The evolution and subsequent ecological expansion of grasses (Poaceae) since the Late
Cretaceous have resulted in the establishment of one of Earth's dominant biomes, the …

We review the fossil history of seed plant genera that are now endemic to eastern Asia.
Although the majority of eastern Asian endemic genera have no known fossil record at all …

The origin of plants and their colonization of land fundamentally transformed the terrestrial
environment. Here we elucidate the basis of this formative episode in Earth history through …

Tertiary macrofossils of the flowering plant family Leguminosae (legumes) were used as
time constraints to estimate ages of the earliest branching clades identified in separate …

Tropical South America has the highest plant diversity of any region today, but this richness
is usually characterized as a geologically recent development (Neogene or Pleistocene) …

Recent re-examinations and new fossil findings have added significantly to the data
available for evaluating the evolutionary history of the monocotyledons. Integrating data from …

Abstract Aim Dioscorea (Dioscoreaceae) is a predominantly pantropical genus (< 600
species) that includes the third most important tropical tuber crop and species of …

Sapindales is an angiosperm order of high economic and ecological value comprising nine
families, c. 479 genera, and c. 6570 species. However, family and subfamily relationships in …

Nitrogen is fundamental to all life forms and is also one of the most limiting of nutrients for
plant growth. Several clades of angiosperms have developed symbiotic relationships with …

With information on fossils and extant distribution of diversity/endemism in the mahogany
family, we perform a global biogeographic study of Meliaceae using plastid rbcL data for all …