Floral traits and pollination systems in the Caatinga, a Brazilian tropical dry forest.

abstract：:The genus Reynoutria is represented by four taxa in the Czech Republic: Reynoutria japonica var. japonica, R. japonica var. compacta, R. sachalinensis and R. xbohemica. By using flow cytometry, cytological variability within the genus is described based on 257 Reynoutria samples. The varieties of R. japonica are cytol...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Mandak B,Pysek P,Lysak M,Suda J,Krahulcova A,Bimova K

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:As annual crops develop, transpirational water loss increases substantially. This increase has to be matched by an increase in water uptake through the root system. The aim of this study was to assess the contributions of changes in intrinsic root hydraulic conductivity (Lp, water uptake per unit ro...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Suku S,Knipfer T,Fricke W

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Since the proposal of the cohesion theory there has been a paradox that the lumenal surface of vessels is rich in hydrophobic lignin, while tension in the rising sap requires adhesion to a hydrophilic surface. This study sought to characterize the strength of that adhesion in maize (Zea mays), the w...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： McCully M,Canny M,Baker A,Miller C

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：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:Seeds of epiphytes must land on branches with suitable substrates and microclimates to germinate and for the resulting seedlings to survive. It is important to understand the fate of seeds and seedlings in order to model populations, but this is often neglected when only established plants are inclu...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Winkler M,Hülber K,Hietz P

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Flavonoids have the potential to serve as antioxidants in addition to their function of UV screening in photoprotective mechanisms. However, flavonoids have long been reported to accumulate mostly in epidermal cells and surface organs in response to high sunlight. Therefore, how leaf flavonoids actu...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Agati G,Stefano G,Biricolti S,Tattini M

更新日期：2009-10-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lignin is a polyphenolic polymer that strengthens and waterproofs the cell wall of specialized plant cell types. Lignification is part of the normal differentiation programme and functioning of specific cell types, but can also be triggered as a response to various biotic and abiotic stresses in cells that w...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Barros J,Serk H,Granlund I,Pesquet E

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Many previous studies conclude that pre-zygotic barriers such as mechanical isolation account for most reproductive isolation between pairs of taxa. However, the inheritance and persistence of barriers such as these after the first generation of hybridization is rarely quantified, even though it is ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Larcombe MJ,Costa E Silva J,Tilyard P,Gore P,Potts BM

更新日期：2016-09-01 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:Although allopolyploidy is a prevalent speciation mechanism in plants, its adaptive consequences are poorly understood. In addition, the effects of allopolyploidy per se (i.e. hybridization and chromosome doubling) can be confounded with those of subsequent evolutionary divergence between allopolypl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Quintanilla LG,Escudero A

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Biotic and abiotic stressors can cause different defoliation patterns within trees. Foliar pathogens of conifers commonly prefer older needles and infection with defoliation that progresses from the bottom crown to the top. The functional role of the lower crown of trees is a key question to address...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gomez-Gallego M,Williams N,Leuzinger S,Scott PM,Bader MK

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND BACKGROUND:While the temperature response of soil respiration (R(S)) has been well studied, the partitioning of heterotrophic respiration (R(H)) by soil microbes from autotrophic respiration (R(A)) by roots, known to have distinct temperature sensitivities, has been problematic. Further complexity stems from t...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Graham SL,Millard P,Hunt JE,Rogers GN,Whitehead D

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated CO(2) and ozone effects were studied singly and in combination on the crown structure of two Betula pendula clones. Measurements were made at the end of the second fumigation period in an open-top-chamber experiment with 9-year-old trees. Shoot ramification (number of long and short daughter shoots), shoot le...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Kull O,Tulva I,Vapaavuori E

更新日期：2003-04-01 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:The oomycete Aphanomyces euteiches causes up to 80 % crop loss in pea (Pisum sativum). Aphanomyces euteiches invades the root system leading to a complete arrest of root growth and ultimately to plant death. To date, disease control measures are limited to crop rotation and no resistant pea lines ar...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cannesan MA,Gangneux C,Lanoue A,Giron D,Laval K,Hawes M,Driouich A,Vicré-Gibouin M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The sedge genus Carex, the most diversified angiosperm genus of the northern temperate zone, is renowned for its holocentric chromosomes and karyotype variability. The genus exhibits high variation in chromosome numbers both among and within species. Despite the possibility that this chromosome evol...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Escudero M,Weber JA,Hipp AL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The ability of plant lineages to reach all continents contributes substantially to their evolutionary success. This is exemplified by the Poaceae, one of the most successful angiosperm families, in which most higher taxa (tribes, subfamilies) have global distributions. Due to the old age of the ocea...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Linder HP,Barker NP

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This Botanical Briefing reviews how the integration of palaeontology, geochemistry and developmental biology is providing a new mechanistic framework for interpreting the 40- to 50-million-year gap between the origination of vascular land plants and the advent of large (megaphyll) leaves, a long-standing puzzle in...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Beerling DJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Interstitial telomeric repeat (ITR) sites, consisting of tandem repeats of telomeric motifs localized at intrachromosomal sites, have been reported in a few unrelated organisms including plants. However, the causes for the occurrence of ITRs outside of the chromosomal termini are not fully understoo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Rosato M,Álvarez I,Feliner GN,Rosselló JA

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Mixed reproductive strategies may have evolved as a response of plants to cope with environmental variation. One example of a mixed reproductive strategy is dimorphic cleistogamy, where a single plant produces closed, obligately self-pollinated (CL) flowers and open, potentially outcrossed (CH) flow...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Munguía-Rosas MA,Parra-Tabla V,Ollerton J,Cervera JC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Hybridization is an important evolutionary process that can have a significant impact on natural plant populations. Eucalyptus species are well known for weak reproductive barriers and extensive hybridization within subgenera, but there is little knowledge of whether patterns of hybridization differ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Robins TP,Binks RM,Byrne M,Hopper SD

更新日期：2021-01-01 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 AND AIMS:Photosynthetic thermotolerance (PT) is important for plant survival in tropical and sub-tropical savannas. However, little is known about thermotolerance of tropical and sub-tropical wild plants and its association with leaf phenology and persistence. Longer-lived leaves of savanna plants may experi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhang JL,Poorter L,Hao GY,Cao KF

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Natural regeneration of white spruce (Picea glauca) after disturbance has been reported to be very poor. Here a study was made to determine whether C compounds released from understorey species growing together with white spruce could be involved in this regeneration failure, either by (1) changing ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Castells E,Peñuelas J,Valentine DW

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:While nuclear DNA content variation and its phenotypic consequences have been well described for animals, vascular plants and macroalgae, much less about this topic is known regarding unicellular algae and protists in general. The dearth of data is especially pronounced when it comes to intraspecifi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Čertnerová D,Škaloud P

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Aims The Arabidopsis thaliana root is a key experimental system in developmental biology. Despite its importance, we are still lacking an objective and broadly applicable approach for identification of number and position of developmental domains or zones along the longitudinal axis of the root apex or ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pacheco-Escobedo MA,Ivanov VB,Ransom-Rodríguez I,Arriaga-Mejía G,Ávila H,Baklanov IA,Pimentel A,Corkidi G,Doerner P,Dubrovsky JG,Álvarez-Buylla ER,Garay-Arroyo A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:The nitrogen (N) to phosphorus (P) ratio (N:P) has been widely used as a threshold for identifying nutrient limitations in terrestrial plants; however, the associated reliability has not been well assessed. Methods:The uncertainty of nutrient limitations caused by the N:P threshold was evaluated us...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Yan Z,Tian D,Han W,Tang Z,Fang J

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae) is one the best examples of a plant adaptive radiation, exhibiting extensive morphological and ecological diversity. No research within this group has addressed the role of geographical isolation, independent of ecological adaptation, in contributing to...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： McGlaughlin ME,Friar EA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00