Background Flowering plants (angiosperms) are dominant components of global terrestrial
ecosystems, but phylogenetic relationships at the familial level and above remain only …

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification of the orders and
families of angiosperms is presented. Several new orders are recognized: Boraginales …

Phylogenetics has become a powerful tool in many areas of biology. Land plants are the
most important primary producers of terrestrial ecosystems and have colonized various …

We reconstructed a phylogenetic tree of Chinese vascular plants (Tracheophyta) using
sequences of the chloroplast genes atpB, matK, ndhF, and rbcL and mitochondrial matR. We …

Brassicales is a diverse order perhaps most famous because it houses Brassicaceae and,
its premier member, Arabidopsis thaliana. This widely distributed and species-rich lineage …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Previous phylogenetic studies employing molecular markers
have yielded various insights into the evolutionary history across Brassicales, but many …

Rosidae, a clade of approximately 90 000 species of angiosperms, exhibits remarkable
morphological diversity and extraordinary heterogeneity in habitats and life forms. Resolving …

A comprehensively sampled reassessment of the molecular phylogeny of the genistoid
legumes questions the traditional placement of Haplormosia, an African monotypic genus …

古植物学研究发现云南现代的植物区系和植被的基本面貌在古近纪就已开始,
这些发现在很大程度上改变了我们以往对云南现代植被与植物区系起源和演化的认识 …

China has 31,362 species of vascular plants, more than any country on the planet except
Brazil and Colombia, and this number represents 8%–12% of the world diversity of vascular …