The evolutionary history of Melianthus (Melianthaceae).

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Reintroductions may be essential to prevent extinction of many critically endangered species. Ideally, reintroduction efforts rely on adjacent source populations, but limited source material may necessitate crossing individuals from different and possibly distant populations. To determine the conse...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Weisenberger LA,Weller SG,Sakai AK

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Despite the strong influence of the frequency and distribution of vessel endings on both hydraulic safety and efficiency, detailed anatomical descriptions or measurements of these structures are generally lacking. METHODS:Here we used high-resolution x-ray microcomputed tomography (microCT) to ide...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Wason JW,Huggett BA,Brodersen CR

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Populations of heterostylous species are characterized by two or three floral morphs with reciprocal positioning of stigmas and anthers. Theoretical models predict equal morph frequencies (isoplethy) when disassortative mating is prevalent in populations, but biased morph ratios may occur when vari...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Ferrero V,Barrett SC,Rojas D,Arroyo J,Navarro L

更新日期：2017-01-01 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: Tropical forests are the most species-rich terrestrial communities on Earth, and understory trees and shrubs comprise a large fraction of their plant species diversity, especially at high rainfalls. The mechanisms responsible for generating such high levels of diversity remain unknown. One hypo...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Theim TJ,Shirk RY,Givnish TJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE:The ecological implications of hyperaccumulation have been investigated at the organismal level, but are poorly understood at the plant community level. Questions addressed here were: Does the presence of selenium (Se) hyperaccumulators affect Se distribution and concentration in their native soil, and do hyper...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Reynolds RJB,Jones RR,Heiner J,Crane KM,Pilon-Smits EAH

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships among embryophytes (tracheophytes, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) were examined using 21 newly generated mitochondrial small-subunit (19S) rDNA sequences. The "core" 19S rDNA contained more phylogenetically informative sites and lower homoplasy than either nuclear 18S or plastid 16S rDNA...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Duff RJ,Nickrent DL

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:• PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The evolution of invasiveness has been extensively studied in natural ecosystems; however, far less is known about the evolution of agricultural invasiveness, despite the major economic impact of weeds on crop productivity. Examining the population structure of recently arisen weeds c...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Waselkov KE,Olsen KM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cladistic parsimony analyses of rbcL nucleotide sequence data from 171 taxa representing nearly all tribes and subtribes of Orchidaceae are presented here. These analyses divide the family into five primary monophyletic clades: apostasioid, cypripedioid, vanilloid, orchidoid, and epidendroid orchids, arranged in that ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Cameron KM,Chase MW,Whitten WM,Kores PJ,Jarrell DC,Albert VA,Yukawa T,Hills HG,Goldman DH

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anther and ovule development of Camellia, Franklinia, and Schima (Theaceae, Camellioideae) were observed. The three genera share the following embryological traits: anther wall formation of basic type, tapetum of glandular type, walls of endothecial cells with secondary thickening, and production of pseudopollen g...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Tsou C

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：PREMISE:Understanding plant hydraulic functioning and water balance during drought has become key in predicting species survival and recovery. However, there are few insightful studies that couple physiological and morphological attributes for many ecosystems, such as the vulnerable Tropical Montane Cloud Forests (TMCF...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Berry ZC,Espejel X,Williams-Linera G,Asbjornsen H

更新日期：2019-10-01 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:Several members of Selaginella are renowned for their ability to survive extreme drought and "resurrect" when conditions improve. Many of these belong to subgenus Tetragonostachys, a group of ∼45 species primarily found in North and Central America, with substantial diversity in the Sonoran and Chi...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Arrigo N,Therrien J,Anderson CL,Windham MD,Haufler CH,Barker MS

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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

abstract：:Darwin's research on botany and plant physiology was a landmark attempt to integrate plant movements into a biological perspective of behavior. Since antiquity, people have sought to explain plant movements via mechanical or physiological forces, and yet they also constructed analogies between plant and animal behavio...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Whippo CW,Hangarter RP

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Clarkia (Onagraceae) is a genus of 42 annual species, mostly native to California, that has served as a model for many studies of plant evolutionary biology, particularly morphological, cytological, and genetic divergence; reproductive isolation; and speciation. Section Sympherica is the largest section with eight dip...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Ford VS,Gottlieb LD

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of size and spatial isolation of fens on the isozyme variability of 17 populations of Swertia perennis. This long-lived perennial is a locally abundant fen specialist in Switzerland, where wetlands have been strongly fragmented. Isozyme variability was comparable to other outcrossing plants (A ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Lienert J,Fischer M,Schneller J,Diemer M

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:Senna (Leguminosae) is a large, widespread genus that includes species with enantiostylous, asymmetric flowers and species with extrafloral nectaries. Clarification of phylogenetic relationships within Senna based on parsimony analyses of three chloroplast regions (rpS16, rpL16, and matK) provides new insights on the ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Marazzi B,Endress PK,Queiroz LP,Conti E

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE:Although hybridization has played an important role in the evolution of many plant species, phylogenetic reconstructions that include hybridizing lineages have been historically constrained by the available models and data. Restriction-site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) has been a popular sequencing techni...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Blanco-Pastor JL,Bertrand YJK,Liberal IM,Wei Y,Brummer EC,Pfeil BE

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：: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：:Molecular phylogenetic studies of seven plastid DNA regions were used to resolve circumscriptions at generic and infrageneric levels in subfamily Tillandsioideae of Bromeliaceae. One hundred and ten tillandsioid samples were analyzed, encompassing 10 genera, 104 species, and two cultivars. Two species of Bromelioideae...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Barfuss MH,Samuel R,Till W,Stuessy TF

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Land-use change is cited as a primary driver of global biodiversity loss, with myriad consequences for species, populations, and ecosystems. However, few studies have examined its impact on species interactions, particularly pollination. Furthermore, when the effects of land-use change on pollinati...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Skogen KA,Jogesh T,Hilpman ET,Todd SL,Rhodes MK,Still SM,Fant JB

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Many ecological and evolutionary processes shape the assembly of organisms into local communities from a regional pool of species. We analyzed phylogenetic and functional diversity to understand community assembly of the ferns of Florida at two spatial scales. METHODS:We built a phylogeny for 125 ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Sessa EB,Chambers SM,Li D,Trotta L,Endara L,Burleigh JG,Baiser B

更新日期：2018-03-01 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