Faced with pollinator declines, cities could serve as refuges for biodiversity conservation by managing floralresources in public green spaces. Ornamental plants could play an important role in attracting pollinatorsbecause they form part of urban floral management. However, knowledge of how their floral traits respond todrought is lacking, and it ...
Segregation distorters (SDs) are genetic elements that distort the Mendelian segregation ratio to favor their own transmission and are able to spread even when they incur fitness costs on organisms carrying them. Depending on the biology of the host organisms and the genetic architecture of the SDs, the population dynamics of SDs can be highly vari...
P/TGMS (Photo/thermo-sensitive genic male sterile) lines are crucial resources for two-line hybrid rice breeding. Previous studies revealed that slow development is a general mechanism for sterility-fertility conversion of P/TGMS in Arabidopsis. However, the difference in P/TGMS genes between rice and Arabidopsis suggests the presence of a distinct...
L’apithérapie, qui se définit comme le soin par les produits de la ruche, est une discipline connue depuis des siècles et utilisée dans différentes civilisations pour ses nombreux bienfaits.Grâce aux progrès de la science, les produits de la ruche peuvent être analysés de façon plus précise, et commencent, peu à peu, à s’imposer comme une véritab...
Vertical transmission, the transfer of pathogens across generations, is a critical mechanism for the persistence of plant viruses. The transmission mechanisms are diverse, involving direct invasion through the suspensor and virus entry into developing gametes before achieving symplastic isolation. Despite the progress in understanding vertical viru...
The Upper Orkhon Valley, located in the Khangai Mountains of Central Mongolia, is mainly covered by a forest-steppe ecosystem. This is an interesting area to study because its vegetation dynamics might have been influenced by climatic and anthropogenic drivers. This study investigates the dynamics of vegetation (pollen), human activity (pollen and ...
Abstract The advent of automatic pollen and fungal spore monitoring over the past few years has brought about a paradigm change. The provision of real-time information at high temporal resolution opens the door to a wide range of improvements in terms of the products and services made available to a widening range of end-users and stakeholders. As ...
Warmer temperatures and higher sea level than today characterized the Last Interglacial interval [Pleistocene, 128 to 116 thousand years ago (ka)]. This period is a remarkable deep-time analog for temperature and sea-level conditions as projected for 2100 AD, yet there has been no evidence of fossil assemblages in the equatorial Atlantic. Here, we ...
Acknowledgements: Not applicable. / Funder: Schlumberger Foundation; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100002322 / Funder: Magdalene College Cambridge / Funder: The Cambridge Trust / Funder: Cambridge Africa / Funder: Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences Frank Smart Studentship / Funder: Cambridge Philosophical Society; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13...
At a time of climatic change and destruction of wetlands , studying peatbogs is essential given the rich biodiversity they harbor and the sedimentary and biological archives they constitute. Peat bog dynamics can be studied through various disciplines and time scales. To address this complexity, the bioindication quality of spiders and plants was c...
