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Transcriptomic Evidence of Adaptive Evolution of the Epiphytic Fern Asplenium nidus [PDF]

International Journal of Genomics, 2019
Epiphytic ferns have been found to flourish after angiosperms dominated forest communities, and they play important roles in rainforest canopies. How do epiphytic ferns adapt to tropical rainforest canopy habitats?
Jiao Zhang, Li Liu, Jiang-Ping Shu, Dong-Mei Jin, Hui Shen, Hong-Feng Chen, Rui Zhang, Yue-Hong Yan   +7 more
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Harsh environmental conditions promote cooperative behavior in an epiphytic fern [PDF]

Plant Signaling & Behavior
Harsh, unpredictable environments are known to favor cooperative groups in animals. Whether plants exhibit similar relationships is unknown. Staghorn ferns (Platycerium bifurcatum, Polypodiaceae) are epiphytes that form cooperative groups which build ...
Kahurangi Cronin, Ian Hutton, K.C. Burns
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Fern Gametophytes Exhibit Distinct Patterns of Niche Expansion and Convergence in Ecophysiological Functioning. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Some fern gametophytes can explore new habitats that differ from their sporophyte counterparts, and when they do this, they tend to follow specific axes of climate related to aridity (increased or decreased). Moreover, we found that this ecological niche expansion may be driven by ecophysiological adaptations to abiotic environments.
Krieg CP, Watts JL, Chambers SM, Baxi A, McCulloh KA.   +4 more
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Low and facultative mycorrhization of ferns in a low-montane tropical rainforest in Ecuador. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are amongst the most studied obligate plant symbionts and regularly found in terrestrial plants. However, global estimates of AMF abundance amongst all land plants are difficult because i) the mycorrhizal status of many
Jennifer Michel, Marcus Lehnert, Martin Nebel, Dietmar Quandt   +3 more
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Environmental heterogeneity and its influence on fern diversity in a low-altitude mountain forest in central Taiwan [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Environmental heterogeneity plays a crucial role in shaping the distribution and composition of natural vegetation, including understory ferns. This study investigated the influence of environmental variation on understory fern communities within a one ...
Pei-Hsuan Lee, Yao-Moan Huang, Li-Wan Chang, Jian-Hong Yang, Wen-Liang Chiou, Yen-Hsueh Tseng, Hsy-Yu Tzeng   +6 more
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Fern mycorrhizae do not respond to fertilization in a tropical montane forest [PDF]

Plant-Environment Interactions
Ferns are known to have a lower incidence of mycorrhization than angiosperms. It has been suggested that this results from carbon being more limiting to fern growth than nutrient availability, but this assertion has not been tested yet.
Thais Guillen, Michael Kessler, Jürgen Homeier   +2 more
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Genome-wide identification and functional analysis of the Caffeoylshikimate esterase (CSE) gene family in five fern species [PDF]

BMC Plant Biology
Background Ferns, comprising epiphytic, aquatic, and terrestrial varieties, are good models to investigate plant terrestrialization. Vascular tissue represents a significant development in the terrestrial adaptation of plants.
Xiong Huang, Pengpeng Gong, Ruixuan Chen, Jiangtao Fan, Yingxue Ma, Yingying He, Xi He   +6 more
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<i>Leptochilus yangjiangensis</i> (Polypodiaceae), a New Fern Species From Guangdong, China. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We describe Leptochilus yangjiangensis, a new fern species from Guangdong, China, which was previously misidentified as L. pedunculatus; it differs from morphologically similar congeners by coriaceous laminae and lanceolate fertile fronds. Phylogenetic analyses (using three plastid regions) place it as sister to L.
Zhou HJ, Wang T, Huang Y, Fang YH, Zhang B, Chen GD, Chen HF, Wang FG.   +7 more
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Evolutionary origins and life-history correlates of coloniality in the epiphytic fern genus Platycerium (Polypodiaceae). [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Many animals live in cooperative groups comprised of morphologically differentiated individuals that subdivide labour to help the group persist in harsh, unpredictable environments.
Riccardo Ciarle, Katrijn de Bock, Kevin C Burns   +2 more
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The Epiphytic Fern Elaphoglossum luridum (Fée) Christ. (Dryopteridaceae) from Central and South America: Morphological and Physiological Responses to Water Stress [PDF]

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
Elaphoglossum luridum (Fée) Christ. (Dryopteridaceae) is an epiphytic fern of the Atlantic Forest (Brazil). Anatomical and physiological studies were conducted to understand how this plant responds to water stress. The E.
Bruno Degaspari Minardi, Ana Paula Lorenzen Voytena, Marisa Santos, Áurea Maria Randi   +3 more
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