Cabbage family affairs: the evolutionary history of Brassicaceae

A Franzke, MA Lysak, IA Al-Shehbaz, MA Koch… - Trends in plant …, 2011 - cell.com
Life without the mustard family (Brassicaceae) would be a world without many crop species
and the model organism Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) that has revolutionized our …

The origin and evolution of model organisms

SB Hedges - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2002 - nature.com
The phylogeny and timescale of life are becoming better understood as the analysis of
genomic data from model organisms continues to grow. As a result, discoveries are being …

V. PhyloMaker: an R package that can generate very large phylogenies for vascular plants

Y Jin, H Qian - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We present V. PhyloMaker, a freely available package for R designed to generate
phylogenies for vascular plants. The mega‐tree implemented in V. PhyloMaker (ie GBOTB …

Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits

Z Ma, D Guo, X Xu, M Lu, RD Bardgett, DM Eissenstat… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Plant roots have greatly diversified in form and function since the emergence of the first land
plants,, but the global organization of functional traits in roots remains poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] Factors influencing leaf chlorophyll content in natural forests at the biome scale

Y Li, N He, J Hou, L Xu, C Liu, J Zhang… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Chlorophyll (Chl) is an important photosynthetic pigment to the plant, largely determining
photosynthetic capacity and hence plant growth. However, this concept has not been …

When and where plant‐soil feedback may promote plant coexistence: a meta‐analysis

KM Crawford, JT Bauer, LS Comita, MB Eppinga… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plant‐soil feedback (PSF) theory provides a powerful framework for understanding plant
dynamics by integrating growth assays into predictions of whether soil communities stabilise …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequence of the cultivated cotton Gossypium arboreum

F Li, G Fan, K Wang, F Sun, Y Yuan, G Song, Q Li… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The complex allotetraploid nature of the cotton genome (AADD; 2 n= 52) makes genetic,
genomic and functional analyses extremely challenging. Here we sequenced and …

An updated megaphylogeny of plants, a tool for generating plant phylogenies and an analysis of phylogenetic community structure

H Qian, Y Jin - Journal of Plant Ecology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Aims The aim of this article is 3-fold. First, we present an updated version of a published
megaphylogeny of vascular plants that can be used in studies of plant ecology and …

Variation and evolution of C: N ratio among different organs enable plants to adapt to N‐limited environments

J Zhang, N He, C Liu, L Xu, Z Chen, Y Li… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) are the primary elements involved in the growth and
development of plants. The C: N ratio is an indicator of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and an …

Diversification of Rosaceae since the Late Cretaceous based on plastid phylogenomics

SD Zhang, JJ Jin, SY Chen, MW Chase… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic relationships in Rosaceae have long been problematic because of frequent
hybridisation, apomixis and presumed rapid radiation, and their historical diversification has …