abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:This paper examines the basis of the greater tolerance of an indica rice cultivar FR13A to complete submergence compared with relatively intolerant japonica rice CT6241. We study whether this superior tolerance is related to its greater tolerance to O2 shortage and to an ability to run a more favour...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Boamfa EI,Veres AH,Ram PC,Jackson MB,Reuss J,Harren FJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of pyrophosphate (PPi) for plant metabolism and survival under low oxygen stress. Responses of roots of wild-type potato plants were compared with roots of transgenic plants containing decreased amounts of PPi as a result of the constitutive ex...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Mustroph A,Albrecht G,Hajirezaei M,Grimm B,Biemelt S

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Rheum, a highly diversified genus with about 60 species, is mainly confined to the mountainous and desert regions of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau and adjacent areas. This genus represents a good example of the extensive diversification of the temperate genera in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, in which ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Wang A,Yang M,Liu J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The use of microarrays to characterize the transcript profile of Arabidopsis under various experimental conditions is rapidly expanding. This technique provides a huge amount of expression data, requiring bioinformatics tools to allow the proposal of working hypotheses. The aim of this study was to ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gonzali S,Loreti E,Novi G,Poggi A,Alpi A,Perata P

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress on plants imposed by flooding of the soil and deeper submergence constitutes one of the major abiotic constraints on growth, species' distribution and agricultural productivity. Flooding stress is also a strong driver of adaptive evolution. This has resulted in a wide range of biochemical, molecular and morphol...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Jackson MB,Colmer TD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This Botanical Briefing reviews how the integration of palaeontology, geochemistry and developmental biology is providing a new mechanistic framework for interpreting the 40- to 50-million-year gap between the origination of vascular land plants and the advent of large (megaphyll) leaves, a long-standing puzzle in...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Beerling DJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The Quadrifaria group of Paspalum (Poaceae, Paniceae) comprises species native to the subtropical and temperate regions of South America. The purpose of this research was to characterize the I genomes in five species of this group and to establish phylogenetic relationships among them. METHODS:Prom...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Vaio M,Speranza P,Valls JF,Guerra M,Mazzella C

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The ability to detect and respond to the impending threat of shade can confer significant selective advantage to plants growing in natural communities. This Botanical Briefing highlights (a) the regulation of shade-avoidance responses by endogenous and exogenous factors and (b) current understanding...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Franklin KA,Whitelam GC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Genome size (DNA C-value) data are key biodiversity characters of fundamental significance used in a wide variety of biological fields. Since 1976, Bennett and colleagues have made scattered published and unpublished genome size data more widely accessible by assembling them into user-friendly compi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zonneveld BJ,Leitch IJ,Bennett MD

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Although it was generally assumed that Maxillaria spp. do not produce nectar, in recent years, nectar has been reported for a number of these orchids. Nevertheless, our current understanding of nectary structure and nectar secretion in Maxillaria is based solely on M. coccinea (Jacq.) L.O. Williams ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Davies KL,Stpiczyńska M,Gregg A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Artemisia halodendron is a native sub-shrub that occurs mainly in moving and semi-fixed sandy lands in Inner Mongolia, China. Information on the spatial patterns of wind-dispersed seed deposition and seedling recruitment of A. halodendron inhabiting moving sandy lands is very limited. The aim of thi...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Li FR,Wang T,Zhang AS,Zhao LY,Kang LF,Chen W

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Cypripedium flavum is a rare, endemic alpine slipper orchid of China, which is under threat from excessive collection and habitat changes. Conservation and re-introduction of C. flavum is restricted by lack of knowledge of the plant's photosynthesis and how that affects reproductive success. The hyp...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Zhang S,Hu H,Zhou Z,Xu K,Yan N,Li S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS AND AIMS:Thermogenesis in reproductive organs is known from several plant families, including the Araceae. A study was made of the relationship between temperature increase and spadix size in the subfamily Aroideae in order to determine whether the quantitative variation of heat production among species and...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gibernau M,Barabé D,Moisson M,Trombe A

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Drought is a major environmental constraint affecting growth and production of Coffea canephora. Selection of C. canephora clones has been largely empirical as little is known about how clones respond physiologically to drought. Using clones previously shown to differ in drought tolerance, this stud...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Pinheiro HA,Damatta FM,Chaves AR,Loureiro ME,Ducatti C

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Covalent linkages between xyloglucan and rhamnogalacturonan-I (RG-I) have been reported in the primary cell walls of cultured Rosa cells and may contribute to wall architecture. This study investigated whether this chemical feature is general to angiosperms or whether Rosa is unusual. * METHODS:Xyl...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Popper ZA,Fry SC

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Natural regeneration of white spruce (Picea glauca) after disturbance has been reported to be very poor. Here a study was made to determine whether C compounds released from understorey species growing together with white spruce could be involved in this regeneration failure, either by (1) changing ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Castells E,Peñuelas J,Valentine DW

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Seeds of epiphytes must land on branches with suitable substrates and microclimates to germinate and for the resulting seedlings to survive. It is important to understand the fate of seeds and seedlings in order to model populations, but this is often neglected when only established plants are inclu...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Winkler M,Hülber K,Hietz P

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:A reliable protocol for flowering and fruiting in cuttings was developed with the aim of (a) studying inflorescence and flower development in grapevine cuttings and field plants, and (b) assisting haploid plant production. METHODS:Inflorescence and flower development was studied in 'Gewurztraminer'...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Lebon G,Duchêne E,Brun O,Clément C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Gossypium is an economically important, globally distributed taxon comprising more than 50 species. DNA content estimates from about half of the species indicate over a 3-fold variation exists. However, the nine DNA content estimates for G. hirsutum reveal over a 2-fold difference for this species a...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hendrix B,Stewart JM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Serpentine soils are characterized by the presence of heavy metals (Ni and Cr) and excess Mg; these elements often suppress plant growth. Picea glehnii is nevertheless distributed widely on serpentine soils in northern Japan. Growth characteristics were compared among P. glehnii, Picea jezoensis (di...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Kayama M,Quoreshi AM,Uemura S,Koike T

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This section comprises a set of papers taken from those presented at a symposium held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Monsi-Saeki theory (1953), together with invited papers. The papers describe recent advances in the study of structure and function of plant canopies and are written by former students (and ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Hirose T,Terashima I

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The regrowth dynamics after defoliation of the invasive grass Calamagrostis epigejos were studied. As nitrogen (N) reserves have been shown to play an important role during plant regrowth, the identity, location and relative importance for regrowth of N stores were determined in this rhizomatous gra...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Kavanová M,Gloser V

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) seedlings develop a peg on the concave side of the gravitropically bending transition zone between the hypocotyl and the root after seed germination. Peg initiation occurs in response to auxin when its levels in the concave side of the transition zone exceed a particular t...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Saito Y,Yamasaki S,Fujii N,Takahashi H

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:In microdensitometry and flow cytometry, estimation of nuclear DNA content in a sample requires a standard with a known nuclear DNA content. It is assumed that dye accessibility to DNA is the same in the sample and standard nuclei. Stoichiometric error arises when dye accessibility is not proportion...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Noirot M,Barre P,Duperray C,Hamon S,DE Kochko A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Brassicaceae, with nearly 340 genera and more than 3350 species, anchors the low range of angiosperm genome sizes. The relatively narrow range of DNA content (0.16 pg < 1C < 1.95 pg) was maintained in spite of extensive chromosomal change. The aim of this study was to erect a cytological and molecul...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Johnston JS,Pepper AE,Hall AE,Chen ZJ,Hodnett G,Drabek J,Lopez R,Price HJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The mode of reproduction (sexual vs. asexual) is likely to have important effects on genetic variation and its spatial distribution within plant populations. An investigation was undertaken of fine-scale clonal structure and diversity within patches of Ilex leucoclada (a clone-forming dioecious shru...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Torimaru T,Tomaru N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The aim of this paper was to verify the variation in the loss of seed dormancy during after-ripening and the interspecific and interpopulation variability in the degree of dormancy of seven wild and two cultivated rice species comprising 21 populations and two cultivars. METHODS:Four wild rice spec...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Veasey EA,Karasawa MG,Santos PP,Rosa MS,Mamani E,Oliveira GC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Data are presented from 39 species of mosses and 16 liverworts for ratios of chlorophylls and total carotenoids, and light saturation of photosynthetic electron flow or photosynthetic CO2 uptake, in relation to the postulate that bryophyte cells in general show shade-plant characteristics. METHODS:...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Marschall M,Proctor MC

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The discovery of a new species, Haplophyllum bastetanum F.B. Navarro, V.N. Suárez-Santiago & Blanca sp. nov., in the south-east of Spain has prompted the comparative study of species of the Iberian Peninsula, and others related, through morphological, cytogenetic, molecular, distributional and ecolo...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Navarro FB,Suárez-Santiago VN,Blanca G

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Pollination is a critical stage in plant reproduction and thus in the maintenance and evolution of species and communities. The Caatinga is the fourth largest ecosystem in Brazil, but despite its great extent and its importance few studies providing ecological information are available, with a notab...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Machado IC,Lopes AV

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Nuclear DNA amounts of 12 diploid and one tetraploid taxa and 12 natural interspecific hybrids of Cirsium from 102 populations in the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary were estimated. METHODS:DAPI and PI flow cytometry were used. KEY RESULTS:2C-values of diploid (2n = 34) species varie...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Bures P,Wang YF,Horova L,Suda J

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Plants with crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) can be divided into two groups according to the major carbohydrates used for malic acid synthesis, either polysaccharide (starch) or monosaccharide (hexose). This is related to the mechanism and affects energy metabolism in the two groups. In Kalanchoë ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Chen LS,Nose A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Late-acting self-incompatibility (LSI), in which selfed flowers fail to form fruits despite apparently successful growth of the pollen tubes to the ovules, is a contentious and still poorly understood phenomenon. Some studies have indicated pollen tube-pistil interactions, and major gene control. Ot...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Gibbs P,Bianchi MB,Taroda Ranga N

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The mangrove Rhizophora mucronata has previously been reported to lack annual growth rings, thus barring it from dendrochronological studies. In this study the reported absence of the growth rings was reconsidered and the periodic nature of light and dark brown layers visible on polished stem discs ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Verheyden A,Kairo JG,Beeckman H,Koedam N

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Leaf area of cotton seedlings (Gossypium hirsutum) can be reduced by as much as 50 % by early season thrips infestations, but it is well documented that plants can regain the difference in leaf area once infestation ceases. The processes involved in the recovery have not been identified. Hypotheses ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Lei TT,Wilson LJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass or downy brome) is an exotic annual grass that is dominant over large areas of former shrubland in western North America. To flower in time for seed production in early summer, B. tectorum plants generally require vernalization at winter temperatures, either as imbibed se...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Meyer SE,Nelson DL,Carlson SL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Kip-related-proteins (KRPs), negative regulators of cell division, have recently been discovered in plants but their in planta function is as yet unclear. In this study the spatial expression of all seven KRP genes in shoot apices of Arabidopsis thaliana were compared. METHODS:In situ hybridization...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Ormenese S,de Almeida Engler J,De Groodt R,De Veylder L,Inzé D,Jacqmard A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:We tested whether the local differences in genome size recorded earlier in the wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum, at 'Evolution Canyon', Mount Carmel, Israel, can also be found in other organisms. As a model species for our test we chose the evergreen carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua. METHODS:Genome siz...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Bures P,Pavlícek T,Horová L,Nevo E

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:An unusual form of pollen tube growth was observed for several Conospermum species (family Proteaceae). The rate of pollen tube growth, the number of tubes to emerge and the ultrastructure of these tubes are given here. METHODS:Pollen was germinated in vitro in different sucrose concentrations and ...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Stone LM,Seaton KA,Kuo J,McComb JA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Introgression of crop genes into populations of wild relatives has important implications for germplasm conservation as well as for the persistence of novel transgenes in wild populations. Studies of hybrid fitness can be used to evaluate the potential for introgression to occur following episodes o...

journal_title：Annals of botany

authors： Song ZP,Lu BR,Wang B,Chen JK

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00