The advances accelerated by nextgeneration sequencing and longread sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

Green plants (Viridiplantae) are ancient photosynthetic organisms that thrive both in aquatic
and terrestrial ecosystems, greatly contributing to the changes in global climates and …

Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

Comprising 501 genera and around 14,000 species, Papilionoideae is not only the largest
subfamily of Fabaceae (Leguminosae; legumes), but also one of the most extraordinarily …

Background Over the past decade, phylogenomics has greatly advanced our knowledge of
angiosperm evolution. However, phylogenomic studies of large angiosperm families with …

Land plants first evolved from freshwater algae, and flowering plants returned to water as
early as the Cretaceous and multiple times subsequently. Alismatales is the largest clade of …

Species of Cephalotaxus have great economic and ecological values. However, the
taxonomy and interspecific phylogenetic relationships within the genus have been …

The genus Corydalis, with ca. 530 species, has long been considered taxonomically
challenging because of its great variability. Previous molecular analyses, based on a few …

Over centuries of plant morphological research, biologists have enthusiastically explored
how distinct vascular arrangements have diversified. These investigations have focused on …

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 …