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Polyploidy in Leucanthemum in the Iberian Peninsula
Using molecular and systematic techniques to infer the evolutionary history of the L. pluriflorum clan in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Diversity of the Galium pusillum complex in glaciated Europe
Kolář et al. compare karyological and ecological variation of the Galium pusillum aggregate in deglaciated northern and unglaciated central Europe.
Plant Cuttings
The bibulous botanist
Plants – they’ll get you drunk! But they’ll also help cure your hangover!
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Catching up with Botany 2013
I’ve been catching up with blog posts from Botany 2013. The Phytophactor has several posts on the subject, starting with Botanical Meetings – New Orleans. There’
AoB PLANTS
How do you like your coffee? Decaf?
The market for decaffeinated coffee is big business.
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Uptake of toxic metals by rice
Studies that do not allow for anaerobic conditions during iron plaque formation may under-estimate metal sequestration in wetland plants.
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A lawn without grass?
You know what a lawn is, it’s a patch of grass mowed to be short. But it doesn’t have to be.
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Jasmonates: signals in stress responses and development (Invited Review)
Wasternack and Hause update their 2007 Annals of Botany review on jasmonates, and summarize new data from the last 5 years.
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Merging gene pools in Hypericum perforatum
Analysis of extensive field collections demonstrates that H. perforatum is not of hybrid origin, and for the first time, documents wild diploid populations.
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Tylosis formation in a fossil conifer
Knowledge of tylose formation is mainly based on observations of extant species, and their developmental and functional significance are less well understood in fossil plants. Feng
Plants & People
Discovering the Victoria Regia water lily
Tatiana Holway, author of The Flower of Empire, discusses how explorer Robert Shomburgk and his crew discovered the Victoria Regia water lily in Guyana.
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Annals of Botany is a top 10 plant science journal
Having just released the 2013 Google Scholar metrics, it’s good to see that Annals of Botany makes it into the top 10.