Hybridization has long been recognized as a fundamental evolutionary process in plants
but, until recently, our understanding of its phylogenetic distribution and biological …

Life without the mustard family (Brassicaceae) would be a world without many crop species
and the model organism Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) that has revolutionized our …

Brassicaceae is one of the most diverse and economically valuable angiosperm families
with widely cultivated vegetable crops and scientifically important model plants, such as …

The Brassicaceae include several major crop plants and numerous important model species
in comparative evolutionary research such as Arabidopsis, Brassica, Boechera …

Allopolyploidization, the combination of the genomes from two different species, has been a
major source of evolutionary innovation and a driver of speciation and environmental …

Abstract The Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) family, owing to its remarkable species, genetic, and
physiological diversity as well as its significant economic potential, has become a model for …

Background There are conflicting views between palaeobotanists and plant systematists/
evolutionary biologists regarding the occurrence of plant speciation in the Quaternary …

Angiosperms have become the dominant terrestrial plant group by diversifying for~ 145
million years into a broad range of environments. During the course of evolution, numerous …

Mesopolyploid whole-genome duplication (WGD) was revealed in the ancestry of Australian
Brassicaceae species with diploid-like chromosome numbers (n= 4 to 6). Multicolor …

Aim Despite the accumulation of cases describing fast radiations of alpine plants, we still
have limited understanding of the drivers of speciation in alpine floras and of the precise the …