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Plant Cuttings

‘Buckthorn Baggie’ bests buckthorn [Or, invasive aliens, we’ve got them covered, too!]

Nigel Chaffey - January 31, 2017 4

This week Nigel Chaffey finds a gentler way to kill a plant.

Annals of Botany

Holokinetic chromosomes beat selfish centromeres

Annals of Botany Office - January 31, 2017 0

In eukaryotic lineages with monocentric chromosomes, centromeres and centromeric histone H3 (CENH3) undergo a recurrent evolutionary conflict, whereby selfish centromeres subvert female meiosis, and...

Tree Physiology

Becoming a better locksmith: a new method speeds up our ability to unlock secrets of past climates

Joseph Stinziano - January 30, 2017 0

Chemical isotopes in tree rings can help us learn about past environments, but how can you extract them without interfering with measurements?

Annals of Botany

Branching patterns of monocots and dicots

Annals of Botany Office - January 30, 2017 0

Branching patterns of root systems are characterized and compared by Pagès with a set of six quantitative traits revealing interspecific variations and correlations, suggesting...

AoB PLANTS

The effects of nitrogen form on root morphological and physiological adaptations of maize, white lupin and faba bean under phosphorus deficiency

AoBPLANTS - January 27, 2017 0

Root morphological/physiological modifications are important for phosphorus (P) acquisition of plants under P deficiency, but strategies differ among plant species, and detailed studies on...

Annals of Botany

Active or passive? Specific-leaf-area plasticity responses

Annals of Botany Office - January 27, 2017 0

Liu et al. conducted a meta-analysis to test the hypothesis that shade-induced increases in specific-leaf-area (SLA) indicate an adaptive plant response to optimizing light...

Articles

1887 and all since then for Annals of Botany

Anne Osterrieder - January 26, 2017 0

Mike Jackson, former Chief Editor of Annals of Botany and AoB PLANTS has taken a look back at the past 125 of Annals of Botany, and found some tips for the future along the way.

Annals of Botany

Phylogenetic insights into the evolution of Saxifragales habitat shifts

Annals of Botany Office - January 26, 2017 0

Species-level phylogeny and habitat evolution data are applied to the hyper-diverse angiosperm clade Saxifragales to reveal that habitat shifts are very rare. Saxifragales lineages are...

AoB PLANTS

Differential selection on pollen and pistil traits in relation to pollen competition in the context of a sexual conflict over timing of stigma receptivity

AoBPLANTS - January 25, 2017 0

Sexual conflict and its evolutionary consequences are understudied in plants, but the theory of sexual conflict may help explain how selection generates and maintains...

Annals of Botany

Light partitioning in temperate rain forests

Annals of Botany Office - January 25, 2017 0

In the temperate rainforest of southern Chile, Fajardo and Siefert find that interspecific differences in the leaf mass per area (LMA) trait can explain...

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Monthly Archives: January, 2017

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Phylogeny, age and adaptive evolution of genus Allium

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