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Following an open call for applicants at the beginning of 2026, we are pleased to welcome 44 new Associate Editors to Methods in Ecology and Evolution. The researchers joining us span 18 different …

Baştürk et al. review the major progress that has been made in our understanding of Archaeplastida, the primary plastid-bearing photosynthetic eukaryotes that include the land plants, highlighting lon...

From the dating of 132 ancient whole-genome duplication events across 470 angiosperms, paleopolyploidization events cluster around pivotal periods of environmental upheaval and extinction, notably the Middle Miocene Disruption, the Eocene-Oligocene Transition, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, and different oceanic anoxic events.

From the dating of 132 ancient whole-genome duplication events across 470 angiosperms, paleopolyploidization events cluster around pivotal periods of environmental upheaval and extinction, notably the...

Plant terrestrialization necessitated overcoming a barrage of stressors.1 Embryophytes (land plants) use an integrated response network to adjust thei…

About us The VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology (PSB, www.psb.vib-ugent.be) is a world-leading plant science institute with the mission to unravel the biology of plants and use the in

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In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...

Unravelling the deep phylogenetic structure of embryophytes is essential for understanding their evolutionary success on land. However, pronounced phylogenetic dispute remains: while recent phylogenom...

After gene and genome duplications, expression divergence across cell types is not random, and it can be explained by a combination of gene age, gene funct

Abstract. The paradox of evolutionary stasis and dynamism—how morphologically static lineages persist through deep geological periods despite environmental

Nature Genetics - A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than...

Nature Communications - Extensive gene loss is a hallmark of rediploidization following polyploidization, but its molecular basis remains unclear. Examining pseudogenization from ancient...

Plant evolutionary research has made leaps in exploring the deep evolutionary roots of embryophytes. A solid phylogenomic framework was established, a…

Polyploidy, resulting from whole-genome duplication (WGD), is widespread among plants and originates in sympatry with their lower-ploidy progenitors. New polyploids can only succeed when they overcome...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), both a strong evolutionary and ecological force and a potential pitfall, occurs extensively across the tree of life, particularly in angiosperms. While p...