Biodiversity today has the unusual property that 85% of plant and animal species live on
land rather than in the sea, and half of these live in tropical rainforests. An explosive boost to …

Ephedra is one of the largest genera of the Ephedraceae family, which is distributed in arid
and semiarid regions of the world. In the traditional medicine from several countries some …

This review shows a close biogeographic connection between eastern Asia and western
North America from the late Cretaceous to the late Neogene in major lineages of vascular …

Gnetophytes are an enigmatic gymnosperm lineage comprising three genera, Gnetum,
Welwitschia and Ephedra, which are morphologically distinct from all other seed plants …

Inferring insect pollination from compression fossils and amber inclusions is difficult because
of a lack of consensus on defining an insect pollinator and the challenge of recognizing this …

The eco-friendly green bio-synthesis of Ephedra-AuNPs was constructed from Ephedra
plant extract. The synthesis process was optimized using different volumes of Ephedra …

We reconstructed a phylogenetic tree of Chinese vascular plants (Tracheophyta) using
sequences of the chloroplast genes atpB, matK, ndhF, and rbcL and mitochondrial matR. We …

Most cycads have intimate associations with their insect pollinators that parallel those of well‐
known flowering plants, such as sexually deceptive orchids and the male wasps and bees …

Background Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis is a successful
adaptation that has evolved often in angiosperms, gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes …

Growing worldwide, the genus Ephedra (family Ephedraceae) had a medicinal, ecological,
and economic value. The extraordinary morphological diversity suggests that Ephedra was …