Chakraborty, Koushik Guru, Akankhya Jena, Priyanka Ray, Soham Guhey, Arti Chattopadhyay, Krishnendu Sarkar, Ramani K
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Annals of botany
Submergence tolerance in rice is primarily attributed to the action of the SUB1 gene, but other associated traits such as leaf gas film (LGF) thickness, leaf hydrophobicity, porosity and leaf density have been known to aid submergence tolerance in rice. However, association of these traits with SUB1 quantitative trait locus (QTL) has not been demon...
Wang, Xiangtai Michalet, Richard Meng, Lihua Zhou, Xianhui Chen, Shuyan Du, Guozhen Xiao, Sa
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Annals of botany
Facilitation is an important ecological process for plant community structure and functional composition. Although direct facilitation has accrued most of the evidence so far, indirect facilitation is ubiquitous in nature and it has an enormous potential to explain community structuring. In this study, we assess the effect of direct and indirect fa...
Rice, Karen E Montgomery, Rebecca A Stefanski, Artur Rich, Roy L Reich, Peter B
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Warmer temperatures and altered precipitation patterns are expected to continue to occur as the climate changes. How these changes will impact the flowering phenology of herbaceous perennials in northern forests is poorly understood but could have consequences for forest functioning and species interactions. Here, we examine the flowering phenology...
Escobedo, Víctor M Rios, Rodrigo S Alcayaga-Olivares, Yulinka Gianoli, Ernesto
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There is a paucity of empirical research and a lack of predictive models concerning the interplay between spatial scale and disturbance as they affect the structure and assembly of plant communities. We proposed and tested a trait dispersion-based conceptual model hypothesizing that disturbance reinforces assembly processes differentially across sp...
Ruchisansakun, Saroj Mertens, Arne Janssens, Steven B Smets, Erik F van der Niet, Timotheüs
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Floral diversity as a result of plant-pollinator interactions can evolve by two distinct processes: shifts between pollination systems or divergent use of the same pollinator. Although both are pollinator driven, the mode, relative importance and interdependence of these different processes are rarely studied simultaneously. Here we apply a phyloge...
Rodrigues-Junior, Ailton G Baskin, Carol C Baskin, Jerry M De-Paula, Orlando C
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Annals of botany
A structure called the pleurogram makes up a large part of the seed coat of some species in subfamilies Caesalpinioideae and Mimosoideae of Fabaceae, but little is known about its function. It has been hypothesized that this structure acts as a hygroscopic valve during the maturation drying of seeds. However, a new hypothesis has recently emerged t...
Soares, Natalia Costa Maruyama, Pietro Kiyoshi Staggemeier, Vanessa Graziele Morellato, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Araújo, Márcio Silva
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Plant individuals within a population differ in their phenology and interactions with pollinators. However, it is still unknown how individual differences affect the reproductive success of plants that have functionally specialized pollination systems. Here, we evaluated whether plant individual specialization in phenology (temporal specialization)...
Hancock, James F Prince, Harold H
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Annals of botany
The beach strawberry, Fragaria chiloensis, is found in a narrow coastal band from the Aleutian Islands to central California and then jumps thousands of kilometres all the way to Hawaii and Chile. As it probably had a North American origin, it must have been introduced to the other locations by long-distance dispersal. The aim of this study was to ...
Takeda, Kazuya Kadokawa, Tomoki Kawakita, Atsushi
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Annals of botany
The great diversity of floral characteristics among animal-pollinated plants is commonly understood to be the result of coevolutionary interactions between plants and pollinators. Floral antagonists, such as nectar thieves, also have the potential to exert an influence upon the selection of floral characteristics, but adaptation against floral anta...
Cenci, Alberto Sardos, Julie Hueber, Yann Martin, Guillaume Breton, Catherine Roux, Nicolas Swennen, Rony Carpentier, Sebastien Christian Rouard, Mathieu
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Annals of botany
Bananas (Musa spp.) are a major staple food for hundreds of millions of people in developing countries. The cultivated varieties are seedless and parthenocarpic clones of which the ancestral origin remains to be clarified. The most important cultivars are triploids with an AAA, AAB or ABB genome constitution, with A and B genomes provided by M. acu...
