Annals of Botany

🆕 New issue of Annals of Botany is out! 🌿 UV protection vs photosynthesis trade-offs in bryophytes 🌱 What drives stomatal development: CO₂ or light? 🌾 Modelling leaf size across major cereal crops …and much more 👉 botany.fyi/airfhu #PlantScience #Photosynthesis

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

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Bark protection and light-adapted photosynthesis influence woody productivity of Cerrado trees in changing fire regimes doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

♻️🆓: Amphistomy: stomata patterning inferred from 13C content and leaf-side-specific deposition of epicuticular wax doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

♻️🆓: Plant biomass allocation advances our understanding of plant adaptation to environmental gradients: a commentary on ‘Contrasting biomass allocations explain adaptations to cold and drought in the world’s highest-growing angiosperms’ doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

✅📄Now Free Access: A modified petal and stamen dimorphism interact to enhance pollen placement by a buzz-pollinated flower Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

🌿✨Today we celebrate the beauty, and importance of plants for life on Earth! On this #PlantFascinationDay we join the global plant science community in highlighting the wonder of plants and the research helping us better understand and protect them. #PlantScience #Botany

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Genetic mechanisms for size- and light-dependent reproductive maturation in two maple species, Acer amoenum var. amoenum and Acer mono var. glabrum doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Tonoplast sugar transporter PtTST1.1 promotes shoot growth and wood production through modulating sugar metabolism in Shanxin Yang (Populus davidiana × Populus bolleana) doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Invasive seaweeds may functionally compensate for the expected loss of endemic temperate species in the fast-warming Mediterranean Sea doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

✅📄Now Free Access: Review of: Plant Cell Walls – Research Milestones and Conceptual Insights Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

♻️🆓: Divergent structural leaf trait spectra in succulent versus non-succulent plant taxa doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The position along rhizome as a surrogate for root age: effect on fine root traits doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Environmental filtering of plant functional strategies in campo rupestre: implications for ecological restoration doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

✅📄Now Free Access: Masting ontogeny: the largest masting benefits accrue to the largest trees Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

♻️🆓: Mother-reliant or self-reliant: the germination strategy of seeds in a species-rich alpine meadow is associated with the existence of pericarps doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

✅📄Now Free Access: Macro- and micro-geographical genetic variation in early-fitness traits in populations of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

🎉🆕📰🎉: Height effects on hydraulic and photosynthesis explain Hippophae rhamnoides decline on the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

🌱 The findings suggest that bees mainly make decisions flower by flower, rather than evaluating the plant as a whole. This behaviour may help plants “buffer” the effects of uneven pollen rewards among their flowers. (9/9) 👉 doi.org/q6hr #PlantScience #AoBpapers

But here’s the surprise: despite bees responding differently to individual flowers, the overall number and quality of visits received by whole plants stayed similar. (8/9)

🐝 The study focused on two wild Solanum species, relatives of tomato and potato, whose pollen is hidden inside special tube-like anthers. Bees must “buzz” the flowers to shake the pollen out. (3/9)