annals-of-botany
The rare occurrence of a reversion to an ancestral state following adaptive radiations of pollination syndromes suggests that changes in the ancestral developmental programme of flowers
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Pollination studies often use visitation frequency of potential pollinators as an indicator of their importance, but this is only one component and may not reflect actual
annals-of-botany
Despite the contribution of phenotypic variation in floral morphologies to speciation, species diversity has been recognized by modal morphologies where variation is averaged out. Here Kitazawa
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I’m trying to finish up the annual report today for the Editorial Meeting on June the.. umm… 21st I think. The blog is becoming more
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Breuil-Broyer et al. show that SUPERMAN is a flower developmental canalization and robustness factor. First, partial dissociation of sexual boundary and flower meristem termination control in the sup allelic series (superman, superwoman, and supersex) has facilitated characterization of the partial
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The Botanical Accuracy weblog, curated by Lena Struwe (Botanist of New Jersey (USA) is a phenomenon, and a revelation!
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How pollinators may influence the integration and developmental robustness of angiosperm flowers is still unknown. Using geometric morphometrics, Gómez et al. studied the evolution of the
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One of the most remarkable reproductive structures of the members of the plant family Asteraceae is the style. Katinas et al. examine the morphology and distribution
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Petal number is a robust trait in flowering plants. Crucifer flowers have four petals but Monniaux et al. show that petal number varies from zero to
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Flower colour polymorphism in plants had been used as a classic model for understanding the importance of neutral processes versus natural selection in population differentiation. Iris
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Macroevolution of major clades is often studied by plotting their taxonomic diversity through time. It is equally informative, but less commonplace, to investigate how clades explore
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Ecological restoration is often conducted with limited consideration of genetic diversity and the environmental factors that drive variation within species. In a new study published in