A Bud Bank is not just a Seed Bank in a different form. It can affect populations of plants in a considerably different way.
Tag - meristem
Alun Salt
Cell cycle arrest in plants
In the cell cycle, the G1 phase can be like a prison, where plant cells are arrested, unable to divide. These cells have been arrested for different reasons, serving sentences of different lengths. So how and why did...
Anna Jacob
Botany at Oxford University is not 400 years old!
The first – and so far only – example of a root fossilized during active growth, which has preserved the cellular organization of the meristem
Nigel Chaffey
Vascular patterning of superoxide in bursting grapevine buds
Plants regulate cellular oxygen partial pressures (pO2), together with reduction/oxidation (redox) state in order to manage rapid developmental transitions such as bud burst after a period of quiescence. However, our...
botanyone
Petal spur development in Centranthus
When concealed by petal spurs, nectar typically is restricted to flower-visiting animals possessing a sufficient tongue length to acquire it, and thus such spurs have evolutionary significance, often leading to...
The cambium clock of climate change
The length of the growing season and the resulting amount of growth could respond differently to climate change.
AJ Cann
Axillary meristems in Wollemi nobilis (Viewpoints)
In a recent paper (Annals of Botany 107: 909–916; 2011) Tomlinson and Huggett indicated that reiterative branches in the pine Wollemi nobilis develop from groups of seemingly differentiated cells in axillary positions...
