Plants produce a myriad of structurally and functionally diverse metabolites that play many
different roles in plant growth and development and in plant response to continually …

Plants produce a huge array of metabolites, far more than those produced by most other
organisms. Unraveling this diversity and its underlying genetic variation has attracted …

Similar traits and functions commonly evolve in nature. Here, we explore patterns of
replicated evolution across the plant kingdom and discuss the processes responsible for …

Contents Summary 87 I. Introduction 87 II. Evolution in action: subgenome dominance within
newly formed hybrids and polyploids 88 III. Summary and future directions 90 …

Tremendous chemical diversity is the hallmark of plants and is supported by highly complex
biochemical machinery. Plant metabolic enzymes originated and were transferred from …

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a water-use efficient adaptation of photosynthesis
that has evolved independently many times in diverse lineages of flowering plants. We …

Root nodule symbiosis (RNS) is a complex trait that enables plants to access atmospheric
nitrogen converted into usable forms through a mutualistic relationship with soil bacteria …

Humans have domesticated diverse species from across the plant kingdom, yet much of our
foundational knowledge of domestication has come from studies investigating relatively few …

Functional divergence after gene duplication plays a central role in plant evolution. Among
cereals, only Hordeum vulgare (barley), Triticum aestivum (wheat) and Secale cereale (rye) …

Seagrasses are marine angiosperms that live fully submerged in the sea. They evolved from
land plant ancestors, with multiple species representing at least three independent return-to …