Even plants want it to snow! The effects of cold stress on plant communities and how snow may offset these
Snow may not necessarily be a bad thing for plants
Tag: Life-form
Iberian saxifrage side-steps the grim reaper to extend its lifespan
Saxifrage can grow multiple heads in stressed conditions, allowing more attempts at flowering.
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
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
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.
