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Domestication without a genetic bottleneck in Stenocereus (Cactaceae) The Tehuacán Valley in Mexico provides an excellent setting for studying domestication as artificial selection is currently practised
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Hormones and sugar network signalling in seeds Endospermic legumes are abundant in tropical forests and their establishment is closely related to the mobilization of storage polysaccharides
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Self-cleaning nanotechnology from plant leaf surfaces comes of age
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Stem lignification and resulting reduced digestibility of forage grasses is thought to be associated with the transition of apices to the reproductive stage. Seppänen et al.
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Microarray-analysis for components of salinity-stress tolerance Thiourea has been demonstrated to impart salinity-stress tolerance to seedlings of mustard, Brassica juncea. Srivastava et al.
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Cellular expression of GFP in transgenic potato cells When growing plants in the field or greenhouse, one is very conscious of seasons and thinking about when
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Genetic relationships between sympatric and allopatric Casearia Casearia sylvestris var. sylvestris inhabits humid, dense forests, while var. lingua is restricted to xeric habitats, yet despite differences
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A recent issue of Annals of Botany highlights seven papers on the genetic basis of plant evolution and speciation.
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Tetrad shape and aperture pattern ontogeny in pollen Patterns of male cytokinesis are suspected to play a role in the diversity of aperture patterns found in
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Cases of polyembryony have been reported in non-apomictic genotypes as a consequence of 2x × 4x hybridizations and in vitro culture of isolated nucelli. Aleza et
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Two-thirds of the energy in the food we eat comes from seeds – including wheat, rice, maize, oilseeds – and their associated storage structures as fruits. Without
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Variation in mature seed size is the result of a complex array of interactions involving genes, genomes and environment that may change during development. Diggle et