Evolution of Rosaceae fruit types based on nuclear phylogeny in the context of geological times and genome duplication

Y Xiang, CH Huang, Y Hu, J Wen, S Li… - Molecular biology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Fruits are the defining feature of angiosperms, likely have contributed to angiosperm
successes by protecting and dispersing seeds, and provide foods to humans and other …

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 …

A time-calibrated road map of Brassicaceae species radiation and evolutionary history

N Hohmann, EM Wolf, MA Lysak, MA Koch - The Plant Cell, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The Brassicaceae include several major crop plants and numerous important model species
in comparative evolutionary research such as Arabidopsis, Brassica, Boechera …

Diversification of almonds, peaches, plums and cherries–molecular systematics and biogeographic history of Prunus (Rosaceae)

SW Chin, J Shaw, R Haberle, J Wen, D Potter - … phylogenetics and evolution, 2014 - Elsevier
Most previous molecular phylogenetic studies of Prunus have been conducted primarily with
crop species and their close relatives. As the center of crop diversity of the genus is in …

Tracing the diploid ancestry of the cultivated octoploid strawberry

C Feng, J Wang, AJ Harris, KM Folta… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The commercial strawberry, Fragaria× ananassa, is a recent allo-octoploid that is cultivated
worldwide. However, other than Fragaria vesca, which is universally accepted one of its …

Insights into phylogeny, sex function and age of Fragaria based on whole chloroplast genome sequencing

W Njuguna, A Liston, R Cronn, TL Ashman… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2013 - Elsevier
The cultivated strawberry is one of the youngest domesticated plants, developed in France
in the 1700s from chance hybridization between two western hemisphere octoploid species …

Transcriptome analysis and transient transformation suggest an ancient duplicated MYB transcription factor as a candidate gene for leaf red coloration in peach

Y Zhou, H Zhou, K Lin-Wang, S Vimolmangkang… - BMC plant biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Leaf red coloration is an important characteristic in many plant species,
including cultivars of ornamental peach (Prunus persica). Peach leaf color is controlled by a …

A review of paleobotanical studies of the Early Eocene Okanagan (Okanogan) Highlands floras of British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, USA

DR Greenwood, KB Pigg, JF Basinger… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The history of plant fossil collecting in the Okanagan (Okanogan) Highlands of British
Columbia and northeastern Washington is closely intertwined with the history of geological …

Staminate flower of Prunus s. l. (Rosaceae) from Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine)

DD Sokoloff, MS Ignatov, MV Remizowa… - Journal of Plant …, 2018 - Springer
The late Eocene ambers provide plethora of animal and plant fossils including well-
preserved angiosperm flowers from the Baltic amber. The Rovno amber from NW Ukraine …

Estimating divergence times and ancestral breeding systems in Ficus and Moraceae

Q Zhang, RE Onstein, SA Little, H Sauquet - Annals of Botany, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Although dioecy, which characterizes only 6% of angiosperm
species, has been considered an evolutionary dead end, recent studies have demonstrated …