Sexual dimorphism and rapid turnover in gene expression in pre-reproductive seedlings of a dioecious herb.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae) is one the best examples of a plant adaptive radiation, exhibiting extensive morphological and ecological diversity. No research within this group has addressed the role of geographical isolation, independent of ecological adaptation, in contributing to...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： McGlaughlin ME,Friar EA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:A standardized methodology to assess the impacts of land-use changes on vegetation and ecosystem functioning is presented. It assumes that species traits are central to these impacts, and is designed to be applicable in different historical, climatic contexts and local settings. Preliminary results ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Garnier E,Lavorel S,Ansquer P,Castro H,Cruz P,Dolezal J,Eriksson O,Fortunel C,Freitas H,Golodets C,Grigulis K,Jouany C,Kazakou E,Kigel J,Kleyer M,Lehsten V,Leps J,Meier T,Pakeman R,Papadimitriou M,Papanastasis VP

更新日期：2007-05-01 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:Heterodichogamy differs from normal dichogamy, in that it involves two mating types (protogyny and protandry) that occur at a 1 : 1 ratio in a population. Flowering phases of the two mating types are synchronized and reciprocal, which was considered to ensure between-type outcrossing. This study aim...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Bai WN,Zeng YF,Liao WJ,Zhang DY

更新日期：2006-08-01 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: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:Plant growth, the increase of organ dimensions over time, and development, the change in plant structure, are often studied as two separate processes. However, there is structural and functional evidence that these two processes are strongly related. The aim of this study was to investigate the co-o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Dambreville A,Lauri PÉ,Normand F,Guédon Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) has indeterminate growth. The growth regulator mepiquat chloride (MC) is used worldwide to restrict vegetative growth and promote boll formation and yield. The effects of MC are modulated by complex interactions with growing conditions (nutrients, weather) and plant popul...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gu S,Evers JB,Zhang L,Mao L,Zhang S,Zhao X,Liu S,van der Werf W,Li Z

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Acer saccharum and Fagus grandifolia are among the most dominant late-successional tree species in North America. The influence of sapling growth responses to canopy gaps on the co-dominance of the two species in an old-growth forest in southern Quebec, Canada was examined. Two predictions were eval...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Takahashi K,Lechowicz MJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:S-RNase-based self-incompatibility (SI) occurs in the Solanaceae, Rosaceae and Plantaginaceae. In all three families, compatibility is controlled by a polymorphic S-locus encoding at least two genes. S-RNases determine the specificity of pollen rejection in the pistil, and S-locus F-box proteins fulfill this...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： McClure B,Cruz-García F,Romero C

更新日期：2011-09-01 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: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:Water is an increasingly scarce resource that limits crop productivity in many parts of the world, and the frequency and severity of drought are predicted to increase as a result of climate change. Improving tolerance to drought stress is therefore important for maximizing future crop yields. The ai...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Marquez-Garcia B,Shaw D,Cooper JW,Karpinska B,Quain MD,Makgopa EM,Kunert K,Foyer CH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Size-asymmetric competition occurs when larger plants have a disproportionate advantage in competition with smaller plants. It has been hypothesized that nutrient heterogeneity may promote it. Experiments testing this hypothesis are inconclusive, and in most cases have evaluated the effects of nutri...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Maestre FT,Reynolds JF

更新日期：2006-07-01 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:Over the last decade, the importance of plant biomechanical properties in shaping wave dissipation efficiency of marsh vegetation has gained growing attention. Here we provide the first analyses of how biomechanical stem properties vary with seasons and along environmental gradients in coastal and e...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhu Z,Yang Z,Bouma TJ

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Reconstructions have identified the 20th century as being uniquely warm in the last 1000 years. Changes in the phenology of primary meristems converged toward increases in length of the growing season. Has the phenology of secondary meristem changed during the last century, and to what extent? METH...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Boulouf Lugo J,Deslauriers A,Rossi S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Musa L. (Musaceae) is currently separated into five sections (Musa. Rhodochlamys, Callimusa, Australimusa and Ingentimusa) based on chromosome numbers and morphological characters. However, the validation of this classification system is questioned due to the common occurrence of hybridizations across sections and the...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wong C,Kiew R,Argent G,Set O,Lee SK,Gan YY

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Bromeliaceae is a species-rich neotropical plant family that uses a variety of pollinators, principally vertebrates. Tillandsia is the most diverse genus, and includes more than one-third of all bromeliad species. Within this genus, the majority of species rely on diurnal pollination by hummingbirds...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Aguilar-Rodríguez PA,MacSwiney G MC,Krömer T,García-Franco JG,Knauer A,Kessler M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Exogenous ethylene has recently gained commercial interest as a sprouting inhibitor of onion bulbs. The role of ethylene in dormancy and sprouting of onions, however, is not known. METHODS:A cultivar (Allium cepa 'Copra') with a true period of dormancy was used. Dormant and sprouting states of onio...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Bufler G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Plants usually compete with neighbouring plants for resources such as light as well as defend themselves against herbivorous insects. This requires investment of limiting resources, resulting in optimal resource distribution patterns and trade-offs between growth- and defence-related traits. A plant...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： de Vries J,Poelman EH,Anten N,Evers JB

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Large clones of rhizomatous plants are found in many habitats, but little is known about whether such clones also occur on cliff faces where environmental conditions are extremely harsh and heterogeneous. METHODS:Using molecular (intersimple sequence repeat, ISSR) markers, the genotypic composition...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Liu FH,Yu FH,Liu WS,Krüsi BO,Cai XH,Schneller JJ,Dong M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the successive stages of development of branches from axillary buds in fully rooted plants of Trifolium repens grown in near optimal conditions, and the way in which this developmental pathway differs when nodal root formation is prevented as plants grow out from a rooted base. Cuttings of a singl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Thomas RG,Hay MJ,Newton PC

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transgene in Agrobacterium-mediated Cry1A(b)-transgenic rice plants has been detected and its chromosomal location determined by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Eight of the nine transgenic lines tested showed hybridization signals. Signals were located on regions of the chromosome in which fraction len...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Jin WW,Li ZY,Fang Q,Altosaar I,Liu LH,Song YC

更新日期：2002-07-01 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:Woodland spring ephemerals exhibit a relatively short epigeous growth period prior to canopy closure. However, it has been suggested that leaf senescence is induced by a reduction in the carbohydrate sink demand, rather than by changes in light availability. To ascertain whether a potentially higher...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gutjahr S,Lapointe L

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Interstitial telomeric repeat (ITR) sites, consisting of tandem repeats of telomeric motifs localized at intrachromosomal sites, have been reported in a few unrelated organisms including plants. However, the causes for the occurrence of ITRs outside of the chromosomal termini are not fully understoo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Rosato M,Álvarez I,Feliner GN,Rosselló JA

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The role of flower specialization in plant speciation and evolution remains controversial. In this study the evolution of flower traits restricting access to pollinators was analysed in the bifid toadflaxes (Linaria sect. Versicolores), a monophyletic group of ~30 species and subspecies with highly ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Fernández-Mazuecos M,Blanco-Pastor JL,Gómez JM,Vargas P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Water deficit and salinity stresses are often experienced by plants concurrently; however, knowledge is limited about the effects of combined salinity and water deficit stress in plants, and especially in C4 bioenergy crops. Here we aim to understand how diverse drought tolerance traits may deliver ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Stavridou E,Webster RJ,Robson PRH

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Refugia are island-like habitats that are linked to long-term environmental stability and, as a result, high endemism. Conservation of refugia and endemism hotspots should be based on a deep ecological and evolutionary understanding of their functioning, which remains limited. Although functional traits can ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Keppel G,Ottaviani G,Harrison S,Wardell-Johnson GW,Marcantonio M,Mucina L

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00