Identification and Characterization of the PEBP Family Genes in Moso Bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla). [PDF]
, 2019 Moso bamboo is one of the economically most important plants in China. Moso bamboo is a monocarpic perennial that exhibits poor and slow germination. Thus, the flowering often causes destruction of moso bamboo forestry.
Chen, Lei +10 more
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Exploring local immunological adaptation of two stickleback ecotypes by experimental infection and transcriptome-wide digital gene expression analysis [PDF]
, 2012 Understanding the extent of local adaptation in natural populations and the mechanisms that allow individuals to adapt to their native environment is a major avenue in molecular ecology research. Evidence for the frequent occurrence of diverging ecotypes
Bell MA +7 more
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Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 2026.Climate change affects both the start and duration of growing seasons, creating complex effects on optimal flowering timing that go beyond simple responses to earlier springs. Using optimal energy allocation theory, we found a nonlinear relationship between growing season length and optimal flowering time which was supported by two experiments with ...
John S. Park +3 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Differences in the timing of vegetative-to-reproductive phase transition have evolved independently and repeatedly in different plant species. Due to their specific biological functions and positions in pathways, some genes are important targets of ...
Cheng-Ruei Lee +5 more
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Unifying genetic canalization, genetic constraint, and genotype-by-environment interaction: QTL by genomic background by environment interaction of flowering time in Boechera stricta. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2014 Natural populations exhibit substantial variation in quantitative traits. A quantitative trait is typically defined by its mean and variance, and to date most genetic mapping studies focus on loci altering trait means but not (co)variances.
Cheng-Ruei Lee +2 more
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Moth oviposition shapes the species-specific transcriptional and phytohormonal response of Nicotiana attenuata to larval feeding [PDF]
, 2018 Oviposition by lepidopteran herbivores on Nicotiana attenuata primes plant defence responses that are induced by the feeding larvae. While oviposition by both the generalist Spodoptera exigua and the specialist Manduca sexta primes the production of ...
Bandoly, Michele +4 more
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Temperature and the evolution of flower color: A review
American Journal of Botany, Volume 113, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Flower colors brighten our natural world. How and why have they evolved? How might ongoing global warming alter their evolutionary trajectories? In this review, I examine the influence of ambient temperature on the evolution of flower color.
Elizabeth P. Lacey
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Establishing the cell biology of apomictic reproduction in diploid Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae) [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2018 In the Brassicaceae family, apomictic development is characteristic of the genus Boechera. Hybridization, polyploidy and environmental adaptation that arose during the evolution of Boechera may serve as (epi)genetic regulators of apomictic initiation in this genus.
Rojek, Joanna +7 more
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Testing the optimal defense hypothesis in nature: Variation for glucosinolate profiles within plants. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Plants employ highly variable chemical defenses against a broad community of herbivores, which vary in their susceptibilities to specific compounds.
Rose A Keith, Thomas Mitchell-Olds
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Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract All plant organs have the potential to harbor microbial communities and each organ may form unique niches for specialized microbial communities. There have been very few detailed investigations of microbiomes within a single plant organ along different developmental stages.
Yuanyuan Meng +2 more
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