An assessment on the uncertainty of the nitrogen to phosphorus ratio as a threshold for nutrient limitation in plants.

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 AND AIMS:Nothoscordum gracile is an apomitic tetraploid widely distributed throughout the Americas and naturalized in many temperate regions of other continents. It has been suggested to form a species complex with sexual and apomictic N. nudicaule and N. macrostemon. Tetraploids of these species also share ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Souza LG,Crosa O,Speranza P,Guerra M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Phenolic compounds contribute to food quality and have potential health benefits. Consequently, they are an important target of selection for Citrus species. Numerous studies on this subject have revealed new molecules, potential biosynthetic pathways and linkage between species. Although polyphenol...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Durand-Hulak M,Dugrand A,Duval T,Bidel LP,Jay-Allemand C,Froelicher Y,Bourgaud F,Fanciullino AL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The sedge genus Carex, the most diversified angiosperm genus of the northern temperate zone, is renowned for its holocentric chromosomes and karyotype variability. The genus exhibits high variation in chromosome numbers both among and within species. Despite the possibility that this chromosome evol...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Escudero M,Weber JA,Hipp AL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Although numerous angraecoid orchids in Madagascar display typical sphingophilous syndrome (i.e. white, nectariferous, long-spurred flowers, producing a strong scent at the crepuscule that is attractive to moths), three species of Angraecum in Reunion, belonging to the endemic section Hadrangis, hav...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Micheneau C,Fournel J,Pailler T

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Despite concerns about the impact of rising sea levels and storm surge events on coastal ecosystems, there is remarkably little information on the response of terrestrial coastal plant species to seawater inundation. The aim of this study was to elucidate responses of a glycophyte (white clover, Tri...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： White AC,Colmer TD,Cawthray GR,Hanley ME

更新日期：2014-08-01 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: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:Silicon has been proven to exert beneficial effects on plant growth and stress tolerance, and silicon accumulation varies among different plant species. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely used dicot model for silicon accumulation, but little is known about the molecular mechanism of its silicon ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Sun H,Duan Y,Qi X,Zhang L,Huo H,Gong H

更新日期：2018-09-24 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:The growth of crops in a mixture is more variable and difficult to predict than that in pure stands. Light partitioning and crop leaf area expansion play prominent roles in explaining this variability. However, in many crops commonly grown in mixtures, including the forage species alfalfa, the sensi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Baldissera TC,Frak E,Carvalho PC,Louarn G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Aluminium is toxic in acid soils because the soluble Al(3+) inhibits root growth. A mechanism of Al(3+) tolerance discovered in many plant species involves the release of organic anions from root apices. The Al(3+)-activated release of citrate from the root apices of Al(3+)-tolerant genotypes of bar...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhou G,Delhaize E,Zhou M,Ryan PR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Data are presented from 39 species of mosses and 16 liverworts for ratios of chlorophylls and total carotenoids, and light saturation of photosynthetic electron flow or photosynthetic CO2 uptake, in relation to the postulate that bryophyte cells in general show shade-plant characteristics. METHODS:...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Marschall M,Proctor MC

更新日期：2004-10-01 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:The coexistence of forest tree species has often been linked to differences among species in terms of their response to light availability during the regeneration stage. From this perspective, species coexistence results from growth-growth or mortality-growth trade-offs along spatial light gradients...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Van Couwenberghe R,Gégout JC,Lacombe E,Collet C

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Phosphorus commonly limits crop yield and is frequently applied as fertilizer; however, supplies of quality rock phosphate for fertilizer production are diminishing. Plants have evolved many mechanisms to increase their P-fertilizer use efficiency, and an understanding of these traits could result i...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Brown LK,George TS,Thompson JA,Wright G,Lyon J,Dupuy L,Hubbard SF,White PJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Recent parsimony-based reconstructions suggest that seeds of early angiosperms had either morphophysiological or physiological dormancy, with the former considered as more probable. The aim of this study was to determine the class of seed dormancy present in Amborella trichopoda , the sole living re...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Fogliani B,Gâteblé G,Villegente M,Fabre I,Klein N,Anger N,Baskin CC,Scutt CP

更新日期：2017-03-01 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: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：: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:The balance between stochastic forces and negative frequency-dependent selection largely determines style morph frequencies in heterostylous populations. Investigation of morph frequencies at geographical range limits can provide insights into the forces maintaining the floral polymorphism, and the ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Costa J,Castro S,Loureiro J,Barrett SC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Pollinator specificity facilitates reproductive isolation among plants, and mechanisms that generate specificity influence species boundaries. Long-range volatile attractants, in combination with morphological co-adaptations, are generally regarded as being responsible for maintaining extreme host s...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang G,Compton SG,Chen J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Diurnal changes in solar position and intensity combined with the structural complexity of plant architecture result in highly variable and dynamic light patterns within the plant canopy. This affects productivity through the complex ways that photosynthesis responds to changes in light intensity. C...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Retkute R,Townsend AJ,Murchie EH,Jensen OE,Preston SP

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The effects of cotyledon damage on seedling growth and survival are relatively well established, but little is known about the effects on aspects of plant fitness such as seed number and size. Here the direct and indirect mechanisms linking cotyledon damage and plant fitness in the annual species Me...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhang S,Zhao C,Lamb EG

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Plants with crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) can be divided into two groups according to the major carbohydrates used for malic acid synthesis, either polysaccharide (starch) or monosaccharide (hexose). This is related to the mechanism and affects energy metabolism in the two groups. In Kalanchoë ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chen LS,Nose A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Alterations of plasmodesma (PD) connectivity are likely to be very important for plant development. Here, the repetitive division pattern of cambial initials in Populus nigra 'italica' was studied to follow the development of the PD network during maturation. Furthermore, seasonal changes were inves...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Fuchs M,van Bel AJ,Ehlers K

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:Pseudovivipary is an asexual reproductive strategy exhibited by some arctic/alpine grasses in which leafy plantlets are produced in place of seeds, with genetic conservation an advantage for stress tolerators in these nutrient-poor habitats. Photosynthetic metabolism and the development of this reproductive system wer...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pierce S,Stirling CM,Baxter R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modelling plant growth allows us to test hypotheses and carry out virtual experiments concerning plant growth processes that could otherwise take years in field conditions. The visualization of growth simulations allows us to see directly and vividly the outcome of a given model and provides us with an instr...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Fourcaud T,Zhang X,Stokes A,Lambers H,Körner C

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00