A comparison of 16 DNA regions for use as phylogenetic markers in the pleurocarpous moss genus Plagiothecium (Hypnales).

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：:There have been three periods of significant discovery in the exploration of fern and lycophyte genetics. First, during the 1930s, Andersson-Kottö conducted crossing studies on ferns. The publication of Manton's magnum opus on fern chromosomes in 1950 stimulated the second. The third emerged from Klekowski's 1973 Amer...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Haufler CH

更新日期：2014-12-01 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: 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：:Phylogenetic relationships were inferred using nucleotide sequence variation of the nuclear-encoded chalcone synthase gene (Chs) and the chloroplast gene matK for members of five tribes from the family Brassicaceae to analyze tribal and subtribal structures. Phylogenetic trees from individual data sets are mostly in c...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Koch M,Haubold B,Mitchell-Olds T

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural recruitment of oaks appears to be declining throughout the northern hemisphere. Summer drought poses a potentially important barrier to oak recruitment in southern California. To evaluate this barrier, we grew evergreen Quercus agrifolia and deciduous Q. lobata from seeds near parental trees. We measured water...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Mahall BE,Tyler CM,Cole ES,Mata C

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cacti are a large and diverse group of stem succulents predominantly occurring in warm and arid North and South America. Chloroplast DNA sequences of the trnK intron, including the matK gene, were sequenced for 70 ingroup taxa and two outgroups from the Portulacaceae. In order to improve resolution in three major grou...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Nyffeler R

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:Eight ecosystems that were present in the Cretaceous about 100 Ma (million years ago) in the New World eventually developed into the 12 recognized for the modern Earth. Among the forcing mechanisms that drove biotic change during this interval was a decline in global temperatures toward the end of the Cretaceous, augm...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Graham A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plastid trnL-F region has proved useful in molecular phylogenetic studies addressing diverse evolutionary questions from biogeographic history to character evolution in a broad range of plant groups. An important assumption for phylogenetic reconstruction is that data used in combined analyses contain the same phy...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Pirie MD,Vargas MP,Botermans M,Bakker FT,Chatrou LW

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propagule banks are assumed to be able to store considerable genetic variability. Bryophyte populations are expected to rely more heavily on stored propagules than those of seed plants due to the vulnerability of the haploid gametophyte. This reliance has important implications for the genetic structure and evolutiona...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Hock Z,Szövényi P,Schneller JJ,Tóth Z,Urmi E

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence data from the intron and spacer of the trnL-F chloroplast region elucidate the phylogenetic relationships of the tribe Diseae (Orchidoideae: Orchidaceae). Within Diseae, 41 species of Disa, two of Brownleea, three of Satyrium, and two of Corycium were included, with five species of Habenaria sensu lato (Orchi...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Bellstedt DU,Linder HP,Harley EH

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Seventy-four nucleotide sequences from the ITS regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA and 76 from the trnL-trnF spacer of chloroplast DNA were used to address the origin of tetraploid Cardamine amporitana, the conspecifity of central Italian and northeastern Spanish populations, and the possible cause for such geographic di...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Lihová J,Fuertes Aguilar J,Marhold K,Nieto Feliner G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Herbivory affects pollination success and reproductive output in plants. However, the different stages in the process from pollination to seed maturation have hardly been investigated within the context of herbivory. Herbivory might affect these stages via its effect on geitonogamous pollination an...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Ghyselen C,Bonte D,Brys R

更新日期：2015-12-01 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:Hyperaccumulation of heavy metals in plants has never been documented from Central America or Mexico. Psychotria grandis, P. costivenia, and P. glomerata (Rubiaceae) have been reported to hyperaccumulate nickel in the Greater Antilles, but they also occur widely across the neotropics. The goals of this research...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： McCartha GL,Taylor CM,van der Ent A,Echevarria G,Navarrete Gutiérrez DM,Pollard AJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perennial crops represent important fresh and processed food sources worldwide, but advancements in breeding perennials are often impeded due to their very nature. The perennial crops we rely on most for food take several years to reach production maturity and require large spaces to grow, which make breeding new cult...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： McClure KA,Sawler J,Gardner KM,Money D,Myles S

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Direct tests of a species distribution model (SDM) were used to evaluate the hypothesis that the northern and southern edges of Mimulus bicolor's geographical range are limited by temperature and precipitation. METHODS:Climatic suitability was predicted using an SDM informed only by temperature an...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Dixon AL,Busch JW

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an improved cytological protocol for producing high quality, light microscope images of plant meiotic chromosomes. Because the technique works on species with small genomes and thick microsporocyte cell walls, it should be useful for studying the wild relatives of Arabidopsis and other eudicots with small...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Stronghill PE,Hasenkampf CA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The boreotropical flora concept suggests that relictual tropical disjunctions between Asia and the Americas are a result of the expansion of the circumboreal tropical flora from the middle to the close of the Eocene. Subsequently, temperate species diverged at high latitudes and migrated to other continents. To test t...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Azuma H,García-Franco JG,Rico-Gray V,Thien LB

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：UNLABELLED: PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Microsatellite loci were developed to characterize genetic variation and population subdivision in Khaya senegalensis (Desr.) A. Juss. (Meliaceae). • METHODS AND RESULTS:Microsatellite loci were identified from genomic DNA sequences generated using the 454 GS-FLX titanium platform. Pr...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Sexton GJ,Frere CH,Dieters MJ,Godwin ID,Prentis PJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:Isozymatic data taken from 67 Guatemalan collections of maize were subjected to numerical taxonomic analyses to elucidate systematic relationships among the 19 maize races and subraces described for Guatemala by Wellhausen et al. As with Bolivian and Mexican races, isozymatic variation in Guatemalan maize was strongly...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Bretting PK,Goodman MM,Stuber CW

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Floral characteristics such as morphology and flower color have been interpreted as adaptive traits that evolved through selective pressures generated by pollinators. Differences among populations in the expression of floral characters could result from natural selection for their adaptive value to local conditions. W...

journal_title：American journal of botany

authors： Silva-Montellano A,Eguiarte LE

更新日期：2003-03-01 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

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: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