A5041030210- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Botanical Research and Applications
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2016-2025
University of KwaZulu-Natal
2024
Real Jardín Botánico
2019
Natural History Museum
2013-2016
Sabah Forestry Department
2016
Iowa State University
2016
Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva
2016
Universidade Federal de Goiás
2015
Freie Universität Berlin
2013
National Museum of Natural History
2013
Increasing our understanding of Earth’s biodiversity and responsibly stewarding its resources are among the most crucial scientific social challenges new millennium. These require fundamental knowledge organization, evolution, functions, interactions millions planet’s organisms. Herein, we present a perspective on Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), moonshot for biology that aims to sequence, catalog, characterize genomes all eukaryotic over period 10 years. The outcomes EBP will inform broad...
Sequencing of target-enriched libraries is an efficient and cost-effective method for obtaining DNA sequence data from hundreds nuclear loci phylogeny reconstruction. Much the cost developing targeted sequencing approaches associated with generation preliminary needed identification orthologous probe design. In plants, identifying has proven difficult due to a large number whole-genome duplication events, especially in angiosperms (flowering plants). We used multiple alignments over 600 353...
Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges. We illustrate how understanding current projected threats to fungi necessary manage mitigate risks, while building of gaps bias assessment coverage essential adequately prioritize conservation efforts. highlight the state art science point methods future studies needed species extinction. Summary Plant fungal...
Understanding how biodiversity is shaped through time a fundamental question in biology. Even though tropical rain forests (TRF) represent the most diverse terrestrial biomes on planet, timing, location and mechanisms of their diversification remain poorly understood. Molecular phylogenies are valuable tools for exploring these issues, but to date studies have focused only recent scales, which minimises explanatory potential. In order provide long-term view TRF diversification, we...
There is controversy about whether traditional medicine can guide drug discovery, and investment in bioprospecting informed by ethnobotanical data has fluctuated. One view that traditionally used medicinal plants are not necessarily efficacious there no robust methods for distinguishing those which most likely to be bioactive when selecting species further testing. Here, we reconstruct a genus-level molecular phylogenetic tree representing the 20,000 found floras of three disparate...
The tree of life is the fundamental biological roadmap for navigating evolution and properties on Earth, yet remains largely unknown. Even angiosperms (flowering plants) are fraught with data gaps, despite their critical role in sustaining terrestrial life. Today, high-throughput sequencing promises to significantly deepen our understanding evolutionary relationships. Here, we describe a comprehensive phylogenomic platform exploring angiosperm life, comprising set open tools based 353...
Societal Impact Statement Plants and fungi have provided, or inspired, key pharmaceuticals for global health challenges, including cancer, heart disease, dementia, malaria, are valued as traditional medicines worldwide. Global demand medicinal plants has threatened certain species, contributing to biodiversity loss depletion of natural resources that important the humanity. We consider evolving role in healthcare new challenges human arise. present current emerging scientific approaches,...
The mustard family (Brassicaceae) is a scientifically and economically important family, containing the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana numerous crop species that feed billions worldwide. Despite its relevance, most phylogenetic trees of are incompletely sampled often contain poorly supported branches. Here, we present complete Brassicaceae genus-level phylogenies to date (Brassicaceae Tree Life or BrassiToL) based on nuclear (1,081 genes, 319 349 genera; 57 58 tribes) plastome (60 265 all...
The conservation of evolutionary history has been linked to increased benefits for humanity and can be captured by phylogenetic diversity (PD). Evolutionarily Distinct Globally Endangered (EDGE) metric has, since 2007, used prioritise threatened species practical that embody large amounts history. While there have important research advances they not adopted in practice because a lack consensus the community. Here, building from an interdisciplinary workshop update existing EDGE approach, we...
Orchids constitute one of the most spectacular radiations flowering plants. However, their origin, spread across globe, and hotspots speciation remain uncertain due to lack an up-to-date phylogeographic analysis. We present a new Orchidaceae phylogeny based on combined high-throughput Sanger sequencing data, covering all five subfamilies, 17/22 tribes, 40/49 subtribes, 285/736 genera, c. 7% (1921) 29 524 accepted species, use it infer geographic range evolution, diversity, patterns by adding...
Angiosperms, which inhabit diverse environments across all continents, exhibit significant variation in genome sizes, making them an excellent model system for examining hypotheses about the global distribution of size. These include previously proposed large constraint, mutational hazard, polyploidy-mediated, and climate-mediated hypotheses. We compiled largest size dataset to date, encompassing 16 017 (> 5% known) angiosperm species, analyzed using a comprehensive geographic angiosperms....
Abstract Malvales is a diverse order of flowering plants, economically and ecologically relevant, it known for its broad morphological variability. Recent phylogenomic studies have revealed complex evolutionary history the order, including localised phylogenetic discordances among nuclear loci. However, since late 1990s, classification has largely been neglected. This study aims to address this gap by revisiting Malvales, with focus on largest family, Malvaceae. By integrating datasets, our...
Supertree and supermatrix methods have great potential in the quest to build tree of life yet they remain controversial, with most workers opting for one approach or other, but rarely both. Here, we employed both construct phylogenetic trees all genera palms (Arecaceae/Palmae), an iconic angiosperm family economic importance. We assembled a consisting 16 partitions, comprising DNA sequence data, plastid restriction fragment length polymorphism morphological data genera, from which highly...
Aim Recently developed parametric methods in historical biogeography allow researchers to integrate temporal and palaeogeographical information into the reconstruction of biogeographical scenarios, thus overcoming a known bias parsimony-based approaches. Here, we compare method, dispersal–extinction–cladogenesis (DEC), against dispersal–vicariance analysis (DIVA), which does not incorporate branch lengths but accounts for phylogenetic uncertainty through Bayesian empirical approach...
BackgroundMolecular dating has gained ever-increasing interest since the molecular clock hypothesis was proposed in 1960s. Molecular provides detailed temporal frameworks for divergence events phylogenetic trees, allowing diverse evolutionary questions to be addressed. The key aspect of hypothesis, namely that differences DNA or protein sequence between two species are proportional time elapsed they diverged, soon shown untenable. Other approaches were take into account rate heterogeneity...
The basal subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the Leguminosae generally is subdivided into four or five tribes, but their monophyly remains questionable. Recent cladistic analyses based on morphological characters and chloroplast rbcL sequences suggest conflicting hypotheses relationships among tribes subtribal groupings identification Caesalpinioideae. Our phylogenetic analysis trnL intron for 223 Caesalpinioideae, representing 112 genera, plus Papilionoideae, 12 Mi- mosoideae three outgroup...
Hybridization and polyploidy are now hypothesized to have regularly stimulated speciation in angiosperms, but individual or combined involvement of these two processes seems involve significant differences pathways formation, establishment evolutionary consequences resulting lineages. We evaluate here the classical cytological hypothesis that ploidy hybrid is governed by extent chromosomal rearrangements among parental species. Within a phylogenetic framework, we calculate genetic divergence...