Parasitic angiosperms: how often and how many?

DL Nickrent - Taxon, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Angiosperms that morphologically and physiologically attach to other flowering plants by
means of a haustorium have evolved 12 times independently resulting in 292 genera and …

Ancient WGD events as drivers of key innovations in angiosperms

PS Soltis, DE Soltis - Current opinion in plant biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication (WGD) is a ubiquitous feature of plant
genomes.•Polyploidy is most frequent in angiosperms.•A complex pattern of polyploidy is …

A comprehensive phylogenomic platform for exploring the angiosperm tree of life

WJ Baker, P Bailey, V Barber, A Barker… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

NJ Wickett, S Mirarab, N Nguyen… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Reconstructing the origin and evolution of land plants and their algal relatives is a
fundamental problem in plant phylogenetics, and is essential for understanding how critical …

A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales

P Hernández-Ledesma, WG Berendsohn, T Borsch… - Willdenowia, 2015 - BioOne
Hernández-Ledesma P., Berendsohn WG, Borsch Th., Mering S. von, Akhani H., Arias S.,
Castañeda-Noa I., Eggli U., Eriksson R., Flores-Olvera H., Fuentes-Bazán S., Kadereit G …

Monocot plastid phylogenomics, timeline, net rates of species diversification, the power of multi‐gene analyses, and a functional model for the origin of monocots

TJ Givnish, A Zuluaga, D Spalink… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study We present the first plastome phylogeny encompassing all 77 monocot
families, estimate branch support, and infer monocot‐wide divergence times and rates of …

Mycorrhizal associations and other means of nutrition of vascular plants: understanding the global diversity of host plants by resolving conflicting information and …

MC Brundrett - Plant and Soil, 2009 - Springer
A comprehensive appraisal of the mycorrhizal literature provides data for 336 plant families
representing 99% of flowering plants, with regard to mycorrhizas and other nutritional …

Phylogenetic distribution and evolution of mycorrhizas in land plants

B Wang, YL Qiu - Mycorrhiza, 2006 - Springer
A survey of 659 papers mostly published since 1987 was conducted to compile a checklist of
mycorrhizal occurrence among 3,617 species (263 families) of land plants. A plant …

Bayesian inference of phylogeny and its impact on evolutionary biology

JP Huelsenbeck, F Ronquist, R Nielsen, JP Bollback - science, 2001 - science.org
As a discipline, phylogenetics is becoming transformed by a flood of molecular data. These
data allow broad questions to be asked about the history of life, but also present difficult …

Coevolution of roots and mycorrhizas of land plants

MC Brundrett - New phytologist, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Here, the coevolution of mycorrhizal fungi and roots is assessed in the light of evidence now
available, from palaeobotanical and morphological studies and the analysis of DNA‐based …