Diversity and Evolution of Asteraceae

Dear Colleagues,

Over time, the great effort in research made by Synantherologists around the world on the mega-diverse Asteraceae (Compositae) has allowed us to obtain a neat picture of this extraordinary family of flowering plants which comprises more than 25,000 species and 1700 genera distributed in five continents. The relevance of this plant group reaches areas other than biology, with a diverse array of applied uses in fields such as pharmacy and agronomy due to several species with high economic value.

However, knowledge of several lineages within this family has not been evenly accomplished. Although a robust backbone for the Asteraceae phylogeny is already available, it is still incomplete for some groups. On one hand, rapid massive radiations and successful dispersals occurred along the Asteraceae evolution, giving rise to large and complex groups, each of them represented by thousands of species occupying diverse habitats and wide geographic distributions such as the tribes Astereae, Cardueae, Eupatorieae, and Senecioneae, among others. On the other hand, hotspots of biodiversity for this plant family worldwide, such as South America, Asia, and the Mediterranean climate areas, have not been explored enough, and many lineages exclusive of those areas are still poorly known.

In the last decade, the increasing number of relevant findings on this topic drives the need for frequent updating. The publication of Special Issues such as the one presented here aims to bring together the most recent findings on the diversity and evolution of Asteraceae, contributing to that goal.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Plants.

Dr. Alfonso Susanna
Dr. Inés Álvarez
Dr. Tiangang Gao
Dr. Gustavo Heiden
Guest Editors

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• biogeography
• Compositae
• conservation
• cytogenetics
• ecology
• phylogenetics
• phylogenomics
• population genetics
• systematics