Snow may not necessarily be a bad thing for plants
Tag - Life-form
Liam Elliott
Iberian saxifrage side-steps the grim reaper to extend its lifespan
Saxifrage can grow multiple heads in stressed conditions, allowing more attempts at flowering.
Fi Gennu
Outbreeding and inbreeding strategies in plant communities of the Venezuelan Gran Sabana Plateau
Ramírez and Hokche evaluated the breeding system, sexual system, dichogamy and herkogamy of herbaceous-shrubby communities from the Gran Sabana Plateau, Venezuela
William Salter
Adaptation in the root epidermis: the velamen radicum
Zotz and colleagues ask for a re-evaluation of the occurrence, evolution, and function of the velamen radicum in both terrestrial and epiphytic angiosperms
botanyone
Nutrient reserves in geophytes may allow genome size increase
A study of 47 pairs of geophytic taxa and their closest non-geophytic relatives across the whole angiosperms.
Genome size and DNA base composition (Research in Context)
Genome size is known to affect various plant traits such as stomatal size and seed mass but these associations are not well understood for species with very large genomes, which are largely represented by geophytic...
