Breakdown of self-incompatibility increases opportunities for both self-fertilization and interspecific hybridization,although the latter is dependent on the extent of competition between heterospecific and conspecifi...
Funding was provided by the Spanish Government,through grants CGL2015‐67849‐P(MINECO/FEDER)to IS.MR was supported by a MINECO FPI Fellowship(BES‐2013‐065389);jointly supervised by IS and RR.RR was supported by grant CGL2015‐73621‐JIN(AEI/FEDER);LP was supported through an EU‐funded SYNTHESYS3 grant(GB‐TAF‐5153).
Abstract Wide-range geographically discontinuous distributions have long intrigued scientists.We explore the role of ecology,geology,and dispersal in the formation of these large-scale disjunctions,using the angiosper...
The project was funded by grants from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,Stockholm University,and the Swedish Research Council(A0529602 to B.B.and 2017-03985 to C.R.).
Reconstructions of phylogenetic relationships in the flowering plant family Rubiaceae have up until now relied heavily on single-or multi-gene data,primarily from the plastid compartment.With the availability of cost-...
Acknowledgements This study was supported by grants-in-aid from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31370244 to ZLN and 31110103911 to HS), the NSFC-Yunnan Natural Science Foundation Unite Project (Grant No. U1136601 to HS), the Construct Program of the Key Discipline in Hunan Province (JSU0713), and the aid program for Science and Technology Innovative Research Team in Higher Educational Institutions of Hunan Province (201208). We thank Dun-Yan Tan and Feng qiu, Tao Deng, Zhi-Wei Wang and Xiao-Juan Li for field assistance and sample collections. The first author is grateful to De-Li Peng, and to Wei-Ping Huang and Zhuo Zhou for their help with data analyses.
Rubia L. is the type genus of the coffee family Rubiaceae and the third largest genus in the tribe Rubieae, comprising ca. 80 species restricted to the Old World. China is an important diversity center for Rubia, wher...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 3117o295 and 31170184) and the Foundation of Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botani- cal Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The authors are indebted to Dr. Pei-Wu Xie and Dr. Zhong-Lai Luo for field assistance.
Typical distylous species display both reciprocal herkogamy and heteromorphic incompatibility, which exclude self- and intramorph pollination and accordingly promote intermorph pollination. Here we explore an unusual ...
Financial support was provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China,the China Scholarship Council
Distyly is a genetically controlled flower dimorphism. Most species in Mussaenda are distylous or functionally dioecious. Mussaenda shikokiana Makino consisted of one floral morph only in the populations studied in so...
Tribe Condamineeae appears to be well supported in recent phylogenetic studies. However, the species of Bathysa were divided into two clades, leading to restoration of Schizocalyx. We studied the reproductive biology ...
The utility of pollination syndromes in predicting pollinators has been controversial. Flowers of Gui- haiotharnnus acaulis are tubular and vivid in color, indicating that butterflies might be the dominant pollinators...
Acknowledgements We are indebted to the curator of herbarium IBSC for permission to examine the herbarium material. Gratitude is expressed to Professor R. M. K. SAUNDERS from the University ofHong Kong and Professor Dian-Xiang ZHANG from IBSC for providing many valuable comments during the preparation of the manuscript, and to Ms. Yun-Xiao LIU (IBSC) for drawing the beautiful illustration. The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31070177) and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-EW-J-28).
The new species, Foonchewia guangdongensis R. J. Wang & H. Z. Wen and the new monotypic genus Foonchewia R. J. Wang (Rubioideae, Rubiaceae), are described from eastern Guangdong, China. It is characterized by its s...