Annals of Botany - 109 (4), 2012

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Plant Cuttings
 Chaffey, Nigel

Maximum likelihood inference implies a high, not a low, ancestral haploid chromosome number in Araceae, with a critique of the bias introduced by `x'
 Cusimano, Natalie; Sousa, Aretuza; Renner, Susanne S.

Accelerated evolution and coevolution drove the evolutionary history of AGPase sub-units during angiosperm radiation
 Corbi, Jonathan; Dutheil, Julien Y.; Damerval, Catherine; Tenaillon, Maud I.; Manicacci, Domenica

Reproductive isolation and hybridization in sympatric populations of three Dactylorhiza species (Orchidaceae) with different ploidy levels
 De Hert, Koen; Jacquemyn, Hans; Van Glabeke, Sabine; Roldán-Ruiz, Isabel; Vandepitte, Katrien; Leus, Leen; Honnay, Olivier

Annual increments of juniper dwarf shrubs above the tree line on the central Tibetan Plateau: a useful climatic proxy
 Liang, Eryuan; Lu, Xiaoming; Ren, Ping; Li, Xiaoxia; Zhu, Liping; Eckstein, Dieter

Seed banks on Attalea phalerata (Arecaceae) stems in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil
 Correa, Christiane E.; Fischer, Erich; Santos, Flavio A. M. dos

Acidic ?-galactosidase is the most abundant nectarin in floral nectar of common tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
 Zha, Hong-Guang; Flowers, V. Lynn; Yang, Min; Chen, Ling-Yang; Sun, Hang

Quantitative trait loci for seed yield and yield-related traits, and their responses to reduced phosphorus supply in Brassica napus
 Ding, Guangda; Zhao, Zunkang; Liao, Yuan; Hu, Yifan; Shi, Lei; Long, Yan; Xu, Fangsen

Floral traits mediate the vulnerability of aloes to pollen theft and inefficient pollination by bees
 Hargreaves, Anna L.; Harder, Lawrence D.; Johnson, Steven D.

Amplification, contraction and genomic spread of a satellite DNA family (E180) in Medicago (Fabaceae) and allied genera
 Rosato, Marcela; Galián, José A.; Rosselló, Josep A.

The multiple fuzzy origins of woodiness within Balsaminaceae using an integrated approach. Where do we draw the line?
 Lens, Frederic; Eeckhout, Sharon; Zwartjes, Rosa; Smets, Erik; Janssens, Steven B.

Mineral nutrient stoichiometric variability in Hedera helix (Araliaceae) seeds
 Obeso, José Ramón

Restoration of tensile strength in bark samples of Ficus benjamina due to coagulation of latex during fast self-healing of fissures
 Bauer, Georg; Speck, Thomas

Effects of soil nutrient heterogeneity on intraspecific competition in the invasive, clonal plant Alternanthera philoxeroides
 Zhou, Jian; Dong, Bi-Cheng; Alpert, Peter; Li, Hong-Li; Zhang, Ming-Xiang; Lei, Guang-Chun; Yu, Fei-Hai

Physiological, biochemical and transcriptional analysis of onion bulbs during storage
 Chope, Gemma A.; Cools, Katherine; Hammond, John P.; Thompson, Andrew J.; Terry, Leon A.

The effect of environmental heterogeneity on RPW8-mediated resistance to powdery mildews in Arabidopsis thaliana
 Jorgensen, Tove H.

Asynchronous flowering and within-plant flowering diversity in wheat and the implications for crop resilience to heat
 Lukac, Martin; Gooding, Michael J.; Griffiths, Simon; Jones, Hannah E.

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