Elucidation of the phylogeny of Cucurbitaceae, particularly Trichosanthes, based on plastome data and nuclear single-copy genes
Our results provide new insights into the phylogeny of Cucurbitaceae, including members of the first branching clade and the relative phylogenetic positions of Indofevilleeae, Thladiantheae, and Momordiceae, and show that Trichosanthes is paraphyletic with three genera nested within it. Our results suggest that the previously proposed infrageneric classification systems for Trichosanthes need to be revised. Section Involucraria was subdivided into two distantly related groups. Trichosanthes originated in the Oligocene and experienced rapid diversification in the Middle Miocene and throughout the Pliocene. Long-fringed petals might have arisen once in a clade formed by Trichosanthes and Hodgsonia.
Authors
- Arief Hidayat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3730-211X)
- Cheng-Wang Wang
- Dong-Liang Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5175-107X)
- Li‐Ying Yu
- Jianwu Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2410-0666)
- Luqi Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-4318)
- Yingying Wen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4521-2253)
- Xiaohua Jin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9987-5602)
- Zhaoqi Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3849-1649)
Institutions
- Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (CN)
- Institute of Botany of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- Guangxi Medicinal Botanical Garden (CN)
- Institute of Botany (CN)
- National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia (ID)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Plant Biology
- Published
- 2025-07-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-06970-4
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Advances in Cucurbitaceae Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.82