Sustainable goals for contemporary world seek viable solutions for interconnected
challenges, particularly in the fields of food and energy security and climate change. We …

Grasses are widespread on every continent and are found in all terrestrial biomes. The
dominance and spread of grasses and grassland ecosystems have led to significant …

Rapid evolutionary radiations are among the most challenging phylogenetic problems,
wherein different types of data (eg, morphology and molecular) or genetic markers (eg …

Angiosperms (flowering plants) are by far the most diverse land plant group with over
300,000 species. The sudden appearance of diverse angiosperms in the fossil record was …

Abstract The Asian lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) has a history of cultivation in Asia dating back
over 3,000 years where it has been an important food crop producing edible rhizomes and …

Fargesia, the largest genus within the temperate bamboo tribe Arundinarieae, has more
than 90 species mainly distributed in the mountains of Southwest China. The Fargesia …

Three woody bamboo species collected in Hainan, China in 1940 have been described as
Dinochloa based on vegetative specimens. However, the identity of these species has long …

Backgrounds Prunus mume in the Rosaceae and commonly referred to as mei or Chinese
plum is widely used as a traditional ornamental flowering plant and fruit tree in China …

To investigate phylogenetic relationships among and within major lineages of Bromus, with
focus on Bromus sect. Bromus, we analyzed DNA sequences from two nuclear ribosomal …

Introduction Gelidocalamus Wen is a small yet taxonomically challenging genus within the
Arundinarieae tribe. Recent molecular studies have suggested it may not be monophyletic …