Plasticity of floral longevity and floral display in the self-compatible biennial Sabatia angularis (Gentianaceae): untangling the role of multiple components of pollination.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The genus Olea (Oleaceae) includes approx. 40 taxa of evergreen shrubs and trees classified in three subgenera, Olea, Paniculatae and Tetrapilus, the first of which has two sections (Olea and Ligustroides). Olive trees (the O. europaea complex) have been the subject of intensive research, whereas li...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Besnard G,Rubio de Casas R,Christin PA,Vargas P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Ecosystem-based flood defence including salt-marsh as a key component is increasingly applied worldwide due to its multifunctionality and cost-effectiveness. While numerous experiments have explored the wave-attenuation effects of salt-marsh plants critical to flood protection, little is known about...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Shao D,Zhou W,Bouma TJ,Asaeda T,Wang ZB,Liu X,Sun T,Cui B

更新日期：2020-02-03 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:The persistence of plants inhabiting restricted alpine areas under climate change will depend upon many factors including levels of genetic variation in adaptive traits, population structure, and breeding system. METHODS:Using microsatellite markers, the genetic structure of populations of a relati...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Byars SG,Parsons Y,Hoffmann AA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Different populations of the Mediterranean xerohalophyte species Atriplex halimus exhibit different levels of resistance to salt and osmotic stress depending on the nature of the osmocompatible solute they accumulate. There is, however, no conclusive description of the involvement of abscisic acid (...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ben Hassine A,Ghanem ME,Bouzid S,Lutts S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although active oxygen species are produced at high rates in both the chloroplasts and peroxisomes of the leaves of C3 plants, most attention has focused on the potentially damaging consequences of enhanced chloroplastic production in stress conditions such as drought. This article attempts to provide quantitative est...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Noctor G,Veljovic-Jovanovic S,Driscoll S,Novitskaya L,Foyer CH

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Digestive structures of carnivorous plants produce external digestive enzymes, and play the main role in absorption. In Lentibulariaceae, the ultrastructure of digestive hairs has been examined in some detail in Pinguicula and Utricularia, but the sessile digestive hairs of Genlisea have received ve...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Płachno BJ,Kozieradzka-Kiszkurno M,Swiatek P

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The gametophyte phase of ferns plays an important role in habitat selection, dispersal, adaptation and evolution. However, ecological studies on fern gametophytes have been impeded due to the difficulty of species identification of free-living gametophytes. DNA barcoding provides an alternative appr...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chen CW,Huang YM,Kuo LY,Nguyen QD,Luu HT,Callado JR,Farrar DR,Chiou WL

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Long terminal repeat-retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) comprise a large portion of plant genomes, with massive repeat blocks distributed across the chromosomes. Eleocharis species have holocentric chromosomes, and show a positive correlation between chromosome numbers and the amount of nuclear DNA. To eval...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： de Souza TB,Chaluvadi SR,Johnen L,Marques A,González-Elizondo MS,Bennetzen JL,Vanzela ALL

更新日期：2018-08-01 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:In angiosperms xyloglucan endotransglucosylase (XET)/hydrolase (XTH) is involved in reorganization of the cell wall during growth and development. The location of oligo-xyloglucan transglucosylation activity and the presence of XTH expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in the earliest diverging extant plan...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Van Sandt VS,Stieperaere H,Guisez Y,Verbelen JP,Vissenberg K

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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:It is an enduring question as to the mechanisms leading to the high diversity and the processes producing endemics with unusual morphologies in the Himalayan alpine region. In the present study, the phylogenetic relationships and origins of three such endemic genera were analysed, Dolomiaea, Diplazo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang YJ,Liu JQ,Miehe G

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:To investigate crown development patterns, branch architecture, branch-level light interception, and leaf and branch dynamics were studied in saplings of a plagiotropically branching tree species, Polyalthia jenkinsii Hk. f. & Thoms. (Annonaceae) in a Malaysian rain forest. Lengths of branches and parts of the branche...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Osada N,Takeda H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Crassula hunua and C. ruamahanga have been taxonomically controversial. Here their distinctiveness is assessed so that their taxonomic and conservation status can be clarified. METHODS:Populations of these two species were analysed using morphological, chromosomal and DNA sequence data. KEY RESULT...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： De Lange PJ,Heenan PB,Keeling DJ,Murray BG,Smissen R,Sykes WR

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Quiescence is a fundamental feature of plant life, which enables plasticity, renewal and fidelity of the somatic cell line. Cellular quiescence is defined by arrest in a particular phase of the cell cycle, typically G1 or G2; however, the regulation of quiescence and proliferation can also be considered acro...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Velappan Y,Signorelli S,Considine MJ

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium) is a model system for studying cereal, bioenergy, forage and turf grasses. The genetic and evolutionary basis of the adaptation of this wild grass species to drought stress is largely unknown. Peroxidase (POD) may play a role in plant drought tolerance, but whe...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Luo N,Yu X,Nie G,Liu J,Jiang Y

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Rhinanthus minor is a root hemiparasitic plant that attacks a wide range of host species which are severely damaged by the parasite. Rhinanthus minor also attempts unsuccessfully to form connections to a range of non-hosts which in contrast are not damaged by the parasite; however, the underlying ph...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cameron DD,Coats AM,Seel WE

更新日期：2006-12-01 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: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：: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:According to the air-seeding hypothesis, embolism vulnerability in xylem elements is linked directly to bordered pit structure and functioning. To elucidate the adaptive potential of intervessel pits towards fluctuating environmental conditions, two mangrove species with a distinct ecological distri...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Schmitz N,Jansen S,Verheyden A,Kairo JG,Beeckman H,Koedam N

更新日期：2007-08-01 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 AND AIMS:Theory for optimal allocation of foliar nitrogen (ONA) predicts that both nitrogen concentration and photosynthetic capacity will scale linearly with gradients of insolation within plant canopies. ONA is expected to allow plants to efficiently use both light and nitrogen. However, empirical data gen...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Posada JM,Lechowicz MJ,Kitajima K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The wild progenitors of the Near Eastern legumes have low germination rates mediated by hardseededness. Hence it was argued that cultivation of these wild legumes would probably result in no yield gain. Based on the meagre natural yield of wild lentil and its poor germination, it was suggested that ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Abbo S,Rachamim E,Zehavi Y,Zezak I,Lev-Yadun S,Gopher A

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Reproductive assurance through autonomous selfing is thought to be one of the main advantages of self-fertilization in plants. Floral mechanisms that ensure autonomous seed set are therefore more likely to occur in species that grow in habitats where pollination is scarce and/or unpredictable. METH...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Brys R,Jacquemyn H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Spring ephemerals have a specific life-history trait, i.e. shoot growth and sexual reproduction occur simultaneously during a short period from snowmelt to canopy closure in deciduous forests. The aim of this study is to clarify how spring ephemerals invest resources for seed production within a res...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Horibata S,Hasegawa SF,Kudo G

更新日期：2007-09-01 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