Phylogeny, biogeography and ecological diversification of Sarcocornia (Salicornioideae, Amaranthaceae).

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 Mating systems of plants are diverse and evolutionarily labile. Abiotic environmental factors, such as seasonal drought, may impose selection on physiological traits that could lead to transitions in mating system if physiological traits are genetically correlated with traits that influence mating ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ivey CT,Dudley LS,Hove AA,Emms SK,Mazer SJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Although plant distribution patterns are well documented, our understanding of the ecophysiological mechanisms that control the geographical ranges of plant species remains poor. We used a largely ignored method, the performance of the male gametophyte in vitro, to assess whether the thermal range o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Rosbakh S,Poschlod P

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) is a large genus of dioecious trees with approx. 260 species. To date, only one pollination study of the genus has reported brood-site pollination by thrips in M. hullettii. In this study, the pollination system of Macaranga tanarius is reported. METHODS:The study was cond...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ishida C,Kono M,Sakai S

更新日期：2009-01-01 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:Recent developments in DNA sequencing, so-called next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods, can help the study of rare lineages that are known from museum specimens. Here, the taxonomy and evolution of the Malagasy grass lineage Chasechloa was investigated with the aid of NGS. METHODS:Full chloropla...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Silva C,Besnard G,Piot A,Razanatsoa J,Oliveira RP,Vorontsova MS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Species of the Nepenthaceae family are under-represented in studies of leaf traits and the consequent view of mineral nutrition and limitation in carnivorous plants. This study is aimed to complement existing data on leaf traits of carnivorous plants. METHODS:Physico-chemical properties, including ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Osunkoya OO,Daud SD,Di-Giusto B,Wimmer FL,Holige TM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND SCOPE:Models of nectar formation and exudation in multilayered nectaries with modified stomata or permeable cuticle are evaluated. In the current symplasmic model the pre-nectar moves from terminal phloem through the symplasm into the apoplasm (cell walls and intercellular spaces) with nectar formation b...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Vassilyev AE

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Late-acting self-incompatibility (LSI), in which selfed flowers fail to form fruits despite apparently successful growth of the pollen tubes to the ovules, is a contentious and still poorly understood phenomenon. Some studies have indicated pollen tube-pistil interactions, and major gene control. Ot...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gibbs P,Bianchi MB,Taroda Ranga N

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：AIMS AND BACKGROUND:While the temperature response of soil respiration (R(S)) has been well studied, the partitioning of heterotrophic respiration (R(H)) by soil microbes from autotrophic respiration (R(A)) by roots, known to have distinct temperature sensitivities, has been problematic. Further complexity stems from t...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Graham SL,Millard P,Hunt JE,Rogers GN,Whitehead D

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：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：:Background and Aims The Arabidopsis thaliana root is a key experimental system in developmental biology. Despite its importance, we are still lacking an objective and broadly applicable approach for identification of number and position of developmental domains or zones along the longitudinal axis of the root apex or ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pacheco-Escobedo MA,Ivanov VB,Ransom-Rodríguez I,Arriaga-Mejía G,Ávila H,Baklanov IA,Pimentel A,Corkidi G,Doerner P,Dubrovsky JG,Álvarez-Buylla ER,Garay-Arroyo A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:A meta-analysis of global change experiments in arctic tundra sites suggests that plant productivity and the cover of shrubs, grasses and dead plant material (i.e. litter) will increase and the cover of bryophytes will decrease in response to higher air temperatures. However, little is known about w...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Eckstein RL,Pereira E,Milbau A,Graae BJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 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: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 AND AIMS:Because of its rapid growth rate, relative ease of transformation, sequenced genome and low gene number relative to Arabidopsis, the tropical fruit tree, Carica papaya, can serve as a complementary genetic model for complex traits. Here, new phenotypes and touch-regulated gene homologues have been i...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Porter BW,Zhu YJ,Webb DT,Christopher DA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tylosema esculentum is a long-lived perennial species endemic to arid areas of southern Africa. Its potential as a crop species has long been recognized as a result of the high oil and protein content of its seeds. The reproductive biology and breeding systems of the species were investigated in wild and experimental ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hartley ML,Tshamekeng E,Thomas SM

更新日期：2002-01-01 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:Light interception is closely related to canopy architecture. Few studies based on multi-view photography have been conducted in a field environment, particularly studies that link 3-D plant architecture with a radiation model to quantify the dynamic canopy light interception. In this study, we comb...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhu B,Liu F,Xie Z,Guo Y,Li B,Ma Y

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Although it was generally assumed that Maxillaria spp. do not produce nectar, in recent years, nectar has been reported for a number of these orchids. Nevertheless, our current understanding of nectary structure and nectar secretion in Maxillaria is based solely on M. coccinea (Jacq.) L.O. Williams ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Davies KL,Stpiczyńska M,Gregg A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

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 AIMS:The success of using bent shoots in cut-rose (Rosa hybrida) production to improve flower shoot quality has been attributed to bent shoots capturing more light and thus providing more assimilates for flower shoot growth. We aimed at quantifying this contribution of photosynthesis by bent shoots to fl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhang N,van Westreenen A,Evers JB,Anten NPR,Marcelis LFM

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Changes in key traits occurring during the processes of plant domestication have long been subjects of debate. Only in the case of genetic analysis or with extensive plant remains can specific sets of changes be documented. Historical details of the plant domestication processes are rare and other e...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang JX,Gao TG,Knapp S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The evolution of complex rooting systems during the Devonian had significant impacts on global terrestrial ecosystems and the evolution of plant body plans. However, detailed understanding of the pathways of root evolution and the architecture of early rooting systems is currently lacking. We descri...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Matsunaga KK,Tomescu AM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Pepper (Capsicum annuum, Solanaceae) fruits are consumed worldwide and are of great economic importance. In most species ripening is characterized by important visual and metabolic changes, the latter including emission of volatile organic compounds associated with respiration, destruction of chloro...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chaki M,Álvarez de Morales P,Ruiz C,Begara-Morales JC,Barroso JB,Corpas FJ,Palma JM

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Sexually deceptive orchids achieve cross-pollination by mimicking the mating signals of female insects, generally hymenopterans. This pollination mechanism is often highly specific as it is based primarily on the mimicry of mating signals, especially the female sex pheromones of the targeted pollina...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Vereecken NJ,Schiestl FP

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00