Longevity of white clover (Trifolium repens) leaves, stolons and roots, and consequences for nitrogen dynamics under northern temperate climatic conditions.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Genome size and chromosome numbers are important cytological characters that significantly influence various organismal traits. However, geographical representation of these data is seriously unbalanced, with tropical and subtropical regions being largely neglected. In the present study, an investig...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Leong-Skornicková J,Sída O,Jarolímová V,Sabu M,Fér T,Trávnícek P,Suda J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:BACKGROUND AND AIMS Habitats in mountains are often isolated. Plants growing in these sites face severe dispersal limitations, but also difficulties for recruitment. The focus was laid on the magnitude of genetic differences among populations but also on the size of potentially occurring clones. METHODS:RAP...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wesche K,Hensen I,Undrakh R

更新日期：2006-11-01 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:Changes in key traits occurring during the processes of plant domestication have long been subjects of debate. Only in the case of genetic analysis or with extensive plant remains can specific sets of changes be documented. Historical details of the plant domestication processes are rare and other e...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang JX,Gao TG,Knapp S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:It remains unclear whether invasive species can maintain both high biomass and reproductive output across their invaded range. Along latitudinal gradients, allocation theory predicts that faster flowering onset at high latitudes results in maturation at smaller size and thus reduced reproductive out...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Helsen K,Acharya KP,Graae BJ,De Kort H,Brunet J,Chabrerie O,Cousins SAO,De Frenne P,Hermy M,Verheyen K,Pélabon C

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mineral nutrient limitation affects the water flow through plants. We wanted to test on barley whether any change in root-to-shoot ratio in response to low supply of nitrogen and phosphate is accompanied by changes in root and cell hydraulic properties and involves changes in aquaporin (AQP) gene expression ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Armand T,Cullen M,Boiziot F,Li L,Fricke W

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The genus Olea (Oleaceae) includes approx. 40 taxa of evergreen shrubs and trees classified in three subgenera, Olea, Paniculatae and Tetrapilus, the first of which has two sections (Olea and Ligustroides). Olive trees (the O. europaea complex) have been the subject of intensive research, whereas li...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Besnard G,Rubio de Casas R,Christin PA,Vargas P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Roots growing in soil encounter physical, chemical and biological environments that influence their rhizospheres and affect plant growth. Exudates from roots can stimulate or inhibit soil organisms that may release nutrients, infect the root, or modify plant growth via signals. These rhizosphere processes ar...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Watt M,Silk WK,Passioura JB

更新日期：2006-05-01 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 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:Knowledge of diploid phylogeny and ecogeography provide a foundation for understanding plant evolutionary history, diversification patterns and taxonomy. The genus Anthoxanthum (vernal grasses, Poaceae) represents a taxonomically intricate polyploid complex with large phenotypic variation and poorly...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chumová Z,Záveská E,Mandáková T,Krak K,Trávnícek P

更新日期：2017-08-01 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:Epipogium aphyllum is a Eurasian achlorophyllous, mycoheterotrophic forest orchid. Due to its rarity, it is often protected, and its biology is poorly known. The identity and pattern of colonization of fungal associates providing carbon to this orchid have not been studied previously. METHODS:Using...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Roy M,Yagame T,Yamato M,Iwase K,Heinz C,Faccio A,Bonfante P,Selosse MA

更新日期：2009-08-01 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:Polyploids, organisms that have multiple sets of chromosomes, are common in certain plant and animal taxa. However, there are only a few reports of intraspecific ploidy variation within the genus Quercus. The aim of the study was to investigate the suspected ploidy level of two oaks that have unusua...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Dzialuk A,Chybicki I,Welc M,Sliwinska E,Burczyk J

更新日期：2007-05-01 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:There are many unresolved issues concerning the biochemistry of fructan biosynthesis. The aim of this paper is to address some of these by means of modelling mathematically the biochemical processes. METHODS:A model has been constructed for the step-by-step synthesis of fructan polymers. This is ru...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Rasmussen S,Thornley JH,Parsons AJ,Harrison SJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 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 optimal period for seedling emergence depends on factors such as habitat preference, life cycle and geographical distribution. This research was performed to clarify the role of temperature in regulating processes leading to seedling emergence of the European continental Scilla bifolia and the A...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Vandelook F,Van Assche JA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Watermelons, Citrullus species (Cucurbitaceae), are native to Africa and have been cultivated since ancient times. The fruit flesh of wild watermelons is watery, but typically hard-textured, pale-coloured and bland or bitter. The familiar sweet dessert watermelons, C. lanatus, featuring non-bitter, ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Paris HS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Extreme water stress episodes induce tree mortality, but the physiological mechanisms causing tree death are still poorly understood. This study tests the hypothesis that a potted tree's ability to survive extreme monotonic water stress is determined by the cavitation resistance of its xylem tissue....

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Barigah TS,Charrier O,Douris M,Bonhomme M,Herbette S,Améglio T,Fichot R,Brignolas F,Cochard H

更新日期：2013-11-01 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 AND AIMS:In some dicotyledonous leaves and leaflets, the secondary veins run more-or-less straight to the margins and have well-defined lengths. For a given half-lamina of length L, an equation, previously proposed, relates the lengths of these veins, p, to the distances, l, between the leaf tip and their in...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Burton RF

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The tam (tardy asynchronous meiosis) mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, which exhibits a modified cytokinesis with a switch from simultaneous to successive cytokinesis, was used to perform a direct test of the implication of cytokinesis in aperture-pattern ontogeny of angiosperm pollen grains. The aper...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Albert B,Raquin C,Prigent M,Nadot S,Brisset F,Yang M,Ressayre A

更新日期：2011-06-01 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:The success of using bent shoots in cut-rose (Rosa hybrida) production to improve flower shoot quality has been attributed to bent shoots capturing more light and thus providing more assimilates for flower shoot growth. We aimed at quantifying this contribution of photosynthesis by bent shoots to fl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhang N,van Westreenen A,Evers JB,Anten NPR,Marcelis LFM

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:A meta-analysis of global change experiments in arctic tundra sites suggests that plant productivity and the cover of shrubs, grasses and dead plant material (i.e. litter) will increase and the cover of bryophytes will decrease in response to higher air temperatures. However, little is known about w...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Eckstein RL,Pereira E,Milbau A,Graae BJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 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:Global climate models predict decreases in leaf stomatal conductance and transpiration due to increases in atmospheric CO2. The consequences of these reductions are increases in soil moisture availability and continental scale run-off at decadal time-scales. Thus, a theory explaining the differentia...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Katul G,Manzoni S,Palmroth S,Oren R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Forage quality for herbivores and litter quality for decomposers are two key plant properties affecting ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling. Although there is a positive relationship between palatability and decomposition, very few studies have focused on larger vertebrate herbivores while conside...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Bumb I,Garnier E,Coq S,Nahmani J,Del Rey Granado M,Gimenez O,Kazakou E

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00