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Lime is the only Citrus horticultural group including natural polyploid cultivars (C. latifolia and C. aurantiifolia) in addition to diploid species. Rouiss et al. uses cytogenetic
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The effects of the competition between invasive and native plants have rarely been linked with root foraging behaviour. Chen et al. performed a competition experiment with
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Co-evolutionary matches between lengths of floral nectar tubes and pollinator proboscises is associated with speciation in several lineages, including Pelargonium (Geraniaceae), a genus renowned for
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The Mexican transition zone originated from the overlap of the Nearctic and the Neotropical biotas. By analysing the genetic variation within the cycad genus Dioon, a
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Conifers form a single whorl of multiple cotyledons (embryonic leaves), unlike monocots and dicots. Polar transport of the hormone auxin affects outgrowth of distinct cotyledons, but
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Humans have transformed landscapes, leaving remnant habitats embedded within a complex matrix. For many plants, the associated factors of decreased population size and increased land-use
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The Solidago virgaurea complex shows remarkable morphological and ecological diversity in Japan. Phylogeographic analysis suggested the multiple expansions from the Eurasian continent into the archipelago via
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The ancient order Cycadales (“cycads”), have a pattern of vascular bundles in the leaf axis, seen in transverse section as an inverted “omega”. In the genus
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Nursery pollination systems are excellent biological models to study how obligated plant-insect mutualisms function and have evolved. Jácome-Flores et al. investigated whether and how
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Fibre concentration and dry matter content can be considered as good predictors of both digestibility and decomposability.
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The results showed moderate thermal acclimation of respiration and no evidence for thermal acclimation of photosynthesis or local genetic adaptation for traits related to thermal acclimation.
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Sixty-four million years ago, this elaborate flower grew in Patagonia, Argentina. The new species described by Jud et al. is named Lacinipetalum spectabilis Jud, Gandolfo,