The influence of phosphorus deficiency on growth and nitrogen fixation of white clover plants.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Bristol rock cress is among the few plant species in the British Isles considered to have a Mediterranean-montane element. Spatiotemporal patterns of colonization of the British Isles since the last interglacial and after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) from mainland Europe are underexplored and have...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Koch MA,Möbus J,Klöcker CA,Lippert S,Ruppert L,Kiefer C

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:BACKGROUND AND AIMS; This study is an investigation into the floral development and anatomy of two genera of the small family Salvadoraceae, which belongs to the Brassicales in a clade with Batis and Koeberlinia. Salvadoraceae remains little known, despite its wide distribution in arid areas of the globe. Fl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ronse De Craene L,Wanntorp L

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND SCOPE:Self-incompatibility (SI) in flowering plants ensures the maintenance of genetic diversity by ensuring outbreeding. Different genetic and mechanistic systems of SI among flowering plants suggest either multiple origins of SI or considerable evolutionary diversification. In the grasses, SI is based ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Klaas M,Yang B,Bosch M,Thorogood D,Manzanares C,Armstead IP,Franklin FC,Barth S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The various pollen dispersal units (PDU) found in orchids are discussed together with possible evolutionary trends and the consequences for germination and fertilization. Orchids with monad and tetrad pollen form more complex dispersal units by means of pollenkitt, elastoviscin, a callosic wall, common walls or a comb...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pacini E,Hesse M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:During the transition from endo-dormancy to eco-dormancy and subsequent growth, the onion bulb undergoes the transition from sink organ to source, to sustain cell division in the meristematic tissue. The mechanisms controlling these processes are not fully understood. Here, a detailed analysis of wh...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chope GA,Cools K,Hammond JP,Thompson AJ,Terry LA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Under predicted climate change scenarios, increased temperatures are likely to predispose trees to leaf and other tissue damage, resulting in plant death and contraction of already narrow distribution ranges in many relictual species. The effects of predicted upward temperatures may be further exace...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Offord CA

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) is a large genus of dioecious trees with approx. 260 species. To date, only one pollination study of the genus has reported brood-site pollination by thrips in M. hullettii. In this study, the pollination system of Macaranga tanarius is reported. METHODS:The study was cond...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ishida C,Kono M,Sakai S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:A brief review is given of Peter W. Barlows' contributions to research on gravity tide-related phenomena in plant biology, or 'selenonastic' effects as he called them, including his early research on root growth. Also, new results are presented here from long-term recordings of spontaneous ultra-weak light e...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gallep CM,Viana JF,Cifra M,Clarke D,Robert D

更新日期：2018-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Models assessing the prospects of plant species at the landscape level often focus primarily on the relationship between species dynamics and landscape structure. However, the short-term prospects of species with slow responses to landscape changes depend on the factors affecting local population dy...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hemrová L,Cervenková Z,Münzbergová Z

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Water is an increasingly scarce resource that limits crop productivity in many parts of the world, and the frequency and severity of drought are predicted to increase as a result of climate change. Improving tolerance to drought stress is therefore important for maximizing future crop yields. The ai...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Marquez-Garcia B,Shaw D,Cooper JW,Karpinska B,Quain MD,Makgopa EM,Kunert K,Foyer CH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The balance between stochastic forces and negative frequency-dependent selection largely determines style morph frequencies in heterostylous populations. Investigation of morph frequencies at geographical range limits can provide insights into the forces maintaining the floral polymorphism, and the ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Costa J,Castro S,Loureiro J,Barrett SC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The endemic tree Nothofagus alessandrii (Fagaceae) has been historically restricted to the coastal range of Region VII of central Chile, and its forests have been increasingly destroyed and fragmented since the end of the 19th century. In this study, the patterns of within- and among-population gene...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Torres-Díaz C,Ruiz E,González F,Fuentes G,Cavieres LA

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The growth of crops in a mixture is more variable and difficult to predict than that in pure stands. Light partitioning and crop leaf area expansion play prominent roles in explaining this variability. However, in many crops commonly grown in mixtures, including the forage species alfalfa, the sensi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Baldissera TC,Frak E,Carvalho PC,Louarn G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Diurnal changes in solar position and intensity combined with the structural complexity of plant architecture result in highly variable and dynamic light patterns within the plant canopy. This affects productivity through the complex ways that photosynthesis responds to changes in light intensity. C...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Retkute R,Townsend AJ,Murchie EH,Jensen OE,Preston SP

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The process of vascular development in plants results in the formation of a specific array of bundles that run throughout the plant in a characteristic spatial arrangement. Although much is known about the genes involved in the specification of procambium, phloem and xylem, the dynamic processes and...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cartenì F,Giannino F,Schweingruber FH,Mazzoleni S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Kaolin applied as a suspension to plant canopies forms a film on leaves that increases reflection and reduces absorption of light. Photosynthesis of individual leaves is decreased while the photosynthesis of the whole canopy remains unaffected or even increases. This may result from a better distrib...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Rosati A,Metcalf SG,Buchner RP,Fulton AE,Lampinen BD

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Plants respond to the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of a resource supply. However, their responses will depend on intraspecific competition for resource acquisition. Although plants are subject to various intensities of intraspecific competition, most studies of resource heterogeneity have been...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hagiwara Y,Kachi N,Suzuki J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:A reduction in offspring fitness resulting from mating between neighbours is interpreted as biparental inbreeding depression. However, little is known about the relationship between the parents' genetic relatedness and biparental inbreeding depression in their progeny in natural populations. This st...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hirao AS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:During the growing season, the cambium of conifer trees produces successive rows of xylem cells, the tracheids, that sequentially pass through the phases of enlargement and secondary wall thickening before dying and becoming functional. Climate variability can strongly influence the kinetics of morp...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Castagneri D,Fonti P,von Arx G,Carrer M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Although it was generally assumed that Maxillaria spp. do not produce nectar, in recent years, nectar has been reported for a number of these orchids. Nevertheless, our current understanding of nectary structure and nectar secretion in Maxillaria is based solely on M. coccinea (Jacq.) L.O. Williams ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Davies KL,Stpiczyńska M,Gregg A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Few studies have examined the dynamics of specialist plant-pollinator interactions at a geographical scale. This knowledge is crucial for a more general evolutionary and ecological understanding of specialized plant-pollinator systems. In the present study, variations in pollinator activity, assembl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cosacov A,Nattero J,Cocucci AA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Most genera of the neotropical Galipeinae (tribe Galipeeae, Rutoideae) exhibit several forms and degrees of fusion between the floral organs, including the union of petals into an apparently sympetalous corolla, the joining of the stamens among themselves and to the corolla, and the partial to compl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： El Ottra JH,Pirani JR,Endress PK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A huge variety of plant forms can be found in nature. This is particularly noticeable for inflorescences, the region of the plant that contains the flowers. The architecture of the inflorescence depends on its branching pattern and on the relative position where flowers are formed. In model species such as A...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Benlloch R,Berbel A,Serrano-Mislata A,Madueño F

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Cypripedium flavum is a rare, endemic alpine slipper orchid of China, which is under threat from excessive collection and habitat changes. Conservation and re-introduction of C. flavum is restricted by lack of knowledge of the plant's photosynthesis and how that affects reproductive success. The hyp...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhang S,Hu H,Zhou Z,Xu K,Yan N,Li S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Afromontane forests host a unique biodiversity distributed in isolated high-elevation habitats within a matrix of rain forests or savannahs, yet they share a remarkable flora that raises questions about past connectivity between currently isolated forests. Here, we focused on the Podocarpus latifoli...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Migliore J,Lézine AM,Hardy OJ

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheat plants (Triticum aestivum L. 'Lyallpur'), limited to a single culm, were grown at day/night temperatures of either 18/13 degrees C (moderate temperature), or 27/22 degrees C (chronic high temperature) from the time of anthesis. Plants were either non-droughted or subjected to two post-anthesis water stresses by ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wardlaw IF

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:An investigation was carried out to determine whether stomatal closure in flooded tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum) results from decreased leaf water potentials (psi(L)), decreased photosynthetic capacity and attendant increases in internal CO(2) (C(i)) or from losses of root function such as cyt...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Else MA,Janowiak F,Atkinson CJ,Jackson MB

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Because of its rapid growth rate, relative ease of transformation, sequenced genome and low gene number relative to Arabidopsis, the tropical fruit tree, Carica papaya, can serve as a complementary genetic model for complex traits. Here, new phenotypes and touch-regulated gene homologues have been i...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Porter BW,Zhu YJ,Webb DT,Christopher DA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) seedlings develop a peg on the concave side of the gravitropically bending transition zone between the hypocotyl and the root after seed germination. Peg initiation occurs in response to auxin when its levels in the concave side of the transition zone exceed a particular t...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Saito Y,Yamasaki S,Fujii N,Takahashi H

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The large monophyletic genus Mimosa comprises approx. 500 species, most of which are native to the New World, with Central Brazil being the main centre of radiation. All Brazilian Mimosa spp. so far examined are nodulated by rhizobia in the betaproteobacterial genus Burkholderia. Approximately 10 My...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gehlot HS,Tak N,Kaushik M,Mitra S,Chen WM,Poweleit N,Panwar D,Poonar N,Parihar R,Tak A,Sankhla IS,Ojha A,Rao SR,Simon MF,Reis Junior FB,Perigolo N,Tripathi AK,Sprent JI,Young JP,James EK,Gyaneshwar P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00