American Journal of Botany

Article	Citations
Nuclear phylogenomic analyses of asterids conflict with plastome trees and support novel relationships among major lineages	74
A nuclear phylogenomic study of the angiosperm order Myrtales, exploring the potential and limitations of the universal Angiosperms353 probe set	51
Hybrid capture of 964 nuclear genes resolves evolutionary relationships in the mimosoid legumes and reveals the polytomous origins of a large pantropical radiation	50
Nondestructive estimation of leaf area for 15 species of vines with different leaf shapes	41
A consensus phylogenomic approach highlights paleopolyploid and rapid radiation in the history of Ericales	37
Exploring Angiosperms353: An open, community toolkit for collaborative phylogenomic research on flowering plants	36
Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships	35
Joining forces in Ochnaceae phylogenomics: a tale of two targeted sequencing probe kits	35
Phylogenomic discordance suggests polytomies along the backbone of the large genus Solanum	34
Settling a family feud: a high‐level phylogenomic framework for the Gentianales based on 353 nuclear genes and partial plastomes	33
Unexplored dimensions of variability in vegetative desiccation tolerance	32
Phylogeny and multiple independent whole‐genome duplication events in the Brassicales	30
A meta‐analysis of single visit pollination effectiveness comparing honeybees and other floral visitors	27
Using target sequence capture to improve the phylogenetic resolution of a rapid radiation in New Zealand Veronica	27
The evolutionary conundrum of whole‐genome duplication	27
Evolutionary ecology of Agave: distribution patterns, phylogeny, and coevolution (an homage to Howard S. Gentry)	27
Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm‐wide data set: proof‐of‐concept and challenges ahead	24
Small herbaria contribute unique biogeographic records to county, locality, and temporal scales	23
From Carlquist’s ecological wood anatomy to Carlquist’s Law: why comparative anatomy is crucial for functional xylem biology	22
Plant epigenetics: phenotypic and functional diversity beyond the DNA sequence	22
Comprehending Cornales: phylogenetic reconstruction of the order using the Angiosperms353 probe set	22
Quaternary diversification of a columnar cactus in the driest place on earth	22
A higher‐level nuclear phylogenomic study of the carrot family (Apiaceae)	22
Trait integration and functional differentiation among co‐existing plant species	21
Some (do not) like it hot: shrub growth is hampered by heat and drought at the alpine treeline in recent decades	21

Pleistocene aridification underlies the evolutionary history of the Caribbean endemic, insular, giant Consolea (Opuntioideae)	21
Get the shovel: morphological and evolutionary complexities of belowground organs in geophytes	21
Herbarium‐based measurements reliably estimate three functional traits	21
Stomata: the holey grail of plant evolution	20
Effect of drought and carbon dioxide on nutrient uptake and levels of nutrient‐uptake proteins in roots of barley	20
Parasites on parasites: hyper‐, epi‐, and autoparasitism among flowering plants	20
“Diminishing returns” for leaves of five age‐groups of Phyllostachys edulis culms	20
Allelopathic effects of native and invasive Brassica nigra do not support the novel‐weapons hypothesis	19
Microbial effects on plant phenology and fitness	19
Macrophenology: insights into the broad‐scale patterns, drivers, and consequences of phenology	19
An updated infra‐familial classification of Sapindaceae based on targeted enrichment data	19
Is heterospecific pollen receipt the missing link in understanding pollen limitation of plant reproduction?	18
Region‐specific phenological sensitivities and rates of climate warming generate divergent temporal shifts in flowering date across a species' range	17
Strategies of desiccation tolerance vary across life phases in the moss Syntrichia caninervis	17
Not dead yet: Diatom resting spores can survive in nature for several millennia	17
Bark water storage capacity influences epiphytic orchid preference for host trees	17
A new phylogeny of the cladoxylopsid plexus: contribution of an early cladoxylopsid from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) of Quebec	17
Ontogenetic scaling of phloem sieve tube anatomy and hydraulic resistance with tree height in Quercus rubra	16
Phylogenomics and biogeography of Cunoniaceae (Oxalidales) with complete generic sampling and taxonomic realignments	16
Validating a predictive model of cannabinoid inheritance with feral, clinical, and industrial Cannabis sativa	16
A comprehensive phylogenomic study of the monocot order Commelinales, with a new classification of Commelinaceae	16
Starch storage capacity of sapwood is related to dehydration avoidance during drought	15
Scaling relationships of leaf vein and areole traits versus leaf size for nine Magnoliaceae species differing in venation density	15
Short‐ and long‐term consequences of genome doubling: a meta‐analysis	15
Underground carbohydrate stores and storage organs in fire‐maintained longleaf pine savannas in Florida, USA	15
Autopolyploidy: an epigenetic macromutation	15
The diversity and community structure of symbiotic cyanobacteria in hornworts inferred from long‐read amplicon sequencing	14
Diminishing returns among lamina fresh and dry mass, surface area, and petiole fresh mass among nine Lauraceae species	14
Strong stabilizing selection on timing of germination in a Mediterranean population of Arabidopsis thaliana	14
The influences of environmental change and development on leaf shape in Vitis	14
Genetic diversity, gene flow, and differentiation among wild, semiwild, and landrace chile pepper (Capsicum annuum) populations in Oaxaca, Mexico	14
Estimating rates and patterns of diversification with incomplete sampling: a case study in the rosids	14
Vein‐to‐blade ratio is an allometric indicator of leaf size and plasticity	14
Population structure, diversifying selection, and local adaptation in Pinus patula	14
Rhizosphere microbial communities reflect genotypic and trait variation in a salt marsh ecosystem engineer	14
Historical biogeography of Vochysiaceae reveals an unexpected perspective of plant evolution in the Neotropics	13
Genetic diversity of wild and cultivated Coffea canephora in northeastern DR Congo and the implications for conservation	13
New physaloid fruit‐fossil species from early Eocene South America	13
Plant response to fungal root endophytes varies by host genotype in the foundation species Spartina alterniflora	13
Functional traits of leaves and photosynthetic stems of species from a sarcocaulescent scrub in the southern Baja California Peninsula	13
Inbreeding in Solanum carolinense alters floral attractants and rewards and adversely affects pollinator visitation	13
Relationships between population traits, nonstructural carbohydrates, and elevation in alpine stands of Vaccinium myrtillus	13
Evolution and biogeography of Memecylon	13
EoceneAraucariaSect.Eutactafrom Patagonia and floristic turnover during the initial isolation of South America	13
Minimum size threshold of visiting bees of a buzz‐pollinated plant species: consequences for pollination efficiency	13
A drought‐driven model for the evolution of obligate apomixis in ferns: evidence from pellaeids (Pteridaceae)	13
Nectaries in ferns: their taxonomic distribution, structure, function, and sugar composition	13
Reconstructing Dipsacales phylogeny using Angiosperms353: issues and insights	12
Population responses to a historic drought across the range of the common monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus)	12
Striking developmental convergence in angiosperm endoparasites	12

Biodiversity at the global scale: the synthesis continues	12
Patterns of variation in distylous traits and reproductive consequences in Erythroxylum species and populations	12
Older populations of the invader Solidago canadensis exhibit stronger positive plant‐soil feedbacks and competitive ability in China	12
Phylogenetic signatures of ecological divergence and leapfrog adaptive radiation in Espeletia	12
Phylogenetic structure in the Sphagnum recurvum complex (Bryophyta) in relation to taxonomy and geography	12
Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of bryophytes reveals deep relationships and uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification	12
Fossil palm reading: using fruits to reveal the deep roots of palm diversity	12
Evidence linking life‐form to a major shift in diversification rate inCrassula	12
Resolving species boundaries in a recent radiation with the Angiosperms353 probe set: the Lomatium packardiae/L. anomalum clade of the L. triternatum (Apiaceae) complex	11
Sexual dimorphism in the dioecious willow Salix purpurea	11
The ecophysiology of a neotropical mistletoe depends on the leaf phenology of its tree hosts	11
Rare transposable elements challenge the prevailing view of transposition dynamics in plants	11
Spatial phylogenetics of Japanese ferns: Patterns, processes, and implications for conservation	11
Root anatomy helps to reconcile observed root trait syndromes in tropical tree species	11
Niche similarity in diploid‐autotetraploid contact zones of Arabidopsis arenosa across spatial scales	11
Endopolyploidy is associated with leaf functional traits and climate variation in Arabidopsis thaliana	11
Squandering water in drylands: the water‐use strategy of the phreatophyte Ziziphus lotus in a groundwater‐dependent ecosystem	11
Specialized cockroach pollination in the rare and endangered plant Vincetoxicum hainanense in China	11
The origin of Darwin’s “abominable mystery”	10
It's all about timing—or is it? Exploring the potential connection between phloem physiology and whole plant phenology	10
Biosystematic studies on the status of Solanum chilense	10
Latitudinal clines in bud flush phenology reflect genetic variation in chilling requirements in balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera	10
Why honeybees are poor pollinators of a mass‐flowering plant: Experimental support for the low pollen quality hypothesis	10
Contrasting effects of nectar yeasts on the reproduction of Mediterranean plant species	10
Fine‐scale environmental heterogeneity and spatial niche partitioning among spring‐flowering forest herbs	10
Incomplete reproductive isolation and low genetic differentiation despite floral divergence across varying geographic scales inCastilleja	10
Infraspecific diversification of the star cloak fern (Notholaena standleyi) in the deserts of the United States and Mexico	10
On characterizing root function in perennial horticultural crops	10
Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: a modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia	10
Pollinator assemblage and pollen load differences on sympatric diploid and tetraploid cytotypes of the desert‐dominant Larrea tridentata	10
Resolved phylogenetic relationships in the Ocotea complex (Supraocotea) facilitate phylogenetic classification and studies of character evolution	10
Among‐ and within‐population variation in morphology, rewards, and scent in a hawkmoth‐pollinated plant	9
Extirpated prairie species demonstrate more variable phenological responses to warming than extant congeners	9
Is the evolution of carnivory connected with genome size reduction?	9
Nucleic acid damage and DNA repair are affected by freezing stress in annual wheat (Triticum aestivum) and by plant age and freezing in its perennial relative (Thinopyrum intermedium)	9
Genome‐scale data resolves the timing of divergence in Joshua trees	9
Microsatellites and petal morphology reveal new patterns of admixture in Orchis hybrid zones	9
Maternal effects strengthen interactions of temperature and precipitation, determining seed germination of dominant alpine grass species	9
Population‐level variation in host plant response to multiple microbial mutualists	9
The role of ontogeny in wood diversity and evolution	9
A novel cupulate seed plant, Xadzigacalix quatsinoensis gen. et sp. nov., provides new insight into the Mesozoic radiation of gymnosperms	9
Patterns of population genomic diversity in the invasive Japanese knotweed species complex	9
Dispersal evolution in temporally variable environments: implications for plant range dynamics	9
Pollen dispensing schedules in buzz‐pollinated plants: experimental comparison of species with contrasting floral morphologies	9
Patterns of genetic variation in a prairie wildflower, Silphium integrifolium, suggest a non‐prairie origin and locally adaptive variation	9
Looking beyond history: tracing the dispersal of the Malaysian complex of crops to Africa	9
Molecular and archaeological evidence on the geographical origin of domestication for Camelina sativa	9
Bee species visiting Medicago sativa differ in pollen deposition curves with consequences for gene flow	9
Induced defense and its cost in two bryophyte species	9
Evolutionary dynamics of genome size in a radiation of woody plants	9
Beyond pollen:ovule ratios: Evolutionary consequences of pollinator dependence and pollination efficiency for pollen and ovule production in angiosperms	8
Vegetation‐type conversion of evergreen chaparral shrublands to savannahs dominated by exotic annual herbs: causes and consequences for ecosystem function	8
Light availability influences the intensity of nectar robbery and its effects on reproduction in a tropical shrub via multiple pathways	8
Reinterpretation of Paleoazolla: a heterosporous water fern from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina	8
Population genomics of a reindeer lichen species from North American lichen woodlands	8
Differential reward in “male” versus “female” pollen of functionally dioecious Solanum	8
Pollen dispersal patterns differ among sites for a wind‐pollinated species and an insect‐pollinated species	8
Earlier spring reduces potential for gene flow via reduced flowering synchrony across an elevational gradient	8
A trait‐based approach to determining principles of plant biogeography	8
Green land: Multiple perspectives on green algal evolution and the earliest land plants	8
Plastid phylogenomics of the Gynoxoid group (Senecioneae, Asteraceae) highlights the importance of motif‐based sequence alignment amid low genetic distances	8
A combination of morphological and photosynthetic functional traits maintains the vertical distribution of bryophytes in a subtropical cloud forest	8
Incongruent phylogenies and their implications for the study of diversification, taxonomy, and genome size evolution of Rhododendron	8
Woody invaders are more highly colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi than congeneric native species	8
A first complete phylogenomic hypothesis for diploid blueberries (Vaccinium section Cyanococcus)	8
Diversification of crown groupAraucaria: the role ofAraucaria famiisp. nov. in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) radiation of Araucariaceae in the Northern Hemisphere	8
Effects of ambient climate and three warming treatments on fruit production in an alpine, subarctic meadow community	8
Apple tree adaptation to shade in agroforestry: an architectural approach	8
Is biodiversity needed for sustainability? A spotlight on urban landscapes	8
Character evolution of modern fly‐speck fungi and implications for interpreting thyriothecial fossils	8
Judge it by its shape: a pollinator‐blind approach reveals convergence in petal shape and infers pollination modes in the genus Erythrina	8
Wood density relates negatively to maximum plant height across major angiosperm and gymnosperm orders	8
Fine‐scale spatial genetic structure, mating, and gene dispersal patterns in Parkia biglobosa populations with different levels of habitat fragmentation	7
A greenhouse experiment partially supports inferences of ecogeographic isolation from niche models of Clarkia sister species	7
Rapid evolution of selfing syndrome traits in Viola arvensis revealed by resurrection ecology	7
Secret lifestyles of pyrophilous fungi in the genus Sphaerosporella	7
Phenotypic and physiological responses to salt exposure in Sorghum reveal diversity among domesticated landraces	7
Phylogenomics and plastome evolution of a Brazilian mycoheterotrophic orchid, Pogoniopsis schenckii	7
Sex‐specific differences in reproductive life‐history traits of the moss Weissia jamaicensis	7
Germination niche breadth of invasive Iris pseudacorus (L.) suggests continued recruitment from seeds with global warming	7

The “evil tribe” spreads across the land: A dated molecular phylogeny provides insight into dispersal, expansion, and biogeographic relationships within one of the largest tribes of the sunflower fami	7
Diversification, spread, and admixture of octoploid strawberry in the Western Hemisphere	7
The role of genome duplication in big sagebrush growth and fecundity	7
Invasive plant species that experience lower herbivory pressure may evolve lower diversities of chemical defense compounds in the exotic range	7
Population genetics and biogeography of the lungwort lichen in North America support distinct Eastern and Western gene pools	7
Environmental DNA as an emerging tool in botanical research	7
Incomplete lineage sorting and reticulate evolution mask species relationships in Brunelliaceae, an Andean family with rapid, recent diversification	7
Evolutionary divergence of potential drought adaptations between two subspecies of an annual plant: Are trait combinations facilitated, independent, or constrained?	7
Functional responses to climate change may increase invasive potential of Carpobrotus edulis	7
Leaf dorsoventrality candidate gene CpARF4 has conserved expression pattern but divergent tasiR‐ARF regulation in the water fern Ceratopteris pteridoides	7
Selective forces on the maintenance of outcrossing in an almost exclusively cleistogamous violet species	7
New Fagaceous pollen taxa from the Miocene Søby flora of Denmark and their biogeographic implications	7
The phylogeographic history of a range disjunction in eastern North America: the role of post‐glacial expansion into newly suitable habitat	7
Evolvability and constraint in the evolution of three‐dimensional flower morphology	7
Evolution of Castanea in North America: restriction‐site‐associated DNA sequencing and ecological modeling reveal a history of radiation, range shifts, and disease	7
Philomatry in plants: why do so many species have limited seed dispersal?	7
52 million years old Eucalyptus flower sheds more than pollen grains	7
Host tree traits in pasture areas affect forest and pasture specialist epiphyte species differently	7
Limits and constraints to crop domestication	7
The role of auxin in developmentally regulated programmed cell death in lace plant	7
Imperforate tracheary elements and vessels alleviate xylem tension under severe dehydration: insights from water release curves for excised twigs of three tree species	7
Pollination effectiveness of specialist and opportunistic nectar feeders influenced by invasive alien ants in the Seychelles	7
A eudicot leaf from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian, Araripe Basin) Crato Konservat‐Lagerstätte	7
Parenchyma fractions drive the storage capacity of nonstructural carbohydrates across a broad range of tree species	6
Complex meristematic activity induced by Eucecidoses minutanus on Schinus engleri turns shoots into galls	6
Testing an invasion mechanism for Eucalyptus globulus: Is there evidence of allelopathy?	6
Diversity, distribution, development, and evolution of medullary bundles in Nyctaginaceae	6
Phylogenomic analyses in Phrymaceae reveal extensive gene tree discordance in relationships among major clades	6
Rare and widespread: integrating Bayesian MCMC approaches, Sanger sequencing and Hyb‐Seq phylogenomics to reconstruct the origin of the enigmatic Rand Flora genus Camptoloma	6
When it only takes one to tango: assessing the impact of apomixis in the fern genus Pteris	6
Quantitative trait locus mapping reveals an independent genetic basis for joint divergence in leaf function, life‐history, and floral traits between scarlet monkeyflower (Mimulus cardinalis) po	6
Botany is the root and the future of invasion biology	6
Climate data and flowering times for 450 species from 1844 deepen the record of phenological change in southern Germany	6
Crops for the future: on the way to reduce nitrogen pollution	6
Sex‐linked gene expression and the emergence of hermaphrodites in Carica papaya	6
Genetic insights into the evolution of genera with the eastern Asia–eastern North America floristic disjunction: a transcriptomics analysis	6
Prediction of photosynthetic light‐response curves using traits of the leaf economics spectrum for 75 woody species: effects of leaf habit and sun–shade dichotomy	6
Genetic and spatial variation in vegetative and floral traits across a hybrid zone	6
The mycorrhizal community of the epiphytic orchid Thrixspermum japonicum is strongly biased toward a single Ceratobasidiaceae fungus, despite a wide range of fungal partners	6
Leaf trait association in relation to herbivore defense, drought resistance, and economics in a tropical invasive plant	6
Velocity of the falling dispersal units in Zelkova abelicea: remarkable evolutionary conservation within the relict tree genus	6
Effects of selenium hyperaccumulators on soil selenium distribution and vegetation properties	6
Fossil papilionoids of the Bowdichia clade (Leguminosae) from the Paleogene of North America	6
The role of hybrid seed inviability in angiosperm speciation	6
The pollen virome: A review of pollen‐associated viruses and consequences for plants and their interactions with pollinators	6
Fruit evolution in Hydrophyllaceae	6
Phylogenomics and continental biogeographic disjunctions: insight from the Australian starflowers (Calytrix)	6
Whole genome duplication does not promote common modes of reproductive isolation in Trifolium pratense	6
Candidate genes and signatures of directional selection on fruit quality traits during apple domestication	6
Responses of invasive and native plants to different forms and availability of phosphorus	6
Root vascular traits differ systematically between African savanna tree and grass species, with implications for water use	6
Phylogenetic signal and climatic niche of stem photosynthesis in the mediterranean and desert regions of California and Baja California Peninsula	6
Crop domestication as a step toward reproductive isolation	6
Light signals counteract alterations caused by simulated microgravity in proliferating plant cells	6
Pollen production per flower increases with floral display size across animal‐pollinated flowering plants	6
The vessel wall thickness–vessel diameter relationship across woody angiosperms	6
Variation in frequency of plastid RNA editing within Adiantum implies rapid evolution in fern plastomes	6
Analysis of trait–performance–fitness relationships reveals pollinator‐mediated selection on orchid pollination traits	5
1, 2, 3, GO! Venture beyond gene ontologies in plant evolutionary research	5
Disruptive selection via pollinators and seed predators on the height of flowers on a wind‐dispersed alpine herb	5
Structural adaptations in plants from the humid equatorial Andes indicate a trade‐off between hydraulic transport efficiency and safety	5
A test of the reproductive assurance hypothesis inIpomoea hederacea: does inbreeding depression counteract the benefits of self‐pollination?	5
Pollen limitation of native plant reproduction in an urban landscape	5
Seed source regions drive fitness differences in invasive macrophytes	5
Pollen layering and male–male competition: Quantum dots demonstrate that pollen grains compete for space on pollinators	5
Leaf shape and size variation in bur oaks: an empirical study and simulation of sampling strategies	5
Phylogeny of Lantana, Lippia, and related genera (Lantaneae: Verbenaceae)	5
Evolution of apetaly in the cosmopolitan genus Stellaria	5
Quantifying the effect of shade on cuticle morphology and carbon isotopes of sycamores: present and past	5
Climate change is associated with increased allocation to potential outcrossing in a common mixed mating species	5
Floral traits differentiate pollination syndromes and species but fail to predict the identity of floral visitors to Castilleja	5
Community genomics: a community‐wide perspective on within‐species genetic diversity	5
First‐year Acacia seedlings are anisohydric “water‐spenders” but differ in their rates of water use	5
Interspecific anatomical differences result in similar highly flexible stems in Bignoniaceae lianas	5
Flowers of Apocynaceae in amber from the early Eocene of India	5
The potential for floral evolution in response to competing selection pressures following the loss of hawkmoth pollination in Ruellia humilis	5
Germination success of large‐seeded plant species ingested by howler monkeys in tropical rain forest fragments	5
Evolutionary effects of nitrogen are not easily predicted from ecological responses	5
Variation in plant belowground resource allocation across heterogeneous landscapes: implications for post‐fire resprouting	5
Phenotypic plasticity made simple, but not too simple	5
The role of maternal age, growth, and environment in shaping offspring performance in an aerial conifer seed bank	5
Shoot dimorphism enables Sequoia sempervirens to separate requirements for foliar water uptake and photosynthesis	5
The phylogeny of Syntrichia: An ecologically diverse clade of mosses with an origin in South America	5
Digitized collections elucidate invasion history and patterns of awn polymorphism inMicrostegium vimineum	5
Lichen ecophysiology in a changing climate	5
Anatomical and hydraulic responses to desiccation in emergent conifer seedlings	5
Identification of key regulatory genes involved in the sporophyte and gametophyte development in Ginkgo biloba ovules revealed by in situ expression analyses	5
Genetic architecture of divergence: the selfing syndrome in Ipomoea lacunosa	5
Exceptional evolutionary lability of flower‐like inflorescences (pseudanthia) in Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae	5
Measurements of lethal and nonlethal inbreeding depression inform the de novo domestication of Silphium integrifolium	5
Do Silene species with exposed stigmas tolerate interference by heterospecific pollen?	5
Color signals of bee‐pollinated flowers: the significance of natural leaf background	5
Directionally biased habitat shifts and biogeographically informative cytonuclear discordance in the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Compositae)	5
Diversity in conduit and pit structure among extant gymnosperm taxa	5
Climate warming causes photobiont degradation and carbon starvation in a boreal climate sentinel lichen	5