Highlights•Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication (WGD) is a ubiquitous feature of plant
genomes.•Polyploidy is most frequent in angiosperms.•A complex pattern of polyploidy is …

Betalains are vacuolar pigments composed of a nitrogenous core structure, betalamic acid
[4-(2-oxoethylidene)-1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydropyridine-2, 6-dicarboxylic acid]. Betalamic acid …

Background Flowering plants (angiosperms) are dominant components of global terrestrial
ecosystems, but phylogenetic relationships at the familial level and above remain only …

Reconstructing the origin and evolution of land plants and their algal relatives is a
fundamental problem in plant phylogenetics, and is essential for understanding how critical …

Premise of the Study For the past one billion years, green plants (Viridiplantae) have
dominated global ecosystems, yet many key branches in their evolutionary history remain …

Ferns are the second-most diverse lineage of vascular plants on Earth, yet the best-sampled
time-calibrated phylogeny of the group to date includes fewer than 5% of global diversity …

Because of the correlation expected between the phylogenetic relatedness of two taxa and
their net ecological similarity, a measure of the overall phylogenetic relatedness of a …

Question: A set of easily‐measured ('soft') plant traits has been identified as potentially
useful predictors of ecosystem functioning in previous studies. Here we aimed to discover …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

Diagnostically illustrated with light and scanning electron micrographs, Comparative Wood
Anatomy lucidly introduces dicotyledon wood in terms of cell types and their variations …