Latest posts tagged with #plantevolution on Bluesky
Species and gene trees showing expected sequence divergence under ingroup versus ghost lineage introgression models.
From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci special issue "Branching out: Resolving #PlantEvolution through #Phylogenetic Networks"
Introducing ghostbuster: a new tool to detect cryptic ghost lineage introgression in genomic datasets (by Forsythe et al)
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany
🌍The transition of plants to land involved new signaling pathways helping them adapt to terrestrial life 🍃. This review highlights how #InositolPhosphates regulate #Growth, #StressResponses, and phosphate homeostasis, discussing their potential roles in #PlantEvolution. 🌱🪴
doi.org/10.1002/1873...
Background image represents the so called "star-rings", vascular bundles in the pith transporting water to the apex and the leaf primordia. Within the parenchymatous tissues surrounding them, there are also the mucilage cavities (white globular areas).
🌿Check the newly published article “Shoot apical meristem and initial vascular development of a late Palaeozoic spermatophyte (order Medullosales)” in @annbot.bsky.social by Lydéric Portailler & Ludwig Luthardt. (1/9)
👉https://doi.org/qr8r
#Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #FossilPlants #Botany
🌿🏝️Disentangling the relative roles of biased colonization and in situ evolution in driving the island syndrome in Coprosma (Rubiaceae)
vist.ly/4sbf3
#AncestralReconstruction #CorrelatedEvolution #IslandBiogeography #IslandSyndrome #PlantEvolution #StructureEquationModelling
🌸Takeaway: In Aquilegia, nectar-collecting pollinators appear to be the main evolutionary drivers of floral form, perhaps because they’re more efficient pollinators. (9/9)
👉 doi.org/qq7v
#FloralSyndromes #PollinationBiology #PlantEvolution #PlantScience #AoBpapers
For more info, please visit:
👉 botany.fyi/w59vvp
📅Submissions deadline: 31 May, 2026 (4/4)
#Gnetales #SeedPlantEvolution #EcoEvoDevo #PlantEvolution #Botany
Promotional banner for an Annals of Botany Focus Issue titled “Gnetales: Controversies of Seed Plant Evolution,” featuring green-toned text alongside a close-up photograph of Welwitschia mirabilis reproductive structures. Guest editors are listed, with the Annals of Botany logo at the bottom. Image credit: Stefan Little
📢🌿Annals of Botany invites submissions to the new focus issue "Gnetales - Controversies of Seed Plant Evolution", edited by guest editors Stefanie M. Ickert-Bond, Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona & Dimitry Sokoloff. (1/4)
#Gnetales #SeedPlantEvolution #EcoEvoDevo #PlantEvolution #Botany
New Publication:
The frequency and importance of polyploidy in tropical rainforest tree radiations
@instmolplantsci.bsky.social @edinburghbiology.bsky.social
#polyploidy #plantevolution
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Current topics on cycad biology from Plant Species Biology - Read virtual issue
🌿 NEW Virtual Issue: Current Topics on Cycad Biology 🌿
Explore research on the evolutionary history, biological complexity & urgent conservation needs of cycads.
Read here: https://ow.ly/LMYV50Y0Opo
#Cycads #PlantEvolution #Conservation
Plant Species Biology
Surprisingly, Paneveggio plants are themselves closer to Turchino than to other Alpine populations. #GeneticDiversity #PlantEvolution #AlpineFlora 6/9
However, Turchino plants are genetically closer to populations in the central-eastern Alps, especially Paneveggio (Trentino Dolomites), than to nearby Italian populations... #PlantEvolution #AlpineFlora 5/9
The diversity of Ficus
🌿 Join us to learn about the newly published “The diversity of Ficus” in @annbot.bsky.social by Simon Segar and co-authors. (1/10)
👉 doi.org/qkmt
#PlantScience #Botany #Ficus #FigTrees #PlantEvolution #AoBpapers
The study provides the first detailed comparison of female cone development timing in Araucariaceae, highlighting how conserved structures can differ in developmental timing. (8/8)
👉 doi.org/qc69
#PlantReproduction #PlantEvolution #Conifers #Botany #AoBpapers
🔬 Alistair Hockey (UWA) investigates post-zygotic barriers in Cicer echinospermum using cytogenetics & bioinformatics.
Understanding genetic factors mediating gene flow & evolutionary change in legumes.
#Genomics #PlantEvolution
bit.ly/4oq3IC7
#MPB
Study reveals how environmental stress shapes geo-herbalism in Atractylodes lancea, a Dao-di herb. High temp & nutrient stress drive its unique traits & quality.
Details: maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/mpb...
#TCM #PlantEvolution
Evolutionary history of Australian samphires (Salicornieae, Amaranthaceae)
🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Evolutionary history of Australian samphires (Salicornieae, Amaranthaceae)’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Anže Žerdoner Čalasan and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/8)
👉 doi.org/qbtw
#AoBpapers #PlantEvolution #Phylogenomics #PlantSystematics
Morphological innovation and lineage-specific history drive disparification in the aggregated pollen of mimosoid plants
🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Morphological innovation and lineage-specific history drive disparification in the aggregated pollen of mimosoid plants’ in @annbot.bsky.social by @barduzzi-rafael.bsky.social and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)
👉 doi.org/p9gm
#PlantEvolution #AoBpapers
🌿The study shows that even within a highly specialized pollination system, sexual deception can be remarkably flexible. (9/9)
👉 doi.org/p83g
#OrchidPollination #SexualDeception #PlantEvolution #AoBpapers #PlantScience
This discovery raises questions about how many other plants might be using similar chemical deception strategies that we haven't detected yet.
#PlantEvolution #Pollination #ChemicalMimicry #Evolution #PlantScience #Research
🌦️But why did some groups spread and others disappear during the Neogene? The study points to possible links with changing monsoon climates, but the full story remains a mystery waiting to be uncovered. (6/6)
👉 doi.org/p6mt
#Biogeography #TropicalForests #PlantEvolution #Paleobotany #AoBpapers
Frequent Volcano Eruptions Can Wipe Out Plant Species, But Also Help Them Evolve and Thrive #Science #EarthSciences #Volcanology #VolcanoEruption #PlantEvolution #Biodiversity
🌴This discovery sheds light on how sex chromosomes evolve in plants and shows that evolution can sometimes take the same path twice. (9/9)
👉 doi.org/p5cp
#PlantEvolution #PlantScience #AoBpapers #PlantGenomics
Convergent evolution of sex chromosomes in two palm species, Phoenix dactylifera and Kerriodoxa elegans
🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Convergent evolution of sex chromosomes in two palm species, Phoenix dactylifera and Kerriodoxa elegans’ in @annbot.bsky.social by H. Tessarotto @htessarotto.bsky.social and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)
👉 doi.org/p5cp
#PlantEvolution #PlantScience #AoBpapers
Don't forget to submit your abstract for the #EMBO Workshop on #PlantEvolution by August 25th!
Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social in November to discuss all things #plantevodevo
Please spread the word! 🙏🦠🌱
#algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #terrestrialization
New research published in Cell reveals that modern potatoes are the result of a rare natural hybridization event 8–9 million years ago between ancestral wild tomatoes and a lesser-known plant group called Etuberosum.
#PotatoOrigin #PlantEvolution #TomatoGenetics #Hybridization #AgricultureScience
Tomatoes randomly mated with another plant 9 million years ago. The result? Potatoes. #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Tomatoes #Potatoes #PlantEvolution
How the Potato Got Its Start Nine Million Years Ago—Thanks to a Tomato #Science #Biology #Botany #PotatoOrigins #PlantEvolution #AgriculturalHistory
New research reveals that the modern potato originated from a natural hybridization event with tomato-like plants in South America 9 million years ago, highlighting the complexities of plant evolution. 🌱🔍 Link: https://tinyurl.com/255xdzge #PlantEvolution #Biodiversity #BotanyResearch
Figure 2 showing a phylogenetic tree for C24R enzymes, taken from article by Mar Ferreira-Guerra, Veredas Coleto-Alcudia, Santiago Mora-García, Ana I Caño-Delgado, titled 'The Evolutionary Journey of Sterol Synthesis Pathways in Eukaryotes', Plant and Cell Physiology, Volume 66, Issue 6, June 2025, Pages 840–853, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaf016
🔦New Review:
Ferreira-Guerra @ana-cano-delgado.bsky.social et al. shine light on the canonical sterol biosynthesis pathway during algae and #PlantEvolution, revealing duplications and divergence of enzymes involved in the final steps of this pathway in #bryophytes
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
🌱 Don’t miss the “Evolutionary history of the Gnetales” symposium at #Botany2025 on July 29 at 8 am, and meet Cecilia, one of the chairs! (8/8)
#PlantScience #Botany #Gnetales #PlantEvolution
