2026 Peer Reviewed Articles

Mertens L., Tomasello S. Wagner N.D. 2026. Neue Einblicke in alte Schätze - Rekonstruktion historischer Expeditionen des 20. Jahrhunderts anhand von Pflanzenbelegen des Herbariums GOET. Biologie in unserer Zeit. (acc.)

Panthee, S., Mezzomo P., Renoult S.A., Barman M., Leong J.V., Šebek P, Koutecký P., Hörandl E, Wagner ND, Nguyen P., van Dam N.M., Volf M. 2026. Scents on the slope: Effects of elevation on VOC emissions and tri-trophic interactions in alpine willows. Frontiers in Plant Sciences. (acc.)

Del Guacchio, E., Vallariello, R., Di Iorio, E.S. Tomasello & O. De Castro. 2026. Is Genista anxantica (Fabaceae, Genisteae) worth of taxonomic recognition? An integrative approach. Plant Biosyst 160, 137 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44473-026-00140-6 (pdf).

Tomasello, S., Manzo, E. & Galesi, R. 2026. On the presence of Xanthium ser. Glabrata in Italy and in the Mediterranean basin. Plant Biosyst 160, 99 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44473-025-00022-3 (pdf).

Klemp FL, Hörandl E, Maraun M, Scheu S, Heimburger B. 2026.The use of dN/dS ratios to investigate types of selection in related sexual and asexual lineages. Genome Biology and Evolution,18 (5). evag096 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag096 (pdf).

Jorgensen P., Mosthaf K., Krogh P.-H-, Hansen A., Seersholm F., Wagner N., Olsen J., Modesti L., Pétursdóttir U., Thalund-Hansen R., Petersen C., Strobel B., Lacoste M., Rolle M., Nielsen I., Aamand J., and J. Qin. 2026. Deep Tree Roots at Risk of Accelerating Ground Water Pollution Beneath Clay-Rich Aquitards. Nature Communications NCOMMS-25-32948B https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73299-3

Gomes-Domingues C., Hörandl E., & Caperta AD. 2026. Stage-Dependent Persistence of Nucleated Endosperm Cells in Seeds of Limonium Sexual and Apomictic Species with Autonomous Endosperm Formation. Genes, 17(3), 337. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes17030337 (pdf).

Huang, W., Li, DZ., Antonelli, A. …. Natascha D. Wagner, ... Alex D. Twyford, Peter M. Hollingsworth. 2026. DNA-based identification of plants and the genomic nature of plant species differences. Commun Biol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-09858-7 (pdf in press).

Wang Y, Xue Z-Q, Zhang R-G, Zhu Z-Y, Hörandl E, Wang X-R, Mao Y-F, Charlesworth D, He L. 2026. Recurrent sex chromosome turnover mediated by distinct ARR17 and PISTILLATA duplications in willows. Genome biology. Doi: 10.1186/s13059-026-04026-w (pdf).

Marinček, P., Leong, J. V., Pittet, L., Léveillé-Bourret, È., Nyman, T., Tomoshevich, M., Banaev, E., He, L., Hörandl E., Volf, M. & Wagner, ND. 2026. Spatio-temporal evolution of shrub willows (Salix subgenus Vetrix clade) on a global scale. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 214, January 2026, 108480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108480 (pdf).

Reichel, K., J.Pohjoismäki, J. J.Astrin, ... Tomasello, S ...et al. 2026. “From Permits to Samples: Addressing Key Challenges for High-Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe.” Molecular Ecology Resources26, no. 2: e70100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.70100. (pdf).