Biogeography of nodulated legumes and their nitrogen‐fixing symbionts

JI Sprent, J Ardley, EK James - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 40 I. Introduction 40 II. Recent changes in the taxonomy of legume
genera 41 III. Latitudinal variations in the distribution of nodulated legumes 44 IV …

Páramo is the world's fastest evolving and coolest biodiversity hotspot

S Madriñán, AJ Cortés, JE Richardson - Frontiers in genetics, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the processes that cause speciation is a key aim of evolutionary biology.
Lineages or biomes that exhibit recent and rapid diversification are ideal model systems for …

A chickpea genetic variation map based on the sequencing of 3,366 genomes

RK Varshney, M Roorkiwal, S Sun, P Bajaj… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Zero hunger and good health could be realized by 2030 through effective conservation,
characterization and utilization of germplasm resources. So far, few chickpea (Cicer …

Tree functional traits, forest biomass, and tree species diversity interact with site properties to drive forest soil carbon

L Augusto, A Boča - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Forests constitute important ecosystems in the global carbon cycle. However, how trees and
environmental conditions interact to determine the amount of organic carbon stored in forest …

A reference genome for pea provides insight into legume genome evolution

J Kreplak, MA Madoui, P Cápal, P Novák, K Labadie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report the first annotated chromosome-level reference genome assembly for pea, Gregor
Mendel's original genetic model. Phylogenetics and paleogenomics show genomic …

Ancient orogenic and monsoon-driven assembly of the world's richest temperate alpine flora

WN Ding, RH Ree, RA Spicer, YW Xing - Science, 2020 - science.org
Origins of an alpine flora The evolution of high mountain floras is strongly influenced by
tectonic and climatic history. Ding et al. document the timing, tempo, and mode by which the …

Neglecting legumes has compromised human health and sustainable food production

CH Foyer, HM Lam, HT Nguyen, KHM Siddique… - Nature plants, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The United Nations declared 2016 as the International Year of Pulses (grain
legumes) under the banner 'nutritious seeds for a sustainable future'. A second green …

[PDF][PDF] A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny

CE Hughes, Legume Phylogeny Working Group - Taxon, 2017 - zora.uzh.ch
The classification of the legume family proposed here addresses the long-known non-
monophyly of the traditionally recognised subfamily Caesalpinioideae, by recognising six …

Nuclear phylotranscriptomics and phylogenomics support numerous polyploidization events and hypotheses for the evolution of rhizobial nitrogen-fixing symbiosis in …

Y Zhao, R Zhang, KW Jiang, J Qi, Y Hu, J Guo, R Zhu… - Molecular plant, 2021 - cell.com
Fabaceae are the third largest angiosperm family, with 765 genera and∼ 19 500 species.
They are important both economically and ecologically, and global Fabaceae crops are …

A reference genome for common bean and genome-wide analysis of dual domestications

J Schmutz, PE McClean, S Mamidi, GA Wu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important grain legume for human
consumption and has a role in sustainable agriculture owing to its ability to fix atmospheric …