Annals of Botany - 109 (5), 2012

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Plant Cuttings
 Chaffey, Nigel

Major transitions in the evolution of early land plants: a bryological perspective
 Ligrone, Roberto; Duckett, Jeffrey G.; Renzaglia, Karen S.

Evolution of mixed-linkage (1 › 3, 1 › 4)-ß-d-glucan (MLG) and xyloglucan in Equisetum (horsetails) and other monilophytes
 Xue, Xinxin; Fry, Stephen C.

Morphologies and elemental compositions of calcium crystals in phyllodes and branchlets of Acacia robeorum (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae)
 He, Honghua; Bleby, Timothy M.; Veneklaas, Erik J.; Lambers, Hans; Kuo, John

Spatiotemporal variation of leaf epidermal cell growth: a quantitative analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type and triple cyclinD3 mutant plants
 Elsner, Joanna; Michalski, Marek; Kwiatkowska, Dorota

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) in Cysticapnos vesicaria, a zygomorphic-flowered Papaveraceae (Ranunculales, basal eudicots)
 Hidalgo, Oriane; Bartholmes, Conny; Gleissberg, Stefan

Glandulocalyx upatoiensis, a fossil flower of Ericales (Actinidiaceae/Clethraceae) from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) of Georgia, USA
 Schönenberger, Jürg; von Balthazar, Maria; Takahashi, Masamichi; Xiao, Xianghui; Crane, Peter R.; Herendeen, Patrick S.

Foundation characteristics of edible Musa triploids revealed from allelic distribution of SSR markers
 Hippolyte, I.; Jenny, C.; Gardes, L.; Bakry, F.; Rivallan, R.; Pomies, V.; Cubry, P.; Tomekpe, K.; Risterucci, A. M.; Roux, N.; Rouard, M.; Arnaud, E.; Kolesnikova-Allen, M.; Perrier, X.

Spatial genetic structure of Aquilegia taxa endemic to the island of Sardinia
 Garrido, J. L.; Fenu, G.; Mattana, E.; Bacchetta, G.

Diverse spore rains and limited local exchange shape fern genetic diversity in a recently created habitat colonized by long-distance dispersal
 De Groot, G. A.; During, H. J.; Ansell, S. W.; Schneider, H.; Bremer, P.; Wubs, E. R. J.; Maas, J. W.; Korpelainen, H.; Erkens, R. H. J.

Maternal tissue is involved in stimulant reception by seeds of the parasitic plant Orobanche
 Plakhine, Dina; Tadmor, Yaakov; Ziadne, Hammam; Joel, Daniel M.

Cytogenetic and molecular evidence suggest multiple origins and geographical parthenogenesis in Nothoscordum gracile (Alliaceae)
 Souza, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues; Crosa, Orfeo; Speranza, Pablo; Guerra, Marcelo

Trampling, defoliation and physiological integration affect growth, morphological and mechanical properties of a root-suckering clonal tree
 Xu, Liang; Yu, Fei-Hai; van Drunen, Elles; Schieving, Feike; Dong, Ming; Anten, Niels P. R.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis increases relative apoplastic water flow in roots of the host plant under both well-watered and drought stress conditions
 Bárzana, Gloria; Aroca, Ricardo; Paz, José Antonio; Chaumont, François; Martinez-Ballesta, Mari Carmen; Carvajal, Micaela; Ruiz-Lozano, Juan Manuel

Light and desiccation responses of some Hymenophyllaceae (filmy ferns) from Trinidad, Venezuela and New Zealand: poikilohydry in a light-limited but low evaporation ecological niche
 Proctor, Michael C. F.

High phenotypic plasticity of Suaeda maritima observed under hypoxic conditions in relation to its physiological basis
 Wetson, Anne M.; Zörb, Christian; John, Elizabeth A.; Flowers, Timothy J.

The response of forest plant regeneration to temperature variation along a latitudinal gradient
 De Frenne, Pieter; Graae, Bente J.; Brunet, Jörg; Shevtsova, Anna; De Schrijver, An; Chabrerie, Olivier; Cousins, Sara A. O.; Decocq, Guillaume; Diekmann, Martin; Hermy, Martin; Heinken, Thilo; Kolb, Annette; Nilsson, Christer; Stanton, Sharon; Verheyen, Kris

Combined use of leaf size and economics traits allows direct comparison of hydrophyte and terrestrial herbaceous adaptive strategies
 Pierce, Simon; Brusa, Guido; Sartori, Matteo; Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.

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