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♻️ Biotic pressure outweighs the influence of resource availability on physical defence investment in a tropical tree by Bio Barriou Babah Daouda and co-authors.

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👉 https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaf027

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Biotic pressure outweighs the influence of resource availability on physical defence investment in a tropical tree

Plants defend themselves from herbivores using features like thorns. According to the resource availability hypothesis, a plant’s defenses depend on soil q

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Annals of Botany 6h ago

🎉🆕📰🎉: Developmental timing in the female reproductive cycle of Araucaria araucana: seasonality and evolutionary perspectives
https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf275

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Developmental timing in the female reproductive cycle of Araucaria araucana: seasonality and evolutionary perspectives

AbstractBackground and Aims. Shifts in the timing and rate of reproductive development have played a central role in plant evolution, often being shaped by

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Annals of Botany 16h ago

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: A global phylogenetic framework for Diospyros L. (Ebenaceae, Ericales): enhanced taxon and sample coverage through NGS, Sanger sequencing, and herbariomics
https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcag084

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A global phylogenetic framework for Diospyros L. (Ebenaceae, Ericales): enhanced taxon and sample coverage through NGS, Sanger sequencing and herbariomics

AbstractBackground and Aims. Diospyros (∼700 species) is a pan-tropical genus with centres of diversity in poorly studied areas. Fragmented regional classi

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in silico Plants 20h ago

Just published!
🌿 Do specific root zones shape plant net N uptake? Modeling insights from Root-CyNAPS
by Tristan Gérault, Christophe Pradal, Romain Barillot, Céline Richard-Molard, Marion Gauthier, Alexandra Jullien, and Frédéric Rees
https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diag008 #PlantScience #RootScience #FSPM

Botany One 22h ago

Fire Signals and Dry Soils: How Cerrado Seeds Time Their Germination
https://www.botany.one/fire-signals-and-dry-soils-how-cerrado-seeds-time-their-germination/

By testing how seeds respond to drought and smoke together, scientists uncover how plants in Brazil’s Cerrado survive the harsh mix of fire, dry spells and unpredictable rain.
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Fire Signals and Dry Soils: How Cerrado Seeds Time Their Germination

By testing how seeds respond to drought and smoke together, scientists uncover how plants in Brazil’s Cerrado survive the harsh mix of fire, dry spells and unpredictable rain.

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Annals of Botany 22h ago

💡 So polyploids may have an advantage: they can bypass sexual reproduction and still thrive. This helps explain why they’re more common in harsher habitats. (9/9)

👉 https://doi.org/q5f9

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Annals of Botany 22h ago

🌱Check the newly published article ‘A shift in species niche through autopolyploidy: From sexual to vegetative reproduction in Saxifraga oppositifolia’ in @AnnBot by Ingrid Vesterdal Tjessem 🧵(1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/q5f9

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Annals of Botany 1d ago

♻️🆓: Spatial patterns and climatic drivers of phylogenetic structure of regional liverwort assemblages in China
https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae080

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Spatial patterns and climatic drivers of phylogenetic structure of regional liverwort assemblages in China

AbstractBackground and Aims. Latitudinal diversity gradients have been intimately linked to the tropical niche conservatism hypothesis, which posits that t

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AoB PLANTS 1d ago

🌿💧 New article in @AoBP exploring how moss traits shape soil hydrology, showing that species like Thuidium tamariscinum and Rhytidiadelphus loreus can reduce runoff and erosion, with shoot density playing a key role.

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👉 https://doi.org/qzxf

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