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📅Submissions deadline: 31 May, 2026 (4/4)
#Gnetales #SeedPlantEvolution #EcoEvoDevo #PlantEvolution #Botany
📢🌿Annals of Botany invites submissions to the new focus issue "Gnetales - Controversies of Seed Plant Evolution", edited by guest editors Stefanie M. Ickert-Bond, Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona & Dimitry Sokoloff. (1/4)
#Gnetales #SeedPlantEvolution #EcoEvoDevo #PlantEvolution #Botany
🌱 Don’t miss the “Evolutionary history of the Gnetales” symposium at #Botany2025 on July 29 at 8 am, and meet Stefanie, one of the chairs! (7/7)
🌱 Don’t miss Dmitry’s talk “Cone morphology, development, and sporadic structural gynodioecy in Gnetales with an emphasis on Ephedra species from Israel” at #Botany2025 on July 29 at 8 am! (10/10)
🌿 Annals of Botany is proud to sponsor three exciting symposia at #Botany2025!
Join us for discussions on plant genome skimming, Gnetales evolution, and botanical international collaboration.
#plantscience #botany #gnetales #genomeskimming
🗓️ Save the dates! ⬇️
my latest publication is out!
We have written a short review of #Gnetales, where we suggest that the way forward in understanding this odd group of #gymnosperms includes convergence of evidence from different fields of study, including #fossils, #development, molecular #evolution, #genomics. Also, the article is #openaccess
Cutting the long branches: Consilience as a path to unearth the evolutionary history of Gnetales
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.1082639/full
The Gnetales are one of the most fascinating groups within seed plants. Although the advent of molecular phylogenetics has generated some confidence in their phylogenetic placement of Gnetales within seed plants, their macroevolutionary history still presents many unknowns. Here, we review the reasons for such unknowns, and we focus the discussion on the presence of “long branches” both in their molecular and morphological history. The increased rate of molecular evolution and genome instability as well as the numerous unique traits (both reproductive and vegetative) in the Gnetales have been obstacles to a better understanding of their evolution. Moreover, the fossil record of the Gnetales, though relatively rich, has not yet been properly reviewed and investigated using a phylogenetic framework. Despite these apparent blocks to progress we identify new avenues to enable us to move forward. We suggest that a consilience approach, involving different disciplines such as developmental genetics, paleobotany, molecular phylogenetics, and traditional anatomy and morphology might help to “break” these long branches, leading to a deeper understanding of this mysterious group of plants.
Annals of Botany
Kara Finance
Mario Coiro