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

Madagascar is renowned for its unparalleled species richness and levels of endemism,
which have led, in combination with species extinction caused by an unprecedented rate of …

The flowering plant genus Hypericum (Hypericaceae) contains the well-known medicinally
valuable species Hypericum perforatum (common St. John's wort). Species of Hypericum …

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 …

A revised and updated classification for the families of flowering plants is provided. Many
recent studies have yielded increasingly detailed evidence for the positions of formerly …

The woodland strawberry, Fragaria vesca (2 n= 2 x= 14), is a versatile experimental plant
system. This diminutive herbaceous perennial has a small genome (240 Mb), is amenable to …

Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is an ancient crop that is widely cultivated as a source of fiber, oil
and medicinally relevant compounds. To accelerate crop improvement, we performed whole …

• Premise of the study: Recent analyses employing up to five genes have provided
numerous insights into angiosperm phylogeny, but many relationships have remained …

The angiosperm order Malpighiales includes∼ 16,000 species and constitutes up to 40% of
the understory tree diversity in tropical rain forests. Despite remarkable progress in …

The genomic revolution offers renewed hope of resolving rapid radiations in the Tree of Life.
The development of the multispecies coalescent model and improved gene tree estimation …