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

Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)–based methods are widely used to isolate DNA
from plant tissues, but the unique chemical composition of secondary metabolites among …

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 tree of life is the fundamental biological roadmap for navigating the evolution and
properties of life on Earth, and yet remains largely unknown. Even angiosperms (flowering …

Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

Family Cortinariaceae currently includes only one genus, Cortinarius, which is the largest
Agaricales genus, with thousands of species worldwide. The species are important …

Cyperaceae (sedges) are the third largest monocot family and are of considerable economic
and ecological importance. Sedges represent an ideal model family to study evolutionary …

In phylogenetic studies across angiosperms, at various taxonomic levels, polytomies have
persisted despite efforts to resolve them by increasing sampling of taxa and loci. The large …

Early natural historians—Comte de Buffon, von Humboldt, and De Candolle—established
environment and geography as two principal axes determining the distribution of groups of …

High-throughput DNA sequencing techniques enable time-and cost-effective sequencing of
large portions of the genome. Instead of sequencing and annotating whole genomes, many …