Growth & Development
Trade-offs among growth, reproduction and defence in dioecious juniper
Can variation in the essential oil yield of juniper be explained by a trade off between growth, defence and reproduction?
Ecosystems
Woolly, cushion, rosette: drivers of diversity in the alpine Saussurea genus
What are the mechanisms driving speciation and adaptative evolution in Saussurea, a highly diverse genus of alpine herbaceous plants?
Growth & Development
The trade-off between stem biomechanics and hydraulics in Bauhinia lianas and trees
Within the Bauhinia genus is there a trade off between stem strength and hydraulic efficiency?
Taxonomy & Evolution
Variation between alpine and coastal populations of Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Can changes in ploidy level explain why certain Arctic and alpine species are able to survive at lower latitudes and elevations?
Growth & Development
Two plants in a pot, intraspecific root competition in soybean and sunflower
Can a split pot design provide insights into belowground competition between neighbouring plants?
Cells, Genes & Molecules
New AoBP section, Molecular Function and Environment
The new section of the open-access non-profit journal AoBP will focus on molecular functioning of plants in their natural environment.
Ecosystems
The importance of soil seed banks to invasive plant species
Can soil seed banks contribute to the success of invasive plant species?
Ecosystems
The impacts of wolf willow on a Canadian grassland ecosystem
How do the architecture and spatial arrangement of shrubs impact understory species in a Canadian savannah ecosystem?
Growth & Development
Invasive alien clones, autonomous apomixis in Praxelis clematidea
Clonal reproduction is a desirable trait to possess as an invasive plant and has helped Praxelis clematidea to become highly invasive around the world.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Historical migration and taxonomy of the Korean endemic shrub Lespedeza maritima
Jin et al. use molecular analyses and morphological examination to understand the evolutionary divergence and establishment patterns of a Korean endemic shrub.
Growth & Development
Understanding the links between xylem anatomy and grapevine fruit quality
Is within vine variability in fruit quality the result of xylem sectoring in Californian grapevines?
Ecosystems
Geographic patterns of genomic diversity in the C4 grass Panicum hallii
Can new genomics approaches be used to assess and understand intraspecific diversity across large geographic distributions?