Carbon dioxide enrichment does not reduce leaf longevity or alter accumulation of carbon reserves in the woodland spring ephemeral Erythronium americanum.

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：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Floral nectar concentration and chemical composition of 26 plant species native to the temperate forest of southern South America are reported and the relationships with the flower type are evaluated. METHODS:Nectar concentration was measured with a hand refractometer and sugar composition was anal...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chalcoff VR,Aizen MA,Galetto L

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Genome size is known to be correlated with a number of phenotypic traits associated with cell sizes and cell-division rates. Genome size was therefore used as a proxy for them in order to assess how common plant traits such as height, specific leaf area and seed size/number predict species regional ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Herben T,Suda J,Klimesová J,Mihulka S,Ríha P,Símová I

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Kaolin applied as a suspension to plant canopies forms a film on leaves that increases reflection and reduces absorption of light. Photosynthesis of individual leaves is decreased while the photosynthesis of the whole canopy remains unaffected or even increases. This may result from a better distrib...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Rosati A,Metcalf SG,Buchner RP,Fulton AE,Lampinen BD

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Reciprocal herkogamy, including enantiostyly and heterostyly, involves reciprocity in the relative positions of the sexual elements within the flower. Such systems result in morphologically and, since pollen is deposited on and captured from different parts of the pollinator, functionally distinct f...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Almeida NM,Castro CC,Leite AV,Novo RR,Machado IC

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Hydration, rupture and exine opening due to the sudden and large expansion of intine are typical of taxoid-type pollen grains. A hemispheric outgrowth external to the exine was observed on Cupressus and Juniperus pollen grains before the intine swelling and exine release. However, the actual existen...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Danti R,Della Rocca G,Calamassi R,Mori B,Mariotti Lippi M

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Adventitious root development in lamina and midrib-petiole junction expiants of sugar beet cv. Primo was investigated using scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy. Primordia developed close to the vascular strands and areas of newly dividing cells (meristematic centres) were seen adjacent to the intrafascic...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gürel E,Wren MJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Serpentine soils are characterized by the presence of heavy metals (Ni and Cr) and excess Mg; these elements often suppress plant growth. Picea glehnii is nevertheless distributed widely on serpentine soils in northern Japan. Growth characteristics were compared among P. glehnii, Picea jezoensis (di...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Kayama M,Quoreshi AM,Uemura S,Koike T

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Robustness to genetic and environmental perturbation is a salient feature of multicellular organisms. Loss of developmental robustness can lead to severe phenotypic defects and fitness loss. However, perfect robustness, i.e. no variation at all, is evolutionarily unfit as organisms must be able to change phe...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Lachowiec J,Queitsch C,Kliebenstein DJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Although plant distribution patterns are well documented, our understanding of the ecophysiological mechanisms that control the geographical ranges of plant species remains poor. We used a largely ignored method, the performance of the male gametophyte in vitro, to assess whether the thermal range o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Rosbakh S,Poschlod P

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modelling plant growth allows us to test hypotheses and carry out virtual experiments concerning plant growth processes that could otherwise take years in field conditions. The visualization of growth simulations allows us to see directly and vividly the outcome of a given model and provides us with an instr...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Fourcaud T,Zhang X,Stokes A,Lambers H,Körner C

更新日期：2008-05-01 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: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: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: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 AND AIMS:As angiosperms became one of the megadiverse groups of macroscopic eukaryotes, they forged modern ecosystems and promoted the evolution of extant terrestrial biota. Unequal distribution of species among lineages suggests that diversification, the process that ultimately determines species richness, ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Magallón S,Sánchez-Reyes LL,Gómez-Acevedo SL

更新日期：2019-02-15 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：: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:The number of flowers blooming simultaneously on a plant may have profound consequences for reproductive success. Large floral displays often attract more pollinator visits, increasing outcross pollen receipt. However, pollinators frequently probe more flowers in sequence on large displays, potentia...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Karron JD,Mitchell RJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 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:The coexistence of forest tree species has often been linked to differences among species in terms of their response to light availability during the regeneration stage. From this perspective, species coexistence results from growth-growth or mortality-growth trade-offs along spatial light gradients...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Van Couwenberghe R,Gégout JC,Lacombe E,Collet C

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:During the transition from endo-dormancy to eco-dormancy and subsequent growth, the onion bulb undergoes the transition from sink organ to source, to sustain cell division in the meristematic tissue. The mechanisms controlling these processes are not fully understood. Here, a detailed analysis of wh...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chope GA,Cools K,Hammond JP,Thompson AJ,Terry LA

更新日期：2012-03-01 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 AND AIMS:Numerous studies have examined the effects of climatic factors on the distribution of C(3) and C(4) grasses in various regions throughout the world, but the role of seasonal fluctuations in temperature, precipitation and soil N availability in regulating growth and competition of these two functiona...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Yuan Z,Liu W,Niu S,Wan S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Quiescence is a fundamental feature of plant life, which enables plasticity, renewal and fidelity of the somatic cell line. Cellular quiescence is defined by arrest in a particular phase of the cell cycle, typically G1 or G2; however, the regulation of quiescence and proliferation can also be considered acro...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Velappan Y,Signorelli S,Considine MJ

更新日期：2017-10-17 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:Winter-flowering plants outside the tropics may experience a shortage of pollinator service, given that insect activity is largely limited by low temperature. Birds can be alternative pollinators for these plants, but experimental evidence for the pollination role of birds in winter-flowering plants...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Fang Q,Chen YZ,Huang SQ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Diversity of the genus Sorbus has been affected by interspecific hybridizations. Pink-flowered hybrid species have been insufficiently studied so far. They comprise bigenomic hybrid species derived from crosses S. aria s.l. × S. chamaemespilus and trigenomic ones, where S. aucuparia was involved as ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Uhrinová V,Zozomová-Lihová J,Bernátová D,Paule J,Paule L,Gömöry D

更新日期：2017-08-01 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