Birches may have developed white bark to warn herbivores that they're not good to eat.
Tag - Betula
Alun Salt
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...
Alex Assiry
Population structure of Betula albosinensis and B. platyphylla
Differences in local abundance and ploidy level are predicted to impact the direction of introgression between species. Hu et al. test these hypotheses on Chinese populations of Betula albosinensis (red birch...
Phylogeny and genome sizes of Betula
The genus Betula (birches) is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere from the arctic to the tropics. Its woody species are an important component of many ecosystems, and of economic value. The genus was recently...
botanyone