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...
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...
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. 309โ319) study the dynamics of embryo and...