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Evidence that divergent selection shapes a developmental cline in a forest...
Evolutionary change in developmental trajectories (heterochrony) is a major mechanism of adaptation in plants and animals. However, there are few detailed studies of the...
Diversification of the resurrection monocot family Velloziaceae
The greater diversity of plant clades in the Neotropics compared to their relatives in Africa is a pervasive pattern in biogeography. To better understand...
Regulation of anisotropic cell elongation in Arabidopsis
If a plant wants to grow, it needs reliable anisotropic cell elongation*. Getting the cells to elongate has a couple of constraints. There is...
Somatic ploidy mapping of the complex labellum of sexually deceptive bee...
Recent tissue-level observations made indirectly via flow cytometry show that endoreplication (partial or complete duplication of the nuclear genome in the absence of subsequent...
Seed dormancy regulates germination response to smoke and temperature in a...
Seed dormancy status regulates the response of seeds to environmental cues that can trigger germination. Anigozanthos flavidus (Haemodoraceae) produces seeds with morphophysiological dormancy that are...
The trouble with travelling tree rings
There is a huge demand for long-term climate data, and tree growth rings could help with that, but an article in Quaternary Science Reviews warns there should be some caution using the data, as not all rings are the same.
