Life span correlates with population dynamics in perennial herbaceous plants.

abstract：:The response of axillary buds to floral stimulus activity in stem pieces was examined in two near-isogenic cultivars of tobacco that differ in the recessive maryland mammoth (mm) allele, which confers short-day behavior. All axillary buds from day-neutral plants assayed on six-internode stem pieces made few nodes (les...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Smith S,McDaniel C,Hartnett L

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:Size, allometry, and mechanical design were measured for trees of three canopy species in a tropical rain forest in French Guiana. Mechanical design was expressed as the safety factor, using the elastic-stability model, and the wind resistance factor, using the constant-stress model. Changes with ontogeny were describ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Sterck F,Bongers F

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phloem, as a major tissue mediating long-distance communication, has been an object of extensive research ever since its structure was first reported in 1837. Functional phloem consists of sieve elements (SEs) and companion cells (CCs). While SEs are enucleated conducting cells in the phloem, CCs are cells with intact...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Heo JO,Roszak P,Furuta KM,Helariutta Y

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Geographic patterns of biodiversity have long inspired interest in processes that shape the assembly, diversity, and dynamics of communities at different spatial scales. To study mechanisms of community assembly, ecologists often compare spatial variation in community composition (beta-diversity) a...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Burkle LA,Myers JA,Belote RT

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) is maternally inherited in the majority, but not all, of angiosperm species. The mode of inheritance of cpDNA is a critical determinant of its molecular evolution and of its population genetic structure. Here, we present the results of investigations of the inheritance of cpDNA in Silene vulgar...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： McCauley DE,Sundby AK,Bailey MF,Welch ME

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Productivity in drylands may depend on the sensitivity of interactions between plants and biocrusts. Given future climate variability, it is essential to understand how interactions may be context-dependent with precipitation regime. Furthermore, little is known about the additional interactions of...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Dettweiler-Robinson E,Sinsabaugh RL,Rudgers JA

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vegetative cycle of the foliicolous lichen Phyllophiale, from propagule germination to propagule production, was studied by light microscope observation of thalli colonizing plastic cover slips placed within a lowland tropical forest. Discoid propagules germinated by growth of radially arranged fungal cells and de...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Sanders WB

更新日期：2002-11-01 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 recent consensus that Amborellaceae, Nymphaeales, and Austrobaileyales form the three earliest-diverging lineages of angiosperms has led comparative biologists to reconsider the origin and early developmental evolution of the angiosperm seven-celled/eight-nucleate (Polygonum-type) female gametophyte. Illicium mexi...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Williams JH,Friedman WE

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:Caryophyllaceae is a principally holarctic family including around 2200 species often classified into the three subfamilies Alsinoideae, Caryophylloideae, and Paronychioideae. Complex and possibly homoplasious morphological characters within the family make taxa difficult to delimit and diagnose. To explore part of th...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Fior S,Karis PO,Casazza G,Minuto L,Sala F

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bennettitales is an extinct group of seed plants with reproductive structures that are similar in some respects to both Gnetales and angiosperms, but systematic relationships among the three clades remain controversial. This study summarizes characters of bennettitalean plants and presents new evidence for the structu...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Rothwell GW,Crepet WL,Stockey RA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eudicot order Malpighiales contains ∼16000 species and is the most poorly resolved large rosid clade. To clarify phylogenetic relationships in the order, we used maximum likelihood, Bayesian, and parsimony analyses of DNA sequence data from 13 gene regions, totaling 15604 bp, and representing all three genomic com...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Wurdack KJ,Davis CC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The genus Hoya (Apocynaceae; Asclepiadoideae) is characterized by a set of complex floral characters unique among the asclepiads, but their role in pollination is poorly understood. Here, we report a new mechanism of asclepiad pollination in the wax plant Hoya carnosa: the pollinaria are transferre...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Mochizuki K,Furukawa S,Kawakita A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) research on plants has concentrated on vegetative plant parts, and only a small fraction has dealt with the reproductive system. The present study analyzed pollen grains of 34 taxa germinated and grown under two levels of UV-B radiation (187 and 460 mW/m2) or no UV-B (control...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Torabinejad J,Caldwell M,Flint S,Durham S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than a century, the common ancestor of flowering plants was thought to have had a seven-celled, eight-nucleate Polygonum-type female gametophyte. It is now evident that not one, but in fact three, patterns of female gametophyte development and mature structure characterize the common ancestors of the four mos...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Friedman WE,Ryerson KC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Nicotiana attenuata, systemic induction of heat-shock proteins (Hsps) was detected in response to the treatment of single leaves by either heat shock, mechanical damage, or exogenous application of methyl jasmonate (MJ). All treatments increased the abundance of members of the 70-kD Hsp (Hsp70) family and induced s...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Hamilton Iii EW,Coleman JS

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Both polyploidy and shifts in floral color have marked angiosperm evolution. Here, we investigate the biochemical basis of the novel and diverse floral phenotypes seen in allopolyploids in Nicotiana (Solanaceae) and examine the extent to which the merging of distinct genomes alters flavonoid pigmen...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： McCarthy EW,Berardi AE,Smith SD,Litt A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breakdown of genetically enforced self-incompatibility (SI), an extremely common and important evolutionary transition in plants, has conventionally been conceived as a qualitative rather than a quantitative change. We evaluated qualitative and quantitative variation in SI for four populations of Witheringia solanacea...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Stone JL,Sasuclark MA,Blomberg CP

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent study (American Journal of Botany 97: 730-737), we described the first case of a tripartite association in natural conditions among a holoparasitic plant (Cytinus), its host Cistaceae species, and mycorrhizal fungi at an anatomical level. In a letter to the editor, Brundrett (American Journal of Botany 98:...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： de Vega C,Arista M,Ortiz PL,Talavera S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrestrial plant leaves are complex structures of composite materials. Resistance to fracture is achieved by a number of mechanisms, which operate at the molecular, cell, tissue, and structural levels. Leaves of dicots have different venation patterns and cell wall volume fractions from those of grasses, and conseque...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Sanson G

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conspicuous feature of Vochysiaceae flowers is their single fertile stamen. In some genera, the stamen is in front of a petal, whereas in others it is in front of a sepal. This difference has been attributed to two independent reductions, which implies the stamen is not homologous across the family. The observation ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Litt A,Stevenson DW

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Plants adjust their phenology in response to seasonal cues experienced both by their parents and by themselves, and coordinating responses to these cues is necessary for expressing adaptive phenology. We investigated how cues are integrated across time to influence an important progeny phenotype, i...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Imaizumi T,Auge G,Donohue K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploids have significantly influenced angiosperm evolution. Understanding the genetic consequences of polyploidy is advanced by studies on synthetic allopolyploids that mimic natural species. In Nicotiana, Burk (1973) and Kostoff (1938) generated synthetic tobacco (N. tabacum) using the parents ♀N. sylvestris × ♂N....

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Lim KY,Souckova-Skalicka K,Sarasan V,Clarkson JJ,Chase MW,Kovarik A,Leitch AR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf habit correlates with multiple physiological traits. Understanding ecophysiology is therefore dependent on knowledge of leaf habit. A variety of leaf habits exists within forest understory plant communities. Oxalis acetosella is one such understory plant and has long been considered a wintergreen, meaning that it...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Tessier JT

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：: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：PREMISE:Root-associated fungi provide a wide range of functions for their host plants, including nutrient provisioning, pathogen protection, and stress alleviation. In so doing, they can markedly influence host-plant structural and physiological traits, although the degree to which these effects vary within particular ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Hughes AR,Moore AFP,Gehring C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The ability of insect visitors to learn to manipulate complex flowers has important consequences for foraging efficiency and plant fitness. We investigated learning by two butterfly species, Danaus erippus and Heliconius erato, as they foraged on the complex flowers of Asclepias curassavica, as wel...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Ramos BCM,Rodríguez-Gironés MA,Rodrigues D

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00