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Stem anatomy and growth forms in perianth-bearing Piperales
Anatomical and morphological traits among the perianth-bearing Piperales are examined to detect trends in growth form evolution and developmental processes.
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Molecular analysis and evolution of forisomes
Forisomes are specialized structural phloem proteins that mediate sieve element occlusion after wounding exclusively in papilionoid legumes, but most studies of their structure and function have
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Variation of flowering and pseudovivipary in Poa
Pseudovivipary is an intriguing asexual reproduction trait in which plantlets and bulbils develop instead of normal florets. Ofir and Kigel study inter-annual and intra-clonal
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Strigolactones, brassinosteroids and autoregulation of nodulation
An investigation of interactions between the AON system and two hormones recently shown to promote nodulation, strigolactones and brassinosteroids.
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Ureide accumulation and drought inhibition of N2fixation
A study of common bean genotypes, with variable degrees of N2-fixation tolerance to water stress, finds variable accumulation of ureides in their leaves.
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Special Issue on Plant Cell Walls – Free Online
Although plants and many algae (e.g. the Phaeophyceae, brown, and Rhodophyceae, red) are only very distantly related they are united in their possession of carbohydrate-
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Accumulation of ferruginol in heartwood-forming xylem
Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry & quantitative analyses are used to study distribution of ferruginol in a 30-yr tree of Cryptomeria japonica.
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Cambial reactivation and formation of earlywood vessels in oak
The continuous formation of earlywood vessels is crucial for the growth of ring-porous hardwoods. Kudo et al. study Quercus serrate seedlings and find that a
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Heterozygosity–fitness correlations in pedunculate oak
Various transpiration and growth traits of seedlings of pedunculate oak, Quercus robur, are correlated with their multilocus heterozygosity (MLH).
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Lathyrus diversity and crop improvement (Invited Review)
Vaz Patto and Rubiales review the current status and future prospects of Lathyrus diversity conservation and characterization.
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Nitrate uptake modelling in plants: root activity
Using a thermodynamic flow–force interpretation of nitrate uptake isotherms, Malagoli and Le Deunff develop a functional– structural model to predict N uptake in winter oilseed
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Nitrate uptake modelling in plants: functional components
Difficulties in linking the various regulations of nitrate transport acting at different levels of time and on different spatial scales have hindered the development of models