Chinese scientists used data from Magnolia plastid genomes to peer back millions of years to understand Cenozoic climatic changes.
You can read the original blog post at: https://botany.one/2022/05/lessons-from-magnolias-about-past-climatic-events-and-plant-evolution/
You can read the original research at: https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac057