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

♻️🆓: 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)

🌼 Not all flowers on a plant offer the same reward to pollinators. This new research explores how bees respond when some flowers provide plenty of pollen while others offer little, or none at all. 🧵(2/9)

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Intra-individual variation in pollen availability: an experimental analysis of its impact on plant–pollinator interactions’ in @annbot by González-Almansa Laredo and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9) 👉 doi.org/q6hr #PlantScience

♻️🆓: Comparison between computer recognition and manual measurement methods for the estimation of leaf area doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

🎉🆕📰🎉: How the fleeting beauty of roses became continuous. A commentary on ‘Molecular investigation of the progenitors, origin, and domestication patterns of diploid Chinese old garden roses’ doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

🎉🆕📰🎉: The complex interplay between chromosome, climatic niche and morphological traits shapes the diversification of Carex (Cyperaceae) doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

♻️🆓: The genome assembly of Carex breviculmis provides evidence for its phylogenetic localization and environmental adaptation doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

♻️🆓: Cell death in bryophytes: emerging models to study core regulatory modules and conserved pathways doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #PlantScience

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

🌍 The study highlights the importance of understanding plant metabolism and carbon balance to predict which species can persist as savannas become more wooded. (8/8) 👉 doi.org/q58v #AoBpapers #SavannaEcology #WoodyEncroachment #PlantScience #Biodiversity

As woody encroachment progresses, prolonged shade may gradually deplete these carbon reserves until plants can no longer maintain essential functions, eventually leading to mortality and species loss. (7/8)

🌱 Check the newly published article ‘Carbon starvation as a mechanistic explanation for the gradual decline of savanna ground-layer species under tree encroachment’ in @annbot by Rossatto & Scalon 🧵(1/8) 👉 doi.org/q58v #AoBpapers #SavannaEcology #PlantScience