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Carnivorous plants: a review
Carnivory offers plants special advantages in habitats where nutrient supply is scarce, but counterbalancing costs are the investments in the synthesis and maintenance of trapping organs
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Purple acid phosphatase genes in soybean
Purple acid phosphatases (PAPs) are members of the metallo-phosphoesterase family and have been known to play important roles in P acquisition and recycling in plants.
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Germination, temperature and water potential in Jatropha
Jatropha curcas is a drought-resistant tree whose seeds are a good source of oil that can be used for producing biodiesel. Windauer et al. examine
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Floral characters in Capanemia
Capanemia, an orchid comprising seven species and mostly found in the Brazilian Atlantic rain forest, is divided into two sections based on leaf shape. Buzatto et
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A new fossil taxon of Asteraceae
Barreda et al. describe Raiguenrayun cura gen. & sp. nov., an extinct Eocene taxon of the daisy family that might represent the ancestor of Mutisioideae–Carduoideae,
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Axillary meristems in Wollemi nobilis (Viewpoints)
In a recent paper (Annals of Botany 107: 909–916; 2011) Tomlinson and Huggett indicated that reiterative branches in the pine Wollemi nobilis develop from groups
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Pollination mechanisms in palms (Review)
Understanding of palm–pollinator interactions has implications for tropical silviculture, as well as for our knowledge of the evolution and diversification of Arecaceae. Barfod et al.
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Single-copy nuclear genes for palm phylogenetics
Molecular phylogenetic studies of palms (Arecaceae) have not yet provided a fully resolved phylogeny of the family. Ludeña et al. test the value of AGAMOUS 1
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DNA barcoding: a new tool for palm taxonomists?
Although taxonomy of palms (Arecaceae) is fairly well known, many problems remain and this is, in part, due to the difficultly of representing palm diversity with
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Environmental regulation of sex determination in oil palm (Review)
In the African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis, male and female inflorescences are produced separately in an alternating cycle that is influenced by the environment: stress conditions
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Acervulate partial inflorescence in Chamaedoreeae
The palm tribe Chamaedoreeae displays flowers arranged in a complex partial inflorescence called an acervulus. Ortega-Chávez and Stauffer examine ontogeny in Hyophorbe lagenicaulis and show
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Pericarp development and fruit structure in Borasseae
The Borasseae form a highly supported monophyletic clade in the Arecaceae–Coryphoideae, and the large fruits of borassoid palms contain massive pyrenes, which develop from the