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Volume 57 Issue 4
Special issue: Celebrating Research Devoted to Seed-Free Land Plants
Cover illustration: The images selected for the cover refl ect the focus of the special issue on the biology and phylogenetic history of seed-free land plants. Progress in our understanding of seed-free land plants has been largely achieved by testing established hypotheses using genomic evidence and/or fossil evidence. Until recently, the fossil record of some of these plants has been considered to be poor but exciting discoveries have challenged this assumption. Furthermore, studies using genomic evidence have rejected the long lasting assumption about high conservatisms of genomic and phenotypic disparity in seed-free land plants. The special issue was initiated in memoriam of the contribution of Jochen Heinrich’s to our understanding of the evolution of liverworts, mosses, and ferns. The upper image shows the indusium of Matonia striata (D?rfelt & Striebich) Schmidt & D?rfelt preserved in Cenozoic amber inclusions, whereas the lower image shows an extant hornwort growing in rice paddies of Guangxi, China. The two images were kindly provided by Alexander Schmidt (Goettingen, Germany) and Hongmei Liu (Xishuangbanna, China), respectively. [Detail] ...
Editors-in-Chief
Song Ge
Jun Wen
Song Ge
Jun Wen
Impact Factor
3.7
JCR 2022 IF ranking: 60/238 (Plant Sciences, top 25%, Q2 quartile)
Journal Abbreviation: J Syst Evol
CN: 11-5779/Q
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Journal Abbreviation: J Syst Evol
ISSN: | 1674-4918 (Print) 1759-6831 (Online) |
Frequency: Bi-monthly

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