annals-of-botany

annals-of-botany

Pollination by sexual deception in Pterostylis

A single species of male gnat (Mycetophilidae) visits and pollinates the rewardless flowers of P. sanguinea. The gnats often show probing copulatory behaviour on the labellum, leading to its triggering and the temporary entrapment of the gnat in the flower.

Alex

01 Sep 2014

annals-of-botany

Hydraulic integration in tree root vessels

Johnson et al. measure xylem embolism resistance and connectivity in roots of two co-occurring tree species in a semi-arid habitat, Quercus fusiformis and Sideroxylon lanuginosum.

Alex

31 Aug 2014

annals-of-botany

A better understanding of wheat gluten

Wheat is the most important food crop in the temperate world, but we know little about the gluten it contains.

AJ Cann

27 Aug 2014

annals-of-botany

Pollen limitation and reduced reproductive success

Even though P. virginiana is a widespread species, fragmented populations experience significant reductions in fruit set and pollen limitation.

AJ Cann

25 Aug 2014

annals-of-botany

Biomechanical responses of hemlock to herbivory

Soltis et al. study the impact of feeding by hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae, on the biomechanics of eastern hemlock trees, Tsuga canadensis.

Alex

24 Aug 2014

annals-of-botany

Density × species evenness effects on coexistence and growth

Collet et al. study a tree plantation that mixes beech and sycamore according to a double gradient of density and species’ proportion, and find that density and tree size are the primary factors determining individual growth and stand productivity.

Alex

23 Aug 2014

annals-of-botany

Intracellular ice and cell survival in seeds of Acer

A study of embryonic axes of silver maple, Acer saccharinum, subjected to various drying, cooling and warming treatments, finds that intracellular ice formation is not necessarily lethal.

Alex

20 Aug 2014

annals-of-botany

Cold hardiness of Brachypodium distachyon accessions

Cold treatment accelerates the transition from the vegetative to the reproductive phase in seven Brachypodium distachyon accessions.

Alex

06 Aug 2014

annals-of-botany

Growth and cellular patterns in petal epidermis of Antirrhinum

Alex

04 Aug 2014

annals-of-botany

Water deficit effects on structure of proleptic and epicormic shoots

The effects of plant water status on axillary meristem fate and flowering patterns along proleptic and epicormic shoots of almond trees, Prunus dulcis.

Alex

03 Aug 2014