annals-of-botany
Programmed cell death drives male sterility in Opuntia
SEM and histological observations of the cellular events behind anther formation and programmed cell death in anthers of both male and female flowers.
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Warming in the forests
While looking for something else, I found a couple of papers in JXB and Forestry that caught my eye. The popular expectation is that more CO2
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Pollen limitation in hummingbird-pollinated plants
Many species of hummingbird-pollinated plants in a tropical montane rain forest experience pollen limitation.
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HvAACT1 increases Al3+-tolerance in wheat and barley
Genetically modifying barley and wheat to express the barley gene HvAACT1 gene has potential to alleviate the effects of aluminium toxicity in acid soils.
AoB PLANTS
Size-dependent changes in wood chemical traits: a comparison of neotropical saplings and large trees
We have a fundamental and applied understanding of how differences in the wood chemistry of trees affects the durability of wood products. By comparison, relatively little
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Molecular analyses help resolve the evolution of Platanus
Recent research on the history of Platanus has shown that complex hybridization phenomena occurred in the central American species, and its evolutionary history remains unresolved. De
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Success through Diversity: Why mixtures produce more stable yields than monocultures
There’s a paper published through Open Access this month that highlights the benefits of diversity in growing crops, but with a new angle. Diversity as
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Creating a Buzz but is it worth it?
We’ve been experimenting with what we can do with articles, and our latest experiment happened earlier this week. 7 Deadly Secrets of Carnivorous Plants is
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miRNAs responsive to low nitrate
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in adaptation of plants to many stresses including low nitrogen availability.
Plant Cuttings
Say it with flowers?
Dani Nadel et al., have unearthed possibly the oldest example of the decoration of graves with plants.
annals-of-botany
Carbohydrate storage and allometric partitioning in juvenile trees
Biomass partitioning for resource conservation might affect plant allometry, accounting for a substantial amount of unexplained variation in existing plant allometry models. Tomlinson et al. compare
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Individual mating patterns in mixed oak stands
Trees can mate assortatively, which may be a result of variable compatibility among trees due to genetic and/or environmental factors.