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Although the underlying phylogeny determines the qualitative wood structure, climate has a significant influence on the functional wood anatomy of Acacia. Warwick et al. use microscopy
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Invasive herbivores can dramatically impact the nitrogen economy of native hosts. In eastern forests of the United States, the foundational conifer eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is
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Botanists have long been fascinated by the extraordinary diversity in flowering plant reproductive patterns and have sought to understand the ecological processes and genetic mechanisms influencing
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Oak decline is still a characterised by symptoms of canopy transparency, bark cracks and reduced root biomass. Decline causes losses of fine root length, and a
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Some say fruit is connected to human intelligence, but is the idea a peach or completely bananas?
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Global warming accelerates plant water use, increasing plant susceptibility to drought death. From this, it can be hypothesised that higher CO2 concentrations slow plant water use,
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Repeated losses of mature corolla bilateral symmetry are not uncommon. Zhong et al. focus on repeated and diverse losses of bilateral symmetry testing whether similar or
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New research shows that loss of a group of pollinators doesn’t always have a predictable decline in pollination success.
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The tea plant CsbZIP6 transcription factor functions as a negative regulator of the cold stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana, potentially by down-regulating cold-responsive genes.
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Given the current pace of anthropogenic change, understanding plants’ evolutionary response to shifting abiotic conditions is vitally important. Schwallier et al. analyse the relationships between anatomical
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Growing evidence suggests that plant–soil interactions have important implications for plant community composition. However, the role of phylogenetic relatedness in governing interactions between plants and
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There are several answers to this question. I expect all of you to say guard cells. Those of you who’ve read the previous item about