Comparative analysis of multiple hybrid zones of Rhododendron × duclouxii uncovered different potential evolutionary outcomes
Available online 23 April 2025
The study of natural hybridization facilitates our understanding of potential adaptive mechanisms in evolution and the process involved in speciation. In this study, we used multiple data types, including...
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Climate drives patterns of response of recalcitrant embryonic axes of Quercus species to cryopreservation
Available online 16 April 2025
Cryopreservation of partially dried embryonic axes represents the primary approach for long-term preservation of recalcitrant seeds. However, while many seed traits and responses relate to either pre-...
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Multifaceted plant diversity patterns across the Himalaya: Status and outlook
Available online 12 April 2025
Mountains serve as exceptional natural laboratories for studying biodiversity due to their heterogeneous landforms and climatic zones. The Himalaya, a global biodiversity hotspot, hosts rich endemic...
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Genomic introgression underlies environmental adaptation in three species of Chinese wingnuts, Pterocarya
Available online 8 April 2025
Intraspecific genetic variance and gene flow can support the adaptive evolution of species challenged by climate shifts or novel environmental conditions. Less well understood is how genome organization...
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Global advances in phylogeny, taxonomy and biogeography of Lauraceae
Available online 7 April 2025
Over the past two decades, our understanding of Lauraceae, a large family of woody plants, has undergone significant advances in phylogeny, taxonomy, and biogeography. Molecular systematic studies have...
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An integrative approach clarifies species delimitation and biogeographic history of Debregeasia (Urticaceae)
March 2025
Integrative data from plastid and nuclear loci are increasingly utilized to resolve species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships within major angiosperm clades. Debregeasia (Urticaceae), an economically...
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Climate space, traits, and the spread of nonnative plants in North America
March 2025
The future distribution of invading species depends on the climate space available and certain life history traits that facilitate invasion. Here, to predict the spread potential of plant species introduced...
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The island rule-like patterns of plant size variation in a young land-bridge archipelago: Roles of environmental circumstance and biotic competition
March 2025
The island rule, a general pattern of dwarfism in large species to gigantism in small species on islands relative to mainland, is typically seen as a macroevolutionary phenomenon. However, whether the...
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Multi-disciplinary evidence illuminates the speciation history of a monophyletic yet dimorphic lily group
March 2025
Species boundaries are dynamic and constantly challenged by gene flow. Understanding the strategies different lineages adopt to maintain ecological and genetic distinctiveness requires employing an...
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The chromosome-scale genome of black wolfberry (Lycium ruthenicum) provides useful genomic resources for identifying genes related to anthocyanin biosynthesis and disease resistance
March 2025
The black wolfberry (Lyciumruthenicum; 2n = 2x = 24) is an important medicinal plant with ecological and economic value. Its fruits have numerous beneficial pharmacological activities, especially those...
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Genome compaction underlies the molecular adaptation of bay cedar (Suriana maritima) to the extreme habitat on the tropical coral islands
March 2025
•The assembled genome of Bay cedar is 292.8 Mb, representing a small genome size within Fabales.•The compact genome was likely caused by remarkable reduction of long terminal repeat retrotransposons...
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Environmental drivers of herbaceous plant diversity in the understory community of a warm-temperate forest
March 2025
Herbaceous plants are an essential component of forest diversity and driver of ecosystem processes. However, because the growth forms and life-history strategies of herbaceous plants differ from those...
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Quantitative nectar spur length governs nonrandom mating in a bee-pollinated Aquilegia species
March 2025
Mating patterns in angiosperms are typically nonrandom, yet the mechanisms driving nonrandom mating remain unclear, especially regarding the effects of quantitative floral traits on plant mating success...
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Effective palynological diversity indices for reconstructing angiosperm diversity in China
March 2025
The utilization of palynological data for plant diversity reconstructions offers notable advantages in addressing the discontinuity of plant fossils in the stratigraphic record. However, additional...
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Distribution, species richness, and relative importance of different plant life forms across drylands in China
March 2025
Studies on plant diversity are usually based on the total number of species in a community. However, few studies have examined species richness (SR) of different plant life forms in a community along...
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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variations drive adaptive evolution to freezing stress in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved tree: Hexaploid wild Camellia oleifera
March 2025
Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved trees are usually vulnerable to freezing stress, while hexaploid wild Camellia oleifera shows strong freezing tolerance. As a valuable genetic resource of woody oil...
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Backbone phylogeny of Salix based on genome skimming data
March 2025
The genus Salix is a common component of the Northern Hemisphere dendroflora with important ecological and economic value. However, taxonomy and systematics of Salix is extremely difficult and relationships...
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Climate-driven environmental filtering determines hump-shaped elevational pattern of seed plant beta diversity in the central Himalayas
March 2025
Understanding how and why assemblage dissimilarity changes along spatial gradient is a great challenge in ecology, because answers to these questions depend on the analytical types, dimensions, and...
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Diversity and traditional knowledge concerning fodder plants are invaluable assets for enhancing the sustainable management of crop-livestock system of Zhaotong City in the mountainous southwest China
March 2025
The global rise in animal protein consumption has significantly amplified the demand for fodder. A comprehensive understanding of the diversity and characteristics of existing fodder resources is essential...
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Elevational variation in anatomical traits of the first-order roots and their adaptation mechanisms
March 2025
Root anatomical traits play an important role in understanding the link between root physiological function and ecological process. To determine how plants change root anatomical traits to adapt to...
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Seed dispersal by deception: A game between mimetic seeds and their bird dispersers
March 2025
Mimetic seeds attract birds to disperse seeds mainly by mimicking fleshy fruits or arillate seeds, however, they provide little nutritive reward for bird dispersers. The key characteristics of mimetic...
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Parallel loss of anthocyanins triggers the incipient sympatric speciation in an alpine ginger
Available online 25 March 2025
Change of flower color can readily lead to a shift in pollinators, potentially causing pollinator mediated reproductive isolation or even speciation. Here, we examined the ecological and evolutionary...
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Jasmonic acid and salicylic acid transcriptionally regulate CuRe1 in cultivated tomato to activate resistance to parasitization by dodder Cuscuta australis
Available online 18 March 2025
The parasitic dodder (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) species have wide ranges of hosts. However, some plants, including the cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), have different degrees of resistance to...
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Reassessing the phylogenetic relationships of Pseudosorghum and Saccharinae (Poaceae) using plastome and nuclear ribosomal sequences
Available online 15 March 2025
The sugarcane subtribe Saccharinae (Andropogoneae, Poaceae) was established in 1846, but its delimitation has long been debated. Moreover, the relationships among the genera of Saccharinae remain unclear,...
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Pollination niche shifts in sympatric globular cacti Eriosyce: Consequences on reproductive isolation and species formation
Available online 11 March 2025
Pollination niches, which encompass the factors influencing pollen exchange among angiosperms, are fundamental to understanding reproductive success and the intricate eco-evolutionary dynamics of plants....
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