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Are the sugary secretions of wasp galls analogues of extrafloral nectar?
They may look like extra-floral nectaries, but the galls in some South American trees are evidence of wasps calling in some help to look after their young.
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Below-ground bud bank along a climatic gradient in a temperate steppe
From the perspective of vegetation regeneration, changes in bud bank density and composition along the climatic gradient could be crucial for the prediction of plant community composition and dynamics under future climatic scenarios.
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New insights into the formation of silica aggregates in sorghum roots
Even though silica and lignin can provide comparable stiffness, they cannot be considered as structural equivalents due to contrasting hydrophobicity.
AoB PLANTS
Hybridization and diversification in island plants
Islands contain some of the most remarkable yet imperiled plants anywhere on Earth. Despite remarkable ecological/morphological diversity, insular endemics often retain the ability to hybridize
Plant Cuttings
Plant life at the temperature limit?
It’s not just microbes that can live under extreme conditions. Some plants thrive in situations many other life forms simply could not tolerate.
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Polyphyly of Arundinoideae (Poaceae) and awn evolution in the grasses
This study answers one of the last remaining big questions in grass taxonomy while highlighting examples of convergent evolution in an ecologically important trait, the hygroscopic, twisted geniculate awn.
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Stolon-tuber system and phylogeny of orchid-like bladderworts (Lentibulariaceae)
This study provides strong evidence, based on DNA sequences from two genomic compartments (plastid and nucleus) and morphology to group the Utricularia sect. Orchidioides into the sect. Iperua.
AoB PLANTS
AoB PLANTS seeks a new Editor-in-Chief
AoB PLANTS, the Open Access journal for environmental and evolutionary plant biology, is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief. Published through Oxford University Press, this
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Modelling plant morphology: heteroblasty in epiphytic bromeliads
Self-shading may explain heteroblasty, a sudden change in form found in many angiosperms.
Plant Cuttings
Seed dispersal, the Ecuadorian dimension…
Rather belatedly in our look at animals and seed dispersal, we have our Darwin connection (after all, what biological item would be complete without mention of
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Serial Block Face-SEM visualisation of nuclear tubular extensions in a carnivorous plant
Unusual nuclei, with spindle-like tubular projections, in the placental tissue of Utricularia nelumbifolia may be involved in nucleus-to-cell-to-cell communication.
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Creative Destruction: How Death Leads to Function
Marcos Buckeridge explains how death and destruction in sugarcane roots can lead to the development of gas spaces, which improve root function.