Response of potato tuber cell division and growth to shade and elevated CO2.

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：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

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Mimetic seeds simulate the appearance of fleshy fruits and arilled seeds without producing nutritive tissues as a reward for seed dispersers. In this strategy of seed dispersal, seeds may remain attached to the mother plant for long periods after maturity, increasing their availability to naïve seed...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Brancalion PH,Novembre AD,Rodrigues RR,Marcos Filho J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Bamboo is well known for its fast growth and excellent mechanical performance, but the underlying relationships between its structure and properties are only partially known. Since it lacks secondary thickening, bamboo cannot use adaptive growth in the same way as a tree would in order to modify the...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang X,Keplinger T,Gierlinger N,Burgert I

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Mechanical perturbation is known to inhibit elongation of the inflorescence stem of Arabidopsis thaliana. The phenomenon has been reported widely for both herbaceous and woody plants, and has implications for how plants adjust their size and form to survive in mechanically perturbed environments. Wh...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Paul-Victor C,Rowe N

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The capacity for fast-growth recovery after de-submergence is important for establishment of riparian species in a water-level-fluctuation zone. Recovery patterns of two wetland plants, Alternanthera philoxeroides and Hemarthria altissima, showing 'escape' and 'quiescence' responses, respectively, d...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Luo FL,Nagel KA,Scharr H,Zeng B,Schurr U,Matsubara S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The aim of this paper was to verify the variation in the loss of seed dormancy during after-ripening and the interspecific and interpopulation variability in the degree of dormancy of seven wild and two cultivated rice species comprising 21 populations and two cultivars. METHODS:Four wild rice spec...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Veasey EA,Karasawa MG,Santos PP,Rosa MS,Mamani E,Oliveira GC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:White clover (Trifolium repens) is, due to nitrogen (N) fixation, important to the N dynamics of several northern temperate agroecosystems. This study aimed at monitoring growth and death of major white clover plant organs to assess their potential contribution to within-season N input and risk of o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Sturite I,Henriksen TM,Breland TA

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The pericarp weight comprises <17 % of wheat grain weight at harvest. The pericarp supports the hydration and nutrition of both the embryo and endosperm during early grain filling. However, studies of the pericarp and its association with final grain weight have been scarce. This research studied th...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Herrera J,Calderini DF

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Floral development is a powerful tool to infer homologies of floral organs and to understand floral evolution. Caryophyllaceae is a major family of core Caryophyllales that possesses petal-like structures (petaloids) with a great diversity in shape. The main purpose of this study is to determine the...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wei L,Craene LR

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Gossypium is an economically important, globally distributed taxon comprising more than 50 species. DNA content estimates from about half of the species indicate over a 3-fold variation exists. However, the nine DNA content estimates for G. hirsutum reveal over a 2-fold difference for this species a...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hendrix B,Stewart JM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Within-plant spatial heterogeneity in the production of and demand for assimilates may have major implications for the formation of fruits. Spatial heterogeneity is related to organ age, but also to position on the plant. This study quantifies the variation in local carbohydrate availability for the...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gu S,Zhang L,Yan Z,van der Werf W,Evers JB

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The evolution of complex rooting systems during the Devonian had significant impacts on global terrestrial ecosystems and the evolution of plant body plans. However, detailed understanding of the pathways of root evolution and the architecture of early rooting systems is currently lacking. We descri...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Matsunaga KK,Tomescu AM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:An endogenous rhythm synchronized to dawn cannot time photosynthesis-linked genes to peak consistently at noon since the interval between sunrise and noon changes seasonally. In this study, a solar clock model that circumvents this limitation is proposed using two daily timing references synchronize...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Yeang HY

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Phosphorus commonly limits crop yield and is frequently applied as fertilizer; however, supplies of quality rock phosphate for fertilizer production are diminishing. Plants have evolved many mechanisms to increase their P-fertilizer use efficiency, and an understanding of these traits could result i...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Brown LK,George TS,Thompson JA,Wright G,Lyon J,Dupuy L,Hubbard SF,White PJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:While pollinators may in general select for large, morphologically uniform floral phenotypes, drought stress has been proposed as a destabilizing force that may favour small flowers and/or promote floral variation within species. METHODS:The general validity of this concept was checked by surveying...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Herrera J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Introgression of crop genes into populations of wild relatives has important implications for germplasm conservation as well as for the persistence of novel transgenes in wild populations. Studies of hybrid fitness can be used to evaluate the potential for introgression to occur following episodes o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Song ZP,Lu BR,Wang B,Chen JK

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The broomrapes, Orobanche sensu lato (Orobanchaceae), are common root parasites found across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas. All species native to the western hemisphere, recognized as Orobanche sections Gymnocaulis and Nothaphyllon, form a clade that has a centre of diversity in western North Ame...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Schneider AC,Colwell AE,Schneeweiss GM,Baldwin BG

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Seeds of Grevillea linearifolia germinate following fire, and have seed-coat dormancy broken by smoke and heat shock. Smoke breaks seed coat dormancy in Emmenanthe penduliflora by altering the permeability of the seed coat to an internal germination inhibitor, which subsequently escapes. This model ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Briggs CL,Morris EC

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The wild progenitors of the Near Eastern legumes have low germination rates mediated by hardseededness. Hence it was argued that cultivation of these wild legumes would probably result in no yield gain. Based on the meagre natural yield of wild lentil and its poor germination, it was suggested that ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Abbo S,Rachamim E,Zehavi Y,Zezak I,Lev-Yadun S,Gopher A

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Drought is a major environmental constraint affecting growth and production of Coffea canephora. Selection of C. canephora clones has been largely empirical as little is known about how clones respond physiologically to drought. Using clones previously shown to differ in drought tolerance, this stud...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pinheiro HA,Damatta FM,Chaves AR,Loureiro ME,Ducatti C

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:[corrected] Leontodon saxatilis produces two morphologically distinct achenes (morphs) in a single capitulum: one row of dark brown achenes without a pappus lies at the edge ('peripheral achenes'; 0.74 +/- 0.18 mg) while the inner ones are light brown with a pappus ('central achenes'; 0.38 +/- 0.07 ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Brändel M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Digestive structures of carnivorous plants produce external digestive enzymes, and play the main role in absorption. In Lentibulariaceae, the ultrastructure of digestive hairs has been examined in some detail in Pinguicula and Utricularia, but the sessile digestive hairs of Genlisea have received ve...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Płachno BJ,Kozieradzka-Kiszkurno M,Swiatek P

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Plant growth, the increase of organ dimensions over time, and development, the change in plant structure, are often studied as two separate processes. However, there is structural and functional evidence that these two processes are strongly related. The aim of this study was to investigate the co-o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Dambreville A,Lauri PÉ,Normand F,Guédon Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Mineral elements have many essential and beneficial functions in plants. Phosphorus (P) deficiency can result in changes in the ionomes of plant organs. The aims of this study were to characterize the effects of P supply on the ionomes of shoots and roots, and to identify chromosomal quantitative tr...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang W,Ding G,White PJ,Wang M,Zou J,Xu F,Hammond JP,Shi L

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of P deficiency on growth, N(2)-fixation and photosynthesis in white clover (Trifolium repens L.) plants were investigated using three contrasting relative addition rates of P, or following abrupt withdrawal of the P supply. Responses to a constant below-optimum P supply rate consisted of a decline in N(2)...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Høgh-Jensen H,Schjoerring J,Soussana JF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Intraspecific variation in flooding tolerance is the basic pre-condition for adaptive flooding tolerance to evolve, and flooding-induced shoot elongation is an important trait that enables plants to survive shallow, prolonged flooding. Here an investigation was conducted to determine to what extent ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chen X,Huber H,de Kroon H,Peeters AJ,Poorter H,Voesenek LA,Visser EJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Genome size is known to be correlated with a number of phenotypic traits associated with cell sizes and cell-division rates. Genome size was therefore used as a proxy for them in order to assess how common plant traits such as height, specific leaf area and seed size/number predict species regional ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Herben T,Suda J,Klimesová J,Mihulka S,Ríha P,Símová I

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Plant cyanogenesis is the release of toxic cyanide from endogenous cyanide-containing compounds, typically cyanogenic glycosides. Despite a large body of phytochemical, taxonomic and ecological work on cyanogenic species, little is known of their frequency in natural plant communities. This study ai...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Miller RE,Jensen R,Woodrow IE

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Preliminary field observations in 2001 and 2002 suggested that Kingdonia uniflora (Circaeasteraceae, Ranunculales) exhibits heterodichogamy, an unusual kind of reproductive heteromorphy, hitherto unreported in Ranunculales and known from only one other genus in basal eudicots. METHODS:During severa...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang XM,Zhang P,Du QG,He HX,Zhao L,Ren Y,Endress PK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00