Tropical understory communities are highly diverse, and plants in these environments must optimize functional traits to ensure ecological and evolutionary success. Campany et al. survey the ecophysiology of two spore...
Tag - lycophytes
Alex Assiry
Deep sequencing coming for three taxa at key phylogenetic nodes
Following his recent visit to Cambridge, Josh Mylne (UWA) will be collaborating with Jill Harrison (Cambridge) and Kingsley Dixon (Perth Botanic Garden) to sequence the transcriptomes of three rare taxa at key...
Jill Harrison
Novel structure of placenta in a lycophyte
An examination of an embryo in an underground gametophyte reveals a massive foot with ultrastructural variability comparable to that across major clades.
botanyone
DNA content for 407 plant species from the USA
The genome sizes of plants represent a key character often associated with other traits. Bai et al. use flow cytometry to provide prime C-values for 514 taxa. Most of these (407) are new reports, including 129 genera...
