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ArticleNature plants2025

Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales.

Ilaine Silveira Matos, Bradley Vu, Joseph Mann, Emily Xie, Srinivasan Madhavan, Satvik Sharma, Izzi Niewiadomski, Andrea Echevarria, Connor Tomaka, Sonoma Carlos and 23 more

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Article in Nature plants, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Origin and diversity of leaf vein patterns.Journal of experimental botany · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

33 authors.

Ilaine Silveira MatosDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. ilaine.matos@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-5557-5133
Bradley VuDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Joseph MannDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Emily XieDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0871-4238
Srinivasan MadhavanDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Satvik SharmaDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Izzi NiewiadomskiDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Andrea EchevarriaDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Connor TomakaDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Sonoma CarlosDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-7345-3224
Monica AntonioDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Ashley ChuDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Meg ScudderDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Nicole YokotaDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Hailey J ParkDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-3664-7318
Natalie VuongDepartment of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Mickey BoakyeDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Miguel A DuarteSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Caroline PechuzalDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Luiza Maria T AparecidoSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Mia B FrancoDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Ryan Jen WongDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Jocelyn LiuDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Emily Guevara HerediaSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Brad BoyleDepartment of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Martha RyanDepartment of Plants & Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
Rafael E CárdenasEscuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0002-0375-9384
Brian J EnquistDepartment of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6124-7096
Diane M ErwinUniversity of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6182-4148
Holly ForbesUniversity of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7487-8068
Kyle DexterSchool of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9232-5221
Mark FrickerDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8942-6897
Benjamin W BlonderDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Funding

NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre (NEBC) NE/M019160/1NSF | BIO | Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) DEB-2025282
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leaf venation architecture varies greatly among living and fossil plants. However, we still have a limited understanding of when, why and in which clades new architectures arose and how they impacted leaf functioning. Using data from 1,000 extant and extinct (fossil) plants, we reconstructed approximately 400 million years of venation evolution across clades and vein sizes. Overall, venation networks evolved from having fewer veins and less smooth loops to having more veins and smoother loops, but these changes only occurred in small and medium vein sizes. The diversity of architectural designs increased biphasically, first peaking in the Paleozoic, then decreasing during the Cretaceous, then increasing again in the Cenozoic, when recent angiosperm lineages initiated a second and ongoing phase of diversification. Vein evolution was not associated with temperature and CO

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Biological EvolutionMagnoliopsidaPlant LeavesFossilsPhylogeny

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PMID40481299

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