Financial support has been provided by the Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica(PICT 2014-2433);the National Science Foundation|grantI numbers DEB-1556666,DEB-1556136,EAR-1925552 to MAG].
The conifer family Cupressaceae encompasses seven subfamilies.Five of them were once considered to constitute the family Taxodiaceae,later eliminated because of its paraphyletic nature but remaining as an informal cat...
While polyploidy(whole-genome multiplication)is generally considered rare in extant gymnosperms(with the exception of Ephedra,Ephedraceae),the occurrence of sporadic polyploid individuals belonging to various genera i...
The Key Scientific and Technological Research Projects in Tibet Autonomous Region (XZ202101ZY0005G);The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) Program (2019QZKK0301-1)。
Leaf longevity is an important adaptive strategy that allows plants to maximize photosynthetic carbon gain.Due to the difficulty of identifying overwintering bud scars and distinguishing the age sequence of twigs,leaf...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31800175,31670189,and 31570195);the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2016A030313326,2017A030310421,2018A0303130109,and 2018B030320001);the Special Program for Science and Technology Basic Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2013FY111500);the Chang Hungta Science Foundation of Sun Yat-Sen University.
Historical climate oscillations and tectonic events have influenced the speciation and evolutionary history of many organisms.In this study,we chose Fokienia hodginsii(Dunn)A.Henry&H.H.Thomas(Cupressaceae s.l.),a Tert...
The ontogenesis of the form Biota orientalis compacta (Cupressaceae) was first studied in the conditions of introduction of the Tashkent Botanical Garden. The passage of periods and stages of ontogenesis, full ripenin...
fully funded by the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Research Council
Epicuticular waxes have vital roles in the growth and development of plants and in defense. Conifers have a considerable amount of waxes on their cones and leaves.Here we characterized the n-alkane composition of Iran...
In order to prevent a decline in its area,mostly caused by problems in natural regeneration,the present study was carried out to revise the list of Juniperus species in wild flora of Azerbaijan Republic.The presented ...
Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41572011, 41210001, and 41661134049);Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, the joint Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant Nos. 41611530701 and 17-54-53069);the Natural Environment Research Council of Research Councils UK (No. NE/P013805/1);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. i6lgjc28), and the Scientific Research Fund, Hongda Zhang,Sun Yat-sen University.
The genus Calocedrus Kurz is characterized by flattened branches covered with decussate and dimorphic leaves. In this study, we describe fossil foliage of Calocedrus discovered in the Shangcun Formation (early Oligoce...
Acknowledgements Special thanks are given to Professor Francis M. HUEBER (Department of Palae- obiology, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA) for providing superb suggestions and modifying the text. This project was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 20060390400), BJAST Overseas Talents Attracting Plan (Grant No. OTP-2012-006), and the Foundation for Excellent Talents of Beijing (Grant No. 20061D1100500398).
Branches and leafy shoots of fossil Glyptostrobus Endlicher (Cupressaceae s.1.), preserved as compressions of leaf cuticle with stomata and a single scale of a seed cone, have been found for the first time in the Ji...