The planetary role of seagrass conservation

RKF Unsworth, LC Cullen-Unsworth, BLH Jones… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Seagrasses are remarkable plants that have adapted to live in a marine environment. They
form extensive meadows found globally that bioengineer their local environments and …

Phylogenomics and the flowering plant tree of life

C Guo, Y Luo, LM Gao, TS Yi, HT Li… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advances accelerated by nextgeneration sequencing and longread sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms

AR Zuntini, T Carruthers, O Maurin, PC Bailey… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

The CAM lineages of planet Earth

IS Gilman, JAC Smith, JAM Holtum, RF Sage… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Scope The growth of experimental studies of crassulacean acid
metabolism (CAM) in diverse plant clades, coupled with recent advances in molecular …

Seagrass genomes reveal ancient polyploidy and adaptations to the marine environment

X Ma, S Vanneste, J Chang, L Ambrosino, K Barry… - Nature plants, 2024 - nature.com
We present chromosome-level genome assemblies from representative species of three
independently evolved seagrass lineages: Posidonia oceanica, Cymodocea nodosa …

Phylogenomic resolution of order-and family-level monocot relationships using 602 single-copy nuclear genes and 1375 BUSCO genes

PR Timilsena, EK Wafula, CF Barrett… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We assess relationships among 192 species in all 12 monocot orders and 72 of 77 families,
using 602 conserved single-copy (CSC) genes and 1375 benchmarking single-copy …

[HTML][HTML] A risk assessment on Zostera chilensis, the last relict of marine angiosperms in the South-East Pacific Ocean, due to the development of the desalination …

F Blanco-Murillo, MJ Díaz, F Rodríguez-Rojas… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Seagrasses, which are considered among the most ecologically valuable and endangered
coastal ecosystems, have a narrowly limited distribution in the south-east Pacific, where …

Phylotranscriptomic analyses reveal multiple whole-genome duplication events, the history of diversification and adaptations in the Araceae

L Zhao, YY Yang, XJ Qu, H Ma, Y Hu, HT Li… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The Araceae are one of the most diverse monocot families
with numerous morphological and ecological novelties. Plastid and mitochondrial genes …

Nuclear phylogenomics of angiosperms and insights into their relationships and evolution

G Zhang, H Ma - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Angiosperms (flowering plants) are by far the most diverse land plant group with over
300,000 species. The sudden appearance of diverse angiosperms in the fossil record was …

Allometric relationships between leaf and petiole traits across 31 floating-leaved plants reveal a different adaptation pattern from terrestrial plants

Y Liu, H Liu, L Baastrup-Spohr, Z Li, W Li… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Allometric scaling between stomata and xylem for terrestrial
woody plants is a widely observed pattern that may be constrained by water transport …