The greater diversity of plant clades in the Neotropics compared to their relatives in Africa is a pervasive pattern in biogeography. To better understand the causes of this imbalance, Alcantara and colleagues studied...
The rare occurrence of a reversion to an ancestral state following adaptive radiations of pollination syndromes suggests that changes in the ancestral developmental programme of flowers are common in this scenario...
AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue titled Island Plant Biology—Celebrating Carlquist’s Legacy, edited by Anna Traveset (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies), Donald Drake...
Anagenesis (also known as phyletic speciation), in which initial founder populations simply diverge through time without a branching event, is an important process of speciation in endemic species of oceanic islands...