The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

The unveiling of the angiosperm (flowering plant) tree of life over the past three decades has
been one of the great success stories of modern plant biology. Flowering plants underpin …

The past decade has seen a major breakthrough in our ability to easily and inexpensively
sequence genome‐scale data from diverse lineages. The development of high‐throughput …

Phylogenetic relationships among seed plant taxa, especially within the gymnosperms,
remain contested. In contrast to angiosperms, for which several genomic, transcriptomic and …

The tree of life is the fundamental biological roadmap for navigating the evolution and
properties of life on Earth, and yet remains largely unknown. Even angiosperms (flowering …

In the past ten years, international initiatives have led to the development of large sets of
genomic resources that allow comparative genomic studies between plant genomes at a …

Crop plants not only have economic significance, but also comprise important botanical
models for evolution and development. This is reflected by the recent increase in the …

Highlights•Many land plant-like features evolved in freshwater algae.•The cell wall,
alternation of division plane and polyplastidy were probably important for terrestrialization.• …

Abstract Background The Floral Genome Project was initiated to bridge the genomic gap
between the most broadly studied plant model systems. Arabidopsis and rice, although now …

Societal Impact Statement Plant genomes hold the key to understanding the evolutionary
history of plants, a lineage that goes back nearly a billion years and contains nearly half a …