Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonize the root systems of most land plants and modulate
plant growth by enhancing the availability of nutrients, mainly phosphorus, for plant nutrition …

Information on the fossil record of angiosperms has expanded dramatically over the past
twenty-five years, and in particular the discovery of numerous mesofossil floras with fossil …

Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs), also referred to as paleopolyploidizations,
have been reported in most evolutionary lineages. Their attributed role remains a major …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

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 …

Phylogenetic analysis of 330 plastid matK gene sequences, representing 235 genera from
37 of 39 tribes, and four outgroup taxa from eurosids I supports many well‐resolved …

Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus. That leaves around 700 other legume genera and
20,000 species left to consider—legumes are the third largest flowering plant family, behind …

Historical climate changes have had a major effect on the distribution and evolution of plant
species in the neotropics. What is more controversial is whether relatively recent Pleistocene …

The consequences of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary (KPB) mass extinction
for the evolution of plant diversity remain poorly understood, even though evolutionary …

Three RFLP maps, as well as several RAPD maps have been developed in common bean
(Phaseolus vulgaris L.). In order to align these maps, a core linkage map was established in …