The early diversification of angiosperms is thought to have been a rapid process,which may complicate phylogenetic analyses of early angiosperm relationships.Plastid and nuclear phylogenomic studies have raised severa...
This study was supported by the Science and Technology Foundation of Guizhou Province(No.[2017]5788);the Thailand Research Fund thanks the grant“impact of climate change on fungal diversity and biogeography in the Greater Mekong Sub-region(RDG6130001)”for financial and laboratory support.Xiang-Yu Zeng would like to thank Shaun Pennycook for the Latin diagnoses.Associate Professor R Jeewon thanks the University of Mauritius for support and Mae Fah Luang University for the visiting scholar program.
Epifoliar fungi are a group of poorly studied fungal symbionts that coinhabit the surface of living plants.Meliolaceae is the largest group of epifoliar fungi and has been considered as obligate parasites.We investiga...
This study attempts to understand the biogeographic history of the western Ghats forests by investigating decoupling between phylogenetic and taxonomic diversity.We specifically test whether the deciduous forests have...
This study was supported by the fund of the Sino-Africa Joint Research Center,CAS,China(Y323771W07 and SAJC201322);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31800176).
Woody and herbaceous plants are differentially influenced by the environment,with non-random association with the evolutionary history of these taxa and their traits.In general,woody plants may have climatedominated n...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31730012)。
Although plant species with either animal or wind pollination modes are widespread and usually sympatric in nature,the degree of pollen interference from wind:pollinated species on animal pollinated species remains lt...
Mexico is a megadiverse country. Presently, 22126 species of angiosperms have been registered within its territory and 41 ool are considered to be endemic. However, their geographical distributions are far from homoge...
We sincerely thank Dr. Sheng-Xiang YU for permission to use the photographs of extant plants. This research was partially funded by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2014CB954101), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31270269 and 31270268), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association Foundation of CAS.
The new discovery of angiosperm remains in the Jehol Biota of northeastern China contributes to our understanding of the origin and early evolution of flowering plants. The earliest eudicot genus with reproductive org...
The authors thank Prof. Zhi-Duan Chen and Jin-Ming Chen for their helpful discussion on the manuscript. We are grateful to the members in the Laboratory of Prof. Zhi-Duan Chen for their assistance in the laboratory and data analysis. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31100175) and the strategic pilot science and technology projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDAO5090305) supported this research.
Although aquatic plants are discussed as a unified biological group, they are phylogenetically well dispersed across the angiosperms. In this study, we annotated the aquatic taxa on the tree of vascular plants, and ex...
Floral organ identity genes, most of which are MADS-box genes, play key roles in flower development and floral organ identity determination. To specify the identities of different floral organ types, proteins of the f...
As a part of our program to explore and evaluate genetic diversity of flowering plants of the Kashmir Himalayas, meiotic studies have been carried out on 150 wild species. Of these, Ca#ha alba (2n = 32), Delphinium ...