The study implies that the generally overlooked role of storage within the plant economic spectrum represents an important dimension of plant strategy.
Secondary growth of the roots of annual dicots has functional significance with regards to soil resource acquisition and transport, interactions with soil organisms and carbon sequestration.
Phylogenetics seeks to explain the relationships between organisms today, effectively drawing up a phylogeny, like a family tree. That means pulling together information on the past history of a group, and so botanists...
The presence in the specimens of both epicormic shoots and traumatic growth zones, combined with the observation of some disorientation of the wood structure in some parts of the trunks, suggest that these trees were...
The ancient order Cycadales (“cycads”), have a pattern of vascular bundles in the leaf axis, seen in transverse section as an inverted “omega”. In the genus Cycas, Tomlinson et al. recreate this system as a 3...
This study provides strong evidence, based on DNA sequences from two genomic compartments (plastid and nucleus) and morphology to group the Utricularia sect. Orchidioides into the sect. Iperua.
Does "Essentials of Developmental Plant Anatomy" cover the essentials of developmental plant anatomy? Nigel Chaffey looks over the introductory textbook.
Anatomical and morphological traits among the perianth-bearing Piperales are examined to detect trends in growth form evolution and developmental processes.
Johnson et al. measure xylem embolism resistance and connectivity in roots of two co-occurring tree species in a semi-arid habitat, Quercus fusiformis and Sideroxylon lanuginosum.