Fabaceae are the third largest angiosperm family, with 765 genera and∼ 19 500 species.
They are important both economically and ecologically, and global Fabaceae crops are …

To date, little is known about the evolution of fern genomes, with only two small genomes
published from the heterosporous Salviniales. Here we assembled the genome of Alsophila …

To conserve water in arid environments, numerous plant lineages have independently
evolved Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM). Interestingly, Isoetes, an aquatic lycophyte …

Adaptation to cool climates has occurred several times in different angiosperm groups.
Among them, Pooideae, the largest grass subfamily with∼ 3,900 species including wheat …

The ability of climbing plants to grow upward along others to reach the canopy for
photosynthesis is hypothesized as a key innovation in flowering plants. Most members of the …

Recent advances in plant developmental genetics together with rapid accumulation of
transcriptomic data on plants from divergent lineages provide an exciting opportunity to …

Seed plants overtook ferns to become the dominant plant group during the late
Carboniferous, a period in which the climate became colder and dryer,. However, the …

Ferns, with about 12,000 species, are the second most diverse lineage of vascular plants
after angiosperms. They have been the subject of numerous molecular phylogenetic studies …

Photosynthesis, the ability to fix atmospheric carbon dioxide, was acquired by eukaryotes
through symbiosis: the plastids of plants and algae resulted from a cyanobacterial symbiosis …

Comprising about 82% of the extant fern species diversity, Polypodiales are generally
believed to have diversified in the Late Cretaceous. We estimated the divergence times of …