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Effects of sucrose depletion on pollen tube growth
Pollen tubes are rapidly growing, photosynthetically inactive cells that need high rates of energy to support growth. Energy can derive from internal and external...
The cosmopolitan Compositae (or Sunflowers at large…)
Sunflowers by Stephen Harris 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd.
Stephen Harris’ Sunflowers isn’t about sunflowers. OK, correction, it is, but it’s not just about sunflowers. Rather,...
Presence of fruits decreases probability of retaining flowers in a sequentially...
Both intrinsic and extrinsic plant processes affect the fate of flowers along an inflorescence in sequentially flowering plants. In a study recently published in...
Floral morphogenesis in Camptotheca
Camptotheca is endemic to China and there are limited data about the breeding system and morphogenesis of the flowers. Camptotheca is thought to be related to Nyssa and Davidia in Nyssaceae,...
Rarity and nutrient acquisition relationships before and after prescribed burning in...
Nutrient cycling is greatly influenced by dominant plants that contribute high amounts of leaf litter to soils; however, less-dominant and rare species can play...
When plant biology meets physics…
Great things are possible when disciplines that may be studied separately and distinctly are brought together. For example, and famously, when botany, zoology, bacteriology,...
