Life without the mustard family (Brassicaceae) would be a world without many crop species
and the model organism Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) that has revolutionized our …

… hybrid genomic constitution in Lepidium in these areas (Mummenhoff et al., submitted).
Seventeen Australian… Lee & K. Mummenhoff. 1999. Evolutionary changes in floral structure within …

The Brassicaceae is a large plant family (338 genera and 3,700 species) of major scientific
and economic importance. The taxonomy of this group has been plagued by convergent …

Brassicaceae is an important family at both the agronomic and scientific level. The family not
only inlcudes several model species, but it is also becoming an evolutionary model at the …

Fruits represent a key innovation of the flowering plants that facilitates seed dispersal. In many
species of the plant family Brassicaceae dehiscent fruits develop in which seed dispersal …

Like island-endemic taxa, whose origins are expected to postdate the appearance of the
islands on which they occur, biome-endemic taxa should be younger than the biomes to which …

… K value ranging from 1 to 10 and 1 million MCMC replicates (200 000 additional replicates
as burn-in). For the CE data set, we used K … as burn-in for K between seven and 14 in order to …

… CLUSTAL and alignment by hand, but the results did not differ greatly and the MUSCLE and
MAFFT alignments did not generally result in better resolved trees (co-author Mummenhoff, …

Seed germination is an important life-cycle transition because it determines subsequent
plant survival and reproductive success. To detect optimal spatiotemporal conditions for …

Mesopolyploid whole-genome duplication (WGD) was revealed in the ancestry of Australian
Brassicaceae species with diploid-like chromosome numbers (n = 4 to 6). Multicolor …