🌸🌼Join us to learn about the newly published “Random and non-random variation in flower colour along an urban-rural gradient in the introduced mustard Hesperis matronalis” in @AnnBot by Katherine Maunder and co-authors. 🧵 (1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/qtm4

#Plantscience #AoBpapers #UrbanEvolution #PlantEcology #EvolutionaryBiology #FlowerColour #UrbanEcology

🆕 The new issue of Annals of Botany is now online!

🌱 How leaf-dwelling fungi can reshape soil chemistry
🌬️ Why some wind-pollinated plants evolved grass-like traits
🔥 How plants recover after fire, drought, and salinity
and more…

New issue👉 https://botany.fyi/bep8tb

#plantscience #botany #plantbiology #soilmicrobiome #plantfungi #pollinationbiology #windpollination
#plantecology #plantadaptation #stresstolerance #fireecology

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Single fire events impose lasting reproductive costs in savanna trees’ in @AnnBot by Marcelle de Castro Cavalheiro and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/qmgq

#PlantEcology #FireEcology #SeedBiology #Cerrado #PlantScience #AoBpapers

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Between wind and visitors? Insights into floral anatomy, taxonomy and reproductive biology in Cryptangieae (Cyperaceae)’ in @AnnBot by Ana Luisa Arantes Chaves and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/8)

👉 https://doi.org/qmbh

#AoBpapers #PlantScience #Pollination #FloralBiology #Cyperaceae #PlantEcology

Phytobiome (Biomes 🌍)

A phytobiome consists of a plant situated in its specific ecological area, including its environment and the associated communities of organisms which inhabit it. These organisms include all macro- and micro-organisms living in, on, or around the plant including bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, insects, animals, and other plants. The environment includes the soil,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytobiome

#Phytobiome #Biomes #Agriculture #PlantEcology #PlantProducts

Bamboos are semelparous, meaning they only sexually reproduce once despite living several years, similar to the programmed death in Salmon. This life habit is rare in 'long lived' individuals.

"Most bamboos are tropical or warm temperate zone plants that form dense stands in disturbed habitats. Reproduction in bamboos does not appear to require substantial preparation or resources, but opportunites for successful seed germination probably are rare. Once established, a bamboo plant increases by asexual reproduction, continually sending up new stalks, until the habitat in which it germinated is packed with bamboo. Only that this point, where vegetative growth becomes severely limited, do plants benefit from producing seeds, which may colonize disturbed sites."

-Ecology, Ricklefs and Miller #PlantEcology #Plants #NatureAppreciation