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Year‐round pollinator visitation of ornamental plants in Mediterranean urban parks

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 19, Issue 3, Page 702-715, May 2026.
Pollinators visiting ornamental plants in urban parks remained diverse throughout the year. They were represented by wild bees (42%), honeybees (37%), flies (18%), butterflies (2%) and beetles (1%). Both native and non‐native plants attracted pollinators.
Alejandro Trillo, David Ragel‐Celdrán, Francisco P. Molina, Montserrat Vilà   +3 more
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AlkaPlorer: A database‐driven explorer for natural alkaloids and derivatives

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Volume 68, Issue 5, Page 1384-1398, May 2026.
The alkaloid database AlkaPlorer integrates over 130,000 compounds across 12,250 species. By linking chemical structures with biological and evolutionary data, it reveals how these molecules evolve and function. This platform serves as a vital resource for AI‐driven discovery in plant metabolism and modern drug development. ABSTRACT Alkaloids, renowned
Jiahao Li, Tao Zeng, Hongquan Xu, Xu Kang, Minghui Liang, Ruibo Wu   +5 more
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Convergence and parallelism in the evolution of plant metabolism

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 1013-1031, April 2026.
Similar traits in different organisms may originate from shared ancestry or evolve independently. The terminology used to define phenotypic similarity is often confusing. This review attempts to clarify the definitions and present examples from plant domestication and specialized metabolism to explain how complex traits evolve repeatedly in plants ...
Federico Scossa, Mustafa Bulut, Thomas Naake, John C. D'Auria, Alisdair R. Fernie   +4 more
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The role of Alpine botanical gardens in integrating germplasm bank collections and mission

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 680-692, March 2026.
This study underscores the vital role of Alpine botanical gardens (ABGs) in safeguarding Europe's alpine biodiversity amid climate change and habitat loss. By acting as living laboratories and reservoirs of plant genetic resources, ABGs bridge ex situ and in situ conservation, supporting ecosystem resilience and informing restoration strategies.
Marco Canella, Núria Beltran‐Sanz, Andreas Gröger, Špela Pungaršek, Maxime Rome, Sara Natale, Costantino Bonomi, Helen Catherine Wiesinger, Andrea Mainetti, Andrea Scapin, Marco Valecic, Simone Sensato, Monica Sommacal, Elena Piutti, Fabrizio Bottelli, Maria Teresa Pizzato, Jasmin Senn, Anne‐Catherine Monod, Nicoletta La Rocca, Francesco Dal Grande   +19 more
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Genome Sequencing of the Endangered Kingdonia uniflora (Circaeasteraceae, Ranunculales) Reveals Potential Mechanisms of Evolutionary Specialization

iScience, 2020
Summary: Kingdonia uniflora, an alpine herb, has an extremely narrow distribution and represents a model for studying evolutionary mechanisms of species that have adapted to undisturbed environments for evolutionarily long periods of time. We assembled a
Yanxia Sun, Tao Deng, Aidi Zhang, Michael J. Moore, Jacob B. Landis, Nan Lin, Huajie Zhang, Xu Zhang, Jinling Huang, Xiujun Zhang, Hang Sun, Hengchang Wang   +11 more
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California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), the Papaveraceae golden girl model organism for evodevo and specialized metabolism

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
California poppy or golden poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is the iconic state flower of California, with native ranges from Northern California to Southwestern Mexico.
Annette Becker, Yasuyuki Yamada, Fumihiko Sato, Fumihiko Sato, Fumihiko Sato   +4 more
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Contrasting Phylogenetic Signals in Flowering and Fruiting Phenology at Species and Assemblage Scales in a Climbing Plant Community

Journal of Vegetation Science, Volume 36, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
This study examined the phylogenetic conservatism of flowering and fruiting in 78 climbing plant species relative to environmental gradients in a South Brazilian forest. Although species‐level analysis found a weak phylogenetic signal, a strong influence was detected at the assemblage scale, revealing that evolutionary history mediates the phenology ...
Guilherme Dubal dos Santos Seger, Sandra Maria Hartz, Leandro da Silva Duarte   +2 more
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Seed Shape Diversity in families of the Order Ranunculales

Phytotaxa, 2019
Seed shape in the order Ranunculales is described with the objective of characterizing the morphological seed types in the families of this order and to establish a correlation between seed shape, plant structure and life style.         Based on previous work in model plants (Arabidopsis thaliana, Lotus japonicus, Medicago truncatula), we have used the
Martín Gómez, José Javier, Rewicz, Agnieszka, Cervantes, Emilio   +2 more
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Gene duplication and clustering underlie the conservation and diversification of benzylisoquinoline alkaloid biosynthesis in plants

Nature Communications
Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs), comprising ~2500 compounds with pharmacological significance, are well-studied in Ranunculales but poorly understood in Magnoliids, an early-diverging angiosperm group.
Changheng Shan, Xuan Zhou, Jiaojiao Zhu, Aatif Rashid, Jianhua Wang, Ning An, Changjian Zhang, Wenjuan Ji, Baosong Cai, Ke Wu, Sheng Wang, Zhenhua Liu   +11 more
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Spermatophyta Molecular Clock: Time Drift and Recent Acceleration

Plant-Environment Interactions, Volume 6, Issue 5, October 2025.
Exponential increase in the base substitution rate in recent geologic time. ABSTRACT Angiospermae radiation is widely recognized as a mid‐Cretaceous event, but the adaptive radiation of Asarum and Viola as spring ephemerals also occurred during the Quaternary. To better understand the evolution of Angiospermae through geological time, a robust and well‐
Soichi Osozawa
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