Biosystematics and conservation: a case study with two enigmatic and uncommon species of Crassula from New Zealand.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Grapevine (Vitis spp.) cold hardiness varies dynamically throughout the dormant season, primarily in response to changes in temperature. The development and possible uses of a discrete-dynamic model of bud cold hardiness for three Vitis genotypes are described. METHODS:Iterative methods were used t...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ferguson JC,Tarara JM,Mills LJ,Grove GG,Keller M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Correlated relationships between branch thickness, branch density, and twig and leaf size have been used extensively to study the evolution of plant canopy architecture, but fewer studies have explored the impact of these relationships on the allocation of reproductive resources. This study quantifi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Leslie AB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young trees 0.03-1.7 m high of three coexisting Betula species were investigated in four sites of varying soil fertility, but all in full daylight, to separate nutrient and plant size controls on leaf dry mass per unit area (MA), light-saturated foliar photosynthetic electron transport rate (J) and the fraction of pla...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Niinemets U,Portsmuth A,Truus L

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:BACKGROUND AND AIMS; This study is an investigation into the floral development and anatomy of two genera of the small family Salvadoraceae, which belongs to the Brassicales in a clade with Batis and Koeberlinia. Salvadoraceae remains little known, despite its wide distribution in arid areas of the globe. Fl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ronse De Craene L,Wanntorp L

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Submerged plants composed of charophytes (green algae) and angiosperms develop dense vegetation in small, shallow lakes and in littoral zones of large lakes. Many small, oligotrophic plant species have declined due to drainage and fertilization of lakes, while some tall, eutrophic species have increased. Alt...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Sand-Jensen K,Andersen MR,Martinsen KT,Borum J,Kristensen E,Kragh T

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To establish successful infection, plant viruses produce profound alterations of host physiology, disturbing unrelated endogenous processes and contributing to the development of disease. In tobamoviruses, emerging evidence suggests that viral-encoded proteins display a great variety of functions beyond the ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Conti G,Rodriguez MC,Venturuzzi AL,Asurmendi S

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Polyploidy has played a major role in the origin of new plant species, probably because of the expansion of polyploid populations in the species' ecological niche, and because reproductive isolation can be established between a new polyploid population and its diploid progenitor species. It is well ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ma WJ,Santos Del Blanco L,Pannell JR

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Bird pollination is rare among species in the genus Utricularia, and has evolved independently in two lineages of this genus. In Western Australia, the Western Spinebill, Acanthorhynchus superciliosus, visits flowers of Utricularia menziesii (section Pleiochasia: subgenus Polypompholyx). This study ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Plachno BJ,Stpiczynska M,Swiatek P,Lambers H,Miranda VFO,Nge FJ,Stolarczyk P,Cawthray GR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Tea (Camellia sinensis) is considered to be acid tolerant and prefers ammonium nutrition, but the interaction between root zone acidity and N form is not properly understood. The present study was performed to characterize their interaction with respect to growth and mineral nutrition. METHODS:Tea ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ruan J,Gerendás J,Härdter R,Sattelmacher B

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Water is an increasingly scarce resource that limits crop productivity in many parts of the world, and the frequency and severity of drought are predicted to increase as a result of climate change. Improving tolerance to drought stress is therefore important for maximizing future crop yields. The ai...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Marquez-Garcia B,Shaw D,Cooper JW,Karpinska B,Quain MD,Makgopa EM,Kunert K,Foyer CH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Jatropha curcas (jatropha) is an oil crop cultivated in (sub)tropical regions around the world, and holds great promise as a renewable energy source. However, efforts to fully commercialize jatropha are currently hampered by the lack of genetic diversity in the extant breeding germplasm, and by the ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Vandepitte K,Valdés-Rodríquez OA,Sánchez-Sánchez O,De Kort H,Martinez-Herrera J,García-Pérez E,De Meyer T,Pérez-Vázquez A,Muys B,Honnay O

更新日期：2019-10-29 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:Sexual dimorphism in morphology, physiology or life history traits is common in dioecious plants at reproductive maturity, but it is typically inconspicuous or absent in juveniles. Although plants of different sexes probably begin to diverge in gene expression both before their reproduction commence...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cossard GG,Toups MA,Pannell JR

更新日期：2019-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND SCOPE:Over more than 120 years of scientific study since Schimper's seminal work, the recognized categories of structurally dependent plants have changed several times. Currently, ignoring parasitic mistletoes, it is usual to distinguish four functional groups: (1) true epiphytes; (2) primary hemiepiphyt...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zotz G

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The coastal plain of Israel hosts the last few remaining populations of the endemic Iris atropurpurea (Iridaceae), a Red List species of high conservation priority. The flowers offer no nectar reward. Here the role of night-sheltering male solitary bees, honey-bees and female solitary bees as pollin...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Watts S,Sapir Y,Segal B,Dafni A

更新日期：2013-03-01 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:When root-zone O(2) deficiency occurs together with salinity, regulation of shoot ion concentrations is compromised even more than under salinity alone. Tolerance was evaluated amongst 34 accessions of Hordeum marinum, a wild species in the Triticeae, to combined salinity and root-zone O(2) deficien...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Malik AI,English JP,Colmer TD

更新日期：2009-01-01 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:Understanding the evolutionary and ecological forces contributing to the emergence of biodiversity hotspots is of outstanding importance to elucidate how they may withstand current climate changes. Here we explored patterns of phylogenetic and non-phylogenetic plant endemism in a Mediterranean biodi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Molina-Venegas R,Aparicio A,Lavergne S,Arroyo J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Hordeum marinum is a species complex that includes the diploid subspecies marinum and both diploid and tetraploid forms of gussoneanum. Their relationships, the rank of the taxa and the origin of the polyploid forms remain points of debate. The present work reports a comparative karyotype analysis o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Carmona A,Friero E,de Bustos A,Jouve N,Cuadrado A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Recent developments in DNA sequencing, so-called next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods, can help the study of rare lineages that are known from museum specimens. Here, the taxonomy and evolution of the Malagasy grass lineage Chasechloa was investigated with the aid of NGS. METHODS:Full chloropla...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Silva C,Besnard G,Piot A,Razanatsoa J,Oliveira RP,Vorontsova MS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pollen is the male gametophyte of higher plants. Upon pollination, it germinates and develops into a fast-growing cytoplasmic extension, the pollen tube, which ultimately delivers the sperm into the ovary. The biological relevance of its role, and the uniqueness of this kind of cellular organization, have ma...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Becker JD,Feijó JA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Previous studies on grass leaf tensile properties (behaviour during mechanical stress) have focused on agricultural applications such as resistance to trampling and palatability; no investigations have directly addressed mechanical properties during water stress, and hence these are the subject of t...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Balsamo RA,Willigen CV,Bauer AM,Farrant J

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND SCOPE:Self-incompatibility (SI) in flowering plants ensures the maintenance of genetic diversity by ensuring outbreeding. Different genetic and mechanistic systems of SI among flowering plants suggest either multiple origins of SI or considerable evolutionary diversification. In the grasses, SI is based ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Klaas M,Yang B,Bosch M,Thorogood D,Manzanares C,Armstead IP,Franklin FC,Barth S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most of the water on Earth is seawater, each kilogram of which contains about 35 g of salts, and yet most plants cannot grow in this solution; less than 0·2% of species can develop and reproduce with repeated exposure to seawater. These 'extremophiles' are called halophytes. SCOPE:Improved knowledge of halo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Flowers TJ,Colmer TD

更新日期：2015-02-01 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:Global warming is gaining significance as a threat to natural and managed ecosystems since temperature is one of the major environmental factors affecting plant productivity. Hence, the effects of moderate temperature increase on the growth and development of the tomato plant (Lycopersicon esculentu...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Sato S,Kamiyama M,Iwata T,Makita N,Furukawa H,Ikeda H

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Despite a recent new classification, a stable phylogeny for the cycads has been elusive, particularly regarding resolution of Bowenia, Stangeria and Dioon. In this study, five single-copy nuclear genes (SCNGs) are applied to the phylogeny of the order Cycadales. The specific aim is to evaluate sever...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Salas-Leiva DE,Meerow AW,Calonje M,Griffith MP,Francisco-Ortega J,Nakamura K,Stevenson DW,Lewis CE,Namoff S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:In spite of major breakthroughs in the last three decades in the identification of root nitrate uptake transporters in plants and the associated regulation of nitrate transport activities, a simplified and operational modelling approach for nitrate uptake is still lacking. This is due mainly to the ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Le Deunff E,Malagoli P

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The regrowth dynamics after defoliation of the invasive grass Calamagrostis epigejos were studied. As nitrogen (N) reserves have been shown to play an important role during plant regrowth, the identity, location and relative importance for regrowth of N stores were determined in this rhizomatous gra...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Kavanová M,Gloser V

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00