No carbon limitation after lower crown loss in Pinus radiata.

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:Phytochrome B (phyB) is a photosensory receptor important for the control of plant plasticity and resource partitioning. Whether phyB is required to optimize plant biomass accumulation in agricultural crops exposed to full sunlight is unknown. Here we investigated the impact of mutations in the gene...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wies G,Mantese AI,Casal JJ,Maddonni GÁ

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Hybridization is an important evolutionary process that can have a significant impact on natural plant populations. Eucalyptus species are well known for weak reproductive barriers and extensive hybridization within subgenera, but there is little knowledge of whether patterns of hybridization differ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Robins TP,Binks RM,Byrne M,Hopper SD

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Hordeum marinum is a species complex that includes the diploid subspecies marinum and both diploid and tetraploid forms of gussoneanum. Their relationships, the rank of the taxa and the origin of the polyploid forms remain points of debate. The present work reports a comparative karyotype analysis o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Carmona A,Friero E,de Bustos A,Jouve N,Cuadrado A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Apomictic plants maintain functional pollen, and via pollination the genetic factors controlling apomixis can be potentially transferred to congeneric sexual populations. In contrast, the sexual individuals do not fertilize apomictic plants which produce seeds without fertilization of the egg cells....

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hörandl E,Temsch EM

更新日期：2009-07-01 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:A reduction in offspring fitness resulting from mating between neighbours is interpreted as biparental inbreeding depression. However, little is known about the relationship between the parents' genetic relatedness and biparental inbreeding depression in their progeny in natural populations. This st...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hirao AS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Root architecture development determines the sites in soil where roots provide input of carbon and take up water and solutes. However, root architecture is difficult to determine experimentally when grown in opaque soil. Thus, root architecture models have been widely used and been further developed...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Schnepf A,Leitner D,Landl M,Lobet G,Mai TH,Morandage S,Sheng C,Zörner M,Vanderborght J,Vereecken H

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Proteins containing the SPX (SYG1/Pho81/XPR1) domain are vital components in the phosphorus (P) signalling pathway, and regulate phosphate (Pi) homeostasis in plants. However, the characteristics and functions of GmSPX members in soybean (Glycine max) remain largely unknown. METHODS:BLAST searching...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Yao Z,Tian J,Liao H

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Hydration, rupture and exine opening due to the sudden and large expansion of intine are typical of taxoid-type pollen grains. A hemispheric outgrowth external to the exine was observed on Cupressus and Juniperus pollen grains before the intine swelling and exine release. However, the actual existen...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Danti R,Della Rocca G,Calamassi R,Mori B,Mariotti Lippi M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Polyploids, organisms that have multiple sets of chromosomes, are common in certain plant and animal taxa. However, there are only a few reports of intraspecific ploidy variation within the genus Quercus. The aim of the study was to investigate the suspected ploidy level of two oaks that have unusua...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Dzialuk A,Chybicki I,Welc M,Sliwinska E,Burczyk J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Polyploidy has played a major role in the origin of new plant species, probably because of the expansion of polyploid populations in the species' ecological niche, and because reproductive isolation can be established between a new polyploid population and its diploid progenitor species. It is well ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ma WJ,Santos Del Blanco L,Pannell JR

更新日期：2019-08-02 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:Population and environmental pressure have imposed a great challenge on agriculture in China to explore innovative and effective solutions to its pressing plant nutritional problems. Plant nutriomics is a new frontier in plant biology that can provide innovative solutions for improving plant nutrient efficie...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Yan X,Wu P,Ling H,Xu G,Xu F,Zhang Q

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The broomrapes, Orobanche sensu lato (Orobanchaceae), are common root parasites found across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas. All species native to the western hemisphere, recognized as Orobanche sections Gymnocaulis and Nothaphyllon, form a clade that has a centre of diversity in western North Ame...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Schneider AC,Colwell AE,Schneeweiss GM,Baldwin BG

更新日期：2016-11-01 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:The co-occurring of evergreen and deciduous angiosperm trees in Asian tropical dry forests on karst substrates suggests the existence of different water-use strategies among species. In this study it is hypothesized that the co-occurring evergreen and deciduous trees differ in stem hydraulic traits ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Fu PL,Jiang YJ,Wang AY,Brodribb TJ,Zhang JL,Zhu SD,Cao KF

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:An important function of the seed coat is to deliver nutrients to the embryo. To relate this function to anatomical characteristics, the developing seed coat of pea (Pisum sativum L.) was examined by light- and cryo-scanning electron microscopy (cryo-SEM) from the late pre-storage phase until the end of seed filling. ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Van Dongen JT,Ammerlaan AM,Wouterlood M,Van Aelst AC,Borstlap AC

更新日期：2003-05-01 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:Light interception is closely related to canopy architecture. Few studies based on multi-view photography have been conducted in a field environment, particularly studies that link 3-D plant architecture with a radiation model to quantify the dynamic canopy light interception. In this study, we comb...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhu B,Liu F,Xie Z,Guo Y,Li B,Ma Y

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Adventitious root development in lamina and midrib-petiole junction expiants of sugar beet cv. Primo was investigated using scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy. Primordia developed close to the vascular strands and areas of newly dividing cells (meristematic centres) were seen adjacent to the intrafascic...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gürel E,Wren MJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 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: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：: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：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The palm tribe Chamaedoreeae displays flowers arranged in a complex partial inflorescence called an acervulus. This type of partial inflorescence has so far not been reported elsewhere in the largest palm subfamily Arecoideae, which is traditionally characterized by flowers predominantly arranged in...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ortega-Chávez N,Stauffer FW

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Although plant distribution patterns are well documented, our understanding of the ecophysiological mechanisms that control the geographical ranges of plant species remains poor. We used a largely ignored method, the performance of the male gametophyte in vitro, to assess whether the thermal range o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Rosbakh S,Poschlod P

更新日期：2016-06-01 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:Helichrysum bracteatum is called an 'eternal flower' and has large, coloured, scarious bracts. These maintain their aesthetic value without wilting or discoloration for many years. There have been no research studies of cell death or cell morphology of the scarious bract, and hence the aim of this w...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Nishikawa K,Ito H,Awano T,Hosokawa M,Yazawa S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:Capsella is a model genus for studying the transition from outcrossing to selfing, with or without change in ploidy levels. The genomic consequences and changes in reproductive traits (selfing syndrome) associated with these shifts have been studied in depth. However, potential ecological divergence...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Petrone Mendoza S,Lascoux M,Glémin S

更新日期：2018-05-11 00:00:00