Aims Agriculture intensification, combined with the ongoing effects of climate change, has led to a critical decline in soil health and quality, impairing food production and ecosystem functioning. This highlights the need to promote environmentally friendly management practices that integrate the conservation of agricultural lands and local biodiversity. Regenerative agriculture offers a holistic approach and an integrated cr...

Aim Central America is largely covered by hyperdiverse, yet poorly understood, rain forests. Understorey palms are diverse components of these forests, but little is known about their historical assembly. It is not clear when palms in Central America reached present diversity levels and whether most species arrived from neighbouring regions or evolved locally. We addressed these questions using the most species‐rich American p...

Human induced environmental change may require rapid adaptation of plant populations and crops, but the genomic basis of environmental adaptation remain poorly understood. We analysed polymorphic loci from the perennial crop Medicago sativa (alfalfa or lucerne) and the annual legume model species M . truncatula to search for a common set of candidate genes that might contribute to adaptation to abiotic stress in both annual an...

Aim The biogeographical congruence hypothesis, that similar spatiotemporal patterns of geographical distribution exist across lineages, is revisited in this study, and biogeographical processes in presumed Madrean–Tethyan plants are investigated by employing phylogenetic analyses. Location Mediterranean and Californian floristic regions. Methods The snapdragons (tribe Antirrhineae, Plantaginaceae) are one of the plant groups t...