Temporal dynamics in wheat grain zinc distribution: is sink limitation the key?

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Artemisia halodendron is a native sub-shrub that occurs mainly in moving and semi-fixed sandy lands in Inner Mongolia, China. Information on the spatial patterns of wind-dispersed seed deposition and seedling recruitment of A. halodendron inhabiting moving sandy lands is very limited. The aim of thi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Li FR,Wang T,Zhang AS,Zhao LY,Kang LF,Chen W

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Grasslands are a major part of the global ecosystem, covering 37 % of the earth's terrestrial area. For a variety of reasons, mostly related to overgrazing and the resulting problems of soil erosion and weed encroachment, many of the world's natural grasslands are in poor condition and showing signs of degra...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： O'Mara FP

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of pyrophosphate (PPi) for plant metabolism and survival under low oxygen stress. Responses of roots of wild-type potato plants were compared with roots of transgenic plants containing decreased amounts of PPi as a result of the constitutive ex...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Mustroph A,Albrecht G,Hajirezaei M,Grimm B,Biemelt S

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:Polyploidy results in genetic turmoil, much of which is associated with new phenotypes that result in speciation. Five independent lines of synthetic allotetraploid N. x obtusiata (N x o) were created from crosses between the diploid N. attenuata (Na) (male) and N. obtusifolia (No) (female) and t...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Anssour S,Krügel T,Sharbel TF,Saluz HP,Bonaventure G,Baldwin IT

更新日期：2009-06-01 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:As annual crops develop, transpirational water loss increases substantially. This increase has to be matched by an increase in water uptake through the root system. The aim of this study was to assess the contributions of changes in intrinsic root hydraulic conductivity (Lp, water uptake per unit ro...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Suku S,Knipfer T,Fricke W

更新日期：2014-02-01 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:Most Neotropical species of Malpighiaceae produce floral fatty oils in calyx glands to attract pollinating oil-collecting bees, which depend on this resource for reproduction. This specialized type of pollination system tends to be lost in members of the family that occur outside the geographic dist...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cappellari SC,Haleem MA,Marsaioli AJ,Tidon R,Simpson BB

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sweet melons, Cucumis melo, are a widely grown and highly prized crop. While melons were familiar in antiquity, they were grown mostly for use of the young fruits, which are similar in appearance and taste to cucumbers, C. sativus. The time and place of emergence of sweet melons is obscure, but they are gene...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Paris HS,Amar Z,Lev E

更新日期：2012-07-01 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:The pericarp weight comprises <17 % of wheat grain weight at harvest. The pericarp supports the hydration and nutrition of both the embryo and endosperm during early grain filling. However, studies of the pericarp and its association with final grain weight have been scarce. This research studied th...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Herrera J,Calderini DF

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Arachis batizocoi is a wild relative of cultivated peanut (A. hypogaea), an allotetraploid with an AABB genome. Arachis batizocoi was once considered the ancestral donor of the peanut B genome, but cytogenetics and DNA phylogenies have indicated a new genome classification, 'K'. These observations s...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Leal-Bertioli SC,Santos SP,Dantas KM,Inglis PW,Nielen S,Araujo AC,Silva JP,Cavalcante U,Guimarães PM,Brasileiro AC,Carrasquilla-Garcia N,Penmetsa RV,Cook D,Moretzsohn MC,Bertioli DJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The angiosperm family Myrtaceae comprises 17 tribes with more than half of the estimated 5500 species being referred to the fleshy-fruited and predominantly rainforest associated Syzygieae and Myrteae. Previous studies suggest that fleshy fruits have evolved separately in these lineages, whereas gen...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Biffin E,Lucas EJ,Craven LA,Ribeiro da Costa I,Harrington MG,Crisp MD

更新日期：2010-07-01 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:Natural selection and genetic drift are important evolutionary forces in determining genetic and phenotypic differentiation in plant populations. The extent to which these two distinct evolutionary forces affect locally adaptive quantitative traits has been well studied in common plant and animal sp...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ye Q,Tang F,Wei N,Yao X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Successful cryopreservation of bryophytes is linked to intrinsic desiccation tolerance and survival can be enhanced by pre-treatment with abscisic acid (ABA) and sucrose. The pioneer moss Ditrichum plumbicola is naturally subjected to desiccation in the field but showed unexpectedly low survival of ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Rowntree JK,Duckett JG,Mortimer CL,Ramsay MM,Pressel S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Latewood formation in conifers occurs during the later part of the growing season, when the cell division activity of the cambium declines. Changes in temperature might be important for wood formation in trees. Therefore, the effects of a rapid decrease in temperature on cellular morphology of trach...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Begum S,Nakaba S,Yamagishi Y,Yamane K,Islam MA,Oribe Y,Ko JH,Jin HO,Funada R

更新日期：2012-09-01 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:The use of microarrays to characterize the transcript profile of Arabidopsis under various experimental conditions is rapidly expanding. This technique provides a huge amount of expression data, requiring bioinformatics tools to allow the proposal of working hypotheses. The aim of this study was to ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gonzali S,Loreti E,Novi G,Poggi A,Alpi A,Perata P

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Data are presented from 39 species of mosses and 16 liverworts for ratios of chlorophylls and total carotenoids, and light saturation of photosynthetic electron flow or photosynthetic CO2 uptake, in relation to the postulate that bryophyte cells in general show shade-plant characteristics. METHODS:...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Marschall M,Proctor MC

更新日期：2004-10-01 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 AND AIMS:Myrmecochory is a conspicuous feature of several sclerophyll ecosystems around the world but it has received little attention in the semi-arid areas of South America. This study addresses the importance of seed dispersal by ants in a 2500-km(2) area of the Caatinga ecosystem (north-east Brazil) and ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Leal IR,Wirth R,Tabarelli M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water relations and photosynthetic characteristics of plants of Lycium nodosum grown under increasing water deficit (WD), saline spray (SS) or saline irrigation (SI) were studied. Plants of this perennial, deciduous shrub growing in the coastal thorn scrubs of Venezuela show succulent leaves which persist for approx. ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Tezara W,Martínez D,Rengifo E,Herrera A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:For 84 years, botanists have relied on calculating the highest common factor for series of haploid chromosome numbers to arrive at a so-called basic number, x. This was done without consistent (reproducible) reference to species relationships and frequencies of different numbers in a clade. Likeliho...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cusimano N,Sousa A,Renner SS

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Mechanical perturbation is known to inhibit elongation of the inflorescence stem of Arabidopsis thaliana. The phenomenon has been reported widely for both herbaceous and woody plants, and has implications for how plants adjust their size and form to survive in mechanically perturbed environments. Wh...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Paul-Victor C,Rowe N

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Phytochrome B (phyB) is a photosensory receptor important for the control of plant plasticity and resource partitioning. Whether phyB is required to optimize plant biomass accumulation in agricultural crops exposed to full sunlight is unknown. Here we investigated the impact of mutations in the gene...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wies G,Mantese AI,Casal JJ,Maddonni GÁ

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in cell number during the early period of tomato fruit development were analysed by means of a deterministic model of cell multiplication. The period commenced at the seed stage with one theoretical cell undergoing intensive cell division, and ended when the cell number became nearly constant. The model takes ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Bertin N,Genard M,Fishman S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Root diameter, especially apical diameter, plays an important role in root development and function. The variation in diameter between roots, and along roots, affects root structure and thus the root system's overall foraging performance. However, the effect of diameter variation on root elongation,...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wu Q,Pagès L,Wu J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the successive stages of development of branches from axillary buds in fully rooted plants of Trifolium repens grown in near optimal conditions, and the way in which this developmental pathway differs when nodal root formation is prevented as plants grow out from a rooted base. Cuttings of a singl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Thomas RG,Hay MJ,Newton PC

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The Arecoideae is the largest and most diverse of the five subfamilies of palms (Arecaceae/Palmae), containing >50 % of the species in the family. Despite its importance, phylogenetic relationships among Arecoideae are poorly understood. Here the most densely sampled phylogenetic analysis of Arecoid...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Baker WJ,Norup MV,Clarkson JJ,Couvreur TL,Dowe JL,Lewis CE,Pintaud JC,Savolainen V,Wilmot T,Chase MW

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00