapes the current distribution of
biodiversity, but the main forces constraining diversification are still a subject of debate. We …

Sex determination in flowering plants: papaya as a model system

R Aryal, R Ming - Plant Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Unisexuality in flowering plants evolved from a hermaphrodite ancestor. Transition from
hermaphrodite to unisexual flowers has occurred multiple times across the different lineages …

Biogeography and diversification of Brassicales: a 103 million year tale

WM Cardinal-McTeague, KJ Sytsma, JC Hall - … Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
Brassicales is a diverse order perhaps most famous because it houses Brassicaceae and,
its premier member, Arabidopsis thaliana. This widely distributed and species-rich lineage …