Dog-roses have some special genetic tricks to cope with odd-ploidy.
Author - Alex Assiry
Alex Assiry
Water Economy Responses to Water Level Drawdown in Sphagnum Mosses
Not all Sphagnum moss manages water in the same way.
Botanists Pull Apart the Genes of Bananas to See How They Came Together
Banana genes reveal how they may have passed through other hybrid stages.
A key protein may help trigger germination in Arabidopsis seeds
Seed germination is a critical step in the life cycle of flowering plants. Since seeds contain limited reserves, seed germination has to be tightly regulated to ensure that germination takes place in a suitable...
Phylogeny, age and adaptive evolution of genus Allium
The genus Allium L., one of the largest monocotyledonous genera and one that includes many economically important crops with nutritional and medicinal value, has been the focus of classification or phylogeny studies for...
Plants from different climates can react to drought in similar ways
How do plants react when circumstances change? One method can be to evolve a local adaptation. Another can be be phenotypic plasticity, changing the shape of the plant to tackle a local problem. Silvia Matesanz and...
How do you get more DNA down a pollen tube?
A common event for flowering plants is whole genome duplication (WGD), where a plant gets extra chromosomes. It’s often studied in mature plants, but there can also be extra copies of the genome in the pollen, and...
How Important Is Leaf Realism in Functional-Structural Plant Modelling?
Making a realistic plant in a computer model is possible, but is it necessary. All the computations generating the plant slow down the speed of any simulation. As a result it’s common to use simple geometric shapes for...
Simulated Herbivory Leads Grasses to Pass Fungal Symbionts to Their Offspring
Many grasses host symbiotic fungi, Epichloë spp. These fungi can help grasses tolerate herbivory, or help repel herbivores. But how do these fungi pass between plant hosts? They could be passed horizontally between...
Habitat partitioning through reproductive interference in Geranium
We’re familiar with seeing insects flit from one flower to the next, carrying pollen as they do so. What happens when they carry pollen to the wrong flower species? Sachiko Nishida and colleagues have been testing some...
Improving overyielding in legume-based mixtures
A major challenge when supporting the development of intercropping systems remains the design of efficient species mixtures. The ecological processes that sustain overyielding of legume-based mixtures compared to pure...
Call for Papers for Annals of Botany: 3D forest models and laser scanning data
Annals of Botany will release a Special Issue inspired by the 3D Tree Models for Forest Dynamics workshop held in Helsinki, Finland.
Abscisic acid receptors in Populus canescens aid water use
Botanists show how abscisic acid receptors in poplar can ease drought stress.
Morphological and physiological traits determine Arundo drought recovery
Arundo donax often reproduces clonally, but a new study finds small differences can affect how it recovers from drought stress.
