Chiminazzo and colleagues shed light on the intriguing survival strategies of woody plants in fire-prone ecosystems, using the Brazilian Cerrado as an example.
Tag - plant architecture
Fi Gennu
Nurse cushion plants show independent trait adaptation to differing habitats
More independence in trait adaptation may mean a greater leeway to adapt to changing climate.
Erin Zimmerman
The tale (or phenology) of two wild blueberries in Canada
Do you like eating big blueberries? The little berries are not only packed with anthocyanins but you might have actually eaten different species of blueberries without noticing.
Juniper Kiss
From stable rules to complex shapes in plant modelling
How can models capture the complexity and variation of plant phenotypes? Vidal and Andrieu have taken a look at maize.
Alun Salt
Introducing MuSCA, the multi-scale carbon allocation model
MuSCA reveals that the topological scale has a major influence on the simulation of carbon allocation.
Modelling polycyclic growth and leaf neoformation in trees
Trees can adapt their architecture in response to climate change by adjusting growth processes such as leaf neoformation and polycyclic growth. Tondjo et al. present work aimed to improve the plant growth model GreenLab...
botanyone![Reconstructions of Arabica coffee plants cultivated under elevated (e[CO2], in A) and actual (a[CO2], in B)](https://i0.wp.com/botany.one/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/mcy011.jpg?resize=585%2C300&ssl=1)
Structural and functional responses of coffee trees to elevated [CO2]
Air [CO2] tends to increase due to climate changes, affecting plant growth. Field-grown Coffea arabica trees were grown under actual and elevated [CO2] for four years. Rakocevic et al. find that elevated [CO2]...
Biomass allocation between lamina and petioles in a game of light competition in a dense annual plant stand
Plant architecture is important for light capture. In the field, plants compete with neighbours for light. In a competing system, game theory is needed to consider advantageous strategy (evolutionarily stable strategy;...
A novel approach to verification and validation of functional–structural plant models
Functional-structural plant modelling is an established approach to realistically represent plant growth, but testing and documenting realism beyond visual comparisons is challenging. We used elements of pattern...
Designing oil palm architectural ideotypes for optimized light interception
Enhancement of light harvesting in annual crops has successfully led to yield increase and has been achieved by selecting plants with optimal canopy architecture for specific agronomic practices. In this simulation...
The evolution and ecology of plant architecture
Ecological factors affect the distribution of plant architectural diversity and shape its evolution, and future work integrating phylogenetically informed architectural data with ecological variables will continue to...
Modelling plant morphology: heteroblasty in epiphytic bromeliads
Self-shading may explain heteroblasty, a sudden change in form found in many angiosperms.
Trait coordination and structural variation in Amborella trichopoda
Finding that Amborella trichopoda is sister to the rest of the angiosperms has raised the question of whether it shares certain key functional trait characteristics and plastic responses apparently widespread within the...
AoBPLANTS
Leaf display by conifer and angiosperm seedlings
The contemporary relegation of conifers mainly to cold or infertile sites has been ascribed to low competitive ability. Lusk et al. use 3-D modelling of plant architecture and structural equation modelling to compare...
