Reviews
A sensuous botanical delight
The Botanical Treasury. Christopher Mills. University of Chicago Press, 2016. What’s better than a glorious book of botanical portraits and plant tales? A glorious book
Growth & Development
Within-species responses to water deficit vary more with traits than provenance
Plants manage water stress through various mechanisms, including increasing concentrations of compounds such as abscisic acid (ABA) to signal stomatal closure and reduce water loss, changing
AoB PLANTS
Trade-off between competition and facilitation defines gap colonisation in mountains
Environmental conditions within a disturbance event are often regarded as uniform. There is however large variation in conditions for plant colonisers within one disturbance event, drastically
AoB PLANTS
SPECIAL ISSUE: Using Ideas from Behavioural Ecology to Understand Plants
AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue Using Ideas from Behavioural Ecology to Understand Plants, edited by James F Cahill (University
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Examining the impact of heterospecific pollen deposition in the field
Most work on the impacts of heterospecific pollen deposition on plant fecundity has utilized hand-pollination experiments in greenhouse settings, and therefore we know little about
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Style morph frequencies in tristylous Lythrum
A balance between stochastic processes and negative frequency-dependent selection largely determines style morph frequencies in heterostylous populations. Costa et al. investigate variation in morph frequencies
AoB PLANTS
SPECIAL ISSUE: The Role of Below-Ground Processes in Mediating Plant Invasions
AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue entitled The Role of Below-Ground Processes in Mediating Plant Invasions (edited by Inderjit,
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Density-dependent reproduction regulated by kinship and tree size
Global pollinator declines and habitat fragmentation highlight the critical need to understand reproduction and gene flow across plant populations. Castilla et al. use spatial, reproductive, and
Plant Cuttings
A fresh look at guard cell walls
Arguably, one of the best known ‘structure-function’ relationships in plant biology is the role played by cellulose microfibrils within the walls of the guard cells
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Reviews
Bigging-up [plant] microtechniques
Plant Microtechniques and Protocols Edited by Edward Yeung, Claudio Stasolla, Michael Sumner and Bing Huang. Springer, 2015. As one who has wrestled with published protocols to
annals-of-botany
Correlated polymorphism in cytotype and sexual system
Polyploidy has important effects on plant reproductive systems and previously has been implicated in the evolution of dimorphic reproductive strategies. Miller et al. use flow cytometry,
annals-of-botany
Floral integration is more related to mating than pollination system
Almost 60 years ago, Berg proposed that floral integration and pollination system should be associated as a consequence of the selective pressures promoting successful cross-pollination.