Insights into a hydration regulating system in Cupressus pollen grains.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:In some dicotyledonous leaves and leaflets, the secondary veins run more-or-less straight to the margins and have well-defined lengths. For a given half-lamina of length L, an equation, previously proposed, relates the lengths of these veins, p, to the distances, l, between the leaf tip and their in...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Burton RF

更新日期：2004-02-01 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 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: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：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The interspecific allometry of maximum plant height (Hmax) with respect to maximum basal stem diameter (Dmax) has been studied for leptocaulis dicot and conifer tree species. In contrast, virtually nothing is known about the interspecific allometry of pachycaulis species. Here, the interspecific all...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Niklas KJ,Cobb ED,Marler T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Currently, functional-structural plant models (FSPMs) mostly resort to static descriptions of leaf spectral characteristics, which disregard the influence of leaf physiological changes over time. In many crop species, including soybean, these time-dependent physiological changes are of particular im...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Coussement J,Henke M,Lootens P,Roldán-Ruiz I,Steppe K,De Swaef T

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Seagrasses are marine, flowering plants with a hydrophilous pollination strategy. In these plants, successful mating requires dispersal of filamentous pollen grains through the water column to receptive stigmas. Approximately 40 % of seagrass species are monoecious, and therefore little pollen movem...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Sinclair EA,Gecan I,Krauss SL,Kendrick GA

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：: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:Understanding the fate and dynamics of cells during callus formation is essential to understanding totipotency and the mechanisms of somatic embryogenesis. Here, the fate of leaf explant cells during the development of embryogenic callus was investigated in the model legume Medicago truncatula. MET...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang XD,Nolan KE,Irwanto RR,Sheahan MB,Rose RJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：AIMS:This Botanical Briefing reviews how the integration of palaeontology, geochemistry and developmental biology is providing a new mechanistic framework for interpreting the 40- to 50-million-year gap between the origination of vascular land plants and the advent of large (megaphyll) leaves, a long-standing puzzle in...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Beerling DJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 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: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 AIMS:One of the classic examples of an allopolyploid is Iris versicolor, 'Blue Flag' (2n = 108), first studied by Edgar Anderson and later popularized by George Ledyard Stebbins in cytogenetics and evolutionary text-books. It is revisited here using modern molecular and cytogenetic tools to investigate its p...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Lim KY,Matyasek R,Kovarik A,Leitch A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The trailing edges of species ranges are becoming a subject of increasing interest as the environment changes due to global warming. Trailing edge populations are likely to face extinction because of a decline in numbers and an inability to evolve new adaptations with sufficient speed. Discussions of charact...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Levin DA

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：: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 AND AIMS:Several biogeographic models have been proposed to explain the colonization and diversification patterns of Macaronesian lineages. In this study, we calculated the diversification rates and explored what model better explains the current distribution of the 15 endemic species to the Canary Islands b...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Albaladejo RG,Martín-Hernanz S,Reyes-Betancort JA,Santos-Guerra A,Olangua-Corral M,Aparicio A

更新日期：2020-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Models assessing the prospects of plant species at the landscape level often focus primarily on the relationship between species dynamics and landscape structure. However, the short-term prospects of species with slow responses to landscape changes depend on the factors affecting local population dy...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hemrová L,Cervenková Z,Münzbergová Z

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The generic delimitations of Ficinia and Isolepis, sister genera in the Cypereae, are blurred. Typical Ficinia flowers have a lobed gynophore, which envelops the base of the nutlet, whereas in Isolepis the character is considered to be absent. Some former species of Isolepis, lacking the gynophore, ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Vrijdaghs A,Goetghebeur P,Muasya AM,Caris P,Smets E

更新日期：2005-12-01 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: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: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：:The various pollen dispersal units (PDU) found in orchids are discussed together with possible evolutionary trends and the consequences for germination and fertilization. Orchids with monad and tetrad pollen form more complex dispersal units by means of pollenkitt, elastoviscin, a callosic wall, common walls or a comb...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pacini E,Hesse M

更新日期：2002-06-01 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:The balance between stochastic forces and negative frequency-dependent selection largely determines style morph frequencies in heterostylous populations. Investigation of morph frequencies at geographical range limits can provide insights into the forces maintaining the floral polymorphism, and the ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Costa J,Castro S,Loureiro J,Barrett SC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:The division of resource investment between male and female functions is poorly known for land plants other than angiosperms. The ancient lycophyte genus Selaginella is similar in some ways to angiosperms (in heterospory and in having sex allocation occur in the sporophyte generation, for example) b...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Petersen KB,Burd M

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:In a range of plant species, the distribution of individual mean fecundity is skewed and dominated by a few highly fecund individuals. Larger plants produce greater seed crops, but the exact nature of the relationship between size and reproductive patterns is poorly understood. This is especially cl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Bogdziewicz M,Szymkowiak J,Calama R,Crone EE,Espelta JM,Lesica P,Marino S,Steele MA,Tenhumberg B,Tyre A,Żywiec M,Kelly D

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:By the year 2100, atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]a) could reach 800 ppm, having risen from ~200 ppm since the Neogene, beginning ~24 Myr ago. Changing [CO2]a affects plant carbon-water balance, with implications for growth, drought tolerance and vegetation shifts. The evolution of C4 photosynth...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Quirk J,Bellasio C,Johnson DA,Beerling DJ

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00