Taxonomy & Evolution
Tropical islands lead to more diversity in Palm sexual reproduction
Isolation and sexual adaptability contributed to the evolution of thousands of palm species.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Historical migration and taxonomy of the Korean endemic shrub Lespedeza maritima
Jin et al. use molecular analyses and morphological examination to understand the evolutionary divergence and establishment patterns of a Korean endemic shrub.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Pink monkeyflowers are a sign of local adaptation
Botanists find petal colour can signal a monkeyflower’s drought tolerance.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Newly discovered fossils illuminate a family’s 64 million year development
The fossils highlight the importance of West Gondwana in the evolution of Cunoniaceae.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Parasitic plants and other botanical “misfits”
Taking a look inside these botanical rebels offers new information to better understand them.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Species delimitation and hybridization history of a hazel species complex
The study combines genetic and physical data to define four groups of hazel plants.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Extra blue-light receptors helped ferns thrive in early angiosperm forests
Leptosporangiate ferns have three times more cryptochrome receptors than their nearest relatives.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Hybridisation of native and foreign Sorbus trees in the Polish Carpathian mountains
Sorbus is a highly diverse tree genus but is this the result of hybridisation and introgression between native and foreign species?
Taxonomy & Evolution
A new high-throughput method for building large phylogenies from herbarium samples
Herbaria are an under-used resource for large phylogenies.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Gentiana hoae, a new alpine species on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Is hybridization a significant driver of plant speciation and endemism in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau?
Taxonomy & Evolution
Seed dormancy of the threatened Spanish daffodil Narcissus yepesii
Can the seed dormancy class of Narcissus yepesii explain the different dormancy levels seen in two closely related phylogenetic congeners?
Taxonomy & Evolution
A sweet story: modern sugarcanes originate from three ancestral genomes
New study identifies hybridisation and backcrossing events to have led to the modern sugarcane cultivars.