Specific peroxidases differentiate Brachypodium distachyon accessions and are associated with drought tolerance traits.

abstract：Background and Aims:Natural enemies are known to be important in regulating plant populations and contributing to species coexistence (Janzen-Connell effects). The strength of Janzen-Connell effects (both distance- and density-effects) varies across species, but the life history traits that may mediate such a variation...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Choo J,Carasco C,Alvarez-Loayza P,Simpson BB,Economo EP

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Roots growing in soil encounter physical, chemical and biological environments that influence their rhizospheres and affect plant growth. Exudates from roots can stimulate or inhibit soil organisms that may release nutrients, infect the root, or modify plant growth via signals. These rhizosphere processes ar...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Watt M,Silk WK,Passioura JB

更新日期：2006-05-01 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: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 AND AIMS:Natural regeneration of white spruce (Picea glauca) after disturbance has been reported to be very poor. Here a study was made to determine whether C compounds released from understorey species growing together with white spruce could be involved in this regeneration failure, either by (1) changing ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Castells E,Peñuelas J,Valentine DW

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS AND AIMS:The rhizosphere priming effect (RPE) has been explained from the perspective of microbial responses to root exudates and nutrient availability. This study introduced a chemical process that could also contribute to RPE: root exudates (organic acid ligands) could liberate mineral-protected carbon (C...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Xu Q,Wang X,Tang C

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pollen is the male gametophyte of higher plants. Upon pollination, it germinates and develops into a fast-growing cytoplasmic extension, the pollen tube, which ultimately delivers the sperm into the ovary. The biological relevance of its role, and the uniqueness of this kind of cellular organization, have ma...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Becker JD,Feijó JA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Many previous studies conclude that pre-zygotic barriers such as mechanical isolation account for most reproductive isolation between pairs of taxa. However, the inheritance and persistence of barriers such as these after the first generation of hybridization is rarely quantified, even though it is ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Larcombe MJ,Costa E Silva J,Tilyard P,Gore P,Potts BM

更新日期：2016-09-01 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 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：:Experiments were carried out at IGER, Aberystwyth, UK to investigate traits of direct relevance to the processes of overwintering and spring growth in white clover (Trifolium repens L.). The plant material used was derived from baseline populations of the cultivar AberHerald and survivor populations generated after 2-...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Collins RP,Helgadóttir A,Fothergill M,Rhodes I

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The capacity for fast-growth recovery after de-submergence is important for establishment of riparian species in a water-level-fluctuation zone. Recovery patterns of two wetland plants, Alternanthera philoxeroides and Hemarthria altissima, showing 'escape' and 'quiescence' responses, respectively, d...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Luo FL,Nagel KA,Scharr H,Zeng B,Schurr U,Matsubara S

更新日期：2011-01-01 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 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: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:Our aim was to understand the environmental conditions of the emergence and radiation of early angiosperms. Such a question has long remained controversial because various approaches applied in the past have drawn conflicting images of early angiosperm ecology. METHODS:We provided a new perspective...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pouteau R,Trueba S,Isnard S

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The recent assembly of the complete sequence of the plastid genome of the model taxon Physcomitrella patens (Funariaceae, Bryophyta) revealed that a 71-kb fragment, encompassing much of the large single copy region, is inverted. This inversion of 57% of the genome is the largest rearrangement detect...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Goffinet B,Wickett NJ,Werner O,Ros RM,Shaw AJ,Cox CJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:A brief review is given of Peter W. Barlows' contributions to research on gravity tide-related phenomena in plant biology, or 'selenonastic' effects as he called them, including his early research on root growth. Also, new results are presented here from long-term recordings of spontaneous ultra-weak light e...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gallep CM,Viana JF,Cifra M,Clarke D,Robert D

更新日期：2018-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lignin is a polyphenolic polymer that strengthens and waterproofs the cell wall of specialized plant cell types. Lignification is part of the normal differentiation programme and functioning of specific cell types, but can also be triggered as a response to various biotic and abiotic stresses in cells that w...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Barros J,Serk H,Granlund I,Pesquet E

更新日期：2015-06-01 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 AND AIMS:The cell cycle-regulated protein ENDOSPERM DEFECTIVE 1 (EDE1) is a novel plant microtubule-associated protein essential for plant cell division and for microtubule organization in endosperm. EDE1 is only present on microtubules at mitosis and its expression is highly cell cycle regulated both at the...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pignocchi C,Doonan JH

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The mobile carbon supply to different compartments of a tree is affected by climate, but its impact on cell-wall chemistry and mechanics remains unknown. To understand better the variability in root growth and biomechanics in mountain forests subjected to substrate mass movement, we investigated roo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Genet M,Li M,Luo T,Fourcaud T,Clément-Vidal A,Stokes A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The ability to detect and respond to the impending threat of shade can confer significant selective advantage to plants growing in natural communities. This Botanical Briefing highlights (a) the regulation of shade-avoidance responses by endogenous and exogenous factors and (b) current understanding...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Franklin KA,Whitelam GC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses are important for nutrient acquisition in >80 % of terrestrial plants. Recently there have been major breakthroughs in understanding the signals that regulate colonization by the fungus, but the roles of the known plant hormones are still emerging. Here our understan...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Foo E,Ross JJ,Jones WT,Reid JB

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent paper, we described for the first time the effects of fruit on the expression of putative homologues of genes involved in flowering pathways. It was our aim to provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying alternate bearing in citrus. However, a bioinformatics-based critique of our and other rel...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Muñoz-Fambuena N,Mesejo C,González-Mas MC,Primo-Millo E,Agustí M,Iglesias DJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:An endogenous rhythm synchronized to dawn cannot time photosynthesis-linked genes to peak consistently at noon since the interval between sunrise and noon changes seasonally. In this study, a solar clock model that circumvents this limitation is proposed using two daily timing references synchronize...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Yeang HY

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:There are many unresolved issues concerning the biochemistry of fructan biosynthesis. The aim of this paper is to address some of these by means of modelling mathematically the biochemical processes. METHODS:A model has been constructed for the step-by-step synthesis of fructan polymers. This is ru...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Rasmussen S,Thornley JH,Parsons AJ,Harrison SJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristics of current-year shoot populations were examined for three mature trees of each of three deciduous broad-leaved species. For first-order branches (branches emerging from the vertical trunk) of the trees examined, lengths or diameters of all current-year shoots were measured. Total leaf mass and total cu...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Suzuki M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:It is widely accepted that changes in the environment affect mean trait expression, but little is known about how the environment shapes intra-individual and intra-population variance. Theory suggests that intra-individual variance might be plastic and under natural selection, rather than reflecting...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： March-Salas M,Fandos G,Fitze PS

更新日期：2020-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Since the proposal of the cohesion theory there has been a paradox that the lumenal surface of vessels is rich in hydrophobic lignin, while tension in the rising sap requires adhesion to a hydrophilic surface. This study sought to characterize the strength of that adhesion in maize (Zea mays), the w...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： McCully M,Canny M,Baker A,Miller C

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00