Patterns of seed mass variation and their effects on seedling traits inAlliaria petiolata (Brassicaceae).

abstract：:Phylogenetic analyses of Meliaceae, including representatives of all four currently recognized subfamilies and all but two tribes (32 genera and 35 species, respectively), were carried out using DNA sequence data from three regions: plastid genes rbcL, matK (partial), and nuclear 26S rDNA (partial). Individual and com...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Muellner AN,Samuel R,Johnson SA,Cheek M,Pennington TD,Chase MW

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Little is known about the effect of environmental conditions on seed dormancy break at the community level or how it could be affected by climate change. This study tested the effects of storage conditions on germination of 489 species from high-elevation natural grasslands on the Tibet Plateau. M...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Liu K,Baskin JM,Baskin CC,Bu H,Liu M,Liu W,Du G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on positive results for 11 of 17 species included in an anatomical survey of tree roots, we concluded that the origin of adventitious branch roots (ABR) on established, undisturbed woody parental root axes is a widespread occurrence. ABR were morphologically indistinguishable from branch roots formed in primary ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Paolillo DJ Jr,Bassuk NL

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:• PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Island plants are over-exploited and "under-explored." Understanding the reproductive biology of plants, especially rare species, is fundamental to clarifying their evolution, estimating potential for change, and for creating effective conservation plans. Clarification of sexual syste...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Anderson GJ,Anderson MK,Patel N

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to vegetative remains, fertile remains from ten plants, representing seven distinct taxa whose size and complexity are much greater than most contemporaneous fossils, are reported from late Ludlow (Ludfordian) sediments of Bathurst Island in Nunavut, Canada. Evidence for the age of these beds is gathered f...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Kotyk ME,Basinger JF,Gensel PG,de Freitas TA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Fungal plant pathogens exert much of their effect on plant cells through alterations in the host cell walls. However, obtaining biochemical proof for this change is difficult because of the relatively small number of cells that are affected by the pathogen relative to the bulk of host ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Bowling AJ,Vaughn KC,Hoagland RE,Stetina K,Boyette CD

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:• PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Contact zones between diploids and their autopolyploid descendants represent a unique evolutionary venue for studying polyploid establishment, cytotype coexistence, and interactions. Here, we examine cytotype coexistence in a diploid-tetraploid contact zone of a perennial herb, Cardam...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Zozomová-Lihová J,Malánová-Krásná I,Vít P,Urfus T,Senko D,Svitok M,Kempa M,Marhold K

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) method was used to evaluate genetic diversity and to assess genetic relationships within the section Mentha in order to clarify the taxonomy of several interspecific mint hybrids with molecular markers. To this end, genetic diversity of 62 Mentha accessions from differ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Gobert V,Moja S,Colson M,Taberlet P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the first molecular phylogeny of tribe Diseae (Orchidoideae: Orchidaceae). Nuclear ribosomal ITS1, 5.8S rDNA, and ITS2 sequences were compared for 30 Diseae, 20 Orchideae, and four Cranichideae and Diurideae outgroups. ITS - rDNA sequences exhibited a transition:transversion ratio of 1.3 and extensive ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Douzery EJ,Pridgeon AM,Kores P,Linder HP,Kurzweil H,Chase MW

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated patterns of fruit and seed production on inflorescences of a population of Pancratium maritimum in northwest Spain over a 2-yr period. Initial findings showed that the earliest opening flowers on an inflorescence are more likely to set fruit and produce more seeds than later opening flowers and that th...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Medrano M,Guitián P,Guitián J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iris cristata and I. lacustris differ markedly in geographic distribution, glacial history of current ranges, and ecology. We hypothesized that I. cristata, a widespread species of unglaciated regions of eastern North America, would exhibit genetic diversity typical of other widespread plant species, whereas the threa...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Hannan GL,Orick MW

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the relationship between the altitudinal distribution of Quercus laceyi and Q. sideroxyla and their physiological responses to drought, we measured relative water content (RWC), water potentials (Ψ(predawn) and Ψ(midday)), photosynthesis (A(max)), stomatal conductance (g), chlorophyll fluorescence (F(v)...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Poulos HM,Goodale UM,Berlyn GP

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Microsatellite loci were developed in the endangered Pericopsis elata using a combination of low-cost procedures. METHODS AND RESULTS:Microsatellite isolation was performed simultaneously on three distinct species through a newly available procedure that associates multiplex microsatellite enrichm...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Micheneau C,Dauby G,Bourland N,Doucet JL,Hardy OJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:During the interactions between a parasitic plant and its host, the parasite affects its host morphologically, anatomically, and physiologically, yet there has been little focus on the effect of hosts on the parasite. Here, the functional interactions between the hemiparasitic mistletoe Psittacanth...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Cocoletzi E,Angeles G,Ceccantini G,Patrón A,Ornelas JF

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional farming communities frequently maintain high levels of agrobiodiversity, so understanding their agricultural practices is a priority for biodiversity conservation. The cultural origin of agave spirits (mezcals) from west-central Mexico is in the southern part of the state of Jalisco where traditional farme...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Vargas-Ponce O,Zizumbo-Villarreal D,Martínez-Castillo J,Coello-Coello J,Colunga-Garcíamarín P

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct and indirect effects of vegetative herbivory on the mating system of Impatiens capensis were analyzed through a survey of herbivory in natural I. capensis populations and manipulation of leaf damage in the field. Across 10 wild populations of I. capensis proportion of cleistogamous flowers had a significant...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Steets JA,Ashman TL

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE:Despite the fast pace of exploration of the patterns and processes influencing Neotropical plant hyperdiversity, the taxa explored are mostly from large groups that are widely distributed, morphologically diverse, or economically important. Vochysiaceae is an example of an undersampled taxon, providing an excel...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Gonçalves DJP,Shimizu GH,Ortiz EM,Jansen RK,Simpson BB

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:• PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Adansonia digitata L. is one of the most important indigenous fruit trees of mainland Africa. Despite its significance for subsistence and income generation of local communities, little is known about the genetic and morphological variability of East African populations of A. digitata...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Wiehle M,Prinz K,Kehlenbeck K,Goenster S,Mohamed SA,Finkeldey R,Buerkert A,Gebauer J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotype of maize plants that are homozygous recessive for the nuclear gene iojap is commonly an "anemic," grainy green appearance accompanied by white leaf stripes, white leaf margins, and reduced growth. In plants in which the iojap effect is occurring (homozygous ij/ij), we find affected tissue varies in exten...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Coe EH Jr,Thompson D,Walbot V

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Seed cone scales assigned to the genus Schizolepidopsis are widespread in Late Triassic to Cretaceous Eurasian deposits. They have been linked to the conifer family Pinaceae based on associated vegetative remains, but their exact affinities are uncertain. Recently discovered material from the Early...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Leslie AB,Glasspool I,Herendeen PS,Ichinnorov N,Knopf P,Takahashi M,Crane PR

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Diversification of floral traits in angiosperms is often attributed to have been driven by adaptations to pollinators. Nevertheless, phylogenetic studies on the relationships among evolutionary changes in floral traits and pollination systems are still limited. We examined the relation...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Sakai S,Kawakita A,Ooi K,Inoue T

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The perennial feather moss Hylocomium splendens is one of the most widely distributed and common bryophytes in the Northern Hemisphere and has, because of its capacity to grow under a wide range of environmental conditions, been used as a biomonitor for atmospheric metal deposition in Europe. METH...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Vik U,Halvorsen R,Ohlson M,Rydgren K,Carlsen T,Korpelainen H,Kauserud H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:In angiosperm seeds, the developing embryo acquires nutrients via a suspensor that typically undergoes programmed cell death (PCD) at the early cotyledon stage. However, in Leguminosae (the third largest angiosperm family), the suspensors can disappear at the heart-shaped stage (i.e., prior to the ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Endo Y

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of freezing-induced xylem cavitation was studied in a Chihuahuan desert population of Larrea tridentata (Zygophyllaceae). Field measurements of wood temperature and xylem embolism were combined with anatomical studies and laboratory measurements of embolism in stem and root samples frozen un...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Martínez-Vilalta J,Pockman WT

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The North American plums are a closely related group that are not easily circumscribed, have overlapping morphologies, and are known to hybridize. We previously showed that the North American plums are a closely related, monophyletic group of taxa with little to no cpDNA sequence divergence between taxa. In that study...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Shaw J,Small RL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endodermis of different species of the genus Equisetum has different configurations, two or one continuous layers or a sheath only around the vascular bundles. The question whether the endodermis contributes to the mechanical stability of the aerial shoots is investigated in two ways: In a direct approach, the end...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Spatz HC,Emanns A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many foliar pathogens require free water to germinate; therefore, disease pressure should favor plants that are able to repel water. For a suite of 18 sympatric clover species (Trifolium and Medicago, Fabaceae), we evaluated leaf traits affecting leaf wetness and susceptibility to infection by the fungal pathogen Stem...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Bradley DJ,Gilbert GS,Parker IM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a detailed analysis of how limited seed dispersal can create spatial structuring of genetic variation, several nuclear microsatellites were assayed in seedlings from two forests of Pinus strobus, one old growth (OG) and the other (second site, SS) logged in ca. 1900. By using loci with a large number of alleles and...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Walter R,Epperson BK

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximum parsimony analysis of DNA sequence data from the internal and external transcribed spacer (ITS and ETS) regions of 18S-26S nuclear ribosomal DNA and the 3' trnK intron of chloroplast DNA from over 60 populations of Lasthenia sect. Amphiachaenia yielded a well-supported tree showing that the most common species...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Chan R,Baldwin BG,Ornduff R

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cacti are well-known desert plants, widely recognized by their specialized growth form and essentially leafless condition. Pereskia, a group of 17 species with regular leaf development and function, is generally viewed as representing the "ancestral cactus," although its placement within Cactaceae has remained unc...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Edwards EJ,Nyffeler R,Donoghue MJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00