Invasive congeners are unlikely to hybridize with native Hawaiian Bidens (Asteraceae).

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：:Multicellularity has evolved at least once in every major eukaryotic clade (in all ploidy levels) and numerous times among the prokaryotes. According to a standard multilevel selection (MLS) model, in each case, the evolution of multicellularity required the acquisition of cell-cell adhesion, communication, cooperatio...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Niklas KJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-incompatibility (SI) is an effective method for limiting self-fertilization in flowering plant species, but there are circumstances in which an otherwise functional SI system may fail. One of the most intriguing of these is the induction of selfing by mixed loads of self and heterospecific pollen (the mentor effe...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Desrochers A,Rieseberg L

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Microsatellite primers were developed in Paeonia lactiflora for further population genetic studies. • METHODS AND RESULTS:Ten dinucleotide microsatellite markers were developed using an enriched genomic library. They were identified in 58 individuals, and nine markers were also amplif...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Sun J,Yuan J,Wang B,Pan J,Zhang D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:We developed simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) for Callitris columellaris sensu lato (s.l.) to elucidate population genetic structure and detect outlier loci by genome scan. METHODS AND RESULTS:mRNA from an individual seedling was subjected to cDNA synthesis ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Sakaguchi S,Uchiyama K,Ueno S,Ujino-Ihara T,Tsumura Y,Prior LD,Bowman DM,Crisp MD,Isagi Y

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition and herbivory are ubiquitous environmental challenges that affect most plants. We examined the influence of phenotypic responses to either competition or herbivory on the subsequent response of the plants to the other factor. The stem-elongation response of Chenopodium album to light competition attenuated...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Kurashige NS,Agrawal AA

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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 of the study: Carpel closure is commonly considered as a key innovation in angiosperms; however, some families continue to exhibit a variety of forms of incomplete carpel closure. The carpel of Sagittaria species contains an unusual structure. In this study, we confirm the closure type of the carpel of Sagit...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Huang LJ,Wang XW,Wang XF

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:We demonstrated that "orchid mycorrhiza," a specialized mycorrhizal type, appeared in the common ancestor of the largest plant family Orchidaceae and that the fungal partner shifted from Glomeromycota to a particular clade of Basidiomycota in association with this character evolution. Several unique mycorrhizal charac...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Yukawa T,Ogura-Tsujita Y,Shefferson RP,Yokoyama J

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:While the effect of abiotic factors on leaf herbivory is well known, the relative importance of abiotic conditions influencing both mutualists and antagonists is less well understood. Species interactions could enhance or reduce the direct effects of abiotic factors, depending on how mutualists and...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Soper Gorden NL,Adler LS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the crown-building phase, the mechanical architecture of the trunk of Aralia spinosa exhibits considerable ontogenetic variation. All trunks were tapered along their length, and taper was dependent on both ramet size and age; older, larger trunks were more tapered than younger, smaller trunks. Trunk specific gr...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Briand CH,Campion SM,Dzambo DA,Wilson KA

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Vestigialization of traits that no longer enhance fitness is a common theme in evolution. Plants often use colorful, scented flowers to attract pollinators that mediate outcross pollination. After an evolutionary shift from outcrossing to self-fertilization, where cross-pollination is no longer nec...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Doubleday LA,Raguso RA,Eckert CG

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:High intraspecific cytogenetic variation in the sedge genus Carex (Cyperaceae) is hypothesized to be due to the "diffuse" or non-localized centromeres, which facilitate chromosome fission and fusion. If chromosome number changes are dominated by fission and fusion, then chromosome evolution will re...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Chung KS,Weber JA,Hipp AL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:A total of 38 polymorphic microsatellite loci of the Indian jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana), an economically important fruit tree, were developed to evaluate genetic diversity and aid in the identification of cultivars. METHODS AND RESULTS:The 38 microsatellite markers were isolated from the Indian j...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Chiou CY,Chiang YC,Chen CH,Yen CR,Lee SR,Lin YS,Tsai CC

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis, Moraceae), a traditional starch crop in Oceania, has enjoyed legendary status ever since its role in the infamous mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789, yet its origins remain unclear. Breadfruit's closest relatives are A. camansi and A. mariannensis. DNA fingerprinting data (AFLP, am...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Zerega NJ,Ragone D,Motley TJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:• 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: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：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Taxonomic groups have often been recognized on the basis of geographic distinctions rather than accurately representing evolutionary relationships. This has been particularly true for temperate and tropical members from the same family. Polygonaceae exemplifies this problem, wherein th...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Burke JM,Sanchez A,Kron K,Luckow M

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：: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：:Survival and fecundity are basic components of demography and therefore have a strong influence on population dynamics. These two key parameters and their relationship are crucial to understand the evolution of life histories. It remains, however, to be empirically established how life span, fecundity, and population ...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： García MB,Picó FX,Ehrlén J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, polyploidy has been a significant evolutionary force on both recent and ancient time scales. In 1950, Ownbey reported two newly formed Tragopogon allopolyploids in the northwestern United States. We have made the first synthetic lines of T. mirus and T. miscellus using T. dubius, T. porrifolius, and T. prat...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Tate JA,Symonds VV,Doust AN,Buggs RJ,Mavrodiev E,Majure LC,Soltis PS,Soltis DE

更新日期：2009-05-01 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 STUDY:Although there is increasing recognition of the effects of plant intraspecific diversity on consumers, the mechanisms by which such effects cascade-up to higher trophic levels remain elusive. METHODS:We evaluated the effects of plant (lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus) intraspecific diversity on a suite of...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Abdala-Roberts L,Hernández-Cumplido J,Chel-Guerrero L,Betancur-Ancona D,Benrey B,Moreira X

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Documented fossil floras in the neotropics are sparse, yet their records provide evidence on the spatial and temporal occurrence of taxa, allowing for testing of biogeographical and diversification scenarios on individual lineages. A new fossil Piper from the Late Cretaceous of Colombia is describe...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Martínez C,Carvalho MR,Madriñán S,Jaramillo CA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many foliar pathogens require free water to germinate; therefore, disease pressure should favor plants that are able to repel water. For a suite of 18 sympatric clover species (Trifolium and Medicago, Fabaceae), we evaluated leaf traits affecting leaf wetness and susceptibility to infection by the fungal pathogen Stem...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Bradley DJ,Gilbert GS,Parker IM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00