The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

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 …

Poaceae (the grasses) includes rice, maize, wheat, and other crops, and is the most
economically important angiosperm family. Poaceae is also one of the largest plant families …

Cymbidium is an orchid genus that has undergone rapid radiation and has high ornamental,
economic, ecological and cultural importance, but its classification based on morphology is …

Mountain systems harbor a substantial fraction of global biodiversity and, thus, provide
excellent opportunities to study rapid diversification and to understand the historical …

Highlights The first reported mitochondrial genome (Cinnamomum chekiangense) of the
Lauraceae family. The mitogenome of C. chekiangense retains almost all of the ancestral …

Abstract Aim The Hengduan Mountains (HDM) of southwest China is a biodiversity hotspot
and harbours one of the world's richest temperate floras. However, the origin and evolution …

The woody bamboos (Bambusoideae) exhibit distinctive biological traits within Poaceae,
such as highly lignified culms, rapid shoot growth, monocarpic mass flowering and nutlike or …

The evergreen versus deciduous leaf habit is an important functional trait for adaptation of
forest trees and has been hypothesized to be related to the evolutionary processes of the …

Major historical events often trigger the rapid flourishing of a few lineages, which in turn
shape established biodiversity patterns. How did this process occur and develop? This study …