Mountain systems harbor a substantial fraction of global biodiversity and, thus, provide
excellent opportunities to study rapid diversification and to understand the historical …

Paraboea (Gesneriaceae) distributed in the karst areas of South and Southwest China and
Southeast Asia, is an ideal genus to study the phylogeny and adaptive evolution of karst …

Although whole genome duplication (WGD) has been suggested to facilitate adaptive
evolution and diversification, the role of specific WGD events in promoting diversification and …

Introgressive hybridization is widespread in wild plants and has important consequences.
However, frequent hybridization between species makes the estimation of the species' …

Background Human-guided crop domestication has lasted for more than 10,000 years. In
terms of the domestication and breeding of vegetables, cellulose content in edible tissues is …

Cycads represent one of the most ancestral living seed plants as well as one of the most
threatened plant groups in the world. South China is a major center and potential origin of …

Petrocodon and Primulina are two characteristic genera of Gesneriaceae that exhibit
remarkable species and floral diversity, and high endemism across the Sino-Vietnamese …

Interpreting the formation of genomic variation landscape, especially genomic regions with
elevated differentiation (ie islands), is fundamental to a better understanding of the genomic …

Primulina genus is an ideal wild ornamental flower and emerging model for studying
biosynthesis, diversity, and evolution of flower pigment. However, the molecular mechanism …

As the largest known tree-borne fruit in the world, jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is an
important cultivated crop in tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia. The species has …