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Symmetry genes and shifts in corolla bilateral symmetry
Repeated losses of mature corolla bilateral symmetry are not uncommon. Zhong et al. focus on repeated and diverse losses of bilateral symmetry testing whether similar or
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CsbZIP6 is a negative regulator of cold response in transgenic arabidopsis
The tea plant CsbZIP6 transcription factor functions as a negative regulator of the cold stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana, potentially by down-regulating cold-responsive genes.
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Evolution of a carnivorous plant’s wood anatomy
Given the current pace of anthropogenic change, understanding plants’ evolutionary response to shifting abiotic conditions is vitally important. Schwallier et al. analyse the relationships between anatomical
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Germination cues and community assembly in a coastal habitat
Regeneration by seed is a critical process in the life of plants, and germination traits determine the environments that a species can inhabit. Fernández-Pascual et
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Environmental niche divergence among dune shrub sister species
Geographic distributions of species are constrained by their ecological requirements. Chozas et al. study the distribution, environmental responses and evolutionary relationships of the three species of
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Hawkmoth pollination syndrome and adaptive floral integration
Flowers have often been characterised as functionally integrated units, but it has been difficult to demonstrate adaptive floral integration against a background of conserved correlations among
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Whole-plant organisational traits and ecological strategies in sunflowers
While trait-based plant ecology attempts to use small numbers of organ-level traits to predict ecological strategies, there is a major gap between organ-level
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Seedling root architectural traits associated with yield in wheat
Roots, the ‘hidden half’ of plants, are notoriously difficult to phenotype. Xie et al. utilise a ‘pouch and wick’ high-throughput phenotyping pipeline to quantify the
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Whole-plant reconstruction of an early Devonian lycophyte
Plants of the Early Devonian epoch (419-323 million years ago) are crucial to reconstructing the initial radiation of tracheophytes, yet few are understood as whole
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An orchid with a partially mycoheterotrophic taste for truffles
Partially mycoheterotrophic nutrition is a widespread trophic strategy in green-leaved Orchidaceae species in forest habitats. Owing to the light limitation of their habitats, many forest
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Predicting habitat affinities with drought tolerance traits in herbaceous dicots
Soil water availability is an important mechanism filtering plant species. Twenty-five herbaceous dicot species were grown under controlled conditions in order to measure a suite
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Frequent wildfires modify genetic structure in Pinus halepensis
The recurrence of wildfires is predicted to increase due to global climate change. Budde et al. examine the population genetic effects of frequent fires in natural