Botanists use the orchid genus Epipactis as a model for speciation, but unravelling its family tree has been difficult.
Category - Annals of Botany
Annals of Botany is an international plant science journal that publishes novel and substantial research papers in all areas of plant science, along with reviews and shorter Botanical Briefings about topical issues.
Annals of Botany is published monthly with extra issues that focus on particular themes. The Journal is owned by The Annals of Botany Company, a not-for-profit charity established to promote plant science. For authors, there are no page charges, colour is free and review is rapid and rigorous; open access options are competitive.
Alex Assiry
Introducing MuSCA, the multi-scale carbon allocation model
MuSCA reveals that the topological scale has a major influence on the simulation of carbon allocation.
Alun Salt
The rare lichen Pectenia plumbea requires a matchmaker to bring its fungus and alga together
A lichen is not one organism, but a community of at least two. If that's the case, how does the lichen as a whole reproduce?
A fern thought to grow on trees still keeps a root on the ground
The Aspleniaceae is a family of ferns, some of which are terrestrial and some of which are epiphytes. A new study has found a rarity, a hemiepiphyte.
Belowground biomass reduces erosion rates in sand dunes
New research shows that it's the parts of the plants you don't see that help preserve dunes from erosion.
How do mangrove forests recover from cyclones?
What happens when cyclones hit mangroves? What happens when there are repeated impacts? Ken Krauss and Michael Osland have been looking at the scientific research to find out.
The best way to grow strong upright rose stems is to bend them over
Bending rose stems dramatically increases photosynthesis.
Dale Maylea
Flowers evolve to balance the risks and rewards of self-pollination
The longer a plant waits to self-pollinate, the longer it has to attract pollen from outside. But waiting too long can have consequences.
PtHMGR overexpression enhances tolerance of salt and drought
Overexpression of PtHMGR enhanced the stress resistance of poplar.
Where did the first flowers grow?
Botanists have tried to understand the conditions that led to the evolution of the first flowers by reconstructing the niches from which the earliest flowering plants diverged.
Role of ploidy in Arabidopsis arenosa colonization of alpine habitats
Doubling the chromosomes of Arabidopsis arenosa does not always lead to strong ecological niche differentiation.
What factors make a deadly carrot so dangerous?
The deadly carrot might sound as likely as the killer tomato, but decoding the defences of Thapsia garganica might have a big pay-off in the future.
Compensatory base changes on an ITS2 phylogeny of Corydalis
Compensatory base changes (CBCs) that occur in stems of ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) can have important phylogenetic implications. Li et al. quantify how CBCs affect selection of substitution models...
Origin and genome evolution of Cardamine occulta
For the first time, whole-genome cytogenomic maps were established for octoploid plants.
