First record of bat-pollination in the species-rich genus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae).

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Floral development is a powerful tool to infer homologies of floral organs and to understand floral evolution. Caryophyllaceae is a major family of core Caryophyllales that possesses petal-like structures (petaloids) with a great diversity in shape. The main purpose of this study is to determine the...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wei L,Craene LR

更新日期：2019-09-24 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: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: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:Plants adapted for pollination by rodents tend to exhibit a distinct floral syndrome that includes dull coloured and geoflorous inflorescences and nocturnal anthesis and nectar production. On the basis of their floral traits, it was predicted that two African Colchicum species (C. scabromarginatum a...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Kleizen C,Midgley J,Johnson SD

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated waterlogging tolerance, root porosity and radial O(2) loss (ROL) from the adventitious roots, of seven upland, three paddy, and two deep-water genotypes of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Upland types, with the exception of one genotype, were as tolerant of 30 d soil waterlogging as the paddy and d...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Colmer TD

更新日期：2003-01-01 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 Nassella trichotoma is an unpalatable perennial grass weed that invades disturbed native grasslands in temperate regions of south-eastern Australia. This experiment investigated whether elevated N levels, often associated with disturbance, increases the competitiveness of N. trichotoma relative to C...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Badgery WB,Kemp DR,Michalk DL,King WM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

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:Sarcocornia comprises about 28 species of perennial succulent halophytes distributed worldwide, mainly in saline environments of warm-temperate and subtropical regions. The genus is characterized by strongly reduced leaves and flowers, which cause taxonomic difficulties; however, species in the genu...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Steffen S,Ball P,Mucina L,Kadereit G

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Studies of phenotypic plasticity in plants have mainly focused on (1) the effect of environmental variation on whole-plant traits related to the number of modules rather than on (2) the phenotypic consequences of environmental variation in traits of individual modules. Since environmental and develo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Camargo ID,Nattero J,Careaga SA,Núñez-Farfán J

更新日期：2017-10-17 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:Understanding the evolutionary and ecological forces contributing to the emergence of biodiversity hotspots is of outstanding importance to elucidate how they may withstand current climate changes. Here we explored patterns of phylogenetic and non-phylogenetic plant endemism in a Mediterranean biodi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Molina-Venegas R,Aparicio A,Lavergne S,Arroyo J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Mite domatia are small structures on the underside of plant leaves that provide homes for predacious or fungivorous mites. In turn, mites inhabiting domatia defend the plant by consuming leaf herbivores and pathogens, which can result in a domatia-mediated, plant-mite defence mutualism. Several rece...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Weber MG,Porturas LD,Taylor SA

更新日期：2016-09-01 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:Tillering has a significant effect on canopy development and, hence, on resource capture, crop growth and grain yield in sorghum. However, the physiological basis of tillering and its regulation by environmental effects are not fully understood. The objective of this study was to understand and quan...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Kim HK,van Oosterom E,Dingkuhn M,Luquet D,Hammer G

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Plants are expected to maximize their net photosynthetic gains and efficiently use available resources, but the fundamental principles governing trade-offs in suites of traits related to resource-use optimization remain uncertain. This study investigated whether Acer saccharum (sugar maple) saplings...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Posada JM,Sievänen R,Messier C,Perttunen J,Nikinmaa E,Lechowicz MJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Evolutionary and ecological roles of the chloroplast small heat shock protein (CPsHSP) have been emphasized based on variations in protein contents; however, DNA sequence variations related to the evolutionary and ecological roles of this gene have not been investigated. In the present study, a basa...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wu ML,Lin TP,Lin MY,Cheng YP,Hwang SY

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Columella cells of seedlings of Zea mays L. cv. Bear Hybrid grown in the microgravity of orbital flight allocate significantly larger relative-volumes to hyaloplasm and lipid bodies, and significantly smaller relative-volumes to dictyosomes, plastids, and starch than do columella cells of seedlings grown at 1 g. The...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Moore R

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Polyploidy has played a major role in the origin of new plant species, probably because of the expansion of polyploid populations in the species' ecological niche, and because reproductive isolation can be established between a new polyploid population and its diploid progenitor species. It is well ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ma WJ,Santos Del Blanco L,Pannell JR

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Jatropha curcas (jatropha) is an oil crop cultivated in (sub)tropical regions around the world, and holds great promise as a renewable energy source. However, efforts to fully commercialize jatropha are currently hampered by the lack of genetic diversity in the extant breeding germplasm, and by the ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Vandepitte K,Valdés-Rodríquez OA,Sánchez-Sánchez O,De Kort H,Martinez-Herrera J,García-Pérez E,De Meyer T,Pérez-Vázquez A,Muys B,Honnay O

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this review we report on recent literature concerned with studies of gynodioecy, or the co-occurrence of female and hermaphrodite individuals in natural plant populations. Rather than review this literature in its entirety, our focus is on the interplay between theoretical and empirical approaches to the ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： McCauley DE,Bailey MF

更新日期：2009-09-01 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 AND AIMS:The broomrapes, Orobanche sensu lato (Orobanchaceae), are common root parasites found across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas. All species native to the western hemisphere, recognized as Orobanche sections Gymnocaulis and Nothaphyllon, form a clade that has a centre of diversity in western North Ame...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Schneider AC,Colwell AE,Schneeweiss GM,Baldwin BG

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:This light and electron microscope study revealed that leptosporangiate ferns have highly distinctive gametophyte-sporophyte junctions characterized by sporophytic haustoria, the absence of intraplacental spaces and degenerating cells, and the early appearance of wall ingrowths in both generations. Other notable cytol...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Duckett JG,Ligrone R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Most genera of the neotropical Galipeinae (tribe Galipeeae, Rutoideae) exhibit several forms and degrees of fusion between the floral organs, including the union of petals into an apparently sympetalous corolla, the joining of the stamens among themselves and to the corolla, and the partial to compl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： El Ottra JH,Pirani JR,Endress PK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND SCOPE:Over more than 120 years of scientific study since Schimper's seminal work, the recognized categories of structurally dependent plants have changed several times. Currently, ignoring parasitic mistletoes, it is usual to distinguish four functional groups: (1) true epiphytes; (2) primary hemiepiphyt...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zotz G

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Aims Morphological variation in light-foraging strategies potentially plays important roles in efficient light utilization and carbon assimilation in spatially and temporally heterogeneous environments such as tropical moist forest understorey. By considering a suite of morphological traits at various h...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Laurans M,Vincent G

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00