Kinship between parents reduces offspring fitness in a natural population of Rhododendron brachycarpum.

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: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:The persistence of plants inhabiting restricted alpine areas under climate change will depend upon many factors including levels of genetic variation in adaptive traits, population structure, and breeding system. METHODS:Using microsatellite markers, the genetic structure of populations of a relati...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Byars SG,Parsons Y,Hoffmann AA

更新日期：2009-04-01 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: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：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：:A procedure is described for obtaining allometric regression equations to estimate non-destructively and in a cost-effective manner the current year's above-ground vegetative and reproductive biomass of Vitis vinifera L. Merlot' throughout the growing season. Significant relationships were obtained over a 3-year perio...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Castelan-Estrada M,Vivin P,Gaudillère JP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

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:Current understanding of stomatal development in Arabidopsis thaliana is based on mutations producing aberrant, often lethal phenotypes. The aim was to discover if naturally occurring viable phenotypes would be useful for studying stomatal development in a species that enables further molecular anal...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Delgado D,Alonso-Blanco C,Fenoll C,Mena M

更新日期：2011-06-01 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: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:Seeds of epiphytes must land on branches with suitable substrates and microclimates to germinate and for the resulting seedlings to survive. It is important to understand the fate of seeds and seedlings in order to model populations, but this is often neglected when only established plants are inclu...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Winkler M,Hülber K,Hietz P

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:How functional traits vary with environmental conditions is of fundamental importance in trait-based community ecology. However, how intraspecific variability in functional traits is connected to species distribution is not well understood. This study investigated inter- and intraspecific variation ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： He D,Chen Y,Zhao K,Cornelissen JHC,Chu C

更新日期：2018-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Late-acting self-incompatibility (LSI), in which selfed flowers fail to form fruits despite apparently successful growth of the pollen tubes to the ovules, is a contentious and still poorly understood phenomenon. Some studies have indicated pollen tube-pistil interactions, and major gene control. Ot...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gibbs P,Bianchi MB,Taroda Ranga N

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The amount of DNA comprising the genome of an organism (its genome size) varies a remarkable 40 000-fold across eukaryotes, yet most groups are characterized by much narrower ranges (e.g. 14-fold in gymnosperms, 3- to 4-fold in mammals). Angiosperms stand out as one of the most variable groups with genome si...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Leitch IJ,Kahandawala I,Suda J,Hanson L,Ingrouille MJ,Chase MW,Fay MF

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Lessons from above-ground trait ecology and resource economics theory may not be directly translatable to below-ground traits due to differences in function, trade-offs and environmental constraints. Here we examine root functional traits within and across species along a fine-scale hydrological gra...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Taseski GM,Keith DA,Dalrymple RL,Cornwell WK

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The initiation of DNA replication is a very important and highly regulated step in the cell division cycle. It is of interest to compare different groups of eukaryotic organisms (a) to identify the essential molecular events that occur in all eukaryotes, (b) to start to identify higher-level regulatory mecha...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Bryant JA,Aves SJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carboxylate-releasing cluster roots of Proteaceae play a key role in acquiring phosphorus (P) from ancient nutrient-impoverished soils in Australia. However, cluster roots are also found in Proteaceae on young, P-rich soils in Chile where they allow P acquisition from soils that strongly sorb P. SCOPE:Unlik...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Lambers H,Bishop JG,Hopper SD,Laliberté E,Zúñiga-Feest A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Enhancing the zinc (Zn) concentration in wheat (Triticum aestivum) grain is a breeding objective in order to improve human Zn nutrition. At enhanced plant Zn uptake, grain Zn levels do not increase proportionally and within the grain the endosperm Zn levels remain below grain Zn levels. This study a...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Stomph TJ,Choi EY,Stangoulis JC

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants are sessile organisms that have the ability to integrate external cues into metabolic and developmental signals. The cues initiate specific signal cascades that can enhance the tolerance of plants to stress, and these mechanisms are crucial to the survival and fitness of plants. The adaption of plants...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pu X,Lv X,Tan T,Fu F,Qin G,Lin H

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:While nuclear DNA content variation and its phenotypic consequences have been well described for animals, vascular plants and macroalgae, much less about this topic is known regarding unicellular algae and protists in general. The dearth of data is especially pronounced when it comes to intraspecifi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Čertnerová D,Škaloud P

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

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：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：: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 AND AIMS:The leaf rosettes of the carnivorous Pinguicula moranensis follow a spiral phyllotaxis approaching a Fibonacci pattern while the stalked flowers arise from extra-axillary sites between the leaves. The organization of this rosette has been discussed by various authors, with various results. The aim o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Grob V,Pfeifer E,Rutishauser R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play an important role in plant nutrition and protection against pests and diseases, as well as in soil structuration, nutrient cycling and, generally speaking, in sustainable agriculture, particularly under drought, salinity and low input or organic agriculture. H...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Plouznikoff K,Asins MJ,de Boulois HD,Carbonell EA,Declerck S

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Alterations of plasmodesma (PD) connectivity are likely to be very important for plant development. Here, the repetitive division pattern of cambial initials in Populus nigra 'italica' was studied to follow the development of the PD network during maturation. Furthermore, seasonal changes were inves...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Fuchs M,van Bel AJ,Ehlers K

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Species in plant communities segregate along fine-scale hydrological gradients. Although this phenomenon is not unique to fynbos, this community regenerates after fire and therefore provides an opportunity to study the ecological genesis of hydrological niche segregation. METHODS:Following wildfire...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Silvertown J,Araya YN,Linder HP,Gowing DJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Dynamic management (DM) of genetic resources aims at maintaining genetic variability between different populations evolving under natural selection in contrasting environments. In 1984, this strategy was applied in a pilot experiment on wheat (Triticum aestivum). Spatio-temporal evolution of earline...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Goldringer I,Prouin C,Rousset M,Galic N,Bonnin I

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:A brief review is given of Peter W. Barlows' contributions to research on gravity tide-related phenomena in plant biology, or 'selenonastic' effects as he called them, including his early research on root growth. Also, new results are presented here from long-term recordings of spontaneous ultra-weak light e...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gallep CM,Viana JF,Cifra M,Clarke D,Robert D

更新日期：2018-11-03 00:00:00