Analysing growth and development of plants jointly using developmental growth stages.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Robustness to genetic and environmental perturbation is a salient feature of multicellular organisms. Loss of developmental robustness can lead to severe phenotypic defects and fitness loss. However, perfect robustness, i.e. no variation at all, is evolutionarily unfit as organisms must be able to change phe...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Lachowiec J,Queitsch C,Kliebenstein DJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 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:Submerged plants composed of charophytes (green algae) and angiosperms develop dense vegetation in small, shallow lakes and in littoral zones of large lakes. Many small, oligotrophic plant species have declined due to drainage and fertilization of lakes, while some tall, eutrophic species have increased. Alt...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Sand-Jensen K,Andersen MR,Martinsen KT,Borum J,Kristensen E,Kragh T

更新日期：2019-10-18 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:Epigenetic regulation plays an important role in the management of plant growth, development and response to stress factors, and several reports have indicated that DNA methylation plays a critical role in seed development and viability. This study examines changes in 5-methylcytosine (m(5)C) levels...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Michalak M,Plitta-Michalak BP,Naskręt-Barciszewska M,Barciszewski J,Bujarska-Borkowska B,Chmielarz P

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Leaf area of cotton seedlings (Gossypium hirsutum) can be reduced by as much as 50 % by early season thrips infestations, but it is well documented that plants can regain the difference in leaf area once infestation ceases. The processes involved in the recovery have not been identified. Hypotheses ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Lei TT,Wilson LJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND SCOPE:Self-incompatibility (SI) in flowering plants ensures the maintenance of genetic diversity by ensuring outbreeding. Different genetic and mechanistic systems of SI among flowering plants suggest either multiple origins of SI or considerable evolutionary diversification. In the grasses, SI is based ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Klaas M,Yang B,Bosch M,Thorogood D,Manzanares C,Armstead IP,Franklin FC,Barth S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Plasticity of floral traits in response to pollination can enable plants to maximize opportunities for pollen import and export under poor pollination conditions, while minimizing costs under favourable ones. Both floral longevity and display are key traits influencing pollination. While pollination...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Spigler RB

更新日期：2017-01-01 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:Adaptive explanations for variation in sex allocation centre on variation in resource status and variation in the mating environment. The latter can occur when dichogamy causes siring opportunity to vary across the flowering season. In this study, it is hypothesized that the widespread tendency towa...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Austen EJ,Weis AE

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a transgenic citrus plant expressing Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) as a parent in somatic fusion experiments, we investigated the suitability of GFP as an in vivo marker to follow the processes of protoplast fusion, regeneration and selection of hybrid plants. A high level of GFP expression was detected in tra...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Olivares-Fuster O,Peña L,Duran-Vila N,Navarro L

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The water gap is an important morphoanatomical structure in seeds with physical dormancy (PY). It is an environmental signal detector for dormancy break and the route of water into the non-dormant seed. The Convolvulaceae, which consists of subfamilies Convolvuloideae (11 tribes) and Humbertoideae (...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Jayasuriya KM,Baskin JM,Geneve RL,Baskin CC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Solanaceae seed morphology and physiology have been widely studied but mainly in domesticated crops. The present study aimed to compare the seed morphology and the physiology of germination of Solanum lycocarpum, an important species native to the Brazilian Cerrado, with two species with endospermic...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pinto LV,Da Silva EA,Davide AC,De Jesus VA,Toorop PE,Hilhorst HW

更新日期：2007-12-01 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: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 Allozyme and reproductive data sets for the Canarian flora are updated in order to assess how the present levels and structuring of genetic variation have been influenced by the abiotic island traits and by phylogenetically determined biotic traits of the corresponding taxa; and in order to suggest...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pérez de Paz J,Caujapé-Castells J

更新日期：2013-06-01 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: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:Despite the importance of vessels in angiosperm roots for plant water transport, there is little research on the microanatomy of woody plant roots. Vessels in roots can be interconnected networks or nearly solitary, with few vessel-vessel connections. Species with few connections are common in arid ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Johnson DM,Brodersen CR,Reed M,Domec JC,Jackson RB

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This section comprises a set of papers taken from those presented at a symposium held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Monsi-Saeki theory (1953), together with invited papers. The papers describe recent advances in the study of structure and function of plant canopies and are written by former students (and ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hirose T,Terashima I

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population and environmental pressure have imposed a great challenge on agriculture in China to explore innovative and effective solutions to its pressing plant nutritional problems. Plant nutriomics is a new frontier in plant biology that can provide innovative solutions for improving plant nutrient efficie...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Yan X,Wu P,Ling H,Xu G,Xu F,Zhang Q

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Selection may favour a partial or complete loss of self-incompatibility (SI) if it increases the reproductive output of individuals in the presence of low mate availability. The reproductive output of individuals varying in their strength of SI may also be affected by population density via its affe...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ferrer MM,Good-Avila SV,Montaña C,Domínguez CA,Eguiarte LE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Capsella is a model genus for studying the transition from outcrossing to selfing, with or without change in ploidy levels. The genomic consequences and changes in reproductive traits (selfing syndrome) associated with these shifts have been studied in depth. However, potential ecological divergence...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Petrone Mendoza S,Lascoux M,Glémin S

更新日期：2018-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To establish successful infection, plant viruses produce profound alterations of host physiology, disturbing unrelated endogenous processes and contributing to the development of disease. In tobamoviruses, emerging evidence suggests that viral-encoded proteins display a great variety of functions beyond the ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Conti G,Rodriguez MC,Venturuzzi AL,Asurmendi S

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Reynoutria is represented by four taxa in the Czech Republic: Reynoutria japonica var. japonica, R. japonica var. compacta, R. sachalinensis and R. xbohemica. By using flow cytometry, cytological variability within the genus is described based on 257 Reynoutria samples. The varieties of R. japonica are cytol...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Mandak B,Pysek P,Lysak M,Suda J,Krahulcova A,Bimova K

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:There are a number of disparate models predicting variation in plant chemical defences between species, and within a single species over space and time. These can give conflicting predictions. Here we review a number of these theories, before assessing their power to predict the spatial-temporal var...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Martinez-Swatson K,Kjøller R,Cozzi F,Simonsen HT,Rønsted N,Barnes C

更新日期：2020-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Reconstructions have identified the 20th century as being uniquely warm in the last 1000 years. Changes in the phenology of primary meristems converged toward increases in length of the growing season. Has the phenology of secondary meristem changed during the last century, and to what extent? METH...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Boulouf Lugo J,Deslauriers A,Rossi S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:While pollinators may in general select for large, morphologically uniform floral phenotypes, drought stress has been proposed as a destabilizing force that may favour small flowers and/or promote floral variation within species. METHODS:The general validity of this concept was checked by surveying...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Herrera J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of P deficiency on growth, N(2)-fixation and photosynthesis in white clover (Trifolium repens L.) plants were investigated using three contrasting relative addition rates of P, or following abrupt withdrawal of the P supply. Responses to a constant below-optimum P supply rate consisted of a decline in N(2)...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Høgh-Jensen H,Schjoerring J,Soussana JF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:A reliable protocol for flowering and fruiting in cuttings was developed with the aim of (a) studying inflorescence and flower development in grapevine cuttings and field plants, and (b) assisting haploid plant production. METHODS:Inflorescence and flower development was studied in 'Gewurztraminer'...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Lebon G,Duchêne E,Brun O,Clément C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00