Growth & Development
Regulation of tillering in sorghum: environmental effects
Tillering has a significant effect on canopy development, resource capture, crop growth, and grain yield in cereal crops. Kim et al. conduct a series of field
Taxonomy & Evolution
Reticulate evolution in Polystachya (Orchidaceae)
Polystachya (Orchidaceae) Evolutionary studies are usually based on dichotomously branching phylogenetic trees. Russell et al. (pp. 37–56) use DNA data from several plastid and low-
Growth & Development
False paracarpy in Seemannaralia (Araliaceae)
Seemannaralia (Araliaceae) Seemannaralia (Araliaceae) has bilocular ovaries whereas its fruits are unilocular, formed by two adjacent carpels. Oskolski et al. (pp. 29–36) find that the
Close Encounters
Reproductive inter-dependence between a bee and a distylic shrub
Cordia leucocephala Oligolectic bees and host-plants frequently depend on each other to rear offspring and to set fruit, respectively. Milet-Pinheiro and Schlindwein (pp. 17–
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Assembly and repair of photosystem II (Invited Review)
Considerable attention has been focused on how photosystem II (PSII) is assembled in vivo and how it is repaired following irreversible damage by visible light (so-