Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar

This study uses ancient DNA from Song Dynasty melon seeds to show they were likely consumed as fresh or culinary fruits, not sweet dessert melons, and supports their introduction from the Asian domestication pool.

This study constructs a comprehensive phylogenomic framework for Vanilla, revealing evolutionary relationships, historical biogeography, and hybridization patterns.

The paper analyzes floral evolution in orchids to show that specialized pollination by scent-collecting bees leads to faster floral shape evolution than other pollination strategies.

This study uses morphometrics and phylogenomics to analyze coca species and their relatives, revealing gene flow and taxonomic implications for coca classification.

The paper presents the first highly contiguous nuclear and organelle genome assemblies for C. pubescens, enabling research on alkaloid biosynthesis and evolutionary relationships within the Rubiaceae family.

This study investigates the historical biogeography of Cycnoches orchids, finding that the Andes did not act as a dispersal barrier due to the species' anemochorous seeds.