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International journal publishing novel and rigorous research in all areas of plant science, managed by the Annals of Botany Company, a not-for-profit educational charity.

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 38m
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Plastome convergence across endoparasitic plant lineages: genome reduction, high AT bias, elevated substitution rates and functional persistence in Mitrastemon yamamotoi doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 6h
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Leaf anatomical traits support classification of Galphimioid clades in Malpighiaceae doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 11h
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Untargeted metabolic analysis reveals intraspecific and organ-specific chemodiversity in Solanum dulcamara doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 23h
🎉🆕📰🎉: A tale of two lineages: comparative biogeography across the Southern Cone of two South American Carex (Cyperaceae) groups doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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A tale of two lineages: comparative biogeography across the Southern Cone of two South American Carex (Cyperaceae) groups
AbstractBackground and Aims. The Carex phalaroides group and Carex sect. Bracteosellae are two species complexes that exhibit similar distribution patterns
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
♻️🆓: Temporal turnover of Ceratobasidiaceae orchid mycorrhizal fungal communities with ontogenetic and phenological development in Prasophyllum (Orchidaceae) doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🪰🌿🧪 Join us to learn about the newly published article “Deceptive Aristolochia trap-flowers pollinated by male phorid flies mimic volatiles specific to female phorids” in @annbot.bsky.social by Thomas Rupp and co-authors.🧵(1/6) 👉 doi.org/rq8k #AoBpapers #PlantScience
Deceptive Aristolochia trap-flowers pollinated by male phorid flies mimic volatiles specific to female phorids
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: In situ evaluation of artificial selection and assisted gene flow for the advancement of flowering onset in Lupinus angustifolius L. (Fabaceae) doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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AbstractBackground and Aims. Artificial selection and assisted gene flow represent promising conservation strategies for enhancing the adaptive capacity of
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
✅📄Now Free Access: Elevational variation in trichomes of the alpine subnival woolly plant Eriophyton wallichii: abiotic and biotic correlates and impacts on other traits Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Densely packed needles along the shoots of evergreen conifers exhibit shade-acclimated photosynthetic characteristics even under full sunlight doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Beyond Growth Limitation: Rethinking Carbon Dynamics at the Alpine Treeline. A commentary on “Carbon reserves are negatively associated with relative tree height at the elevational treeline ecotone” doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Warming effects on floral volatile organic compounds and plant–pollinator interactions in tropical ecosystems doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Warming effects on floral volatile organic compounds and plant–pollinator interactions in tropical ecosystems
Abstract. Climate warming increasingly disrupts plant–pollinator interactions through changes in floral chemical cues, particularly volatile organic compou
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis reveals that SiGPX1 enhances saline-alkali tolerance in foxtail millet through the glutathione metabolism pathway doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Beyond elevation: climate, geography, and the diversification of Himalayan Rhododendrons. A commentary on ‘Phenotypic and genetic variation among Rhododendron arboreum species complex widely distributed throughout the Himalayas...’ doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Soil microbiota promote the success of the perennial legume Lupinus polyphyllus more strongly in invasive than in native populations doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Soil microbiota promote the success of the perennial legume Lupinus polyphyllus more strongly in invasive than in native populations
AbstractBackground and Aims. Geographical variation in soil microbial communities can give rise to differences in the performance and competitive abilities
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
✅📄Now Free Access: Plants originating from more extreme biomes have improved leaf thermoregulation Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: An assessment of the suitability of current evidence on European wild seaweed ecosystems for blue carbon accounting doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎉 Good news! The paper ‘The reproductive multiverse of diandrous orchids: two anthers offer new perspectives on the role of floral traits’ in @annbot.bsky.social by João Cardoso and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/8) 👉 doi.org/rqtx #AoBpapers #PlantScience
The reproductive multiverse of diandrous orchids: two anthers offer new perspectives on the role of floral traits
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Global agriculture shows limited evidence of a pollinator-driven yield decline to date doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
✅📄Now Free Access: A systematic review suggests extension and redefinition of a food-deception pollination syndrome involving anautogenous flies Get the paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Diminishing returns in the scaling of lamina and petiole biomass and its relationship to lamina geometric occupancy: evidence from 12 Malus cultivars doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🆕 The new issue of Annals of Botany is now online! 🌱 Salt, drought & heat responses in Arabidopsis thaliana 🧬 Genomics & diversification in Thymus, Rheum & ferns 🌸 Floral evolution, plant traits and more... 📖 botany.fyi/bp0md4 #PlantScience #Botanye
The cover image shows Leontice incerta, a desert plant of Leonticeae (Berberidaceae) from Xinjiang, China. The bladderlike inflated fruits of L. incerta enable seed dispersal as tumbleweeds, which may be responsible for the extensive distribution of this genus across the open and dry habitats of Central Asia. [See Wei et al., pp. 1182—1193.] Photo credit: Boka Li, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: SAUR21-like genes in broccoli and Arabidopsis: Comparative expression and functional characterization doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Advances in the HAK/KUP/KT Potassium Transporter Family in Regulating Na+/K+ Homeostasis and Salt Tolerance in Plants doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Check the newly published article ‘Testing fundamental hypotheses of colonization success in the ferns’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Jessie Pelosi and co-authors🧵(1/9) 👉 doi.org/rqb2 #AoBpapers #PlantScience #PlantInvasions #Ferns #PlantEvolution #Ecology
Testing fundamental hypotheses of colonization success in the ferns
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
✅📄Now Free Access: Seedling size affects the strategy of dune seedlings responding to rainfall variation Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Seedling size affects the strategy of dune seedlings responding to rainfall variation
AbstractBackground and Aims. Climate change poses a growing threat to population maintenance in harsh desert habitats with high precipitation variability.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🌿 Reminder: Our Special Issue celebrating 60 years of C4 photosynthesis is open for submissions. Research covering C4 biology, evolution, crop engineering & productivity is welcome 📅 Deadline: 1 Nov 2026 👉 botany.fyi/pq36r5 @marjorielundgren.bsky.social @luketdunning.bsky.social #PlantScience
Special issue graphic for Annals of Botany: “C4 60 – From Kranz to Crops: Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation,” edited by Rowan Sage, Marjorie Lundgren, Robert Sharwood and Luke Dunning. Submission deadline: 1 November 2026. The graphic features a fluorescent microscopic image of C4 leaf anatomy.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
♻️🆓: Effects of atmospheric CO2 concentration on transpiration and leaf elongation responses to drought in Triticum aestivum, Lolium perenne and Festuca arundinacea doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Effects of atmospheric CO2 concentration on transpiration and leaf elongation responses to drought in Triticum aestivum, Lolium perenne and Festuca arundinacea
AbstractBackground and Aims. Leaf elongation is vital for productivity of Poaceae species, influenced by atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]) and climate-
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
♻️🆓: Chia (Salvia hispanica L.), a functional ‘superfood’: new insights into its botanical, genetic and nutraceutical characteristics doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Chia (Salvia hispanica L.), a functional ‘superfood’: new insights into its botanical, genetic and nutraceutical characteristics
AbstractBackground. Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) seeds have become increasingly popular among health-conscious consumers owing to their high content of ω-3 f
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
♻️🆓: The seed morphospace, a new contribution towards the multidimensional study of angiosperm sexual reproductive biology doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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The seed morphospace, a new contribution towards the multidimensional study of angiosperm sexual reproductive biology
AbstractBackground. The evolutionary success of flowering plants is associated with the vast diversity of their reproductive structures. Despite recent pro
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
✅📄Now Free Access: Toward a comprehensive understanding of the phenological responses of non-native plants to climate warming: a review Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Site-specific variation in flowering phenology of a spring ephemeral plant and its implications for phenological mismatch with pollinators under climate change doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Site-specific variation in flowering phenology of a spring ephemeral plant and its implications for phenological mismatch with pollinators under climate change
AbstractBackground and Aims. Disruption of plant–pollinator interactions occurs when interacting species exhibit different phenological responses to climat
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Foliar Epichloë fungal endophytes affect soil biochemistry via changes in the expression of root genes and exudates within their host plants doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Foliar Epichloë fungal endophytes affect soil biochemistry via changes in the expression of root genes and exudates within their host plants
AbstractBackground and Aims. Soils are reservoirs of key nutrients and enzymes for plant fitness and ecosystem productivity. Epichloë fungal endophytes are
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Genomic and phylogenetic structure of the Sphagnum imbricatum complex (Sphagnaceae) and related allopolyploids doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Genomic and phylogenetic structure of the Sphagnum imbricatum complex (Sphagnaceae) and related allopolyploids
AbstractBackground and Aims. Sphagnum imbricatum sensu lato (Sphagnum, subgenus Sphagnum) is sometimes considered a single widespread and polymorphic speci
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
✅📄Now Free Access: Integrating datasets from herbarium specimens and images to treat a Neotropical myrtle species complex Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Integrating datasets from herbarium specimens and images to treat a Neotropical myrtle species complex
AbstractBackground and Aims. Herbaria are the most important source of information for plant taxonomic work. Resources and technologies available today, su
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Fossil flowers of Ayenia (Malvaceae) preserved in amber: evidence for lianas in Miocene rainforest of southeast China’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Xieting Wu and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/6) 👉 doi.org/rpt7 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #Palaeobotany #AoBpapers
Fossil flowers of Ayenia (Malvaceae) preserved in amber: evidence for lianas in Miocene rainforest of southeast China
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Isolation leads to greater clonality and reduced seed production in a temperate seagrass doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Isolation leads to greater clonality and reduced seed production in a temperate seagrass
AbstractBackground and Aim. Many plants have complex mating systems involving sexual and asexual reproduction. Investment in different reproductive strateg
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Functional redundancy and differentiation of two homologous cell wall invertases, GmCWI11 and GmCWI12, in soybean: modulating seed yield and quality via sugar metabolism doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
♻️🆓: To eat or not to eat: novel stable isotope models reveal a shift in carnivory with nutrient availability for aquatic Utricularia spp. doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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To eat or not to eat: novel stable isotope models reveal a shift in carnivory with nutrient availability for aquatic Utricularia spp.
AbstractBackground and Aims. Freshwater nitrogen inputs are increasing globally, altering the structure and function of wetland ecosystems adapted to low n
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🌳 Check the newly published article ‘Temporal dynamics of incomplete lineage sorting, introgression and divergence in eucalypts distributed across an expansive and ancient landscape’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Harvey K Orel and co-authors🧵(1/10) 👉 doi.org/rphs #PlantScience
Temporal dynamics of incomplete lineage sorting, introgression and divergence in eucalypts distributed across an expansive and ancient landscape
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Same fitness, different costs for females and males: a commentary on ‘Diverging sex ratios in dioecious Proteaceae are exacerbated by anthropogenic disruptions to the fire cycle’ doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Same fitness, different costs for females and males: a commentary on ‘Diverging sex ratios in dioecious Proteaceae are exacerbated by anthropogenic disruptions to the fire cycle’
Every offspring has both a mother and a father and this simple fact constrains the average fitness of females and males to be equal (Fisher, 1930). In plan
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
✅📄Now Free Access: Ancient reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting and the evolution of the pyrenoid at the dawn of hornwort diversification Get the paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Ancient reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting and the evolution of the pyrenoid at the dawn of hornwort diversification
AbstractBackground and Aims. Resolving the phylogeny of hornworts is critical in understanding the evolution of key morphological characters that are uniqu
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The assessed impacts of estuarine nuisance macroalgal blooms on over-wintering birds in temperate climates doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The Brazilian Cerrado through herbarium lenses: vegetation structure and composition across savanna, forest and grassland formations doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🌿 Thank you to everyone who followed #CruciferWeek! 🌱 We hope the research featured throughout the week sparked new perspectives on the diversity, evolution and biology of crucifers. #Brassicaceae #PlantScience #Botany
Dark green banner from Annals of Botany thanking supporters for Crucifer Week, with the text 'Thank you Crucifer Week' surrounded by photos of cruciferous plants including cabbage, white flowering brassicas, yellow-flowering rapeseed or mustard, purple wildflowers, and blue cornflowers.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🧬 #CruciferWeek 🌿 Genome-wide association study reveals genomic regions impacting yield-related traits in allohexaploid Brassica with AABBCC genomes by Zhang and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/rndm #Brassicaceae #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #Botany
Genetic diversity in polyploid Brassica could hold the key to improving yield. By linking genome-wide variation with yield-related traits, researchers identified BhLecRK and BhCABIN1 as candidate genes involved in silique development.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🧬 #CruciferWeek 🌿 Phasing Hyb-Seq loci from two combined bait sets to investigate phylogenetic patterns of hybridization within Boechera s.s. (Brassicaceae) by Hay and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/rndj #Brassicaceae #PlantScience #PlantGenomics
In Boechera, hybridization and asexual reproduction work together to create surprising evolutionary diversity. New genomic approaches are helping reveal the complex relationships hidden within this remarkable group of North American plants.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧬 #CruciferWeek 🌿 Polygenic discrimination of leaf morphotypes in alpine Heldreichia bupleurifolia (Brassicaceae) across its natural range by Yılmaz and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/rndk #Brassicaceae #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #Botany
In the alpine plant Heldreichia bupleurifolia, leaf shape varies with both genetics and environment. Genome-wide data reveal genetic differences associated with distinct leaf forms, while soil type may help explain where these forms occur.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
♻️🆓: New insights into the role of the root system of epiphytic bromeliads: comparison of root and leaf trichome functions in acquisition of water and nutrients doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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New insights into the role of the root system of epiphytic bromeliads: comparison of root and leaf trichome functions in acquisition of water and nutrients
AbstractBackground. In epiphytic bromeliads, the roots were previously considered to be poorly functional organs in the processes of absorption and metabol
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Photosynthetic activity in the heterotrophic plant genus Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae) is modulated by phylogeny and ontogeny doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Photosynthetic activity in the heterotrophic plant genus Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae) is modulated by phylogeny and ontogeny
AbstractBackground and Aims. Photosynthesis is central to plant function, yet it has been repeatedly lost or diminished in parasitic angiosperm lineages. T
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🧬 #CruciferWeek 🌿 A phylogenetic approach to prioritizing crop wild relatives in Brassiceae (Brassicaceae) for breeding applications by Castillo-Lorenzo and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/rndh #Brassicaceae #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #Botany
Wild relatives of mustard crops could hold valuable traits for the future of agriculture. By studying Brassica, Crambe, Diplotaxis, Eruca, Raphanus and Sinapis, researchers identified 23 candidate crop wild relatives that could help broaden the genetic resources available for crop improvement.
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