Plants that have grown in partnership with human activity in meadows can be a great source of seeds for restoration projects, but their ability to germinate is also a problem.
Tag - Fabaceae
Fi Gennu
The colour of background vegetation reveals how bees see flowers
Studying how bees perceive flowers gives insight into how pollinators have influenced flower evolution.
Andrea Romero
Does flower height matter to bats?
Is the best way for a plant to attract bats as pollinators to hoist their flowers up high?
Alun Salt
Effects of plant polyploidy on the legume-rhizobia mutualism
Polyploidy alters plant genomes, phenotypes, and abiotic interactions. The effects of polyploidy on plant-biotic interactions however are less well known. One important plant-biotic interaction is the legume-rhizobia...
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Colchicine application and reproductive fitness in Fabaceae
Unravelling the direct consequences of polyploidization to reveal its evolutionary significance and effects on reproductive fitness, Münzbergová studies diploid offspring of synthetic tetraploid mothers in Vicia cracca...
Sand temperature and moisture break seed physical dormancy
Seasonal periodicity of seed germination and its relationship to seasonal changes in temperature and soil moisture have been well studied in seeds of species with physiological dormancy. However, relatively little...
AoBPLANTS
Demographic consequences of genetic variation for a plant invasion
Genetic variation may play an important role in plant population fitness and invasion success. Li et al. combine genetic analysis and demographic data to investigate the consequences of genetic variation for the...
Intra-population variation in physical dormancy
Differences at the individual plant level contributes to physical dormancy-breaking thresholds for five dormant shrub species from fire-prone vegetation
Molecular analysis and evolution of forisomes
Forisomes are specialized structural phloem proteins that mediate sieve element occlusion after wounding exclusively in papilionoid legumes, but most studies of their structure and function have focused on the Old World...
Lathyrus diversity and crop improvement (Invited Review)
Vaz Patto and Rubiales review the current status and future prospects of Lathyrus diversity conservation and characterization.
Blessed are the peas-makers…
Given the importance of chickpeas, arguably the more genomes the better, not least in helping efforts to develop more drought-tolerant forms.
Nigel Chaffey
Seed quality at tree species’ altitudinal limits
The low-temperature range limit of tree species may be determined by their ability to produce and disperse viable seeds, with processes such as flowering, pollen tube growth, fertilization, embryogenesis and seed...
Floral biomechanics and pollination in Fabaceae
Papilionoid Fabaceae include species with flowers that have obstacles that have to be actively moved by a visitor before floral rewards can be accessed and pollination can take place. Córdoba and Cocucci study six...
