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Photosynthetic light-response curves describe how leaf photosynthesis changes with light intensity, but they are time-consuming to measure, differ between species and change depending on
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Functional plasticity in a plant’s hydraulic architecture may constitute a mechanistic basis for anticipating the differential success of plant species in response to climate variability.
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Leafy vegetable Brassica crops are important sources of dietary calcium and magnesium, and it may be possible to increase their concentrations through breeding or agronomic practices.
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Most parasitic plants do not form mycorrhizal associations, so direct interactions between them and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi have rarely been studied. Using a facultative root
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Foliar variegation is often assumed to be due to lack of chlorophyll or the presence of special pigments in sections of a leaf, but it can
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Hydrophytes exhibit a wide range of growth forms, denoting variability in adaptive strategies. Pierce et al. measure morpho-functional leaf traits for 61 species from 47
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Nothoscordum gracile is an apomitic tetraploid with a rare karyotype with 2n = 19 and is widely distributed throughout the Americas. It has been suggested to form
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The Equisetopsida emerged in the Upper Devonian (>370 mya), and Equisetum (horsetails) may be the oldest surviving vascular plant genus. Horsetails and the Poales are
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Land plants arose from a common ancestor at least 470 million years ago and presently encompass four major lineages: liverworts, mosses, hornworts and tracheophytes. By integrating
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The tiny seeds of the obligate root parasitic plants of the Orobanchaceae do not germinate unless they detect chemical signals from a suitable host plant. After
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Early life history stages are among the most critical phases in the life cycle of plants. De Frenne et al. assess the response of plant regeneration
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Suaeda maritima shows morphologically different forms on high and low areas of the same salt marsh. Wetson et al. demonstrate that roots of this halophyte have