American Journal of Botany

Article	Citations
A nuclear phylogenomic study of the angiosperm order Myrtales, exploring the potential and limitations of the universal Angiosperms353 probe set	60
Hybrid capture of 964 nuclear genes resolves evolutionary relationships in the mimosoid legumes and reveals the polytomous origins of a large pantropical radiation	56
Phylogenomic discordance suggests polytomies along the backbone of the large genus Solanum	50
Exploring Angiosperms353: An open, community toolkit for collaborative phylogenomic research on flowering plants	46
Nondestructive estimation of leaf area for 15 species of vines with different leaf shapes	45
Unexplored dimensions of variability in vegetative desiccation tolerance	43
Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships	42
Settling a family feud: a high‐level phylogenomic framework for the Gentianales based on 353 nuclear genes and partial plastomes	36
Joining forces in Ochnaceae phylogenomics: a tale of two targeted sequencing probe kits	36
A meta‐analysis of single visit pollination effectiveness comparing honeybees and other floral visitors	36
Evolutionary ecology of Agave: distribution patterns, phylogeny, and coevolution (an homage to Howard S. Gentry)	35
Microbial effects on plant phenology and fitness	32
Using target sequence capture to improve the phylogenetic resolution of a rapid radiation in New Zealand Veronica	31
Plant epigenetics: phenotypic and functional diversity beyond the DNA sequence	28
Macrophenology: insights into the broad‐scale patterns, drivers, and consequences of phenology	28
Get the shovel: morphological and evolutionary complexities of belowground organs in geophytes	28
Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of bryophytes reveals deep relationships and uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification	27
A higher‐level nuclear phylogenomic study of the carrot family (Apiaceae)	26
Small herbaria contribute unique biogeographic records to county, locality, and temporal scales	26
Quaternary diversification of a columnar cactus in the driest place on earth	25
Stomata: the holey grail of plant evolution	24
Comprehending Cornales: phylogenetic reconstruction of the order using the Angiosperms353 probe set	24
An updated infra‐familial classification of Sapindaceae based on targeted enrichment data	24
Not dead yet: Diatom resting spores can survive in nature for several millennia	23
“Diminishing returns” for leaves of five age‐groups of Phyllostachys edulis culms	23

Pleistocene aridification underlies the evolutionary history of the Caribbean endemic, insular, giantConsolea(Opuntioideae)	23
Fossil palm reading: using fruits to reveal the deep roots of palm diversity	22
Strategies of desiccation tolerance vary across life phases in the moss Syntrichia caninervis	22
Parasites on parasites: hyper‐, epi‐, and autoparasitism among flowering plants	21
A drought‐driven model for the evolution of obligate apomixis in ferns: evidence from pellaeids (Pteridaceae)	20
A new phylogeny of the cladoxylopsid plexus: contribution of an early cladoxylopsid from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) of Quebec	20
Reconstructing Dipsacales phylogeny using Angiosperms353: issues and insights	19
Diminishing returns among lamina fresh and dry mass, surface area, and petiole fresh mass among nine Lauraceae species	19
Short‐ and long‐term consequences of genome doubling: a meta‐analysis	19
Green land: Multiple perspectives on green algal evolution and the earliest land plants	18
Scaling relationships of leaf vein and areole traits versus leaf size for nine Magnoliaceae species differing in venation density	18
Vein‐to‐blade ratio is an allometric indicator of leaf size and plasticity	18
Underground carbohydrate stores and storage organs in fire‐maintained longleaf pine savannas in Florida, USA	18
Region‐specific phenological sensitivities and rates of climate warming generate divergent temporal shifts in flowering date across a species' range	18
Phylogenomics and biogeography of Cunoniaceae (Oxalidales) with complete generic sampling and taxonomic realignments	18
A comprehensive phylogenomic study of the monocot order Commelinales, with a new classification of Commelinaceae	18
Genetic diversity of wild and cultivated Coffea canephora in northeastern DR Congo and the implications for conservation	17
Genetic diversity, gene flow, and differentiation among wild, semiwild, and landrace chile pepper (Capsicum annuum) populations in Oaxaca, Mexico	16
Plant response to fungal root endophytes varies by host genotype in the foundation species Spartina alterniflora	16
Starch storage capacity of sapwood is related to dehydration avoidance during drought	16
Older populations of the invader Solidago canadensis exhibit stronger positive plant‐soil feedbacks and competitive ability in China	16
New physaloid fruit‐fossil species from early Eocene South America	16
Minimum size threshold of visiting bees of a buzz‐pollinated plant species: consequences for pollination efficiency	15
Inbreeding in Solanum carolinense alters floral attractants and rewards and adversely affects pollinator visitation	15
Fine‐scale environmental heterogeneity and spatial niche partitioning among spring‐flowering forest herbs	15
Nectaries in ferns: their taxonomic distribution, structure, function, and sugar composition	15
The diversity and community structure of symbiotic cyanobacteria in hornworts inferred from long‐read amplicon sequencing	15
A trait‐based approach to determining principles of plant biogeography	15
Latitudinal clines in bud flush phenology reflect genetic variation in chilling requirements in balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera	14
Population responses to a historic drought across the range of the common monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus)	14
Population structure, diversifying selection, and local adaptation in Pinus patula	14
Effects of ambient climate and three warming treatments on fruit production in an alpine, subarctic meadow community	14
Root anatomy helps to reconcile observed root trait syndromes in tropical tree species	14
Beyond pollen:ovule ratios: Evolutionary consequences of pollinator dependence and pollination efficiency for pollen and ovule production in angiosperms	13
Pollen dispensing schedules in buzz‐pollinated plants: experimental comparison of species with contrasting floral morphologies	13
Biodiversity at the global scale: the synthesis continues	13
Patterns of population genomic diversity in the invasive Japanese knotweed species complex	13
Phylogenetic signatures of ecological divergence and leapfrog adaptive radiation inEspeletia	13
Evolution and biogeography ofMemecylon	13
Spatial phylogenetics of Japanese ferns: Patterns, processes, and implications for conservation	13
Striking developmental convergence in angiosperm endoparasites	13
Phylogenomics and plastome evolution of a Brazilian mycoheterotrophic orchid, Pogoniopsis schenckii	13
Sexual dimorphism in the dioecious willow Salix purpurea	12
The role of ontogeny in wood diversity and evolution	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	12
Evidence linking life‐form to a major shift in diversification rate inCrassula	12
The origin of Darwin’s “abominable mystery”	12
Molecular and archaeological evidence on the geographical origin of domestication for Camelina sativa	12
Pollinator assemblage and pollen load differences on sympatric diploid and tetraploid cytotypes of the desert‐dominantLarrea tridentata	12
Why honeybees are poor pollinators of a mass‐flowering plant: Experimental support for the low pollen quality hypothesis	12

Contrasting effects of nectar yeasts on the reproduction of Mediterranean plant species	12
Incomplete reproductive isolation and low genetic differentiation despite floral divergence across varying geographic scales inCastilleja	12
Resolved phylogenetic relationships in the Ocotea complex (Supraocotea) facilitate phylogenetic classification and studies of character evolution	12
Genome‐scale data resolves the timing of divergence in Joshua trees	11
Philomatry in plants: why do so many species have limited seed dispersal?	11
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	11
Lichen ecophysiology in a changing climate	11
Rare transposable elements challenge the prevailing view of transposition dynamics in plants	11
Maternal effects strengthen interactions of temperature and precipitation, determining seed germination of dominant alpine grass species	11
Environmental DNA as an emerging tool in botanical research	11
Induced defense and its cost in two bryophyte species	11
Dispersal evolution in temporally variable environments: implications for plant range dynamics	11
Climate warming causes photobiont degradation and carbon starvation in a boreal climate sentinel lichen	11
Differential reward in “male” versus “female” pollen of functionally dioecious Solanum	10
Extirpated prairie species demonstrate more variable phenological responses to warming than extant congeners	10
Squandering water in drylands: the water‐use strategy of the phreatophyte Ziziphus lotus in a groundwater‐dependent ecosystem	10
Earlier spring reduces potential for gene flow via reduced flowering synchrony across an elevational gradient	10
Biosystematic studies on the status of Solanum chilense	10
Evolvability and constraint in the evolution of three‐dimensional flower morphology	10
Rapid evolution of selfing syndrome traits in Viola arvensis revealed by resurrection ecology	10
The pollen virome: A review of pollen‐associated viruses and consequences for plants and their interactions with pollinators	10
Functional responses to climate change may increase invasive potential ofCarpobrotus edulis	10
Wood density relates negatively to maximum plant height across major angiosperm and gymnosperm orders	10
The phylogeny of Syntrichia: An ecologically diverse clade of mosses with an origin in South America	10
A first complete phylogenomic hypothesis for diploid blueberries (Vaccinium section Cyanococcus)	10
The role of genome duplication in big sagebrush growth and fecundity	10
Apple tree adaptation to shade in agroforestry: an architectural approach	10
Microsatellites and petal morphology reveal new patterns of admixture in Orchis hybrid zones	10
Incomplete lineage sorting and reticulate evolution mask species relationships in Brunelliaceae, an Andean family with rapid, recent diversification	10
Among‐ and within‐population variation in morphology, rewards, and scent in a hawkmoth‐pollinated plant	10
Looking beyond history: tracing the dispersal of the Malaysian complex of crops to Africa	10
A novel cupulate seed plant, Xadzigacalix quatsinoensis gen. et sp. nov., provides new insight into the Mesozoic radiation of gymnosperms	10
Bee species visiting Medicago sativa differ in pollen deposition curves with consequences for gene flow	10
Light availability influences the intensity of nectar robbery and its effects on reproduction in a tropical shrub via multiple pathways	10
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	10
Incongruent phylogenies and their implications for the study of diversification, taxonomy, and genome size evolution of Rhododendron	10
Phylogenomic analyses in Phrymaceae reveal extensive gene tree discordance in relationships among major clades	9
Plastid phylogenomics of the Gynoxoid group (Senecioneae, Asteraceae) highlights the importance of motif‐based sequence alignment amid low genetic distances	9
Host tree traits in pasture areas affect forest and pasture specialist epiphyte species differently	9
Germination niche breadth of invasive Iris pseudacorus (L.) suggests continued recruitment from seeds with global warming	9
52 million years old Eucalyptus flower sheds more than pollen grains	9
The phylogeographic history of a range disjunction in eastern North America: the role of post‐glacial expansion into newly suitable habitat	9
Evolution ofCastaneain North America: restriction‐site‐associated DNA sequencing and ecological modeling reveal a history of radiation, range shifts, and disease	9
Sex‐specific differences in reproductive life‐history traits of the moss Weissia jamaicensis	9
Leaf dorsoventrality candidate gene CpARF4 has conserved expression pattern but divergent tasiR‐ARF regulation in the water fern Ceratopteris pteridoides	9
Woody invaders are more highly colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi than congeneric native species	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
The vessel wall thickness–vessel diameter relationship across woody angiosperms	9
Fruit evolution in Hydrophyllaceae	9
Patterns of genetic variation in a prairie wildflower, Silphium integrifolium, suggest a non‐prairie origin and locally adaptive variation	9
Individual bee foragers are less‐efficient transporters of pollen for plants from which they collect the most pollen in their scopae	8
The mycorrhizal community of the epiphytic orchid Thrixspermum japonicum is strongly biased toward a single Ceratobasidiaceae fungus, despite a wide range of fungal partners	8
Leaf trait association in relation to herbivore defense, drought resistance, and economics in a tropical invasive plant	8
Phylogenetic signal and climatic niche of stem photosynthesis in the mediterranean and desert regions of California and Baja California Peninsula	8
Pollen production per flower increases with floral display size across animal‐pollinated flowering plants	8
Phylogenomics and continental biogeographic disjunctions: insight from the Australian starflowers (Calytrix)	8
Evolutionary divergence of potential drought adaptations between two subspecies of an annual plant: Are trait combinations facilitated, independent, or constrained?	8
A eudicot leaf from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian, Araripe Basin) Crato Konservat‐Lagerstätte	8
When it only takes one to tango: assessing the impact of apomixis in the fern genus Pteris	8
Root vascular traits differ systematically between African savanna tree and grass species, with implications for water use	8
Disruptive selection via pollinators and seed predators on the height of flowers on a wind‐dispersed alpine herb	8
Population genomics of a reindeer lichen species from North American lichen woodlands	8
Genetic insights into the evolution of genera with the eastern Asia–eastern North America floristic disjunction: a transcriptomics analysis	8
Selective forces on the maintenance of outcrossing in an almost exclusively cleistogamous violet species	8
Pollen as the link between floral phenotype and fitness	8
Judge it by its shape: a pollinator‐blind approach reveals convergence in petal shape and infers pollination modes in the genus Erythrina	8
Diversification, spread, and admixture of octoploid strawberry in the Western Hemisphere	8
Vegetation‐type conversion of evergreen chaparral shrublands to savannahs dominated by exotic annual herbs: causes and consequences for ecosystem function	8
Invasive plant species that experience lower herbivory pressure may evolve lower diversities of chemical defense compounds in the exotic range	8
Fossil papilionoids of the Bowdichia clade (Leguminosae) from the Paleogene of North America	8
Directionally biased habitat shifts and biogeographically informative cytonuclear discordance in the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Compositae)	8
Climate change is associated with increased allocation to potential outcrossing in a common mixed mating species	8
The Boechera model system for evolutionary ecology	7
Molecular framework underlying floral bilateral symmetry and nectar spur development in Tropaeolum, an atypical member of the Brassicales	7
Community genomics: a community‐wide perspective on within‐species genetic diversity	7
Diverse ecological functions and the convergent evolution of grass awns	7
Genetic architecture of divergence: the selfing syndrome in Ipomoea lacunosa	7
Botany is the root and the future of invasion biology	7
Population genetics and biogeography of the lungwort lichen in North America support distinct Eastern and Western gene pools	7
Limits and constraints to crop domestication	7

Phylogeny, classification, and character evolution of tribe Citharexyleae (Verbenaceae)	7
Jack pine of all trades: Deciphering intraspecific variability of a key adaptive trait at the rear edge of a widespread fire‐embracing North American conifer	7
Uncovering haplotype diversity in cultivated Mexican vanilla species	7
Velocity of the falling dispersal units in Zelkova abelicea: remarkable evolutionary conservation within the relict tree genus	7
Crop domestication as a step toward reproductive isolation	7
The role of hybrid seed inviability in angiosperm speciation	7
Can heterosis and inbreeding depression explain the maintenance of outcrossing in a cleistogamous perennial?	7
Parenchyma fractions drive the storage capacity of nonstructural carbohydrates across a broad range of tree species	7
New Fagaceous pollen taxa from the Miocene Søby flora of Denmark and their biogeographic implications	7
Rethinking convergence in plant parasitism through the lens of molecular and population genetic processes	7
Measurements of lethal and nonlethal inbreeding depression inform the de novo domestication of Silphium integrifolium	7
A greenhouse experiment partially supports inferences of ecogeographic isolation from niche models of Clarkia sister species	7
Phylogeny of Lantana, Lippia, and related genera (Lantaneae: Verbenaceae)	7
Two cytotype niche shifts are of different magnitude in Solidago gigantea	6
Genetic and spatial variation in vegetative and floral traits across a hybrid zone	6
Analysis of trait–performance–fitness relationships reveals pollinator‐mediated selection on orchid pollination traits	6
Biomass allocation ofVincetoxicum rossicumandV. nigrumin contrasting competitive environments	6
First‐year Acacia seedlings are anisohydric “water‐spenders” but differ in their rates of water use	6
Flexible drought deciduousness in a neotropical understory herb	6
The roles of dispersal limitation, climatic niches and glacial history in endemism of the North American bryophyte flora	6
Candidate genes and signatures of directional selection on fruit quality traits during apple domestication	6
Climate data and flowering times for 450 species from 1844 deepen the record of phenological change in southern Germany	6
Adaptation to lower latitudes and lower elevations precedes the evolution of hummingbird pollination in western North American Penstemon	6
Vessel dimorphism and wood traits in lianas and trees among three contrasting environments	6
Local adaptation of seed and seedling traits along a natural aridity gradient may both predict and constrain adaptive responses to climate change	6
Target sequence data shed new light on the infrafamilial classification of Araceae	6
Responses of invasive and native plants to different forms and availability of phosphorus	6
Testing an invasion mechanism for Eucalyptus globulus: Is there evidence of allelopathy?	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
A test of the reproductive assurance hypothesis inIpomoea hederacea: does inbreeding depression counteract the benefits of self‐pollination?	6
Exceptional evolutionary lability of flower‐like inflorescences (pseudanthia) in Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae	6
Plastid phylogenomics and molecular evolution of Thismiaceae (Dioscoreales)	6
Identification of key regulatory genes involved in the sporophyte and gametophyte development in Ginkgo biloba ovules revealed by in situ expression analyses	6
Complex meristematic activity induced by Eucecidoses minutanus on Schinus engleri turns shoots into galls	6
The role of maternal age, growth, and environment in shaping offspring performance in an aerial conifer seed bank	6
Phenotypic plasticity made simple, but not too simple	6
Variation in frequency of plastid RNA editing within Adiantum implies rapid evolution in fern plastomes	6
Beyond the usual climate? Factors determining flowering and fruiting phenology across a genus over 117 years	6
Effect of plant origin and phenological stage on the allelopathic activity of the invasive species Oxalis pes‐caprae	6
Allopatry, hybridization, and reproductive isolation in Arctostaphylos	6
Floral traits differentiate pollination syndromes and species but fail to predict the identity of floral visitors to Castilleja	6
Pollen layering and male–male competition: Quantum dots demonstrate that pollen grains compete for space on pollinators	6
Flowers of Apocynaceae in amber from the early Eocene of India	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
Light signals counteract alterations caused by simulated microgravity in proliferating plant cells	6
Anatomy of a mega‐radiation: Biogeography and niche evolution in Astragalus	6
Floral orientation affects outcross‐pollen deposition in buzz‐pollinated flowers with bilateral symmetry	6
Shoot dimorphism enables Sequoia sempervirens to separate requirements for foliar water uptake and photosynthesis	6
Diversity in conduit and pit structure among extant gymnosperm taxa	6
Sex‐linked gene expression and the emergence of hermaphrodites in Carica papaya	6
Effects of heterospecific pollen on stigma behavior in Campsis radicans: Causes and consequences	6