Quantifying within-plant spatial heterogeneity in carbohydrate availability in cotton using a local-pool model.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Archaeological evidence has revealed that barley (Hordeum vulgare) is one of the oldest crops used by ancient farmers. Studies of the time and place of barley domestication may help in understanding ancient human civilization. SCOPE:The studies of domesticated genes in crops have uncovered the mechanisms wh...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pourkheirandish M,Komatsuda T

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Plants adapted for pollination by rodents tend to exhibit a distinct floral syndrome that includes dull coloured and geoflorous inflorescences and nocturnal anthesis and nectar production. On the basis of their floral traits, it was predicted that two African Colchicum species (C. scabromarginatum a...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Kleizen C,Midgley J,Johnson SD

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The cuticle of a limited number of plant species contains cutan, a chemically highly resistant biopolymer. As yet, the biosynthesis of cutan is not fully understood. Attempting to further unravel the origin of cutan, we analysed the chemical composition of enzymatically isolated cuticular membranes ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Leide J,Nierop KGJ,Deininger AC,Staiger S,Riederer M,de Leeuw JW

更新日期：2020-06-19 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: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: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: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:Synorganisation of floral organs, an important means in angiosperm flower evolution, is mostly realized by congenital or post-genital organ fusion. Intimate synorganisation of many floral organs without fusion, as present in Geranium robertianum, is poorly known and needs to be studied. Obdiplostemo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Endress PK

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play an important role in plant nutrition and protection against pests and diseases, as well as in soil structuration, nutrient cycling and, generally speaking, in sustainable agriculture, particularly under drought, salinity and low input or organic agriculture. H...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Plouznikoff K,Asins MJ,de Boulois HD,Carbonell EA,Declerck S

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many areas throughout the world are simultaneously contaminated by high concentrations of soluble salts and by high concentrations of heavy metals that constitute a serious threat to human health. The use of plants to extract or stabilize pollutants is an interesting alternative to classical expensive decont...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Lutts S,Lefèvre I

更新日期：2015-02-01 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:Cress-seed (Lepidium sativum) exudate exerts an allelochemical effect, promoting excessive hypocotyl elongation and inhibiting root growth in neighbouring Amaranthus caudatus seedlings. We investigated acidic disaccharides present in cress-seed exudate, testing the proposal that the allelochemical i...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Iqbal A,Miller JG,Murray L,Sadler IH,Fry SC

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Serpentine soils are characterized by the presence of heavy metals (Ni and Cr) and excess Mg; these elements often suppress plant growth. Picea glehnii is nevertheless distributed widely on serpentine soils in northern Japan. Growth characteristics were compared among P. glehnii, Picea jezoensis (di...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Kayama M,Quoreshi AM,Uemura S,Koike T

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:Polyploidy results in genetic turmoil, much of which is associated with new phenotypes that result in speciation. Five independent lines of synthetic allotetraploid N. x obtusiata (N x o) were created from crosses between the diploid N. attenuata (Na) (male) and N. obtusifolia (No) (female) and t...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Anssour S,Krügel T,Sharbel TF,Saluz HP,Bonaventure G,Baldwin IT

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants adjust their sink-organ growth rates, development and distribution of dry matter in response to whole-plant photosynthate status. To advance understanding of these processes, potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plants were subjected to CO(2) and light flux treatments, and early tuber growth was assessed. Atmospheric ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chen CT,Setter TL

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The leaf rosettes of the carnivorous Pinguicula moranensis follow a spiral phyllotaxis approaching a Fibonacci pattern while the stalked flowers arise from extra-axillary sites between the leaves. The organization of this rosette has been discussed by various authors, with various results. The aim o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Grob V,Pfeifer E,Rutishauser R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Sexual dimorphism in morphology, physiology or life history traits is common in dioecious plants at reproductive maturity, but it is typically inconspicuous or absent in juveniles. Although plants of different sexes probably begin to diverge in gene expression both before their reproduction commence...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cossard GG,Toups MA,Pannell JR

更新日期：2019-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The pseudometallophyte Noccaea caerulescens is an excellent model to study evolutionary processes, as it grows both on normal and on heavy-metal-rich, toxic soils. The evolution and demography of populations are critically impacted by mating system and, yet, information about the N. caerulescens mat...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Mousset M,David P,Petit C,Pouzadoux J,Hatt C,Flaven É,Ronce O,Mignot A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Oat (Avena sativa) has human health benefits when consumed as a whole-grain food, attributed to the high content of (1,3;1,4)-β-d-glucan (mixed-linkage glucan [MLG]), but little is known about the synthase genes and synthesis mechanism of MLG polysaccharides in this species. METHODS:The concentrati...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhang J,Yan L,Liu M,Guo G,Wu B

更新日期：2020-10-22 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:Many plant species can modify their root architecture to enable them to forage for heterogeneously distributed nutrients in the soil. The foraging response normally involves increased proliferation of lateral roots within nutrient-rich soil patches, but much remains to be understood about the signalling mech...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Walch-Liu P,Ivanov II,Filleur S,Gan Y,Remans T,Forde BG

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maize (Zea mays L.) kernel undergoes large changes in water content during its development. Whether such changes regulate the pattern of kernel development or are simply a consequence of it has not yet been established because other factors, such as assimilate supply, can also affect the rate and duration of kerne...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Borrás L,Westgate ME,Otegui ME

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:The various pollen dispersal units (PDU) found in orchids are discussed together with possible evolutionary trends and the consequences for germination and fertilization. Orchids with monad and tetrad pollen form more complex dispersal units by means of pollenkitt, elastoviscin, a callosic wall, common walls or a comb...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pacini E,Hesse M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:In spite of major breakthroughs in the last three decades in the identification of root nitrate uptake transporters in plants and the associated regulation of nitrate transport activities, a simplified and operational modelling approach for nitrate uptake is still lacking. This is due mainly to the ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Le Deunff E,Malagoli P

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Brassicaceae, with nearly 340 genera and more than 3350 species, anchors the low range of angiosperm genome sizes. The relatively narrow range of DNA content (0.16 pg < 1C < 1.95 pg) was maintained in spite of extensive chromosomal change. The aim of this study was to erect a cytological and molecul...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Johnston JS,Pepper AE,Hall AE,Chen ZJ,Hodnett G,Drabek J,Lopez R,Price HJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The oomycete Aphanomyces euteiches causes up to 80 % crop loss in pea (Pisum sativum). Aphanomyces euteiches invades the root system leading to a complete arrest of root growth and ultimately to plant death. To date, disease control measures are limited to crop rotation and no resistant pea lines ar...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cannesan MA,Gangneux C,Lanoue A,Giron D,Laval K,Hawes M,Driouich A,Vicré-Gibouin M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:X-ray fluorescence microscopy (XFM) is a powerful technique to elucidate the distribution of elements within plants. However, accumulated radiation exposure during analysis can lead to structural damage and experimental artefacts including elemental redistribution. To date, acceptable dose limits ha...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Jones MWM,Kopittke PM,Casey L,Reinhardt J,Blamey FPC,van der Ent A

更新日期：2020-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clonal plants spread laterally by spacers between their ramets (shoot-root units); these spacers can transport and store resources. While much is known about how clonality promotes plant fitness, we know little about how different clonal plants influence ecosystem functions related to carbon, nutrient and wa...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Cornelissen JH,Song YB,Yu FH,Dong M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00