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Rhizosphere biophysics and root water uptake
The combination of soil drying and a high transpiration rate causes severe water stress in plants. In their Viewpoint article, Carminati et al. develop a biophysical
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Why does the architectural arrangement of flowers vary among species?
Angiosperms exhibit great variations within the architectural arrangements of their floral displays, which serve reproductive functions. The influence of display size and of individual floral traits
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Funaria hygrometrica gametophyte and sporophyte cuticular waxes
The waxy cuticles that coat plant surfaces have been relatively well studied in vascular plant taxa, but it is unclear how similar they may be across
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Phylogeographic insights into the enigmatic Laurel tree and an endemic gentian from the Canary Islands
Laurel forest is often regarded as an ancient type of woodland as reflected in the ‘Tertiary relict’ hypothesis. The Canary Islands are one of the present
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Hormone regulation of rhizome development
Rhizomes are underground stems serving as storage organs and containing meristematic tissues which are capable of generating shoots and roots. However, the mechanisms controlling rhizome formation
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It’s not easy being green: ecophysiological patterns of mycoheterotrophy in ectomycorrhizal Orchidaceae and Ericaceae
Autotrophy, though common among plants, isn’t the only way plants make a living. Some plants have lost all photosynthetic abilities and instead rely on symbiotic
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Foliar nectar can enhance plant-mite mutualisms
Mite domatia are small structures on the underside of plant leaves that house predacious or fungivorous mites, thereby mediating a plant-mite defence mutualism. It has
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Diversity and constraints in the floral morphological evolution of Leandra s.str.
Processes related to floral diversification and the relation of floral diversification to speciation are largely unaccounted for in the Melastomataceae. Reginato and Michelangeli describe the floral
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Intrinsic post-zygotic barriers play a key role in maintaining species boundaries in Eucalyptus
Larcombe et al. present a 20-year assessment of reproductive isolation in a forest tree system. They show that intermediate inheritance of floral morphology results in
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Specialisation and modularity of plant-pollinator networks
Modularity is the tendency of certain species to consistently interact with each other. It is a ubiquitous and important property of ecological networks that can determine
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Maize root growth angles, nitrogen capture and environmental conditions
Crops capable of improved nitrogen capture are in demand for the purposes of efficient global agricultural production. Dathe et al. employ functional-structural modelling to test
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Saving a blueprint of the Tree of Life
Access to legally acquired, high-quality DNA and tissue samples is often elusive for those undertaking genomic research. Seberg et al. report on an initiative to