supported by the projects of the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32171817);the General Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province,China(Grant No.C2022204030);the Special Research Projects for the New Talent of Hebei Agricultural University,Hebei Province,China(Grant No.YJ2020025);the Basic Scientific Research of Colleges and Universities in Hebei Province(Grant No.KY2022005);the Hebei Province Key R&D Program(21326304D).
Jujube(Ziziphus jujuba Mill.),renowned for its nutritional value and health benefits,is believed to have originated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in China,where it underwent domestication from wi...
supported by Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42001045,32060051,31660051);Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity(Grant No.99203030);the Innovative Team of China's Ministry of Education-Research on the sustainable use of grassland resources[IRT_17R59].
Didymodon Hedw.,with approximately 140 species in the family Pottiaceae,is distributed nearly throughout the world,with the greatest diversity and important ecological functions in drought lands and alpine ecosystems....
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31970229 and No.32122010);Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity,the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant(No.2018M632329).
Volvocales forms a species-rich clade with wide morphological variety and is regarded as an ideal model for tracing the evolutionary transitions in multicellularity.The phylogenetic relationships among the colonial vo...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant No.31970218);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB31010000).
Gymnosphaera represents a minor lineage within the scaly tree-fern family Cyatheaceae.Tropical and subtropical mainland Asia is a main distribution area of Gymnosphaera.However,the species diversity of Gymnosphaera is...
supported by the Science and Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China:Survey and Germplasm Conservation of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations in South-west China(2017FY100100);Biodiversity Conservation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(ZSSD-013),and 135 Program。
The biologist's ruler for biodiversity is the species;accurate species identification is fundamental to the conservation of endangered species and in-depth biological scientific exploration.However,the delimitation an...
This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31330014,31271683).
Conspecific weeds that permanently infest worldwide agroecosystems are evolved from their crop species.These weeds cause substantial problems for crop production by competing for resources in agricultural fields.Weedy...
This work was supported by grants from the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA19050103 and XDB3100000);the NationalNatural Science Foundation of china (NNSF 31590822);the Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences International Research and Education Develop-ment Program (SAJC201613)。
Plant sigma factors(SIGs)are key regulators of chloroplast gene expression and chloroplast differentiation.Despite their functional importance,the evolutionary history of these factors remains unclear.Using newly avai...
This work was supported by a grant of the Large-scale Scientific Facilities,CAS(No.2017-LSF-GBOWS-02);the CAS 135 Program(2017XTBG-T03);the CAS“Light of West China”Program(Y7XB061B01);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31600531 and 31500165);the Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute,CAS(Y4ZK111B01);CAS International Research and Education Development Program(SAJC201613).
The family Lauraceae is a major component of tropical and subtropical forests worldwide,and includes some commercially important timber trees and medicinal plants.However,phylogenetic relationships within Lauraceae ha...
We would like to thank Dr. Zhiqiang Lu and Mingcheng Wang for their great help with collecting samples in the field and in generating and analyzing data. Financial support was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41471042);National Key Research and Development Program (2017YFC0505203);National Key Project for Basic Research (2012CB114504);Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2010DFA34610),and International Collaboration 111 Projects of China.
Betulaceae is a well-defined family of Fagales, including six living genera and more than 160 modern species. Species of the family have high ecological and economic value for the abundant production of wood. However,...
We thank colleagues at KIB, NHM, and XTBG for sharing materials and comments.The authors acknowledge the financial support by the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation to YY (No.31500182);YHW (No.41571049);the Large-scale Scientific Facilities of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to JY (No.2017-LSF-GBOWS-02);NERC (“Origin of Land Plants: Rocks, Genomes, and Geochemical Cycles”) to HS.
Sequencing the plastid genomes of land plants provides crucial improvements to our understanding of the plastome evolution of land plants. Although the number of available complete plastid genome sequences has rapidly...