annals-of-botany
Floral scents attract pollinators, and a varied repertoire of floral scents has been documented among plant species. Delle-Vedove et al. survey the results of 81
Plants & People
Pat raised an interesting point while he was at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen. Should you tweet whole posters from a conference? I think I
AoB PLANTS
There is mounting evidence that we have entered the sixth mass extinction period, where species diversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate. Cycads are the
annals-of-botany
Polyploidy, defined as multiplication of the whole chromosome complement, is arguably the single most important mechanism in plant speciation and diversification. Herben et al. perform phylogenetic
Plant Cuttings
Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry.
annals-of-botany
Unravelling the direct consequences of polyploidization to reveal its evolutionary significance and effects on reproductive fitness, Münzbergová studies diploid offspring of synthetic tetraploid mothers in Vicia
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Asexual reproduction is relatively common in higher plants and comprises vegetative reproduction or clonal reproduction through seeds (apomixis or agamospermy). Apomixis is found in less than
Reviews
Plants on Plants – The Biology of Vascular Epiphytes by Gerhard Zotz. Springer 2016. Gerhard Zotz’s The biology of vascular epiphytes [hereafter referred to as Epiphytes!
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With climate change, some upland areas will be colonised by plants that had previously stayed in hotter lowland regions – and that could be bad for upland wildflowers.
AoB PLANTS
The characteristics of the breeding systems of woody bamboo species are not well defined, although this knowledge is important for research on the genetic improvement and
annals-of-botany
Hybrid zones, or zones of genetic admixture of different intraspecific cytotypes, provide clues to evolutionary transitions and the mechanisms of polyploid speciation. Čertner et al. present
Plants & People
The discovery of ancient large maize corn cobs at the El Gigante rockshelter might change how we think about the earliest complex societies in Central America.