2025 - Peer reviewed articles

Tomasello S, Manzo E, Monteiro R et al. 2025. ERGA-BGE genome of Xanthium orientale subsp. italicum (Moretti) Greuter. A plant of American origin, now widespread and, in some cases, invasive in Europe, Open Res Europe 5:367. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21891.1

Manzo E, Epifanio CS, Pahl JF, Tomasello S. 2025. Interspecific competition with the American Xanthium orientale L. as a possible cause of the decline of the Old-World X. strumarium L.. Sci Rep 15, 32224. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-17814-4

Abeli T, Albani Rocchetti G, Draper D, Gouda EJ, Loze L, Marques I, Nieto Feliner G, Peruzzi L, Stefanaki A, Tiburtini M, Tomasello S. 2025 Herbariomic approach solved identity crisis of the putatively extinct Armeria arcuata Welw. ex Boiss. & Reut. (Plumbaginaceae), Annals of Botany: mcaf042, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf042

Tiburtini M, Tomasello S, Manzo E, Sandroni L, Abeli T, Peruzzi L. 2025. Are Ophiolitic Substrates Drivers for Reticulate Evolution in Armeria (Plumbaginaceae)? Ecol Evol, 15: e71525. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71525

Karbstein K, Choudhary N , Xie T, Tomasello S , Wagner ND, Barke BH, Paetzold C, Bradican JP, Preick M, Himmelbach A, Stein N, Papantonis A, Irisarri I, de Vries J, Pucker B, Hörandl E. 2025. Assembling genomes of non‐model plants: A case study with evolutionary insights from Ranunculus (Ranunculaceae). The Plant Journal 123, e70390. doi: 10.1111/tpj.70390 (pdf).

Marinček, P., Leong, J. V., Pittet, L., Léveillé-Bourret, È., Nyman, T., Tomoshevich, M., Banaev, E., He, L., Hörandl E., Volf, M. & Wagner, N. D. (2025). Spatio-temporal evolution of shrub willows (Salix subgenus Vetrix clade) on a global scale. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 108480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108480

Alarcón-Bolaños, P., Pittet, L., He, L., & Hörandl, E. 2025. Hybridization Resulted in Shifts from Dioecy to Monoecy in Weeping Willows (Salix L.). Genes, 16(8), 958. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes16080958 (pdf).

Pittet L., Kosiński P., Wagner, N.D., E. Hörandl. 2025. Niche expansion of polyploid cytotypes shaped the phylogeographical history of the Salix retusa complex in the European Alpine System. Annals of Botany, mcaf163. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf163

Renoult SA, Leong JV, Mezzomo P, Sebek P, Koutecký P, Kukla J, Nguyen P, Moos M, Pokorny V, Wagner ND, Frouz J, van Dam NM, Volf M. 2025. Effects of hybridization on chemical diversity and plant-insect herbivore interactions in Salix alba × fragilis, Journal of Experimental Botany, 2025;, eraf296, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf296

Manzo, E., Tomasello, S. 2025. Recent Long-Distance-Dispersal Explains the Range Disjunction of the Old-Word Cockleburs (Xanthium strumarium). Journal of Biogeography, 52, e15104. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15104 (pdf).

Ang, L. P., Tomasello, S., Wen, J., & Appelhans, M. S. 2025. Phylogeny of the species-rich pantropical genus Zanthoxylum (Rutaceae) based on hybrid capture. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 108398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108398

Ladinig U, Bertel C, Hörandl E, Wagner J. 2025. Growth, leaf freezing resistance and reproductive fitness differ between sexual diploid and apomictic tetraploid Ranunculus kuepferi plants along a climatic elevation transect and at natural growing sites. Alpine Botany, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00035-025-00337-z

Gong GN, Wang Y, Zhu ZY, Wang Y, Hörandl E, Wang X-R, Zue ZQ, He L 2025. Evolutionary population dynamics and conservation strategies for Salix baileyi - a species with extremely small populations. Global Ecology and Conservation 58 (2025) e03504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03504

Ringelmann, V., Wagner, N. D. 2025. Rapid loss of plastid ndh genes in slipper orchids (Cypripedioideae, Orchidaceae). Frontiers in Plant Science, 16. DOI=10.3389/fpls.2025.1507415 (pdf).

Pittet, L., Marinček, P., Kosiński, P., Wagner, N. D., & Hörandl, E. 2025. Hybrid zones in the European Alps impact the phylogeography of alpine vicariant willow species (Salix L.). Frontiers in Plant Science, 16, 1507275. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1507275