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Do changes in water levels in wetlands give plants a backbone?
The usual rule whenever a headline asks a silly question is that answer is no, and that’s the same here because plants don’t have
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Pollination, flower size variation and floral symmetry
The pollinator-mediated stabilizing selection hypothesis suggests that the specialized pollination system of zygomorphic flowers might cause stabilizing selection, reducing their flower size variation compared to
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Population persistence of a displaced shrub
Olearia flocktoniae (Asteraceae) is an endangered shrub that was passively translocated from its natural ecosystem where it has since gone extinct. Gross and Mackay use two
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Evolution of Old World Salvia in Africa
A phylogenetic reconstruction suggests that parallel character evolution is the rule rather than the exception in Old World Salvia in Africa.
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Bacteria and seed dormancy, nitrogen acquisition in grass species and the cellular basis of salt tolerance in halophytes – what’s new in Annals of Botany this week.
Bacteria and seed dormancy, nitrogen acquisition in grass species and the cellular basis of salt tolerance in halophytes.
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Plant functional types in Earth system models – application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems
A review of the origins of the plant functional type concept also addresses the current state of models that use PFTs in northern high-latitude ecosystems.
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Laughing gas no laughing matter for climate change
There’s an interesting article published in PLOS One that I like. It’s one of these things that’s very clever, but the basic idea
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Wood components and Dutch elm disease tolerance
Ďurkovič et al. examine two elm hybrids with contrasting survival strategies upon infection with the current prevalent strain of Dutch elm disease.
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Role of PCD in the reproductive biology of kiwifruit
The results indicate that PCD in kiwifruit might be accelerated by pollination, suggesting its involvement during the progamic phase.
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Diffuse light and increased yield in tomato
Plants acclimate to a high level of diffuse light by gaining a higher photosynthetic capacity of leaves in the middle of the crop & a higher leaf area index
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Nitrogen fixation in aquatic carnivorous plants
Sirová et al. assess the importance of fixed N in the nutrition of rootless, aquatic, carnivorous Utricularia species (bladderworts).
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Maintenance of self-incompatibility in peripheral populations of a circumboreal woodland subshrub
Compared with self-incompatible (SI) species, species that shift to self-compatibility (SC) are more likely to colonize a new habitat. Linnaea borealis, named after Carl