🚨 Key takeaway: A single fire can limit reproduction and seed quality for years, highlighting the importance of longer fire-free intervals to allow canopy recovery and healthy seed production. (9/9)

👉 https://doi.org/qmgq

#PlantEcology #FireEcology #Cerrado #SeedBiology #SavannaEcosystems #PlantScience

🎉 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

💡 This is the first quantitative assessment of the evolutionary tempo and mode of germination salinity tolerance across diverse plant taxa and it shows how ecology and evolution jointly shape stress responses in early life stages. (7/7)

👉 https://doi.org/p53x

#PlantScience #SalinityStress #SeedBiology #Ecology #ClimateChange #AoBpapers

The role of ecological niche and seed mass in macroevolution of germination tolerance to salinity

AbstractBackground and Aims. The limited understanding of how early life-history transitions respond to changing environmental conditions constrains our kn

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🌱Annals of #Botany invites submissions to the new Special Issue "Exploring seed development, structure and physiology", edited by AoB editors Gabriela Auge and Chunhui Zhang
This call for papers is associated with a concurrent session at the International Conference on #Arabidopsis Research 2025 and the 4th Argentinian Meeting in #SeedBiology
#seeds #plantscience #specialissue
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🌱Annals of Botany invites submissions to the new Special Issue "Exploring seed development, structure and physiology", edited by AoB editors Gabriela Auge and Chunhui Zhang. (1/4) #seeds #plantscience #specialissue ‪@gabyplantbio.bsky.social‬

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Why does this matter?
Understanding how these unique seeds develop can reveal how different reproductive strategies evolved in flowering plants and help preserve biodiversity in early-divergent lineages like Annonaceae. 🌿📚(10/10)

👉 https://doi.org/pg92

#Botany #PlantScience #SeedBiology #Annonaceae #Evolution #Pawpaw

🌱 New article in @AoBP on the evolution of seed dormancy and desiccation tolerance in Argyreia genus.

Full #openaccess
👉 https://bit.ly/3xIyMrA

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Evolutionary reversal of physical dormancy to nondormancy: evidence from comparative seed morphoanatomy of Argyreia species (Convolvulaceae)

In Argyreia , the most recently split-off genus of the Convolvulaceae, some species produce seeds with physical dormancy, and some produce non-dormant seed

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