annals-of-botany
Germination cues and community assembly in a coastal habitat
Regeneration by seed is a critical process in the life of plants, and germination traits determine the environments that a species can inhabit. Fernández-Pascual et
Ecosystems
The State of The World’s Plants 2017
Orchids top the list for most traded, and endangered, plant families. This is according to the new Kew Gardens State of The World’s Plants report
annals-of-botany
Environmental niche divergence among dune shrub sister species
Geographic distributions of species are constrained by their ecological requirements. Chozas et al. study the distribution, environmental responses and evolutionary relationships of the three species of
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Botanical Interest in ‘No Such Thing as a Fish’
One of my favorite podcasts is ‘No Such Thing as a Fish‘ (NSTaaF) from the QI elves (writers). Each week, the four co-hosts bring a
annals-of-botany
Hawkmoth pollination syndrome and adaptive floral integration
Flowers have often been characterised as functionally integrated units, but it has been difficult to demonstrate adaptive floral integration against a background of conserved correlations among
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Some plant tissues move like animal muscles but long after death
Even being dead doesn’t stop a scarious bract from protecting its florets. It still works even after a serious mechanical damage, as long as at least a strip, a few cell layers thick, remains intact.
annals-of-botany
Whole-plant organisational traits and ecological strategies in sunflowers
While trait-based plant ecology attempts to use small numbers of organ-level traits to predict ecological strategies, there is a major gap between organ-level
annals-of-botany
Seedling root architectural traits associated with yield in wheat
Roots, the ‘hidden half’ of plants, are notoriously difficult to phenotype. Xie et al. utilise a ‘pouch and wick’ high-throughput phenotyping pipeline to quantify the
Plant Cuttings
More reasons to like plants
How helpful is healthy eating advice, if you don’t have the money for making choices?
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Whole-plant reconstruction of an early Devonian lycophyte
Plants of the Early Devonian epoch (419-323 million years ago) are crucial to reconstructing the initial radiation of tracheophytes, yet few are understood as whole
AoB PLANTS
AoB PLANTS Special Issue: Evolutionary Dynamics of Tree Invasions
Invasion changes the landscape, but it also changes the invaders too. But can you study that when the invaders are trees with long life spans?
annals-of-botany
An orchid with a partially mycoheterotrophic taste for truffles
Partially mycoheterotrophic nutrition is a widespread trophic strategy in green-leaved Orchidaceae species in forest habitats. Owing to the light limitation of their habitats, many forest