Thirty clues to the exceptional diversification of flowering plants.

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:Studying a process in a new species often relies on focusing our attention to a candidate gene, encoding a protein similar to one with a known function. Not all the choices seem to be prudent. SCOPE:This Viewpoint includes an overview of issues that are encountered during research of candidate genes. Defini...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Samach A

更新日期：2013-03-01 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:Bristol rock cress is among the few plant species in the British Isles considered to have a Mediterranean-montane element. Spatiotemporal patterns of colonization of the British Isles since the last interglacial and after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) from mainland Europe are underexplored and have...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Koch MA,Möbus J,Klöcker CA,Lippert S,Ruppert L,Kiefer C

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The Quadrifaria group of Paspalum (Poaceae, Paniceae) comprises species native to the subtropical and temperate regions of South America. The purpose of this research was to characterize the I genomes in five species of this group and to establish phylogenetic relationships among them. METHODS:Prom...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Vaio M,Speranza P,Valls JF,Guerra M,Mazzella C

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described for obtaining allometric regression equations to estimate non-destructively and in a cost-effective manner the current year's above-ground vegetative and reproductive biomass of Vitis vinifera L. Merlot' throughout the growing season. Significant relationships were obtained over a 3-year perio...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Castelan-Estrada M,Vivin P,Gaudillère JP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Mimetic seeds simulate the appearance of fleshy fruits and arilled seeds without producing nutritive tissues as a reward for seed dispersers. In this strategy of seed dispersal, seeds may remain attached to the mother plant for long periods after maturity, increasing their availability to naïve seed...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Brancalion PH,Novembre AD,Rodrigues RR,Marcos Filho J

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:This section comprises a set of papers taken from those presented at a symposium held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Monsi-Saeki theory (1953), together with invited papers. The papers describe recent advances in the study of structure and function of plant canopies and are written by former students (and ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hirose T,Terashima I

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The discovery of a new species, Haplophyllum bastetanum F.B. Navarro, V.N. Suárez-Santiago & Blanca sp. nov., in the south-east of Spain has prompted the comparative study of species of the Iberian Peninsula, and others related, through morphological, cytogenetic, molecular, distributional and ecolo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Navarro FB,Suárez-Santiago VN,Blanca G

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:During the development of an even-aged plant population, the spatial distribution of individuals often changes from a clumped pattern to a random or regular one. The development of local size hierarchies in an Abies forest was analysed for a period of 47 years following a large disturbance in 1959. ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Suzuki SN,Kachi N,Suzuki J

更新日期：2008-09-01 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:The ability of plant lineages to reach all continents contributes substantially to their evolutionary success. This is exemplified by the Poaceae, one of the most successful angiosperm families, in which most higher taxa (tribes, subfamilies) have global distributions. Due to the old age of the ocea...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Linder HP,Barker NP

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：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 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: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:Previous measurements of conifer alkaloids have revealed significant variation attributable to many sources, environmental and genetic. The present study takes a complementary and intensive, common garden approach to examine genetic variation in Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa alkaloid production. Ad...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gerson EA,Kelsey RG,St Clair JB

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Ecologists are increasingly using plant functional traits to predict community assembly, but few studies have linked functional traits to species' responses to fine-scale resource gradients. In this study, it was tested whether saplings of woody species partition fine-scale gradients in light availa...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Fajardo A,Siefert A

更新日期：2016-12-01 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 Nassella trichotoma is an unpalatable perennial grass weed that invades disturbed native grasslands in temperate regions of south-eastern Australia. This experiment investigated whether elevated N levels, often associated with disturbance, increases the competitiveness of N. trichotoma relative to C...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Badgery WB,Kemp DR,Michalk DL,King WM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of enzyme induction and aerenchyma formation in prolonged tolerance to soil flooding in a variety of underground clover (Trifolium subterraneum 'Park') previously selected for resistance. Seedlings were grown in hydroponic tanks, initially with aeration for 3 weeks ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Aschi-Smiti S,Chaibi W,Brouquisse R,Ricard B,Saglio P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Photosystem II (PSII) is the light-driven water:plastoquinone oxidoreductase of oxygenic photosynthesis and is found in the thylakoid membrane of chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. Considerable attention is focused on how PSII is assembled in vivo and how it is repaired following irreversible damage by visible ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Nixon PJ,Michoux F,Yu J,Boehm M,Komenda J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The interspecific allometry of maximum plant height (Hmax) with respect to maximum basal stem diameter (Dmax) has been studied for leptocaulis dicot and conifer tree species. In contrast, virtually nothing is known about the interspecific allometry of pachycaulis species. Here, the interspecific all...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Niklas KJ,Cobb ED,Marler T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Stigmatic receptivity plays a clear role in pollination dynamics; however, little is known about the factors that confer to a stigma the competence to be receptive for the germination of pollen grains. In this work, a developmental approach is used to evaluate the acquisition of stigmatic receptivit...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Losada JM,Herrero M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Numerous studies have examined the effects of climatic factors on the distribution of C(3) and C(4) grasses in various regions throughout the world, but the role of seasonal fluctuations in temperature, precipitation and soil N availability in regulating growth and competition of these two functiona...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Yuan Z,Liu W,Niu S,Wan S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Within-plant spatial heterogeneity in the production of and demand for assimilates may have major implications for the formation of fruits. Spatial heterogeneity is related to organ age, but also to position on the plant. This study quantifies the variation in local carbohydrate availability for the...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gu S,Zhang L,Yan Z,van der Werf W,Evers JB

更新日期：2018-04-18 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: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:The origin of new species and of new forms is one of the fundamental characteristics of evolution. However, the mechanisms that govern the diversity and disparity of lineages remain poorly understood. Particularly unclear are the reasons why some taxa are vastly more species-rich than others and the manner i...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Melzer R,Theißen G

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00