• Premise of the study: Separating sexual function between different individuals carries risks,
especially for sedentary organisms. Nevertheless, many land plants have unisexual …

Phenological mismatch results when interacting species change the timing of regularly
repeated phases in their life cycles at different rates. We review whether this continuously …

Considerable effort has been spent documenting correlations between dioecy and various
ecological and morphological traits for the purpose of testing hypotheses about conditions …

Phylogenetic relationships among 122 species of Lauraceae representing 44 of the 55
currently recognized genera are inferred from sequence variation in the chloroplast and nuclear …

Among the fundamental questions regarding cultivated plants is their geographic origin and
region of domestication. The genus Cucumis, which includes cucumber (Cucumis sativus) …

A systematic analysis of the Melastomataceae, a pantropical family of about 4200–4500
species in c. 166 genera, and their traditional allies, the Memecylaceae, with c. 430 species in …

Most fruits in our daily diet are the products of domestication and breeding. Here we report a
map of genome variation for a major fruit that encompasses ∼3.6 million variants, …

… Holstein & S. Renner, unpublished data), form a heteromorphic bivalent with a very short
pairing contact. The Y chromosome is fairly strong in determining maleness given that plants …

Melastomataceae are among the most abundant and diversified groups of plants throughout
the tropics, but their intrafamily relationships and morphological evolution are poorly …

Knowing the geographical origin of economically important plants is important for genetic
improvement and conservation, but has been slowed by uneven geographical sampling where …