A5025248364- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Phytochemistry and biological activities of Ficus species
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Plant responses to water stress
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Ginseng Biological Effects and Applications
Chicago Botanic Garden
2015-2025
Center for Plant Conservation
2019-2025
Northwestern University
2015-2025
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
2006-2022
Denver Botanic Gardens
2018-2019
Midwestern University
2010
Twin Cities Orthopedics
2008
University of Minnesota
2004-2008
New York Botanical Garden
2002-2004
ACT Government
2004
Using sequence data generated via target enrichment for phylogenetics requires reassembly of high-throughput reads into loci, presenting a number bioinformatics challenges. We developed HybPiper as user-friendly platform assembly gene regions, extraction exon and intron sequences, identification paralogous copies. test using baits designed to 333 phylogenetic markers 125 genes functional significance in Artocarpus (Moraceae).HybPiper implements parallel execution three phases: read mapping,...
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis, Moraceae), a traditional starch crop in Oceania, has enjoyed legendary status ever since its role the infamous mutiny aboard H.M.S. Bounty 1789, yet origins remain unclear. Breadfruit's closest relatives are A. camansi and mariannensis. DNA fingerprinting data (AFLP, amplified fragment length polymorphisms) from over 200 breadfruit cultivars, 30 camansi, 24 mariannensis individuals were used to investigate relationships among these species. Multivariate...
Untapped information about allele diversity within populations and individuals (i.e., heterozygosity) could improve phylogenetic resolution accuracy. Many reconstructions ignore heterozygosity because it is difficult to assemble sequences combine data across unlinked loci, unclear how reconstruction methods accommodate variable sequences. We review the common of including in studies present a novel method for assembling from target-enriched Illumina sequencing libraries.We performed...
The breadfruit genus ( Artocarpus , Moraceae) includes valuable underutilized fruit tree crops with a centre of diversity in Southeast Asia. It belongs to the monophyletic tribe Artocarpeae, whose only other members include two small neotropical genera. This study aimed reconstruct phylogeny, estimate divergence dates and infer ancestral ranges especially better understand spatial temporal evolutionary relationships dispersal patterns geologically complex region.To investigate phylogeny...
Studies investigating the evolution of flowering plants have long focused on isolating mechanisms such as pollinator specificity. Some recent studies proposed a role for introgressive hybridization between species, recognizing that processes specialization may not be complete barriers to hybridization. Occasional therefore lead distinct yet reproductively connected lineages. We investigate balance introgression and reproductive isolation in diverse clade using densely sampled phylogenomic...
Abstract Moraceae is a large (∼1,050 species) primarily tropical family with several economically and ecologically important species. While its monophyly has been well supported in recent studies, relationships within the at tribal level below remain unresolved. Delimitation of tribe Artocarpeae particularly difficult. Classifications based on morphology differ from those phylogenetic all treatments include highly heterogeneous assemblages genera that seem to represent cross section family....
Abstract We present a 517-gene phylogenetic framework for the breadfruit genus Artocarpus (ca. 70 spp., Moraceae), making use of silica-dried leaves from recent fieldwork and herbarium specimens (some up to 106 years old) achieve 96% taxon sampling. explore issues relating assembly, paralogous loci, partitions, analysis method reconstruct phylogeny that is robust variation in data available tools. Although codon partitioning did not result any substantial topological differences, inclusion...
Premise of the study: We used moderately low‐coverage (17×) whole‐genome sequencing Artocarpus camansi (Moraceae) to develop genomic resources for and Moraceae. Methods Results: A de novo assembly Illumina short reads (251,378,536 pairs, 2 × 100 bp) accounted 93% predicted genome size. Predicted coding regions were in a three‐way orthology search with published genomes Morus notabilis Cannabis sativa . Phylogenetic markers Moraceae developed from 333 inferred single‐copy exons. Ninety‐eight...
Premise of research. Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus, Moraceae) is an emerging but underutilized crop whose pollination poorly understood. We present a multidisciplinary investigation the reproductive biology and chemical ecology jackfruit putative pollinator, Clinodiplosis ultracrepidata Gagné new species (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)—newly described here—which likely originated in Asia.Methodology. employed observations, insect trapping, gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analysis floral...
Two of the most economically important plants in Artocarpus genus are jackfruit (A. heterophyllus Lam.) and breadfruit altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg). Both species long-lived trees that have been cultivated for thousands years their native regions. Today they grown throughout tropical to subtropical areas as an source starch other valuable nutrients. There hundreds varieties Oceania, which commonly distributed types seedless triploids. Jackfruit is likely Western Ghats India produces one...
Breadfruit (Artocarpus, Moraceae) is an important staple in Oceania and throughout much of the tropics. Interpretations species delimitations among breadfruit its closest relatives have varied from recognition one to several species. To better understand systematics ultimately origins breadfruit, we considered evidence molecular data. Amplified fragment length polymorphism data for 261 individuals relatives, putative hybrids, nine outgroup taxa were analyzed using neighbor joining parsimony...
The mulberry genus, Morus L. (Moraceae), has long been taxonomically difficult, and its species circumscription only defined recently. This genus comprises ca. 16 distributed across Asia the Americas, yet biogeographic history remains poorly understood. In this study, we reconstructed phylogeny explored of using a combination newly generated previously published Hyb-Seq data. Our nuclear recovered three well-supported geographic clades showed that M. notabilis (China) is sister to American...
Abstract Background and Aims Rapid global biodiversity loss emphasizes the need to employ strategies that conserve long-term viability of ex situ plant collections. A pedigree-based management approach is an effective strategy track genetic diversity living collections; however, its implementation requires accession-level data for all individuals across botanic garden Here, we use historic accession records construct a pedigree test how current protocols have been in managing diversity....
Microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized from enriched genomic libraries of Artocarpus altilis (breadfruit) tested in four species one hybrid. The microsatellite markers provide new tools for further studies Artocarpus. •A total 25 evaluated across Twenty-one on A. (241), camansi (34), mariannensis (15), × (64) samples. Nine those plus additional heterophyllus (jackfruit, 426) All are polymorphic at least species. average number alleles ranges two to nine within taxa. •These...
Abstract We present a densely sampled phylogenomic study of the mulberry tribe (Moreae, Moraceae), an economically important clade with global distribution, revealing multiple losses inflexed stamens, character traditionally used to circumscribe Moreae. Inflexed stamens facilitate ballistic pollen release and are associated wind pollination, results presented here suggest that this state may have evolved repeatedly in Moraceae. Neither Moreae nor several its major genera ( Morus , Streblus...
Here we describe the new tribe, Parartocarpeae, within Moraceae (mulberry family). The tribe comprises two small Malesian genera, Parartocarpus and Hullettia, brings total number of tribes to seven. Evidence for this designation comes from a phylogeny based on 333 nuclear genes sequenced using target enrichment via hybridization (hybseq). Morphological characters that set Parartocarpeae apart other include combination following characters: lateral nonamplexicaul stipules, spirally arranged...