The cucurbit images (1515-1518) of the Villa Farnesina, Rome.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Grasslands are a major part of the global ecosystem, covering 37 % of the earth's terrestrial area. For a variety of reasons, mostly related to overgrazing and the resulting problems of soil erosion and weed encroachment, many of the world's natural grasslands are in poor condition and showing signs of degra...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： O'Mara FP

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Rheum, a highly diversified genus with about 60 species, is mainly confined to the mountainous and desert regions of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau and adjacent areas. This genus represents a good example of the extensive diversification of the temperate genera in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, in which ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang A,Yang M,Liu J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:Polyploidy results in genetic turmoil, much of which is associated with new phenotypes that result in speciation. Five independent lines of synthetic allotetraploid N. x obtusiata (N x o) were created from crosses between the diploid N. attenuata (Na) (male) and N. obtusifolia (No) (female) and t...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Anssour S,Krügel T,Sharbel TF,Saluz HP,Bonaventure G,Baldwin IT

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Plants usually compete with neighbouring plants for resources such as light as well as defend themselves against herbivorous insects. This requires investment of limiting resources, resulting in optimal resource distribution patterns and trade-offs between growth- and defence-related traits. A plant...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： de Vries J,Poelman EH,Anten N,Evers JB

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This section comprises a set of papers taken from those presented at a symposium held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Monsi-Saeki theory (1953), together with invited papers. The papers describe recent advances in the study of structure and function of plant canopies and are written by former students (and ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hirose T,Terashima I

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Studies of phenotypic plasticity in plants have mainly focused on (1) the effect of environmental variation on whole-plant traits related to the number of modules rather than on (2) the phenotypic consequences of environmental variation in traits of individual modules. Since environmental and develo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Camargo ID,Nattero J,Careaga SA,Núñez-Farfán J

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Differences in the mating systems and the mechanisms of reproductive isolation between Chamaecrista desvauxii var. graminea and C. desvauxii var. latistipula were examined in the Chapada Diamantina, Brazil. These taxa occur sympatrically, and their populations demonstrate marked morphological differ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Costa CB,Lambert SM,Borba EL,de Queiroz LP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:In a range of plant species, the distribution of individual mean fecundity is skewed and dominated by a few highly fecund individuals. Larger plants produce greater seed crops, but the exact nature of the relationship between size and reproductive patterns is poorly understood. This is especially cl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Bogdziewicz M,Szymkowiak J,Calama R,Crone EE,Espelta JM,Lesica P,Marino S,Steele MA,Tenhumberg B,Tyre A,Żywiec M,Kelly D

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium) is a model system for studying cereal, bioenergy, forage and turf grasses. The genetic and evolutionary basis of the adaptation of this wild grass species to drought stress is largely unknown. Peroxidase (POD) may play a role in plant drought tolerance, but whe...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Luo N,Yu X,Nie G,Liu J,Jiang Y

更新日期：2016-08-01 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:The water gap is an important morphoanatomical structure in seeds with physical dormancy (PY). It is an environmental signal detector for dormancy break and the route of water into the non-dormant seed. The Convolvulaceae, which consists of subfamilies Convolvuloideae (11 tribes) and Humbertoideae (...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Jayasuriya KM,Baskin JM,Geneve RL,Baskin CC

更新日期：2009-01-01 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:Changes in the amount of repetitive DNA (dispersed and tandem repeats) are considered the main contributors to genome size variation across plant species in the absence of polyploidy. However, the study of repeatome dynamism in groups showing contrasting genomic features and complex evolutionary his...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Vitales D,Álvarez I,Garcia S,Hidalgo O,Nieto Feliner G,Pellicer J,Vallès J,Garnatje T

更新日期：2020-03-29 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 AND AIMS:By the year 2100, atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]a) could reach 800 ppm, having risen from ~200 ppm since the Neogene, beginning ~24 Myr ago. Changing [CO2]a affects plant carbon-water balance, with implications for growth, drought tolerance and vegetation shifts. The evolution of C4 photosynth...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Quirk J,Bellasio C,Johnson DA,Beerling DJ

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Species and hybrids of the genus Miscanthus contain attributes that make them front-runners among current selections of dedicated bioenergy crops. A key trait for plant biomass conversion to biofuels and biomaterials is cell-wall quality; however, knowledge of cell-wall composition and biology in Mi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： da Costa RM,Lee SJ,Allison GG,Hazen SP,Winters A,Bosch M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maize (Zea mays L.) kernel undergoes large changes in water content during its development. Whether such changes regulate the pattern of kernel development or are simply a consequence of it has not yet been established because other factors, such as assimilate supply, can also affect the rate and duration of kerne...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Borrás L,Westgate ME,Otegui ME

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants adjust their sink-organ growth rates, development and distribution of dry matter in response to whole-plant photosynthate status. To advance understanding of these processes, potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plants were subjected to CO(2) and light flux treatments, and early tuber growth was assessed. Atmospheric ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chen CT,Setter TL

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Nothoscordum gracile is an apomitic tetraploid widely distributed throughout the Americas and naturalized in many temperate regions of other continents. It has been suggested to form a species complex with sexual and apomictic N. nudicaule and N. macrostemon. Tetraploids of these species also share ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Souza LG,Crosa O,Speranza P,Guerra M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Covalent linkages between xyloglucan and rhamnogalacturonan-I (RG-I) have been reported in the primary cell walls of cultured Rosa cells and may contribute to wall architecture. This study investigated whether this chemical feature is general to angiosperms or whether Rosa is unusual. * METHODS:Xyl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Popper ZA,Fry SC

更新日期：2005-07-01 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:Initial release height and settling speed of diaspores are biologically controlled components which are key to modelling wind dispersal. Most Sphagnum (peat moss) species have explosive spore liberation. In this study, how capsule and spore sizes affect the height to which spores are propelled were ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Sundberg S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Plasticity of floral traits in response to pollination can enable plants to maximize opportunities for pollen import and export under poor pollination conditions, while minimizing costs under favourable ones. Both floral longevity and display are key traits influencing pollination. While pollination...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Spigler RB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Data are presented from 39 species of mosses and 16 liverworts for ratios of chlorophylls and total carotenoids, and light saturation of photosynthetic electron flow or photosynthetic CO2 uptake, in relation to the postulate that bryophyte cells in general show shade-plant characteristics. METHODS:...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Marschall M,Proctor MC

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of enzyme induction and aerenchyma formation in prolonged tolerance to soil flooding in a variety of underground clover (Trifolium subterraneum 'Park') previously selected for resistance. Seedlings were grown in hydroponic tanks, initially with aeration for 3 weeks ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Aschi-Smiti S,Chaibi W,Brouquisse R,Ricard B,Saglio P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:We tested whether the local differences in genome size recorded earlier in the wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum, at 'Evolution Canyon', Mount Carmel, Israel, can also be found in other organisms. As a model species for our test we chose the evergreen carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua. METHODS:Genome siz...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Bures P,Pavlícek T,Horová L,Nevo E

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Aims Morphological variation in light-foraging strategies potentially plays important roles in efficient light utilization and carbon assimilation in spatially and temporally heterogeneous environments such as tropical moist forest understorey. By considering a suite of morphological traits at various h...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Laurans M,Vincent G

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND SCOPE:Models of nectar formation and exudation in multilayered nectaries with modified stomata or permeable cuticle are evaluated. In the current symplasmic model the pre-nectar moves from terminal phloem through the symplasm into the apoplasm (cell walls and intercellular spaces) with nectar formation b...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Vassilyev AE

更新日期：2010-03-01 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:Post-anthesis colour change (PACC) is widely thought to be an adaptation to signal floral suitability to pollinators. Lotus filicaulis and Lotus sessilifolius are insect-pollinated herbaceous legumes with flowers that open yellow, shift to orange and finally red. This study examines the molecular ba...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Boehm MMA,Ojeda DI,Cronk QCB

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00