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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Annals of Botany - 109 (2), 2012

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Plant Cuttings
 Chaffey, Nigel

The restless plant
 Chaffey, Nigel

The plant cell wall. Methods and protocols
 Dalessandro, Giuseppe

Genetic consequences of anagenetic speciation in Acer okamotoanum (Sapindaceae) on Ullung Island, Korea
 Takayama, Koji; Sun, Byung-Yun; Stuessy, Tod F.

Somatic mutations contribute to genotypic diversity in sterile and fertile populations of the threatened shrub, Grevillea rhizomatosa (Proteaceae)
 Gross, C. L.; Nelson, Penelope A.; Haddadchi, Azadeh; Fatemi, Mohammad

Environmental control of reproductive phenology and the effect of pollen supplementation on resource allocation in the cleistogamous weed, Ruellia nudiflora (Acanthaceae)
 Munguía-Rosas, Miguel A.; Parra-Tabla, Victor; Ollerton, Jeff; Cervera, J. Carlos

Progenitor-derivative speciation in Pozoa (Apiaceae, Azorelloideae) of the southern Andes
 López, Patricio; Tremetsberger, Karin; Kohl, Gudrun; Stuessy, Tod

Epicormic ontogeny in Quercus petraea constrains the highly plausible control of epicormic sprouting by water and carbohydrates
 Morisset, J. B.; Mothe, F.; Bock, J.; Bréda, N.; Colin, F.

Generalist passerine pollination of a winter-flowering fruit tree in central China
 Fang, Qiang; Chen, Ying-Zhuo; Huang, Shuang-Quan

Evolution and taxonomic split of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon
 Catalán, Pilar; Müller, Jochen; Hasterok, Robert; Jenkins, Glyn; Mur, Luis A. J.; Langdon, Tim; Betekhtin, Alexander; Siwinska, Dorota; Pimentel, Manuel; López-Alvarez, Diana

A role for PHANTASTICA in medio-lateral regulation of adaxial domain development in tomato and tobacco leaves
 Zoulias, Nicholas; Koenig, Daniel; Hamidi, Ashley; McCormick, Sheila; Kim, Minsung

A mathematical model of mucilage expansion in myxospermous seeds of Capsella bursa-pastoris (shepherd's purse)
 Deng, Wenni; Jeng, Dong-Sheng; Toorop, Peter E.; Squire, Geoffrey R.; Iannetta, Pietro P. M.

Patterns of genetic variability and habitat occupancy in Crepis triasii (Asteraceae) at different spatial scales: insights on evolutionary processes leading to diversification in continental islands
 Mayol, Maria; Palau, Carles; Rosselló, Josep A.; González-Martínez, Santiago C.; Molins, Arántzazu; Riba, Miquel

Comparative studies of thermotolerance: different modes of heat acclimation between tolerant and intolerant aquatic plants of the genus Potamogeton
 Amano, Momoe; Iida, Satoko; Kosuge, Keiko

Hybrid proline-rich proteins: novel players in plant cell elongation?
 Dvořáková, Lenka; Srba, Miroslav; Opatrny, Zdenek; Fischer, Lukas

Plant traits and decomposition: are the relationships for roots comparable to those for leaves?
 Birouste, Marine; Kazakou, Elena; Blanchard, Alain; Roumet, Catherine

Unrestricted quality of seeds in European broad-leaved tree species growing at the cold boundary of their distribution
 Kollas, C.; Vitasse, Y.; Randin, C. F.; Hoch, G.; Körner, C.

Co-adaptation of seed dormancy and flowering time in the arable weed Capsella bursa-pastoris (shepherd's purse)
 Toorop, Peter E.; Campos Cuerva, Rafael; Begg, Graham S.; Locardi, Bruna; Squire, Geoff R.; Iannetta, Pietro P. M.

An extinct Eocene taxon of the daisy family (Asteraceae): evolutionary, ecological and biogeographical implications

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Annals of Botany - 109 (1), 2012

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Plant Cuttings
 Chaffey, Nigel

Graduate Prize Winner

Why people need plants
 Chaffey, Nigel

Fifty Plants that changed the course of history
 Chaffey, Nigel

Seeds of Amazonian plants
 Ferraz, Isolde Dorothea Kossmann

Elusive but not hypothetical: axillary meristems in Wollemia nobilis
 Burrows, Geoffrey E.

Axillary meristems in the Wollemi pine: a response to Geoffrey E. Burrows
 Tomlinson, P. B.; Huggett, Brett A.

Abscisic acid and CO2 signalling via calcium sensitivity priming in guard cells, new CDPK mutant phenotypes and a method for improved resolution of stomatal stimulus-response analyses
 Hubbard, Katharine E.; Siegel, Robert S.; Valerio, Gabriel; Brandt, Benjamin; Schroeder, Julian I.

The more the better? The role of polyploidy in facilitating plant invasions
 te Beest, Mariska; Le Roux, Johannes J.; Richardson, David M.; Brysting, Anne K.; Suda, Jan; Kubešová, Magdalena; Pyšek, Petr

Quite a few reasons for calling carnivores `the most wonderful plants in the world'
 Król, Elżbieta; Płachno, Bartosz J.; Adamec, Lubomír; Stolarz, Maria; Dziubińska, Halina; Trębacz, Kazimierz

Genome size and DNA base composition of geophytes: the mirror of phenology and ecology?
 Veselý, Pavel; Bureš, Petr; Šmarda, Petr; Pavlíček, Tomáš

Functional morphology and wasp pollination of two South American asclepiads (Asclepiadoideae-Apocynaceae)
 Wiemer, A. P.; Sérsic, A. N.; Marino, S.; Simoes, A. O.; Cocucci, A. A.

Inferences of biogeographical histories within subfamily Hyacinthoideae using S-DIVA and Bayesian binary MCMC analysis implemented in RASP (Reconstruct Ancestral State in Phylogenies)
 Ali, Syed Shujait; Yu, Yan; Pfosser, Martin; Wetschnig, Wolfgang

Phylogeny of Oedogoniales, Chaetophorales and Chaetopeltidales (Chlorophyceae): inferences from sequence-structure analysis of ITS2
 Buchheim, Mark A.; Sutherland, Danica M.; Schleicher, Tina; Förster, Frank; Wolf, Matthias

Occidental diffusion of cucumber (Cucumis sativus) 500-1300 CE: two routes to Europe
 Paris, Harry S.; Daunay, Marie-Christine; Janick, Jules

An extinct Eocene taxon of the daisy family (Asteraceae): evolutionary, ecological and biogeographical implications
 Barreda, Viviana D.; Palazzesi, Luis; Katinas, Liliana; Crisci, Jorge V.; Tellería, María C.; Bremer, Kare; Passala, Mauro G.; Bechis, Florencia; Corsolini, Rodolfo

A comparative survey of floral characters in Capanemia Barb. Rodr. (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae)
 Buzatto, Cristiano Roberto; Davies, Kevin L.; Singer, Rodrigo B.; Pires dos Santos, Rinaldo; van den Berg, Cássio

Ant species identity mediates reproductive traits and allocation in an ant-garden bromeliad
 Leroy, Céline; Corbara, Bruno; Pélozuelo, Laurent; Carrias, Jean-François; Dejean, Alain; Céréghino, Régis

Insects, birds and lizards as pollinators of the largest-flowered Scrophularia of Europe and Macaronesia
 Ortega-Olivencia, Ana; Rodríguez-Riano, Tomás; Pérez-Bote, José L.; López, Josefa; Mayo, Carlos; Valtuena, Francisco J.; Navarro-Pérez, Marisa

Induced polyploidy dramatically increases the size and alters the shape of fruit in Actinidia chinensis
 Wu, Jin-Hu; Ferguson, A. Ross; Murray, Brian G.; Jia, Yilin; Datson, Paul M.; Zhang, Jingli

Seed ultrastructure and water absorption pathway of the root-parasitic plant Phelipanche aegyptiaca (Orobanchaceae)
 Joel, Daniel M.; Bar, Hilla; Mayer, Alfred M.; Plakhine, Dina; Ziadne, Hammam; Westwood, James H.; Welbaum, Gregory E.

Relationship between leaf traits and fire-response strategies in shrub species of a mountainous region of south-eastern Australia
 Vivian, Lyndsey M.; Cary, Geoffrey J.

Natural variation in germination responses of Arabidopsis to seasonal cues and their associated physiological mechanisms
 Barua, Deepak; Butler, Colleen; Tisdale, Tracy E.; Donohue, Kathleen

Biased morph ratios and skewed mating success contribute to loss of genetic diversity in the distylous Pulmonaria officinalis
 Meeus, Sofie; Honnay, Olivier; Brys, Rein; Jacquemyn, Hans

Effects of defoliation and shading on the physiological cost of reproduction in silky locoweed Oxytropis sericea
 Ida, Takashi Y.; Harder, Lawrence D.; Kudo, Gaku

Evolution and ecology meet molecular genetics: adaptive phenotypic plasticity in two isolated Negev desert populations of Acacia raddiana at either end of a rainfall gradient
 Ward, David; Shrestha, Madan K.; Golan-Goldhirsh, Avi

Genome size and base composition variation in natural and experimental Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae) hybrids
 Marques, Isabel; Nieto Feliner, Gonzalo; Martins-Louçao, Maria Amélia; Fuertes Aguilar, Javier

Germination responses to temperature and water potential in Jatropha curcas seeds: a hydrotime model explains the difference between dormancy expression and dormancy induction at different incubation temperatures
 Windauer, Liliana B.; Martinez, J.; Rapoport, D.; Wassner, D.; Benech-Arnold, Roberto

Identification of soybean purple acid phosphatase genes and their expression responses to phosphorus availability and symbiosis
 Li, Chengchen; Gui, Shunhua; Yang, Tao; Walk, Thomas; Wang, Xiurong; Liao, Hong

Prediction of in situ root decomposition rates in an interspecific context from chemical and morphological traits
 Aulen, Maurice; Shipley, Bill; Bradley, Robert

Soil seed bank recovery occurs more rapidly than expected in semi-arid Mediterranean gypsum vegetation
 Olano, J. M.; Caballero, I.; Escudero, A.

Totomatix: a novel automatic set-up to control diurnal, diel and long-term plant nitrate nutrition
 Adamowicz, Stéphane; Le Bot, Jacques; Huanosto Magana, Ruth; Fabre, José

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Applied Vegetation Science

Applied Vegetation Science (ISSN 1402-2001) wydawane jest przez Opulus Press w imieniu International Association of Vegetation Science
Spis treści numeru Volume 11, Number 2, April 2008 :

Vegetation recovery after fuel management in Mediterranean shrublands
M.J.Baeza ,V.R. Vallejo

Effects on vegetation composition of a modified forest harvesting and propagation method compared with clear-cutting, scarification and planting
Johan Bergstedt,Mats Hagner, Per Milberg,

Effects of climate change on the distribution of Iberian tree species
Marta Benito Garzón,Rut Sánchez de Dios,Helios Sainz Ollero,

Importance of grazing and soil acidity for plant community composition and trait characterisation in coastal dune grasslands
P.Kohyani , B.Bossuyt, D.Bonte ,M.Hoffmann

The effect of the expansion of the clonal grass Calamagrostis epigejos on the species turnover of a semi-arid grassland
Imelda Somodi,Klára Virágh,János Podani

Reintroduction of Nassella pulchra to California coastal grasslands: Effects of topsoil removal, plant neighbour removal and grazing
Elise Buisson, Sean Anderson,Holl Karen D., Emmanuel Corcket, Grey F. Hayes,; Alain Peeters, Thierry Dutoit

Inferring relationships between native plant diversity and Lonicera japonica in upland forests in north Mississippi, USA
Sherry Surrette, B., Brewer J. Stephen

Grazing as a factor structuring grasslands in the Pyrenees
Maria-Teresa Sebastia, Francesco de Bello, Laura Puig, Marc Taull

Germinable soil seed banks in abandoned grasslands in central and western Norway and their significance for restoration
Line Rosef

The suppression of Dendroctonus frontalis and subsequent wildfire have an impact on forest stand dynamics
Coleman T.W., Meeker James R., Clarke Stephen R., Rieske L.K.

Evaluating landscape quality with vegetation naturalness maps: an index and some inferences
Ferrari C., Pezzi G., Diani L., Corazza M.

Long-term seed bank dynamics in a temperate forest under conversion from coppice-with-standards to high forest management
Hans Van Calster, Richard Chevalier, Bram Van Wyngene, Frédéric Archaux, Kris Verheyen, Martin Hermy

Quantifying successional changes in response to forest disturbances
Penman Trent D., Binns Doug L., Kavanagh Rodney P.

Multi-scale responses of plant species diversity in semi-natural buffer strips to agricultural landscapes
Maohua Ma

Long-term after-effects of fertilisation on the restoration of calcareous grasslands
Smits N.A.C., Willems J.H., Bobbink R.




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