annals-of-botany
Terrestrial plant remains in fossilised tree resin are relatively common. However, histology and preservation of plants entombed in Cretaceous ambers remain poorly known. In this paper,
AoB PLANTS
Mistletoes are very fascinating parasitic plants. Unlike most common plants, mistletoes grow on the branches of other plants and rely on these “host” plants for water
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The Janzen–Connell model predicts that common species suffer high seed predation from specialized natural enemies as a function of distance from parent trees, and consequently
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Utricularia vulgaris isn’t a slimming aid as such. It’s just hard for a fish to grow when someone else has eaten all the fleas.
annals-of-botany
Polyploidization and apomixis contribute to taxonomic complexity in Anthosachne, a perennial genus native to Australia in the wheat tribe. Sha et al. performed a phylogenetic analysis
Plant Cuttings
Human pollution of the seas is turning a gentle rain of food in the marine abyss into something nastier.
AoB PLANTS
Finding that Amborella trichopoda is sister to the rest of the angiosperms has raised the question of whether it shares certain key functional trait characteristics and
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Polyploidization plays a critical role in plant evolution. The majority of neopolyploids do not become established, either because they have fewer potential mates, or may not
Plants & People
A survey that said most Americans couldn’t name a living scientist. People on Twitter took this as inspiration for a positive response.
annals-of-botany
Competition for pollination can occur between sympatric plant species sharing pollinators, but can be minimized if each plant species places pollen on different areas of the
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Recently, my good friend and long-time colleague Dr Peter Barlow passed away. Peter was one of the true ‘greats’ of botany and his contributions to
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Revealing patterns of evolutionary assembly in the Sino-Japanese Floristic Region (SJFR), Yang et al. assess genetic structure and phylogenetic relationships, and reconstruct ancestral sites for