Reexamination of series relationships of South American wild potatoes (Solanaceae: Solanum sect. Petota): evidence from chloroplast DNA restriction site variation.

abstract：:A spatially explicit, reiterative algorithm (SERA) is presented and used to predict multiple aspects of plant population and community dynamics. Using simple physical principles and empirically derived relationships, SERA provides an analytical venue to test alternative hypotheses about individual functional traits go...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Hammond ST,Niklas KJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

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：UNLABELLED:• PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The growth limitation hypothesis (GLH) is the most accepted mechanistic explanation for treeline formation, although it is still uncertain whether it applies across taxa. The successful establishment of Pinus contorta--an exotic conifer species in the southern hemisphere--above the No...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Fajardo A,Piper FI

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylem of the orchids studied provided unusually favorable material to demonstrate how conductive tissue evolves in monocotyledons. In the end walls of tracheary elements of many Orchidaceae, remnants of pit membranes were observed with scanning electron microscopy and minimally destructive methods. The full range from...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Carlquist S,Schneider EL

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Endophytic fungi are common inhabitants of cool-season grasses that can affect host growth and reproduction. One prerequisite for the expected coevolution between symbionts is that there exist variable effects of the endosymbiont on its host in different environments. Here, the impact of endophytes...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Cheplick GP

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships were determined in the Araucariaceae, which are now found mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. This conifer family was well diversified and widely distributed in both hemispheres during the Mesozoic era. The sequence of 1322 bases of the rbcL gene of cpDNA was determined from 29 species of Ara...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Setoguchi H,Asakawa Osawa T,Pintaud JC,Jaffré T,Veillon JM

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Despite being highly fertile and occupying a large geographic region, the North American heartleaf bittercress (Cardamine cordifolia; Brassicaceae) has a puzzling triploid-like chromosome number (2n = 3x = 24). As most triploids are sterile, we embarked on a detailed analysis of the C. cordifolia g...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Mandáková T,Gloss AD,Whiteman NK,Lysak MA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of tribe Vandeae (Orchidaceae) form a large, pantropical clade of horticulturally important epiphytes. Monopodial leafless members of Vandeae have undergone extreme reduction in habit and represent a novel adaptation to the canopy environment in tropical Africa, Asia, and America. To study the evolution of mon...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Carlsward BS,Whitten WM,Williams NH,Bytebier B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the role of geography and ecology in species divergence is central to the study of evolutionary diversification. We used climatic, geographic, and biological data from nine wild Andean tomato species to describe each species' ecological niche and to evaluate the likely ecological and geographical modes o...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Nakazato T,Warren DL,Moyle LC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific hybridization is considered a possible mechanism of plant diversification. The Andes are a hotspot of biodiversity, but hybridization in Andean taxa has so far not been investigated intensively. The current study investigates crossability in Caiophora (Loasaceae subfam. Loasoideae) by experimental inters...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Ackermann M,Achatz M,Weigend M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fossil record of aquatic flowering plants broadens our understanding of their former diversity and origins from terrestrial ancestors. This paper describes a floating aquatic monocot from 71 whole plants and several isolated leaf fragments from Upper Cretaceous oxbow lake sediments in the Dinosaur Park Formation, ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Stockey RA,Rothwell GW,Johnson KR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Verbenaceae consist of trees, shrubs, lianas, and herbs distributed primarily in Latin America, where they occur in a wide array of ecosystems. A second center of diversity exists in Africa. Competing morphology-based classifications that rely on different traits conflict in significan...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Marx HE,O'Leary N,Yuan YW,Lu-Irving P,Tank DC,Múlgura ME,Olmstead RG

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In turnip mitochondria the cox2 gene is partially contained within a 2-kb (kilobase) direct repeat that is the site of homologous recombination events that generate subgenomic molecules. Because of its partial presence within the direct repeat, the turnip cox2 gene exists in four genomic contexts, two on the master ch...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Dong F,Wilson K,Makaroff C

更新日期：1998-02-01 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 OF THE STUDY:We developed microsatellite loci for the biomass crop Miscanthus sinensis to investigate genetic diversity and population structure of M. sinensis and its closely related species. METHODS AND RESULTS:Fourteen microsatellite loci were identified from an enriched genomic library of M. sinensis and t...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Zhou HF,Li SS,Ge S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:One explanation for the evolution of selfing, the drought escape hypothesis, proposes that self-fertilization may evolve under conditions of intensifying seasonal drought as part of a suite of traits that enable plants to accelerate the completion of their life cycle, thereby escaping late-season d...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Dudley LS,Hove AA,Emms SK,Verhoeven AS,Mazer SJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 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

abstract：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF STUDY:Phylogenetic relationships of the papilionoid legumes (Papilionoideae) reveal that the early branches are more highly diverse in floral morphology than are other clades of Papilionoideae. This study attempts for the first time to comprehensively sample the early-branching clades of this ec...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Cardoso D,de Queiroz LP,Pennington RT,de Lima HC,Fonty E,Wojciechowski MF,Lavin M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recruitment and mortality of Spartina alterniflora tillers and culms were estimated from measurements of live standing crops at Wallops Island, Virginia. Stands of tall and medium form grass produced from 452 to 1,227 tillers m-2 yr-1 . Those tillered in spring lengthened into culms their first year, while those tille...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Reidenbaugh TG

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Floral organogenesis and development of the tropical legume trees Haematoxylum campechianum (logwood) and H. brasiletto (brazilwood) were studied using scanning electron microscopy. The aims were to compare ontogenies, and to elucidate the relationships of Haematoxylum with other genera of Caesalpinieae, the basal tri...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Tucker S,Kantz K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Phylogenetic incongruence between "gene trees" and "species trees" has been widely acknowledged in phylogenetic research. Conflicts may emerge from several processes including paralogy, hybridization, and incomplete lineage sorting. Although phylogenetic incongruence appears common, its impact on m...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Zhang Q,Feild TS,Antonelli A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate estimates of inbreeding depression are necessary in order to predict the evolutionary dynamics of a population, but many studies estimate inbreeding depression based solely on components of female function such as fruit set, seed set, and seed quality. Because total fitness is achieved through both male and f...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Hayes CN,Winsor JA,Stephenson AG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marchantia inflexa, a dioecious thallose liverwort, is sexually dimorphic in clonal expansion traits. We used selection analyses to measure the magnitude and direction of selection on clonal fitness to uncover possible mechanisms for the maintenance of preadult sexually dimorphic characters. We planted replicates of g...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Fuselier L,McLetchie N

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

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：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The Malpighiaceae include ∼1300 tropical flowering plant species in which generic definitions and intergeneric relationships have long been problematic. The goals of our study were to resolve relationships among the 11 generic segregates from the New World genus Mascagnia, test the mon...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Davis CC,Anderson WR

更新日期：2010-12-01 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:Male-biased herbivory in dioecious species is expected as a consequence of selection for increased resistance (reduced attack) in the sex with higher reproductive costs-females. Empirical support of this prediction is taxonomically restricted and fraught with exceptions. Phenological changes in res...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Buckley NE,Avila-Sakar G

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal is an important life history component. Seed settling velocity may be a useful surrogate for the measurement of dispersal ability in wind-dispersed plants, particularly those whose seeds have plumose dispersal structures. I measured settling velocities on seeds of eight species of Asteraceae, including annua...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Andersen MC

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term survey (1990-2000) of pollination modes of 86 tree species was carried out at Kakachi, a mid-elevation wet forest site in southern Western Ghats, India. Observations were made on 86 tree species. This comprises 80% of the total arborescent species present in the site. Approximately 75% of these species wer...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Devy MS,Davidar P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cladistic analyses of plastid DNA sequences rbcL and trnL-F are presented separately and combined for 48 genera of Amaryllidaceae and 29 genera of related asparagalean families. The combined analysis is the most highly resolved of the three and provides good support for the monophyly of Amaryllidaceae and indicates Ag...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Meerow AW,Fay MF,Guy CL,Li QB,Zaman FQ,Chase MW

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00