Paternal inheritance of chloroplast DNA in interspecific hybrids in the genus Larrea (Zygophyllaceae).

abstract：PREMISE:Within closed-canopy forests, vertical gradients of light and atmospheric CO2 drive variations in leaf carbon isotope ratios, leaf mass per area (LMA), and the micromorphology of leaf epidermal cells. Variations in traits observed in preserved or fossilized leaves could enable inferences of past forest canopy c...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Cheesman AW,Duff H,Hill K,Cernusak LA,McInerney FA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) restriction enzyme site analysis was used to test hypotheses of series and superseries affiliations of 76 taxa, representing 11 of the 13 South American series (material unavailable for two series) of wild potatoes (Solanum sect. Petota) recognized in the latest classification by Hawkes. The cl...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Spooner D,Castillo R

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The desert moss Syntrichia caninervis exhibits one of the most skewed sex ratios in the plant kingdom, with female individuals far outnumbering male individuals (exceeding 14♀:1♂). The "cost of sex hypothesis" derives from allocational theory and predicts that the sex which is most expensive should be the rarer sex. T...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Stark LR,Mishler BD,McLetchie DN

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Drosera peltata var. nipponica, an element of the East Asia warm-temperate vegetation, and D. rotundifolia, a widely distributed boreal species, reach one of their northernmost and southernmost limits, respectively, on the Korean Peninsula. Because the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)-Holocene dynamics o...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Chung MY,López-Pujol J,Chung MG

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that trees growing at high elevations with occasional freezing temperatures have smaller diameter xylem vessels than trees of the same species growing at lower and warmer elevations. The young branch wood of the wide-ranging Hawaiian tree species Metrosideros polymorpha (Myrtaceae) was examine...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Fisher JB,Goldstein G,Jones TJ,Cordell S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effects of density, genotype, and their interaction on individual seed mass in Raphanus sativus L., we replicated maternal and paternal families of seed across two planting densities in an experimental garden. Seeds were produced by a nested breeding design performed in the greenhouse. Among garden-ra...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Mazer SJ,Wolfe LM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Sex lability (i.e., gender diphasy) in plants is classically linked to the larger resource needs associated with the female sexual function (i.e., seed production) compared to the male function (i.e., pollen production). Sex lability in response to the environment is extensively documented in dioec...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Varga S,Kytöviita MM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:• Premise of the study: The mechanical properties of a plant are key variables governing the interaction between the plant and its environment. Thus, measuring variables such as the flexural rigidity (bending) of a plant element is necessary to understand and predict the plant-flow interaction. However, plant elements...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Henry PY

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The classification of the genus Salix has historically been intrinsically difficult due to its propensity toward plasticity and high variation in diagnostic morphological characters. We investigated leaf epidermal characteristics, focusing on the stomatal apparatus because it may provide critical i...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Ghahremaninejad F,Khalili Z,Maassoumi AA,Mirzaie-Nodoushan H,Riahi M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivore damage is known to cause the premature loss of mature leaves. However, the effects of herbivory on abscission during the early stages of leaf development remain unexplored, even though herbivores frequently prefer unlignified, immature leaves. In a field experiment, we removed 50% of the tissue from leaves a...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Blundell AG,Peart DR

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Expressed sequence tag (EST)-derived microsatellite markers were developed for Elaeocarpus photiniifolia, an endemic taxon of the Bonin Islands. METHODS AND RESULTS:Initially, a complementary DNA (cDNA) library was constructed by de novo pyrosequencing of total RNA extracted from a seedling. A tot...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Sugai K,Setsuko S,Uchiyama K,Murakami N,Kato H,Yoshimaru H

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FAD2-1 microsomal omega-6 desaturase gene contains a large intron ( approximately 1133 bp [base pairs]) in the 5' untranslated region that may participate in gene regulation and, in GOSSYPIUM:, is evolving at an evolutionary rate useful for elucidating recently diverged lineages. FAD2-1 is single copy in diploid G...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Liu Q,Brubaker CL,Green AG,Marshall DR,Sharp PJ,Singh SP

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary history of maize (Zea mays subsp. mays) is of general interest because of its economic and scientific importance. Here we show that many cellular traits described previously in developing caryopses of maize are also seen in its wild progenitor teosinte (Zea mays subsp. parviglumis). These features, ea...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Dermastia M,Kladnik A,Dolenc Koce J,Chourey PS

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Elucidating the factors that determine the abundance and distribution of species remains a central goal of ecology. It is well recognized that genetic differences among individual species can affect the distribution and species interactions of dependent taxa, but the ecological effects of genetic d...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Adams RI,Goldberry S,Whitham TG,Zinkgraf MS,Dirzo R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used isozymes (16 loci in 11 enzymatic systems) from Laelia speciosa, an endemic and endangered epiphytic orchid of Mexico, to assess the genetic diversity and population genetic structure in nine populations distributed along its geographic range, as well as to detect those populations that are genetically unique ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Avila-Díaz I,Oyama K

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary origins of the morphological and taxonomic diversity of angiosperms is poorly known. We used the genus Melianthus to explore the diversification of the southern African flora. Melianthus comprises eight species, and a phylogeny based on one nuclear and two plastid genes, as well as a morphological dat...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Linder HP,Dlamini T,Henning J,Verboom GA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Microsatellite loci were developed for the endangered species Pityopsis ruthii and will permit genetic and conservation studies of the species. METHODS AND RESULTS:A microsatellite-enriched library was used to develop 12 polymorphic microsatellite loci for P. ruthii. The loci amplified perfect and...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Wadl PA,Dattilo AJ,Scheffler BE,Trigiano RN

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many characteristics of plants and animals scale with body size as described by allometric equations of the form Y = βM(α), where Y is an attribute of the organism, β is a coefficient that varies with attribute, M is a measure of organism size, and α is another constant, the scaling exponent. In current models, the fr...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Koontz TL,Petroff A,West GB,Brown JH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlations were examined between habitat characters and clonal structures determined by the RAPD (random amplified polymorphic DNA) assay in five populations of Oryza rufipogon in China. Nine of 175 decameric primers were used in the study because they reproducibly amplified polymorphisms. The extent of clonality to...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Xie ZW,Lu YQ,Ge S,Hong DY,Li FZ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Areas lacking dominant plants, or gaps, can support high diversity and specialist species. Previous chronosequence research in Florida rosemary scrub showed indistinct gap area patterns with fire and the dependence of certain species on gaps. We hypothesized that fire and gap size would affect exti...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Menges ES,Crate SJH,Quintana-Ascencio PF

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:We developed the first set of microsatellite markers for the passion fruit, Passiflora cincinnata, to provide tools for further study of its genetic diversity and to support current conservation and genetic studies. METHODS AND RESULTS:We used a microsatellite-enriched library approach to isolate ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Cerqueira-Silva CB,Santos ES,Souza AM,Mori GM,Oliveira EJ,Corrêa RX,Souza AP

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell division pattern in the apical meristem of Psilotum nudum was examined using epi-illumination microscopy and a paraffin method. In the subterranean axis, about half of the derivative cells of the apical cell produce tetrahedral daughter apical cells by the first three or more oblique divisions. Roughly half o...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Takiguchi Y,Imaichi R,Kato M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bamboo is considered useful for controlling landslides, but we observed numerous shallow-slope failures in forests of big node bamboo (Phyllostachys nidularia) in Sichuan, China. Therefore, we inventoried landslide occurrence and vegetation type along one valley. To quantify bamboo root anchorage, we performed uprooti...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Stokes A,Lucas A,Jouneau L

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The ecological and evolutionary significance of natural epigenetic variation (i.e., not based on DNA sequence variants) variation will depend critically on whether epigenetic states are transmitted from parents to offspring, but little is known on epigenetic inheritance in nonmodel plants. METHODS...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Herrera CM,Alonso C,Medrano M,Pérez R,Bazaga P

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of a large-insert genomic clone, BAC 22B2, previously suggested that Sorghum bicolor (2n = 20) has the tetraploid architecture A(b)A(b)B(b)B(b). Here, we report on BAC 22B2 subclone pCEN38 (1047-bp insert) as related to sorghum and sugarcane. Mitotic FISH of six different subc...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Zwick MS,Islam-Faridi MN,Zhang HB,Hodnett GL,Gomez MI,Kim JS,Price HJ,Stelly DM

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Pollinator shifts have been implicated as a driver of divergence in angiosperms. We tested the hypothesis that there was a transition from bird- to butterfly pollination in the African genus Clivia (Amaryllidaceae) and investigated how floral traits may have been either modified or retained during ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Kiepiel I,Johnson SD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The study of scaling examines the relative dimensions of diverse organismal traits. Understanding whether global scaling patterns are paralleled within species is key to identify causal factors of universal scaling. I examined whether the foliage-stem (Corner's rules), the leaf size-number, and the...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Fajardo A

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:Wind is a major ecological factor for plants and a major economical factor for forestry. Mechanical analyses have revealed that the multimodal dynamic behavior of trees is central to wind-tree interactions. Moreover, the trunk and branches influence dynamic modes, both in frequency and location. Because of the complex...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Rodriguez M,Langre Ed,Moulia B

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Large genera provide remarkable opportunities to investigate patterns of morphological evolution and historical biogeography in plants. A molecular phylogeny of the species-rich and morphologically and ecologically diverse genus Mimosa was generated to evaluate its infrageneric classification, reco...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Simon MF,Grether R,de Queiroz LP,Särkinen TE,Dutra VF,Hughes CE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00