Phylogenetic analyses have suggested that Mathewsia is not monophyletic because of the exclusion of M. nivea from a well-supported clade comprising the remaining species of the genus. This result ...

Capsella comprises diploid (C. grandiflora and C. rubella) and tetraploid taxa. It is argued that the tetraploid C. bursa-pastoris is of intraspecific origin despite disomic inheritance and "fixed ...

Peking University, May 6, 2025: The research team led by Qu Lijia and Zhong Sheng from the School of Life Sciences and the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences has discovered a conserved "two-step ...

Genome duplications play a major role in the development of forms and structures of plant organisms and their changes across long periods of evolution. Biologists made this discovery in their research ...