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Our Big Flowering Plant Bang paper is now out in Nature!! So excited to have been part of this massive collaborative effort led by the team at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, involving 279 co-authors from 27 countries!
#angiosperms #phylogenomics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 24, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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New in Nature - a phylogeny of over 10,000 species (all families, 58% of genera) inferred using Angiosperms353!

We've been calling this the "Big Tree" paper for years and I'm glad to see it in print - fantastic work by the Kew PAFTOL team and many others!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms - Nature
Phylogenomic analysis of 7,923 angiosperm species using a standardized set of 353 nuclear genes produced an angiosperm tree of life dated with 200 fossil calibrations, providing key insights into...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Our paper raises more questions than it answers. The two big ones in my mind are:

Why was this hybrid so successful (we make suggestions, but there's no smoking gun)?

How did it spread (with people? trade? how fast?)?

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November 30, 2023 at 10:58 PM
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The origins of maize were the subject of controversy for well over a century. Even in the 1950's botanists like Edgar Anderson weren't totally sure what continent it came from!

We published today a new model for maize origins (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Let me tell you how we got here. 1/
November 30, 2023 at 10:23 PM