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This paper provides an important case study in the large family Asteraceae that contains almost one-tenth of all flowering plants and has an enormous diversity of leaf forms.
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Aegilops. speltoides introgressions have the potential to play a critical role in the development of superior wheat varieties in the future.
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Polyploidy alters plant genomes, phenotypes, and abiotic interactions. The effects of polyploidy on plant-biotic interactions however are less well known. One important plant-biotic interaction
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Plant melatonin appears to be a multi-regulatory molecule, similar to those observed in animals, with many specific functions in plant physiology.
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Island organisms are generally understood to diverge through geographical (allopatric) speciation. This paradigm, however, might be too simplistic for continental islands that were connected with each
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Eurasian bee orchids (Ophrys, Orchidaceae) have become the most popular model system for studying reproduction via insect-mediated pseudo-copulation and for exploring the consequent, putatively
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Despite some degree of functional divergence between the regulation of flowering and germination by autonomous-pathway genes, the autonomous pathway is highly functionally conserved across life stages.
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Higher parasite fitness correlated with lower host fitness, supporting the view that these associations are antagonistic.
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Comparative ontogeny elucidates subtle changes in developmental rate, known as heterochrony, that discretely alter morphology between species. Vasconcelos et al. show how these trends explain evolution
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Homologous organs produced by individual plants are not identical, and within-plant phenotypic variance often exceeds variance between plants. Alonso et al. hypothesised that epigenetic mosaicism,
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Plant roots can alter the decomposition rate of soil organic carbon (SOC) in the rhizosphere (root-soil interface) by either stimulating or suppressing the activity of
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Rainforests in the Southwest Pacific can be highly diverse, even on a global scale, displaying higher species richness than African rainforests.