Historical DNA (hDNA), obtained from museum and herbarium specimens, has yielded
spectacular new insights into the history of organisms. This includes documenting historical …

The~ 400 million specimens deposited across~ 3000 herbaria are essential for:(i)
understanding where plants have lived in the past,(ii) forecasting where they may live in the …

Green plants play a fundamental role in ecosystems, human health, and agriculture. As de
novo genomes are being generated for all known eukaryotic species as advocated by the …

The past decade has yielded more biodiversity observations from community science than
the past century of traditional scientific collection. This rapid influx of data is promising for …

Herbarium specimens have long been a cornerstone of taxonomic research but are only
recently being recognized for their potential as a source of spatially and temporally …

The unveiling of the angiosperm (flowering plant) tree of life over the past three decades has
been one of the great success stories of modern plant biology. Flowering plants underpin …

Root nodule symbiosis (RNS) is a complex trait that enables plants to access atmospheric
nitrogen converted into usable forms through a mutualistic relationship with soil bacteria …

Phylogenetic datasets are now commonly generated using short-read sequencing
technologies unhampered by degraded DNA, such as that often extracted from herbarium …

Cannabaceae are a relatively small family of angiosperms, but they include several species
of huge economic and cultural significance: marijuana or hemp (Cannabis sativa) and hops …

The macroevolutionary processes that have shaped biodiversity across the temperate realm
remain poorly understood and may have resulted from evolutionary dynamics related to …