There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

The question of how many species of Fungi there are has occasioned much speculation,
with figures mostly posited from around half a million to 10 million, and in one extreme case …

Sequencing of target-enriched libraries is an efficient and cost-effective method for obtaining
DNA sequence data from hundreds of nuclear loci for phylogeny reconstruction. Much of the …

The tree of life is the fundamental biological roadmap for navigating the evolution and
properties of life on Earth, and yet remains largely unknown. Even angiosperms (flowering …

During the Anthropocene, humans are changing the Earth system in ways that will be
detectable for millennia to come [1]. Biologically, these changes include habitat destruction …

Main conclusion Nutrient-rich neglected and underutilized plant species could help
transform food systems, provided science and policy are better connected, and greater …

Aim Woodlands make up a third of European territory and carry out important ecosystem
functions, yet a comprehensive overview of their invasion by alien plants has never been …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Plants have provided medicine to humans for thousands
of years, and in most parts of the world people still use traditional plant-derived medicine …