Diversification of Angiosperms
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Systematics, Taxonomy, Nomenclature and Classification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2021) | Viewed by 24726
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Among extant plants, angiosperms are the most diverse, consisting of approximately 14,000 genera and at least 350,000 to 400,000 species. The diversification of flowering plants has occurred through a variety of mechanisms including the development of reproductive barriers among populations that allow them to adapt to local environmental conditions and hybridization with relatives to form vastly diverse polyploids or even diploid hybrids. Other species arise by random genetic drift or simply the accumulation of mutations over time after geographical isolation. Thanks to the recent development of new techniques such as next-generation sequencing technologies, huge amounts of data can be obtained and used to study areas such as phylogenetic relationships, population structure, and introgression. This provides an enormous opportunity to gain new insight into the evolutionary history of plants.
This Special Issue of Plants on the "Diversification of Angiosperms" will be a collection of research papers related to plant diversification that aims to show the vast array of mechanisms linked to the evolution of angiosperms.
Dr. Atsuko Takano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant systematics
- phytogeography
- molecular phylogeny
- population genetic analysis
- pollination ecology
- speciation
- polyploidy
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