New Systematics
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Systematics, Taxonomy, Nomenclature and Classification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 21381
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant systematics; molecular phylogeny; polyploidy; cryptic species; speciation; DNA barcoding
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: plant molecular phylogeny; genomics; evolution; cytogenetics; chromosomes; chromatin; speciation; hybridization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The last decade of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st centuries have brought major changes in plant systematics, expressed at all taxonomic levels. The increasingly large-scale introduction of the molecular approach significantly transformed this very old scientific discipline and led to significant changes in plant macrosystematics—the relations of many families and orders turned out not to be the same, as they were seen in the framework of traditional approaches. Consideration of these relationships from a new angle of view, in turn, entailed a revision of some previously established views on the evolution of morphological and other non-molecular characters. Molecular phylogeny and the introduction and application of an approach known as DNA barcoding revealed the existence of previously unknown cryptic species and made us take a fresh look at the intraspecific taxonomy in many species, and how speciation processes can take place.
In this Special issue “New Systematics”, we plan to publish articles, brief reports and reviews, illustrating how new approaches and methods lead to the new concepts in the taxonomy of land plant taxa at different levels, supply new evidence of hybridization, reveal cryptic species, and other related research.
Dr. Victoria Shneyer
Dr. Alexander Rodionov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Plant systematics
- Molecular phylogeny
- Evolution
- Speciation
- Cryptic species
- Hybrids
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