Plant Cuttings
Flowers (it’s what angiosperms are all about!)
Although one shouldn’t, it is easy to accept that flowers (the defining feature of the angiosperms, the flowering plants) are ‘just there’ and get on
AoB PLANTS
Functional traits partially mediate the effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance on the growth of a tropical tree
Understanding how trees mediate the effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance is fundamental to developing sustainable forest management strategies. Several tree species in Africa are repeatedly defoliated
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Exquisitely preserved tiny fossils are key for understanding moss evolution
Tiny 135-million-year-old moss fossils found in rocks from western Canada preserve exquisite anatomical details. These fossils open an unexpected window on moss evolution,
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Hornwort stomata are not actively regulated
Stomata, pores in the plant epidermis that regulate gas exchange, are a key innovation that enabled freshwater algae to colonize Earth’s landmasses some 500 Mya.
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Effects of sucrose depletion on pollen tube growth
Pollen tubes are rapidly growing, photosynthetically inactive cells that need high rates of energy to support growth. Energy can derive from internal and external storage sources.
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The cosmopolitan Compositae (or Sunflowers at large…)
Sunflowers by Stephen Harris 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Stephen Harris’ Sunflowers isn’t about sunflowers. OK, correction, it is, but it’s not just about sunflowers.
AoB PLANTS
Presence of fruits decreases probability of retaining flowers in a sequentially flowering plant
Both intrinsic and extrinsic plant processes affect the fate of flowers along an inflorescence in sequentially flowering plants. In a study recently published in AoB PLANTS,
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Floral morphogenesis in Camptotheca
Camptotheca is endemic to China and there are limited data about the breeding system and morphogenesis of the flowers. Camptotheca is thought to be related to
Plant Cuttings
When plant biology meets physics…
Great things are possible when disciplines that may be studied separately and distinctly are brought together. For example, and famously, when botany, zoology, bacteriology, mycology, protistology,
AoB PLANTS
Rarity and nutrient acquisition relationships before and after prescribed burning in an Australian box-ironbark forest
Nutrient cycling is greatly influenced by dominant plants that contribute high amounts of leaf litter to soils; however, less-dominant and rare species can play key
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Why are/aren’t we following you on Twitter?
Who do we follow on Twitter? Here’s why we follow people and why we don’t.
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Modelling polycyclic growth and leaf neoformation in trees
Trees can adapt their architecture in response to climate change by adjusting growth processes such as leaf neoformation and polycyclic growth. Tondjo et al. present work