Plants Don’t Want Their Children to Starve
There’s more to seed survival than just seed mass.
Tag: Evolution
Morpho-anatomical affinities of three paleoendemic podocarp genera
Despite the probable extinction of closely related sister species and genera, and the evolution of morphological structures as adaptations to changing environmental conditions, they still share basic reproductive traits with other podocarps.
The colour of background vegetation reveals how bees see flowers
Studying how bees perceive flowers gives insight into how pollinators have influenced flower evolution.
Geographic patterns of genomic diversity in the C4 grass Panicum hallii
Can new genomics approaches be used to assess and understand intraspecific diversity across large geographic distributions?
Hybridisation of native and foreign Sorbus trees in the Polish Carpathian mountains
Sorbus is a highly diverse tree genus but is this the result of hybridisation and introgression between native and foreign species?
A new spin on Darwin’s “abominable mystery”
Darwin may indeed not have been referring to angiosperms broadly in his famous words to his friend.
Scientists suggest bringing a fresh set of eyes to the problem, ‘When did the first flowers evolve?’
A disagreement on when flowers evolved could be solved by studying the real experts on pollination, the pollinators.
How to eat bugs without really trying? Insights from the genomes of carnivorous plants
Genes for carnivory arose from a duplication of the genome turning plants into hunters.
How do some plants become flammable? Insights from Dracophyllum
Why would a plant not frequently exposed to fire evolve to burn well?
Stomatal anatomy coordinates leaf size with Rubisco kinetics in Limonium
Stomatal anatomy integrates Rubisco kinetics and leaf size in Limonium species, consistent with selection on functional coordination and shared developmental pathways.
The Chemical Tools of Carnivorous Plants
Carnivorous plants need to manufacture a variety of specialised chemicals to lure, trap and digest prey.
Decrypting the tubby-like protein gene family in cassava
Dong et al. identify and characterise the cassava TLP gene family, MeTLP, at the genomic level.
The future will be short
…as in not tall, rather than apocalyptic.
