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Tag - maternal effects
Liam Elliott
Rapid changes in seed dispersal traits may modify plant responses to global change
When climatic or environmental conditions change, plant populations must either adapt to these new conditions, or track their niche via seed dispersal. Adaptation of plants to different abiotic environments has mostly...
William Salter
Within- and trans-generational plasticity: seed germination responses to light quantity and quality
Plants respond not only to the environment in which they find themselves, but also to that of their parents. The combination of within- and trans-generational phenotypic plasticity regulates plant development. The light...
Moss: is the mother protecting the offspring, or holding it back?
Jessica M. Budke adds another dimension to a recent paper about the development of the calyptra in moss. Is there parent-offspring conflict?
Alun Salt
Maternal cuticle protects moss offspring from dehydration
Funaria hygrometrica calyptra may represent the earliest occurrence of maternal protection via structural provisioning of a cuticle in green plants.
AJ Cann
Windows of opportunity in embryo development
Variation in mature seed size is the result of a complex array of interactions involving genes, genomes and environment that may change during development. Diggle et al. (pp. 309–319) study the dynamics of embryo and...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison