Introduction Darwin famously characterized the rapid rise and early diversification of flowering
plants (angiosperms) in the fossil record as an “abominable mystery.” Identifying genomic …

• Premise of the study: We explored a targeted enrichment strategy to facilitate rapid and low‐cost
next‐generation sequencing (NGS) of numerous complete plastid genomes from …

Brassica napus, an allotetraploid crop, is hypothesized to be a hybrid from unknown varieties
of Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea. Despite the economic importance of B. napus, …

The study of domestication contributes to our knowledge of evolution and crop genetic
resources. Human selection has shaped wild Brassica rapa into diverse turnip, leafy, and oilseed …

Many different crop species were selected for a common suite of ‘domestication traits’, which
facilitates their use for studies of parallel evolution. Within domesticated rice (Oryza sativa), …

Demographic modelling is often used with population genomic data to infer the relationships
and ages among populations. However, relatively few analyses are able to validate these …

Agricultural weeds serve as productive models for studying the genetic basis of rapid
adaptation, with weed‐adaptive traits potentially evolving multiple times independently in …

• East Asia’s temperate deciduous forests served as sanctuary for Tertiary relict trees, but their
ages and response to past climate change remain largely unknown. To address this issue, …

The members of the tribe Brassiceae share a whole-genome triplication (WGT), and one
proposed model for its formation is a two-step pair of hybridizations producing hexaploid …

We investigated the biogeographic history of Kalopanax septemlobus, one of the most
widespread temperate tree species in East Asia, using a combined phylogeographic and …