The evolution of ontogenetic “decision-making” in the wood of a clade of tropical plants

E Petrone-Mendoza, M Benítez, ME Lárraga… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Greater diversity in functional morphology should be associated with the evolution of greater
ontogenetic diversity, an expectation difficult to test in most long-lived wild organisms. In the …

Evolution of secondary growth: have pattern, got process? A commentary on 'Molecular phylogeny of Urvillea (Paullinieae, Sapindaceae) and its implications in stem …

AMF Tomescu - Annals of Botany, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Secondary growth from a vascular cambium (woody growth), like other complex
developmental processes, is regulated in a modular fashion (Tomescu and Groover, 2019; …

The “abominable mystery” of Schenck: the polymorphism of Serjania piscatoria and its implications for the evolution of vascular variants in Paullinieae (Sapindaceae)

NF Marques, IL Cunha Neto, LA Brito, GV Somner - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Serjania is the only genus of Paullinieae that exhibits all types of vascular variants in stems
and includes S. piscatoria with a complex vascular structure that has intrigued botanists for …