supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant DP130101141 to M.D.C.and L.G.C.;ARC Discovery grant DP200103151 to B.Q.M.;a Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative grant E0SS4-0000000312 to B.Q.M.for opensource software for science.
Eucalypts(Myrtaceae tribe Eucalypteae)are currently placed in seven genera.Traditionally,Eucalyptus was defined by its operculum,but when phylogenies placed Angophora,with free sepals and petals,as sister to the operc...
funded by National Key Research and Development Program(grant 2023YFD1000500;2018YFD000400);Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Plant Germplasm Resources(grant number 17DZ2252700).
The molecular basis of orchid flower development involves a specific regulatory program in which MADS-box transcription factors play a central role.The recent‘perianth code’model hypothesizes that two types of highe...
This project was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31770200,31300158,and 31770203);the Chinese Universities Scientific Fund(No.2452020179).
Although the vast majority of Prunus L.(Rosaceae)species have clearly diferentiated sepals and petals,two former genera Maddenia and Pygeum have been described as having an undiferentiated perianth.However,floral morp...
A new species from Fiji, Lejeunea heinrichsii is described and illustrated herein based on morphological characters and molecular phylogenetic analyses. The taxonomic descriptions of L. heinrichsii and the comparison ...
Acknowledgements We are grateful to Ce-Hong LI, Ping ZHUANG, Xiao-Ping LI, and Zhen-Dong FANG for assistance with fieldwork, to Zhong-Chun LUO for the provision of samples ofA. scopulorum, and to Tao WEI, Jian-Hua FAN, and Sheng-Xiang YU for guidance and technical assistance in experiments and data analysis. We greatly appreciate the two reviewers for their valuable comments. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30370104 and 30990241).
Aletris, containing approximately 21 species, is the largest genus in Nartheciaceae, and is disjunctively distributed in eastern Asia and eastern North America. Its delimitation has been controversial because it is un...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40772006,40372008, 40632010 and J0630967); Resources Platform of Mineral Rockand Fossil, and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry
The early evolution of angiosperms has been a focus of intensive research for more than a century. The Yixian Formation in western Liaoning yields one of the earliest angiosperm macrofioras. Despite multitudes of angi...