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Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
D. Blaine Marchant
University of Missouri–St. Louis
2
Biao‐Feng Zhou
South China Botanical Garden
3
Irene Julca
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
4
Caifei Zhang
Fudan University
5
Aurore Vernet
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
6
Kevin Karbstein
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
7
Jens J. Ringelberg
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
8
Guihua Jin
Kunming Institute of Botany
9
Taikui Zhang
Anhui University of Science and Technology
10
Rhaony Gonçalves Leite
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)

Rising Stars Papers

1
Phylogenomic profiles of whole-genome duplications in Poaceae and landscape of differential duplicate retention and losses among major Poaceae lineages
Nature Communications|2024
61 cit.
2
The establishment of the anther somatic niche with single-cell sequencing
Developmental Biology|2024
7 cit.
3
An updated phylogeny of <i>Ainsliaea</i> (Asteraceae: Pertyoideae) and its implications for classification and habit evolution
Taxon|2024
6 cit.
4
Comparative plastome assembly of the yellow ironweed (Verbesina alternifolia) using Nanopore and Illumina reads
Frontiers in Plant Science|2024
3 cit.
5
Unveiling the functional fate of duplicated genes through expression profiling and structural analysis
Genome Research|2025
2 cit.
6
Assembling genomes of non‐model plants: A case study with evolutionary insights from <i>Ranunculus</i> (Ranunculaceae)
The Plant Journal|2025
2 cit.
7
Reproduction clonale par grain d’une plante hybride cultivée : une nouvelle perspective pour les petits riziculteurs
Comptes Rendus Biologies|2024
0 cit.
8
Vincetoxicum bungei (Apocynaceae), a new combination for a common medicinal species from East Asia
Phytotaxa|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Erin Zimmerman
Université de Montréal
2
Naxin Xue
Chinese Academy of Sciences
3
Oksana Y. Buzhdygan
Freie Universität Berlin
4
La Qiong
Tibet University
5
Ulrike Bechtold
University of Essex
6
Marek Mutwil
University of Copenhagen
7
Jordan K. Teisher
Missouri Botanical Garden
8
Daniel Berry
Victoria University of Wellington
9
Ivan Liachko
University of Washington
10
Pierre‐Yves Dupont
Massey University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Grasses through space and time: An overview of the biogeographical and macroevolutionary history of Poaceae
Journal of Systematics and Evolution|2022
133 cit.
2
Cross-stress gene expression atlas of Marchantia polymorpha reveals the hierarchy and regulatory principles of abiotic stress responses
Nature Communications|2023
56 cit.
3
Multitrophic biodiversity enhances ecosystem functions, services and ecological intensification in agriculture
Journal of Plant Ecology|2023
39 cit.
4
Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls
Nature Plants|2025
21 cit.
5
How to survive in the world’s third poplar: Insights from the genome of the highest altitude woody plant, Hippophae tibetana (Elaeagnaceae)
Frontiers in Plant Science|2022
18 cit.
6
Genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic analysis of <i>Oldenlandia corymbosa</i> reveals the biosynthesis and mode of action of anti‐cancer metabolites
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology|2023
17 cit.
7
<scp>PEO</scp> : Plant Expression Omnibus – a comparative transcriptomic database for 103 Archaeplastida
The Plant Journal|2023
15 cit.
8
Complete mitochondrial genome of Hippophae tibetana: insights into adaptation to high-altitude environments
Frontiers in Plant Science|2024
15 cit.
9
PlantConnectome: A knowledge graph database encompassing &amp;gt;71,000 plant articles
The Plant Cell|2025
12 cit.
10
Protist.guru: A Comparative Transcriptomics Database for Protists
Journal of Molecular Biology|2022
11 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Olivier Gascuel
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2
Elizabeth A. Kellogg
Harvard University
3
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
4
Pamela S. Soltis
Florida Museum of Natural History
5
Joachim W. Kadereit
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
6
Li D
Kunming Institute of Botany
7
Claude W. dePamphilis
Pennsylvania State University
8
Helga Ochoterena
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
9
Katrien M. Devos
John Innes Centre
10
Santiago A. Catalano
Fundación Miguel Lillo

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0
Systematic Biology|2010
19k cit.
2
A Simple, Fast, and Accurate Algorithm to Estimate Large Phylogenies by Maximum Likelihood
Systematic Biology|2003
17k cit.
3
Phytozome: a comparative platform for green plant genomics
Nucleic Acids Research|2011
5.8k cit.
4
Phylogeny.fr: robust phylogenetic analysis for the non-specialist
Nucleic Acids Research|2008
4.8k cit.
5
The Genome of Black Cottonwood, <i>Populus trichocarpa</i> (Torr. &amp; Gray)
Science|2006
4.5k cit.
6
GetOrganelle: a fast and versatile toolkit for accurate de novo assembly of organelle genomes
Genome biology|2020
3.9k cit.
7
An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2008
3.3k cit.
8
The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses
Nature|2009
3.2k cit.
9
The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants
Taxon|2005
2.8k cit.
10
Approximate Likelihood-Ratio Test for Branches: A Fast, Accurate, and Powerful Alternative
Systematic Biology|2006
2.7k cit.

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