Do differences in plant and flower age change mating patterns and alter offspring fitness in Raphanus sativus (Brassicaceae)?

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Microsatellite primers were developed in the traditional Tibetan medicinal plant Halenia elliptica D. Don to investigate its genetic diversity and population genetic structure. METHODS AND RESULTS:Using the Fast Isolation by AFLP of Sequences Containing (FIASCO) repeats protocol, 24 primer sets we...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Zhang ZR,Yang J,Sun Y,Gao TG,Li DZ,Xue CY

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of inbreeding on fitness (through both male and female functions) and changes in self-fertility in the partially self-incompatible species Campanula rapunculoides. Individuals in natural populations of C. rapunculoides varied extensively in their strength of self-incompatibility (SI). We crossed...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Good-Avila SV,Nagel T,Vogler DW,Stephenson AG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pitchers of the tropical carnivorous plant Nepenthes alata are highly specialized organs for the attraction and capture of insects and absorption of nutrients from them. This study examined the structure and development of these pitchers, with particular focus on the nectaries and digestive glands. Immature pitche...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Owen TP Jr,Lennon KA

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：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：:Climate changes during glacial periods have had significant effects on the present geographic distribution of plant species. To elucidate the evolutionary history of a plant species with a disjunctive distribution, we investigated the geographic distribution patterns of cpDNA haplotypes in Photinia glabra (Rosaceae) g...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Aoki K,Matsumura T,Hattori T,Murakami N

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE:Spiny pollen has evolved independently in multiple entomophilous lineages. Sexual selection may act on exine traits that facilitate male mating success by influencing the transfer of pollen from the anther to the body of the pollinator, while natural selection acts to increase pollen survival. We postulated tha...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Lynn A,Piotter E,Harrison E,Galen C

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Nutrient resorption is essential for plant nutrient conservation. Large-bodied plants potentially have large nutrient sink pools and high nutrient flux. Whether and how nutrient resorption can be regulated by plant size and biomass allocation are yet unknown. METHODS:Using the herbaceous plant Ama...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Peng H,Yan Z,Chen Y,Zhao X,Han W

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Microsatellite markers were isolated and characterized from Dacryodes edulis (Burseraceae), a tropical rainforests fruit tree of central Africa. METHODS AND RESULTS:Using an enrichment protocol, six microsatellites loci were developed from Dacryodes edulis. We investigated polymorphism using 45 tr...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Benoit L,Born C,Vignes H,Chevallier MH,Todou G,Debain C,Joly HI

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The opuntias (nopales, prickly pears) are not only culturally, ecologically, economically, and medicinally important, but are renowned for their taxonomic difficulty due to interspecific hybridization, polyploidy, and morphological variability. Evolutionary relationships in these stem succulents ha...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Majure LC,Puente R,Griffith MP,Judd WS,Soltis PS,Soltis DE

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Specific leaf area (SLA) is a critical component of the leaf economics spectrum, and many functional leaf traits have been empirically demonstrated to covary with SLA. However, a complete understanding of how change in leaf size influences SLA has not yet emerged. • METHODS:To help de...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Price CA,Weitz JS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of the genus Cerastium were studied using sequences of three noncoding plastid DNA regions (trnL intron, trnL-trnF spacer, and psbA-trnH spacer). A total of 57 Cerastium taxa was analyzed using two species of the putative sister genus Stellaria as outgroups. Maximum parsimon...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Scheen AC,Brochmann C,Brysting AK,Elven R,Morris A,Soltis DE,Soltis PS,Albert VA

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：UNLABELLED:• PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The question why leaf dimensions vary so much between species has long puzzled ecologists. Presumably, variation arises from selective forces acting on leaf function but which selective forces and which leaf functions? This investigation assesses the consistency of divergence in plant...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Tozer WC,Rice B,Westoby M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their ecological significance, parasitic plants face more conservation challenges than do autotrophic plants. This is especially true for the groups that include weedy or invasive species such as Cuscuta. While approximately half of the Cuscuta (dodders) species may require conservation measures, the genus as ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Costea M,Stefanovic S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epiphytes are ecologically important components of tropical forests worldwide and yet they have been underrepresented in studies of reproductive biology. Given the presumed ephemeral nature of their substrates, and the importance of dispersal and colonization, epiphytes might be expected to undergo substantial inbreed...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Hooper E,Haufler C

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Most studies on orchid hybrids examine separately the effects of hybridization on interactions with pollinators or with mycorrhizal fungi. Here, we simultaneously investigated both interactions in the mediterranean food-deceptive Orchis simia, O. anthropophora, and their hybrid (O. ×be...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Schatz B,Geoffroy A,Dainat B,Bessière JM,Buatois B,Hossaert-McKey M,Selosse MA

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive traits of tropical tree species vary predictably in relation to successional stage, but this variation may be due to the species' phylogenetic histories rather than selective pressures imposed by regeneration requirements. Reproductive phenology, tree size at the onset of reproduction, and fecundity of 11...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Davies SJ,Ashton PS

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact forces are important in maintaining the twining habit of viny stems. A stem twining around a supporting pole puts itself into tension and uses a helical geometry to generate normal loads that are large relative to stem mass per unit length (Silk and Hubbard, Journal of Biomechanics 24(7):599-606, 1991). An ele...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Matista A,Silk W

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Eocene caldera-lake beds at Laguna del Hunco (LH, ca. 52.2 Ma) and Río Pichileufú (RP, ca. 47.7 Ma) in Argentine Patagonia provide copious information about the biological history of Gondwana. Several plant genera from these sites are known as fossils from southern Australia and New Zealand and sur...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Wilf P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships of eight species of Saintpaulia H. Wendl., 19 species of Streptocarpus Lindl. (representing all major growth forms within the genus), and two outgroups (Haberlea rhodopensis Friv., Chirita spadiciformis W. T. Wang) were examined using comparative nucleotide sequences from the two internal tr...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Moller M,Cronk Q

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollinator-mediated natural selection has been shown to act on phenotypic variation in floral morphology, and this variation has often been demonstrated to be heritable, but few details are available concerning the sources of floral variation. We examined phenotypic variation in seven floral traits in wild radish (Rap...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Williams JL,Conner JK

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of regression and correspondence models for deducing climate from leaf physiognomy was evaluated by the comparative application of different predictive models to the same three leaf assemblages. Mean annual temperature (MAT), mean annual precipitation (MAP), and growing season precipitation (GSP) were esti...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Wiemann MC,Manchester SR,Dilcher DL,Hinojosa LF,Wheeler EA

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE:Polyploidy may serve to contribute to range size if autopolyploid cytotypes are adapted to differing ecological conditions. This study aims to establish the geographic distribution of cytotypes within the giant goldenrod (Solidago gigantea), and to assess whether cytotypes exhibit differing ecological tolerance...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Martino M,Semple JC,Beck JB

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Invasive plant species threaten native plants in multiple ways, one of which is genetic assimilation through hybridization. However, information regarding hybridization between related alien and native plant species is generally lacking. In Hawaii, the invasive Central American species...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Knope ML,Pender RJ,Crawford DJ,Wieczorek AM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Autopolyploidy, or whole-genome duplication within a species, leads to closely related cytotypes in one geographic location. One hypothesized mechanism by which autopolyploids become established is climatic niche divergence from their diploid progenitor. Here we tested this hypothesis in diploid, t...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Gaynor ML,Marchant DB,Soltis DE,Soltis PS

更新日期：2018-10-01 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: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：PREMISE:Variation in seedling emergence timing is considered adaptive over the long term in wild populations, but early emergence can result in a fitness advantage. To explore the adaptive significance of seedling emergence timing, it should be studied under realistic conditions and in the context of other traits that ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Mercer KL,Alexander HM,Snow AA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many plant species are characterized by a life cycle with a long-lived, subterranean phase that is completely dependent on mycorrhizal fungal symbionts for fixed carbon. This type of life cycle is both phylogenetically and ecologically widespread and is found in diverse vascular plant lineages from the tropics to suba...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Winther JL,Friedman WE

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00