Random amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs) data were analyzed from all the taxa of Cupressus from the western hemisphere. Populations of Cupressus from Arizona and Texas, USA, were found to cluster in the two groups delimited by Wolf (1948): C. arizonica and C. glabra. These data suggest that these taxa might be better recognized at the specific level as per Wolf (1948), rather than at the varie...

Elucidating the phylogenetic relationships of the legumes is essential for understanding the evolutionary history of events that underlie the origin and diversification of this family of ecologically and economically important flowering plants. In the ten years since the Third International Legume Conference (1992), the study of legume phylogeny using molecular data has advanced from a few tent...

Forensic botany encompasses many sub-disciplines, including plant anatomy, plant ecology, plant systematics, plant molecular biology, palynology, and limnology. Although the field of forensic botany has been recognized since the mid-1900’s, the use of trace plant material as physical evidence in criminal casework is still novel. A review of published forensic casework that used plant evidence i...

Medicinal plants have long been utilized in traditional medicine and ethnomedicine worldwide. This review presents a glimpse of the current status of and future trends in medicinal plant genomics, evolution, and phylogeny. These dynamic fields are at the intersection of phytochemistry and plant biology and are concerned with the evolution mechanisms and systematics of medicinal plant genomes, o...

Forensic botany encompasses many sub-disciplines, including plant anatomy, plant ecology, plant systematics, plant molecular biology, palynology, and limnology. Although the field of forensic botany has been recognized since the mid-1900's, the use of trace plant material as physical evidence in criminal casework is still novel. A review of published forensic casework that used plant evidence i...

Aims Floral traits are frequently used in traditional plant systematics because of their assumed constancy. One potential reason for the apparent constancy of flower size is that effective pollen transfer between flowers depends on the accuracy of the physical fit between the flower and pollinator. Therefore, flowers are likely to be under stronger stabilizing selection for uniform size than ve...

Paulo Milet-Pinheiro, Manfred Ayasse, Clemens Schlindwein, Heidi E. M. Dobson, and Stefan Dötterl Department of Botany, Federal University of Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, s/n, 50670-901, Recife, Brazil, Institute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069 Ulm, Germany, Department of Botany, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, 3127...

Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Département de Biologie des Organismes, Faculté des Science , U iversité Libre de Bruxelles–ULB, CP 169, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences, TU Dresden, P.O. 1117, 01735 Tharandt, Germany Laboratory of Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyu...