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Several members of Bromeliaceae show adaptations for hummingbird pollination in the Neotropics; however, the relationships between floral structure, nectar production and pollination are poorly understood. Stahl
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Addition of each chromosome of Brassica oleracea to the chromosome complement of B. rapa results in a series of nine monosomic alien addition lines. Heneen et
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Corymbia species have a high propensity to form interspecific hybrids. Dickinson et al. investigate the locations and activity of reproductive isolating barriers between species, and identify
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The genetics of yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata ssp. unguiculata cv.-gr. sesquipedalis), a vegetable form of cowpea, is of particular interest because the genome of this
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Litter can affect plant population structure via both physical and chemical mechanisms, allowing or preventing different species to establish under different litter types. Baltzinger et al.
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Altitudinal timberlines are thought to be moving upward as a result of global climate change. Takahashi et al. evaluate how the timberline has formed in a
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Phenotypic variability is a successful strategy in lichens for colonizing different habitats. Pérez-Ortega et al. study the extreme phenotypic modifications shown by vagrant populations of
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Heterodichogamy, an unusual kind of reproductive heteromorphy, is hitherto unreported in Ranunculales and is known from only one other genus in the basal eudicots. Wang et
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In gynodioecious species hermaphroditic plants coexist with female plants. Toivonen and Mutikainen find that experimentally increased reproductive output leads to differential costs of reproduction in the
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Several ecologically important plant families in Mediterranean biomes have seeds with morphophysiological dormancy. Hidayati et al. study four species of the intractably dormant Australian genus Hibbertia
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Potassium, sulphur and zinc contents of mistletoe leaves are generally higher than in their hosts because elements that are cycled between xylem and phloem in the
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Photosynthetic light-response curves describe how leaf photosynthesis changes with light intensity, but they are time-consuming to measure, differ between species and change depending on