Adaptation to extreme habitats starts in the seed.
Tag - Amaranthaceae
Juniper Kiss
Epizoochory and diversification of the Achyranthoids (Amaranthaceae)
Many African genera of the Amaranthaceae exhibit unique inflorescences that include sterile flowers modified to hooks or spines. Considering that the abundance of large terrestrial herbivores increased on the African...
botanyone
Do plant traits predict the competitive abilities of closely related species?
Invasive species are a threat to every ecosystem and thus there is a strong incentive to predict which species will become invasive before they become too widespread and unmanageable. In a recent study published in AoB...
AoBPLANTS
Effects of submergence and de-submergence on a clonal plant
Submergence and de-submergence are common phenomena encountered by riparian plants as water levels fluctuate, but little is known about the role of physiological integration in the adaptation of clonal plants to such...
An explosive mix: C4, C3, C2 and CCM
How many more variants exist amongst the 325,000 species of flowering plants (let alone all the algae and other members of the plant kingdom)?
Nigel Chaffey
Ricinosomes and cell death in quinoa seeds
Early detection of Cys-EP in ricinosomes may predict the occurrence of programmed cell death during late seed development in quinoa.
AJ Cann
