Dancing to a different tune, can we switch from chemical to biological nitrogen fixation for sustainable food security?

MY Jhu, GED Oldroyd - PLoS Biology, 2023‏ - journals.plos.org
Our current food production systems are unsustainable, driven in part through the
application of chemically fixed nitrogen. We need alternatives to empower farmers to …

Evolution and biogeography of actinorhizal plants and legumes: A comparison

J Ardley, J Sprent - Journal of Ecology, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The symbiosis between plants and nitrogen‐fixing bacteria is widespread among legumes
and actinorhizal plants within the nitrogen‐fixing root nodule (NFN) clade. However, there …

Nuclear phylotranscriptomics and phylogenomics support numerous polyploidization events and hypotheses for the evolution of rhizobial nitrogen-fixing symbiosis in …

Y Zhao, R Zhang, KW Jiang, J Qi, Y Hu, J Guo, R Zhu… - Molecular plant, 2021‏ - cell.com
Fabaceae are the third largest angiosperm family, with 765 genera and∼ 19 500 species.
They are important both economically and ecologically, and global Fabaceae crops are …

Exploration of plastid phylogenomic conflict yields new insights into the deep relationships of Leguminosae

R Zhang, YH Wang, JJ **, GW Stull… - Systematic …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Phylogenomic analyses have helped resolve many recalcitrant relationships in the
angiosperm tree of life, yet phylogenetic resolution of the backbone of the Leguminosae …

 Phylogenomic analysis of 997 nuclear genes reveals the need for extensive generic re-delimitation in Caesalpinioideae (Leguminosae)

JJ Ringelberg, EJM Koenen, JR Iganci… - …, 2022‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract Subfamily Caesalpinioideae with ca. 4,600 species in 152 genera is the second-
largest subfamily of legumes (Leguminosae) and forms an ecologically and economically …

Phylogenomics of the genus Glycine sheds light on polyploid evolution and life-strategy transition

Y Zhuang, X Wang, X Li, J Hu, L Fan, JB Landis… - Nature Plants, 2022‏ - nature.com
Polyploidy and life-strategy transitions between annuality and perenniality often occur in
flowering plants. However, the evolutionary propensities of polyploids and the genetic bases …

Disentangling sources of gene tree discordance in phylogenomic data sets: testing ancient hybridizations in Amaranthaceae sl

DF Morales-Briones, G Kadereit, DT Tefarikis… - Systematic …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Gene tree discordance in large genomic data sets can be caused by evolutionary processes
such as incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization, as well as model violation, and errors …

Chromosome-level and haplotype-resolved genome provides insight into the tetraploid hybrid origin of patchouli

Y Shen, W Li, Y Zeng, Z Li, Y Chen, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth.), a member of the Lamiaceae family,
is an important aromatic plant that has been widely used in medicine and perfumery. Here …

Precipitation is the main axis of tropical plant phylogenetic turnover across space and time

JJ Ringelberg, EJM Koenen, B Sauter, A Aebli… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Early natural historians—Comte de Buffon, von Humboldt, and De Candolle—established
environment and geography as two principal axes determining the distribution of groups of …

The origin of the legumes is a complex paleopolyploid phylogenomic tangle closely associated with the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event

EJM Koenen, DI Ojeda, FT Bakker… - Systematic …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
The consequences of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary (KPB) mass extinction
for the evolution of plant diversity remain poorly understood, even though evolutionary …