Month: May 2016

Plants

Whither botanical accuracy? ***

Phylogenetic relationships of the Brassicaceae taxa included in this study.

Annals of Botany

Pollinators and corolla shape robustness in Brassicaceae

Inflorescence of a member of Calyceraceae showing an ant crawling among the florets.

Annals of Botany

Origin of the bifurcating style in Asteraceae

Cardamine hirsuta

Annals of Botany

Stochastic variation in Cardamine hirsuta petal number

Iris lutescens

Annals of Botany

Spatial distribution of genetic variation in the flower colour polymorphic Iris lutescens

Simplified models of the pattern of morphological disparity through the Phanerozoic.

Annals of Botany

Why should we investigate the morphological disparity of plant clades?

Genetic delineation of local provenance defines seed collection zones along a climate gradient

Photos of flowers from plants of diverse orders with a simplified phylogeny above, sketching their relationships. From left to right: Nymphaea colorata (water lily, basal angiosperms); Lilium marthagon (lily, monocot); Triticum aestivum (bread wheat, monocot); Meconopsis horridula (prickly blue poppy, basal eudicot); Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon, fabid); Rosa sp. (rose, malvid)

Annals of Botany

Tinkering with transcription factor networks for developmental robustness of Ranunculales flowers

AoBBlog Padlet Highlights May 2016

What was your favourite plant science article in May?

Comparison of the morphological and transcriptome hourglass model between flowering plants and animals. In both panels, embryogenesis proceeds from the bottom to the top (early, mid and late stages), and the width represents the morphological and transcriptome diversity.

Annals of Botany

Developmental hourglass in plant and animal embryogenesis