Members of the cactus family are keystone species of arid and semiarid biomes in the
Americas, as they provide shelter and resources to support other members of ecosystems …

Floral biology in the Cactaceae represents a new field of research, with only 2% of
approximately 2,000 species having been studied. Studies on breeding systems cover …

Hernández-Ledesma P., Berendsohn WG, Borsch Th., Mering S. von, Akhani H., Arias S.,
Castañeda-Noa I., Eggli U., Eriksson R., Flores-Olvera H., Fuentes-Bazán S., Kadereit G …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

The cacti are one of the most celebrated radiations of succulent plants. There has been
much speculation about their age, but progress in dating cactus origins has been hindered …

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 …

To study the inter‐and infrafamilial phylogenetic relationships in the order Caryophyllales
sensu lato (sl),∼ 930 base pairs of the matK plastid gene have been sequenced and …

• Premise of the study: The opuntias (nopales, prickly pears) are not only culturally,
ecologically, economically, and medicinally important, but are renowned for their taxonomic …

The large Neotropical family Bromeliaceae presents an outstanding example of adaptive
radiation in plants, containing a wide range of terrestrial and epiphytic life-forms occupying …

Cacti are a large and diverse group of stem succulents predominantly occurring in warm and
arid North and South America. Chloroplast DNA sequences of the trnK intron, including the …