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Plants, Pollination and Paywalls
We put The natural history of pollination and mating in bird-pollinated Babiana (Iridaceae) live on the Annals of Botany site this week. It’s been
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Free—open access paper: Reductions in biomass accumulation, photosynthesis in situ and the net carbon balance are the costs of protecting Vitis vinifera ‘Semillon’ grapevines from heat stress with shade covering
Shade cloth can be used to protect grapevines from high temperatures. However, the resulting low light intensity is shown to reduce photosynthesis, leading to lower carbon
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Rice finally makes impact!
The Springer-published, peer-reviewed, economically entitled research journal Rice, which is devoted to… err… rice, has received its first Impact Factor (a metric by which
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Free—open access paper: Chromosome number variation in two antipodean floras
Italy and New Zealand are very similar in shape, extension, altitudinal and latitudinal range but located in opposite hemispheres. This free—open access paper compares variation in chromosome number in these two hotspot regions. The results challenge previous ideas concerning links between geograph
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Big (and I mean GINORMOUS) new journal
Science has always been a ‘big’ topic – and not just those terrabucks physics projects – it asks some of the biggest questions of all: who are we?
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Mechanisms of self-incompatibility in grasses (Review)
In grasses, self-incompatibilty (SI) is based on two loci, S and Z, but the mechanisms are much less well understood relative to other gametophytic SI
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Control of floral heteromorphy in Primula (Review)
The common primrose, Primula vulgaris, exhibits floral heteromorphy, with the two flower types being hermaphrodite and exhibiting reciprocal positions of male and female reproductive structures. Li
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Gene function, reproduction and climate change (Review)
Studies have suggested that plant sexual reproduction is particularly vulnerable to climate change, and a number of ecologically and evolutionarily relevant genes have recently been identified.
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S-RNase-based self-incompatibility (Review)
S-RNase-based self-incompatibility (SI) occurs in the Solanaceae, Rosaceae and Plantaginaceae, with S-RNases determining the specificity of pollen rejection in the pistil and
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Barcode Wales
No, this has nothing to do with whales (they’re fish-like denizens of the deep, and has probably already been done by some countries under
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Chromosomes Today and the icc18 conference in UK
Review of International Chromosome Conference
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Functional inbreeding avoidance mechanism in Arabis
Variation in mating systems is common across angiosperm taxa, leading to a trade-off between inbreeding avoidance and reproductive assurance. Tedder et al. examine European populations