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William (Tam) Salter is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney. He has a bachelor degree in Eco
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Reproductive isolation is generally regarded as the essence of the speciation process. The evolution of reproductive isolation allows differentiation and permits local adaptations to become fixed
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Cotton leaf curl virus (CLCuV) is one of the major limiting factors in cotton production systems worldwide. The widely cultivated cotton species, Gossypium hirsutum, is particularly
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Comparing plants of the same species thriving in flooded and non-flooded ecosystems can help to clarify the interplay between natural selection, plant plasticity and stress
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Identifying Quaternary glacial refugia has been a major focus of biogeographical research efforts over the last century. The concept of refugia presumes a contraction in species
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Pleasant or not, the fragrance of a flower typically serves as a sensory cue for pollinators, often indicative of some kind of reward, notably nectar. Floral
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Recent work on the green alga Haematococcus lacustris uncovered the largest plastid genome on record: a whopping 1.35 Mb (with >90% non-coding DNA)
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Hypocotyl elongation of Arabidopsis seedlings is influenced by light and numerous growth factors. Light inhibits hypocotyl elongation (photomorphogenesis), whereas elongation is promoted in the dark (skotomorphogenesis)
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Light is the original source of energy for plant photosynthesis and growth, but it also acts as a signal for morphogenesis and many other physiological processes.
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Perennial plants use bud dormancy as a strategy to survive stressful environments, such as cold temperatures during winter. This strategy is dependent on the ability of
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In angiosperms, diverse floral architectures are shaped by pollinators, and different pollinator–plant interactions may lead to variable selection on floral traits in space and time.
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Petunia is a genus of flowering plants endemic to South American grasslands. Species of this genus exhibit variation in flower colour and shape, attracting bees, hawkmoths
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Hybridization is a common process that leads to relevant evolutionary and ecological consequences. The genotypes resulting from hybridization commonly show phenotypic traits with intermediate values between