Floral traits attracting pollinators may also attract seed predators; however, evidence for conflicting selection on such traits remains scarce....
A propensity to form polyploid hybrids is a peculiar feature of roses. Herklotz and Ritz investigate the population genetics...
Interactions between species are especially sensitive to environmental changes. The interaction between plants and pollinators is of particular interest...
The effect of diameter variation on root elongation, branching and topological connections has not been examined systematically in a...
Floral scent is a key component of pollinator attraction and its chemistry modulates pollinator behavior and the formation of...
The rare occurrence of a reversion to an ancestral state following adaptive radiations of pollination syndromes suggests that changes...
Autotrophy, though common among plants, isn’t the only way plants make a living. Some plants have lost all photosynthetic...
In orchid species that have populations occurring in strongly contrasting habitats, mycorrhizal divergence and other habitat-specific adaptations may lead...
Red flowers have evolved repeatedly across angiosperms and are frequently examined in an ecological context. However, less is known...
Decreased crop photosynthetic rates are a major consequence of root flooding as severe perturbations of the photosynthetic machinery result...
A direct observation of embolism repair in intact plants is essential in order to understand the mechanisms that regulate...
Stomata are pores regulating gas exchange in land plants. Stomatal morphology has remained largely consistent through ∼400 million years...
Although white clover (Trifolium repens) is a major temperate legume, its production is limited by low soil moisture. Using...
In gypsum soil communities, above-ground vegetation and seed banks are tightly connected, but mechanisms involved in their organization may...
Every species passes through various life stages, and each life stage may have different requirements in terms of climate,...
Bromeliads occur in many oligotrophic environments, due to the evolution of leaf trichomes, epiphytism, and CAM metabolism. Among bromeliads,...
Most work on the impacts of heterospecific pollen deposition on plant fecundity has utilized hand-pollination experiments in greenhouse settings,...
Historical and ongoing hybridization between the oak species Quercus petraea and Q. robur leads to difficulty in identifying the...
Broomrapes (Orobanche spp.) are a cosmopolitan genus of root holoparasites–non-photosynthetic angiosperms that obtain nutrients and energy by connecting to...
Chinese aspen with a dynamic Quaternary evolutionary history Full paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx198 Populus adenopoda (Salicaceae), the Chinese aspen, occurs in the subtropical China region. Fen et al. report a genetic survey to reveal that it survived in multiple glacial refugia during the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 21 to 18 thousand years ago). #botany #science #plantscience #plantbiology
