Origin of angiosperms and the puzzle of the Jurassic gap

Hong-Tao Li^#¹, Ting-Shuang Yi^#¹, Lian-Ming Gao^#², Peng-Fei Ma^#¹, Ting Zhang^#¹, Jun-Bo Yang^#¹, Matthew A Gitzendanner^#^{3

4}, Peter W Fritsch⁵, Jie Cai¹, Yang Luo², Hong Wang², Michelle van der Bank⁶, Shu-Dong Zhang¹, Qing-Feng Wang⁷, Jian Wang⁸, Zhi-Rong Zhang¹, Chao-Nan Fu^{2

9}, Jing Yang¹, Peter M Hollingsworth¹⁰, Mark W Chase^{11

12}, Douglas E Soltis^{3

4

13

14}, Pamela S Soltis^{15

16

17}, De-Zhu Li^{18

19

20}

Affiliations

¹ Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
² CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
³ Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁵ Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
⁶ Department of Botany & Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁷ Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
⁸ Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Toowong, Queensland, Australia.
⁹ Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
¹⁰ Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹¹ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.
¹² Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
¹³ Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
¹⁴ Biodiversity Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
¹⁵ Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu.
¹⁶ Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu.
¹⁷ Biodiversity Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu.
¹⁸ Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. DZL@mail.kib.ac.cn.
¹⁹ CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. DZL@mail.kib.ac.cn.
²⁰ Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. DZL@mail.kib.ac.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 31061536
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-019-0421-0

Origin of angiosperms and the puzzle of the Jurassic gap

Hong-Tao Li et al. Nat Plants. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;5(5):461-470.

doi: 10.1038/s41477-019-0421-0. Epub 2019 May 6.

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Affiliations

¹ Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
² CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
³ Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁵ Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
⁶ Department of Botany & Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁷ Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
⁸ Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Toowong, Queensland, Australia.
⁹ Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
¹⁰ Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹¹ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.
¹² Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
¹³ Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
¹⁴ Biodiversity Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
¹⁵ Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu.
¹⁶ Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu.
¹⁷ Biodiversity Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu.
¹⁸ Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. DZL@mail.kib.ac.cn.
¹⁹ CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. DZL@mail.kib.ac.cn.
²⁰ Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. DZL@mail.kib.ac.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 31061536
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-019-0421-0

Abstract

Angiosperms are by far the most species-rich clade of land plants, but their origin and early evolutionary history remain poorly understood. We reconstructed angiosperm phylogeny based on 80 genes from 2,881 plastid genomes representing 85% of extant families and all orders. With a well-resolved plastid tree and 62 fossil calibrations, we dated the origin of the crown angiosperms to the Upper Triassic, with major angiosperm radiations occurring in the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous. This estimated crown age is substantially earlier than that of unequivocal angiosperm fossils, and the difference is here termed the 'Jurassic angiosperm gap'. Our time-calibrated plastid phylogenomic tree provides a highly relevant framework for future comparative studies of flowering plant evolution.

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A Jurassic leap for flowering plants.
Mandel JR. Mandel JR. Nat Plants. 2019 May;5(5):455-456. doi: 10.1038/s41477-019-0423-y. Nat Plants. 2019. PMID: 31061534 No abstract available.
Evolution: The Flowering of Land Plant Evolution.
Donoghue P. Donoghue P. Curr Biol. 2019 Aug 5;29(15):R753-R756. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.021. Curr Biol. 2019. PMID: 31386854

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