Phylogenomics and the flowering plant tree of life

C Guo, Y Luo, LM Gao, TS Yi, HT Li… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

Deep reticulation: the long legacy of hybridization in vascular plant evolution

GW Stull, KK Pham, PS Soltis, DE Soltis - The Plant Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hybridization has long been recognized as a fundamental evolutionary process in plants
but, until recently, our understanding of its phylogenetic distribution and biological …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

Chloranthus genome provides insights into the early diversification of angiosperms

X Guo, D Fang, SK Sahu, S Yang, X Guang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chloranthales remain the last major mesangiosperm lineage without a nuclear genome
assembly. We therefore assemble a high-quality chromosome-level genome of Chloranthus …

Genome assemblies of 11 bamboo species highlight diversification induced by dynamic subgenome dominance

PF Ma, YL Liu, C Guo, G Jin, ZH Guo, L Mao… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Polyploidy (genome duplication) is a pivotal force in evolution. However, the interactions
between parental genomes in a polyploid nucleus, frequently involving subgenome …

Genomes, fossils, and the concurrent rise of modern birds and flowering plants in the Late Cretaceous

S Wu, FE Rheindt, J Zhang, J Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The phylogeny and divergence timing of the Neoavian radiation remain controversial
despite recent progress. We analyzed the genomes of 124 species across all Neoavian …

Phylogenomic approaches untangle early divergences and complex diversifications of the olive plant family

W Dong, E Li, Y Liu, C Xu, Y Wang, K Liu, X Cui, J Sun… - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Deep-branching phylogenetic relationships are often difficult to resolve
because phylogenetic signals are obscured by the long history and complexity of …

Genomic insights into zokors' phylogeny and speciation in China

X Liu, S Zhang, Z Cai, Z Kuang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The phylogeny and speciation of subterranean zokors in China are unclear, as previous
studies on morphology and limited molecular markers have generated conflicting results …

Phylogenomics insights into gene evolution, rapid species diversification, and morphological innovation of the apple tribe (Maleae, Rosaceae)

L Zhang, DF Morales‐Briones, Y Li, G Zhang… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Maleae is one of the most widespread tribes of Rosaceae and includes several important
fruit crops and ornamental plants. We used nuclear genes from 62 transcriptomes/genomes …

Phylogenomics reveals extreme gene tree discordance in a lineage of dominant trees: hybridization, introgression, and incomplete lineage sorting blur deep …

TGB McLay, RM Fowler, PS Fahey, DJ Murphy… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Eucalypts are a large and ecologically important group of plants on the Australian continent,
and understanding their evolution is important in understanding evolution of the unique …