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Selected Eucalyptus globulus clones can grow to a height of up to 14m in 3 years, receiving an average rainfall of 630 mm year–1 with
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Herbivory is a key threat to seedlings, driving plant community composition and the evolution of seedling defences. In Hawaii, seedling herbivores are not part of the
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Leaf wetness traits have often been used to describe ecophysiological and ecohydrological processes. However, the effect of droplet size when measuring these traits and their use
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Cytokinin and auxin biosynthesis and distribution patterns have been studied intensively in many terrestrial plant species. Until now, no direct phytohormonal screening has been carried out
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The genus Betula (birches) is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere from the arctic to the tropics. Its woody species are an important component of many
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The rare occurrence of a reversion to an ancestral state following adaptive radiations of pollination syndromes suggests that changes in the ancestral developmental programme of flowers
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Despite the contribution of phenotypic variation in floral morphologies to speciation, species diversity has been recognized by modal morphologies where variation is averaged out. Here Kitazawa
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Breuil-Broyer et al. show that SUPERMAN is a flower developmental canalization and robustness factor. First, partial dissociation of sexual boundary and flower meristem termination control in the sup allelic series (superman, superwoman, and supersex) has facilitated characterization of the partial
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How pollinators may influence the integration and developmental robustness of angiosperm flowers is still unknown. Using geometric morphometrics, Gómez et al. studied the evolution of the
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One of the most remarkable reproductive structures of the members of the plant family Asteraceae is the style. Katinas et al. examine the morphology and distribution
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Petal number is a robust trait in flowering plants. Crucifer flowers have four petals but Monniaux et al. show that petal number varies from zero to
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Flower colour polymorphism in plants had been used as a classic model for understanding the importance of neutral processes versus natural selection in population differentiation. Iris