Ecosystems
Hybrid coffee cultivars may enhance agroecosystem resilience to climate change
Your daily cup of coffee could be threatened by climate change, but targeted plant breeding may be here to help.
Close Encounters
Indirect effects of drought on bumblebee pollination of common charlock
How does drought influence floral traits of Sinapis arvensis and how does this affect visitation by bumblebee pollinators?
Close Encounters
Invasive earthworms, invasive plants and their effects on native species
How do invasive species interact to influence the abundance and physiology of native plants?
Growth & Development
Three new methods indicate that rising carbon dioxide reduces seedling respiration
Can new careful methods help us understand how plant respiration will be affected by rising carbon dioxide concentrations?
Growth & Development
Understanding the timing sequence of maize leaf development
Detailed information on the dynamics of leaf production and extension along a maize (Zea mays) shoot can improve crop model predictions.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Hybridisation of native and foreign Sorbus trees in the Polish Carpathian mountains
Sorbus is a highly diverse tree genus but is this the result of hybridisation and introgression between native and foreign species?
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Dissecting growth responses to gravity and light in poplar trees
Can a new isotropic light device lead to a better understanding of molecular responses to gravitational stimuli?
Ecosystems
A hybridisation headache hinders control of invasive Prosopis species
Can large scale biogeographic studies provide insights into Prosopis genetic diversity, hybridisation and clarify taxonomic uncertainties?
Taxonomy & Evolution
Gentiana hoae, a new alpine species on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Is hybridization a significant driver of plant speciation and endemism in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau?
Ecosystems
Fast and small stomata optimise the water use efficiency of sugar beet
Can a better understanding of stomatal physiology make sugar beet more productive and resilient into the future?
Ecosystems
A new system for simultaneous measurement of photosynthesis and solar-induced fluorescence
Can solar-induced fluorescence be used to accurately estimate photosynthetic traits at different scales?
Taxonomy & Evolution
Seed dormancy of the threatened Spanish daffodil Narcissus yepesii
Can the seed dormancy class of Narcissus yepesii explain the different dormancy levels seen in two closely related phylogenetic congeners?