Brian Park and colleagues have been examining a peculiar fact. A plant can increase its reproductive success by producing sterile flowers. Not all the flowers are sterile. Viburnum lantanoides, (Adoxaceae) has enlarged...
Tag - Viburnum
Fi Gennu
The transition from scalariform-to-simple vessel perforation plates
Flowering plants with simple vessel perforations have evolved from species bearing scalariform perforations but there is a scarcity of integrative studies explaining why these transitions in wood evolution have happened...
botanyone
Epicotyl dormancy in Viburnum seeds
Seeds of many Viburnum species have epicotyl dormancy, but little is known about the temperature requirements for radicle and shoot emergennce. Chien et al. incubate fresh and pre-treated seeds of V. betulifolium and V...
It’s not what you know, but who you know!
Whilst humankind often debates the benefits – or otherwise – of an individual’s advancement based on patronage rather than merit, it is interesting to note that the plant world has no such scruples. Well, at least that...
Nigel Chaffey