Bird pollination in an angraecoid orchid on Reunion Island (Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean).

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gorgeous frescoes organized by the master Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) and illustrating the heavenly adventures of Cupid and Psyche were painted between 1515 and 1518 to decorate the Roman villa (now known as the Villa Farnesina) of the wealthy Sienese banker Agostino Chigi (1466-1520)....

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Janick J,Paris HS

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Pollinator-limited seed-set in some terrestrial orchids is compensated for by the presence of long-lived flowers. This study tests the hypothesis that pollen from these insect-pollinated orchids should be desiccation tolerant and relatively long lived using four closely related UK terrestrial specie...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Marks TR,Seaton PT,Pritchard HW

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Brassicaceae, with nearly 340 genera and more than 3350 species, anchors the low range of angiosperm genome sizes. The relatively narrow range of DNA content (0.16 pg < 1C < 1.95 pg) was maintained in spite of extensive chromosomal change. The aim of this study was to erect a cytological and molecul...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Johnston JS,Pepper AE,Hall AE,Chen ZJ,Hodnett G,Drabek J,Lopez R,Price HJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress on plants imposed by flooding of the soil and deeper submergence constitutes one of the major abiotic constraints on growth, species' distribution and agricultural productivity. Flooding stress is also a strong driver of adaptive evolution. This has resulted in a wide range of biochemical, molecular and morphol...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Jackson MB,Colmer TD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Nitrogen (N) levels vary between ecosystems, while the form of available N has a substantial impact on growth, development and perception of stress. Plants have the capacity to assimilate N in the form of either nitrate (NO3-) or ammonium (NH4+). Recent studies revealed that NO3- nutrition increases...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wany A,Gupta AK,Kumari A,Mishra S,Singh N,Pandey S,Vanvari R,Igamberdiev AU,Fernie AR,Gupta KJ

更新日期：2019-03-14 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:Synorganisation of floral organs, an important means in angiosperm flower evolution, is mostly realized by congenital or post-genital organ fusion. Intimate synorganisation of many floral organs without fusion, as present in Geranium robertianum, is poorly known and needs to be studied. Obdiplostemo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Endress PK

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Opal phytoliths (microscopic silica bodies produced in and between the cells of many plants) are a very resilient, often preserved type of plant microfossil. With the exponentially growing number of phytolith studies, standardization of phytolith morphotype names and description is essential. As a first effo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： International Committee for Phytolith Taxonomy (ICPT).

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The ω-gliadin storage proteins of wheat are of interest in relation to their impact on grain processing properties and their role in food allergy, particularly the ω-5 sub-group and wheat-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis. The ω-gliadins are also known to be responsive to nitrogen application. ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wan Y,Gritsch CS,Hawkesford MJ,Shewry PR

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:A phalanx growth form enables clonal plants to make better use of resource-rich patches, whereas a guerrilla growth form provides them with opportunities to escape from resource-poor sites. Leymus secalinus produces both spreading (guerrilla form) and clumping ramets (phalanx form). Here, the hypoth...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ye XH,Yu FH,Dong M

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Rubus subgenus Rubus is a group of mostly apomictic and polyploid species with a complicated taxonomy and history of ongoing hybridization. The only polyploid series with prevailing sexuality is the series Glandulosi , although the apomictic series Discolores and Radula also retain a high degree of ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Šarhanová P,Sharbel TF,Sochor M,Vašut RJ,Dancák M,Trávnícek B

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Woodland spring ephemerals exhibit a relatively short epigeous growth period prior to canopy closure. However, it has been suggested that leaf senescence is induced by a reduction in the carbohydrate sink demand, rather than by changes in light availability. To ascertain whether a potentially higher...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gutjahr S,Lapointe L

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many plant species can modify their root architecture to enable them to forage for heterogeneously distributed nutrients in the soil. The foraging response normally involves increased proliferation of lateral roots within nutrient-rich soil patches, but much remains to be understood about the signalling mech...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Walch-Liu P,Ivanov II,Filleur S,Gan Y,Remans T,Forde BG

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Mite domatia are small structures on the underside of plant leaves that provide homes for predacious or fungivorous mites. In turn, mites inhabiting domatia defend the plant by consuming leaf herbivores and pathogens, which can result in a domatia-mediated, plant-mite defence mutualism. Several rece...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Weber MG,Porturas LD,Taylor SA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Aims Mating systems of plants are diverse and evolutionarily labile. Abiotic environmental factors, such as seasonal drought, may impose selection on physiological traits that could lead to transitions in mating system if physiological traits are genetically correlated with traits that influence mating ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ivey CT,Dudley LS,Hove AA,Emms SK,Mazer SJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 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 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 AIMS:The phenotypic selection of a diverse insect assemblage was studied on a generalist plant species (Paeonia broteroi) in ten flowering seasons, with tests for whether visitor preferences for plants with larger flowers eventually translated into significant differences among plants in visitation rates...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Sánchez-Lafuente AM,Parra R

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Many areas throughout the world are simultaneously contaminated by high concentrations of soluble salts and by high concentrations of heavy metals that constitute a serious threat to human health. The use of plants to extract or stabilize pollutants is an interesting alternative to classical expensive decont...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Lutts S,Lefèvre I

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background There has been renewed global interest in both genetic and management strategies to improve root system function in order to improve agricultural productivity and minimize environmental damage. Improving root system capture of water and nutrients is an obvious strategy, yet few studies consider the importan...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Thorup-Kristensen K,Kirkegaard J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS AND AIMS:Thermogenesis in reproductive organs is known from several plant families, including the Araceae. A study was made of the relationship between temperature increase and spadix size in the subfamily Aroideae in order to determine whether the quantitative variation of heat production among species and...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gibernau M,Barabé D,Moisson M,Trombe A

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Artemisia halodendron is a native sub-shrub that occurs mainly in moving and semi-fixed sandy lands in Inner Mongolia, China. Information on the spatial patterns of wind-dispersed seed deposition and seedling recruitment of A. halodendron inhabiting moving sandy lands is very limited. The aim of thi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Li FR,Wang T,Zhang AS,Zhao LY,Kang LF,Chen W

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Fodder provision in species-rich grasslands, i.e. herbage growth, proportion of leaf, and leaf and stem digestibility, is difficult to predict for short periods of time, such as between two defoliations or less. The value of two methods based on plant traits for evaluating these agronomic properties...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ansquer P,Duru M,Theau JP,Cruz P

更新日期：2009-01-01 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:The mobile carbon supply to different compartments of a tree is affected by climate, but its impact on cell-wall chemistry and mechanics remains unknown. To understand better the variability in root growth and biomechanics in mountain forests subjected to substrate mass movement, we investigated roo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Genet M,Li M,Luo T,Fourcaud T,Clément-Vidal A,Stokes A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Lomatium dissectum (Apiaceae) is a perennial, herbaceous plant of wide distribution in Western North America. At the time of dispersal, L. dissectum seeds are dormant and have under-developed embryos. The aims of this work were to determine the requirements for dormancy break and germination, to cha...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Scholten M,Donahue J,Shaw NL,Serpe MD

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Despite concerns about the impact of rising sea levels and storm surge events on coastal ecosystems, there is remarkably little information on the response of terrestrial coastal plant species to seawater inundation. The aim of this study was to elucidate responses of a glycophyte (white clover, Tri...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： White AC,Colmer TD,Cawthray GR,Hanley ME

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowering activity and sex expression of Bischofia javanica Blume were investigated for 3 years. B. javanica is an invasive dioecious tree of subtropical forests on the Bonin Islands in the western Pacific of Japan. The sex ratio showed a significant male bias (1.25-2.33). Smaller trees were significantly male biased,...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Yamashita N,Abe T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Linear relationships are commonly observed between shoot magnesium ([Mg]shoot) and shoot calcium ([Ca]shoot) concentrations among angiosperm species growing in the same environment. Scope and Conclusions:This article argues that, in plants that do not exhibit 'luxury' accumulation of Mg or Ca, (1) distinct ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： White PJ,Broadley MR,El-Serehy HA,George TS,Neugebauer K

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00