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 …

Remarkable mitochondrial genome heterogeneity in Meniocus linifolius (Brassicaceae)

J Liu, JY Hu, DZ Li - Plant Cell Reports, 2024 - Springer
Key message Detailed analyses of 16 genomes identified a remarkable acceleration of
mutation rate, hence mitochondrial sequence and structural heterogeneity, in Meniocus …

Phylogenomic resolution of order-and family-level monocot relationships using 602 single-copy nuclear genes and 1375 BUSCO genes

PR Timilsena, EK Wafula, CF Barrett… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We assess relationships among 192 species in all 12 monocot orders and 72 of 77 families,
using 602 conserved single-copy (CSC) genes and 1375 benchmarking single-copy …

Phylotranscriptomic analyses of mycoheterotrophic monocots show a continuum of convergent evolutionary changes in expressed nuclear genes from three …

PR Timilsena, CF Barrett… - Genome biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Mycoheterotrophy is an alternative nutritional strategy whereby plants obtain sugars and
other nutrients from soil fungi. Mycoheterotrophy and associated loss of photosynthesis have …

Phylogenomics and plastome evolution of a Brazilian mycoheterotrophic orchid, Pogoniopsis schenckii

NJ Klimpert, JLS Mayer, DS Sarzi… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Pogoniopsis likely represents an independent photosynthesis loss in orchids. We
use phylogenomic data to better identify the phylogenetic placement of this fully …

Habitat-related plastome evolution in the mycoheterotrophic Neottia listeroides complex (Orchidaceae, Neottieae)

BY Shao, MZ Wang, SS Chen, JD Ya, XH Jin - BMC Plant Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Mycoheterotrophs, acquiring organic carbon and other nutrients from
mycorrhizal fungi, have evolved repeatedly with substantial plastid genome (plastome) …

Relictithismia: An underground fairy lantern

K Suetsugu - Plants, People, Planet, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement The discovery of a new genus within the family Thismiaceae,
known as fairy lanterns, marks a significant scientific milestone in Japan, a country …

Afrothismiaceae (Dioscoreales), a new fully mycoheterotrophic family endemic to tropical Africa

M Cheek, M Soto Gomez, SW Graham, PJ Rudall - Kew Bulletin, 2024 - Springer
Afrothismia is a genus of non-photosynthetic mycoheterotrophs from the forests of
continental tropical Africa. Multiple phylogenetic inferences using molecular data recover the …

Online tree expansion could help solve the problem of scalability in Bayesian phylogenetics

J Truszkowski, A Perrigo, D Broman… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Bayesian phylogenetics is now facing a critical point. Over the last 20 years, Bayesian
methods have reshaped phylogenetic inference and gained widespread popularity due to …

New insights into the phylogenetic relationships within the Lauraceae from mitogenomes

Y Song, QF Yu, D Zhang, LG Chen, YH Tan, W Zhu… - BMC biology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background The family Lauraceae is subdivided into six main lineages:
Caryodaphnopsideae, Cassytheae, Cryptocaryeae, Hypodaphnideae, Laureae, and …