Dynamic thermal time model of cold hardiness for dormant grapevine buds.

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: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:Intraspecific variation in flooding tolerance is the basic pre-condition for adaptive flooding tolerance to evolve, and flooding-induced shoot elongation is an important trait that enables plants to survive shallow, prolonged flooding. Here an investigation was conducted to determine to what extent ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chen X,Huber H,de Kroon H,Peeters AJ,Poorter H,Voesenek LA,Visser EJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Musa L. (Musaceae) is currently separated into five sections (Musa. Rhodochlamys, Callimusa, Australimusa and Ingentimusa) based on chromosome numbers and morphological characters. However, the validation of this classification system is questioned due to the common occurrence of hybridizations across sections and the...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wong C,Kiew R,Argent G,Set O,Lee SK,Gan YY

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Mikania micrantha, a climbing perennial weed of the family Asteraceae, is native to Latin America and is highly invasive in the tropical belt of Asia, Oceania and Australia. This study was framed to investigate the population structure of M. micrantha at a large spatial scale in Asia and to identify...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Banerjee AK,Hou Z,Lin Y,Lan W,Tan F,Xing F,Li G,Guo W,Huang Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The cuticle of a limited number of plant species contains cutan, a chemically highly resistant biopolymer. As yet, the biosynthesis of cutan is not fully understood. Attempting to further unravel the origin of cutan, we analysed the chemical composition of enzymatically isolated cuticular membranes ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Leide J,Nierop KGJ,Deininger AC,Staiger S,Riederer M,de Leeuw JW

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Few studies have examined the dynamics of specialist plant-pollinator interactions at a geographical scale. This knowledge is crucial for a more general evolutionary and ecological understanding of specialized plant-pollinator systems. In the present study, variations in pollinator activity, assembl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cosacov A,Nattero J,Cocucci AA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clonal plants spread laterally by spacers between their ramets (shoot-root units); these spacers can transport and store resources. While much is known about how clonality promotes plant fitness, we know little about how different clonal plants influence ecosystem functions related to carbon, nutrient and wa...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cornelissen JH,Song YB,Yu FH,Dong M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reconstruction of biological processes and human activities during the last glacial cycle relies mainly on data from biological remains. Highly abundant tissues, such as wood, are candidates for a genetic analysis of past populations. While well-authenticated DNA has now been recovered from various fossi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Liepelt S,Sperisen C,Deguilloux MF,Petit RJ,Kissling R,Spencer M,de Beaulieu JL,Taberlet P,Gielly L,Ziegenhagen B

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated CO(2) and ozone effects were studied singly and in combination on the crown structure of two Betula pendula clones. Measurements were made at the end of the second fumigation period in an open-top-chamber experiment with 9-year-old trees. Shoot ramification (number of long and short daughter shoots), shoot le...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Kull O,Tulva I,Vapaavuori E

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Bamboo is well known for its fast growth and excellent mechanical performance, but the underlying relationships between its structure and properties are only partially known. Since it lacks secondary thickening, bamboo cannot use adaptive growth in the same way as a tree would in order to modify the...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang X,Keplinger T,Gierlinger N,Burgert I

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In studies looking at individual polyploid species, the most common patterns of genomic change are that either genome size in the polyploid is additive (i.e. the sum of parental genome donors) or there is evidence of genome downsizing. Reports showing an increase in genome size are rare. In a large-scale ana...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Leitch IJ,Hanson L,Lim KY,Kovarik A,Chase MW,Clarkson JJ,Leitch AR

更新日期：2008-04-01 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 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: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:During the Mesozoic, the polar regions supported coniferous forests that experienced warm climates, a CO(2)-rich atmosphere and extreme seasonal variations in daylight. How the interaction between the last two factors might have influenced water use of these conifers was investigated. An experimenta...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Llorens L,Osborne CP,Beerling DJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The co-occurring of evergreen and deciduous angiosperm trees in Asian tropical dry forests on karst substrates suggests the existence of different water-use strategies among species. In this study it is hypothesized that the co-occurring evergreen and deciduous trees differ in stem hydraulic traits ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Fu PL,Jiang YJ,Wang AY,Brodribb TJ,Zhang JL,Zhu SD,Cao KF

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudovivipary is an asexual reproductive strategy exhibited by some arctic/alpine grasses in which leafy plantlets are produced in place of seeds, with genetic conservation an advantage for stress tolerators in these nutrient-poor habitats. Photosynthetic metabolism and the development of this reproductive system wer...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pierce S,Stirling CM,Baxter R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Refugia are island-like habitats that are linked to long-term environmental stability and, as a result, high endemism. Conservation of refugia and endemism hotspots should be based on a deep ecological and evolutionary understanding of their functioning, which remains limited. Although functional traits can ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Keppel G,Ottaviani G,Harrison S,Wardell-Johnson GW,Marcantonio M,Mucina L

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Our aim was to understand the environmental conditions of the emergence and radiation of early angiosperms. Such a question has long remained controversial because various approaches applied in the past have drawn conflicting images of early angiosperm ecology. METHODS:We provided a new perspective...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pouteau R,Trueba S,Isnard S

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Despite extensive study of polyploidy, its origin, and ecogeographical differences between polyploids and their diploid progenitors, few studies have addressed ploidy-level structure and patterns of ecogeographical differentiation at various spatial scales using detailed sampling procedures. The pat...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Duchoslav M,Safárová L,Krahulec F

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The origin of new species and of new forms is one of the fundamental characteristics of evolution. However, the mechanisms that govern the diversity and disparity of lineages remain poorly understood. Particularly unclear are the reasons why some taxa are vastly more species-rich than others and the manner i...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Melzer R,Theißen G

更新日期：2016-04-01 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:Hypocotyls are a commonly used model to study primary growth in plants, since post-germinative hypocotyls increase in size by cell elongation rather than cell division. Flax hypocotyls produce phloem fibres in bundles one to two cell layers thick, parallel to the protoxylem poles of the stele. Cell ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Roach MJ,Deyholos MK

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

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:Biotic and abiotic stressors can cause different defoliation patterns within trees. Foliar pathogens of conifers commonly prefer older needles and infection with defoliation that progresses from the bottom crown to the top. The functional role of the lower crown of trees is a key question to address...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gomez-Gallego M,Williams N,Leuzinger S,Scott PM,Bader MK

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Invasion by alien plants may be partially related to disturbance-related increases in nutrient availability and decreases of competition with native species, and to superior competitive ability of the invader. Oxalis pes-caprae is an invasive winter geophyte in the Mediterranean Islands that reprodu...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Sala A,Verdaguer D,Vilà M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salt stress has become a major threat to plant growth and productivity. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonize plant root systems and modulate plant growth in various ways. SCOPE:This review addresses the significance of arbuscular mycorrhiza in alleviation of salt stress and their beneficial effects on plan...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Evelin H,Kapoor R,Giri B

更新日期：2009-12-01 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