Many terrestrial ecosystems are fire prone, such that their composition and structure are
largely due to their fire regime. Regions subject to regular fire have exceptionally high levels …

Transposable elements (TEs) are a dominant feature of most flowering plant genomes.
Together with other accepted facilitators of evolution, accumulating data indicate that TEs …

Conifers have dominated forests for more than 200 million years and are of huge ecological
and economic importance. Here we present the draft assembly of the 20-gigabase genome …

Abstract Background Ginkgo biloba L.(Ginkgoaceae) is one of the most distinctive plants. It
possesses a suite of fascinating characteristics including a large genome, outstanding …

The appearance of plant organs mediated the explosive radiation of land plants, which
shaped the biosphere and allowed the establishment of terrestrial animal life. The evolution …

Ash trees (genus Fraxinus, family Oleaceae) are widespread throughout the Northern
Hemisphere, but are being devastated in Europe by the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

We present reference-quality genome assembly and annotation for the stout camphor tree
(Cinnamomum kanehirae (Laurales, Lauraceae)), the first sequenced member of the …

The majority of variation in rates of molecular evolution among seed plants remains both
unexplored and unexplained. Although some attention has been given to flowering plants …

Many phylogenomic studies based on transcriptomes have been limited to “single-copy”
genes due to methodological challenges in homology and orthology inferences. Only a …