Barbara Gravendeel

TL;DR: Results suggest that phylogenetic relationships are correlated with habitat, indicating the occurrence of geographical races within these groups, which is of practical importance for Solanum genome evolution studies.

TL;DR: An exquisitely preserved orchid pollinarium attached to the mesoscutellum of an extinct stingless bee recovered from Miocene amber in the Dominican Republic, that is 15–20 million years old, constitutes both the first unambiguous fossil of Orchidaceae and an unprecedented direct fossil observation of a plant–pollinator interaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the genetic variation in the tomato clade by sequencing a selection of 84 tomato accessions and related wild species representative for the Lycopersicon, Arcanum, Eriopersicon groups.

TL;DR: This investigation of the evolutionary routes to endemism on the 4,095-metre-high Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, East Malaysia finds that most of its unique biodiversity is younger than the mountain itself, and comprises a mix of immigrant pre-adapted lineages and descendants from local lowland ancestors, although substantial shifts from lower to higher vegetation zones in this latter group were rare.

TL;DR: Whether orchids managed to radiate so explosively owing to their predominantly epiphytic habit and/or their specialized pollinator systems is investigated by testing these hypotheses from a statistical and phylogenetic standpoint and Repeated associations between a small body size, short life cycle and specialized clinging roots of twigEpiphytes in Bulbophyllinae and Oncidiinae were discovered.