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Leaf size of woody dicots predicts ecosystem primary productivity [PDF]

Ecology Letters, 2020
A key challenge in ecology is to understand the relationships between organismal traits and ecosystem processes. Here, with a novel dataset of leaf length and width for 10 480 woody dicots in China and 2374 in North America, we show that the variation in
Yaoqi Li, Peter B Reich, Bernhard Schmid   +2 more
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Global climatic drivers of leaf size

Science, 2017
Leaf size, climate, and energy balance Why does plant leaf size increase at lower latitudes, as exemplified by the evolutionary success of species with very large leaves in the tropics? Wright et al. analyzed leaf data for 7670 plant species, along with climatic data, from 682 sites worldwide.
Ian J. Wright, Ning Dong, Vincent Maire, I. Colin Prentice, Mark Westoby, Sandra Díaz, Rachael V. Gallagher, Bonnie F. Jacobs, Robert Kooyman, Elizabeth A. Law, Michelle R. Leishman, Ülo Niinemets, Peter B. Reich, Lawren Sack, Rafael Villar, Han Wang, Peter Wilf   +16 more
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Increased Leaf Size: Different Means to an End     [PDF]

Plant Physiology, 2010
AbstractThe final size of plant organs, such as leaves, is tightly controlled by environmental and genetic factors that must spatially and temporally coordinate cell expansion and cell cycle activity. However, this regulation of organ growth is still poorly understood.
Gonzalez, Nathalie, de Bodt, Stefanie, Sulpice, Ronan, Jikumaru, Yusuke, Chae, Eunyoung, Dhondt, Stijn, van Daele, Twiggy, de Milde, Liesbeth, Weigel, Detlef, Kamiya, Yuji, Stitt, Mark, Beemster, Gerrit T.S., Inze, Dirk   +12 more
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Leaf size and leaf display of thirty-eight tropical tree species [PDF]

Oecologia, 2008
Trees forage for light through optimal leaf display. Effective leaf display is determined by metamer traits (i.e., the internode, petiole, and corresponding leaf), and thus these traits strongly co-determine carbon gain and as a result competitive advantage in a light-limited environment.
Poorter, L., Rozendaal, D.M.A.
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Identification of a potential homeodomain-like gene governing leaf size and venation architecture in birch [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science
Leaf vein, an essential part of leaf architecture, plays significant roles in shaping the proper leaf size. To date, the molecular mechanisms governing leaf development including leaf venation patterning remains poorly understood in birch.
Xiuyan Bian, Xiuyan Bian, Chen Chen, Chen Chen, Yang Wang, Yang Wang, Chang Qu, Chang Qu, Jing Jiang, Yao Sun, Guifeng Liu   +10 more
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QTL-Seq and Transcriptome Analysis Disclose Major QTL and Candidate Genes Controlling Leaf Size in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Leaf size is a crucial component of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) plant architecture and further influences yield potential. Despite that it is well known that leaf size traits are quantitative traits controlled by large numbers of genes, quantitative ...
Chen Sheng, Shengnan Song, Rong Zhou, Donghua Li, Yuan Gao, Xianghua Cui, Xuehui Tang, Yanxin Zhang, Jinxing Tu, Xiurong Zhang, Linhai Wang   +10 more
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Comprehensive leaf size traits dataset for seven plant species from digitised herbarium specimen images covering more than two centuries [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021
Morphological leaf traits are frequently used to quantify, understand and predict plant and vegetation functional diversity and ecology, including environmental and climate change responses.
Vamsi Krishna Kommineni, Susanne Tautenhahn, Pramod Baddam, Jitendra Gaikwad, Barbara Wieczorek, Abdelaziz Triki, Jens Kattge   +6 more
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Transcriptome and Metabolome Reveal Key Genes from the Plant Hormone Signal Transduction Pathway Regulating Plant Height and Leaf Size in Capsicum baccatum [PDF]

Cells
Plant structure-related agronomic traits like plant height and leaf size are critical for growth, development, and crop yield. Defining the types of genes involved in regulating plant structure size is essential for the molecular-assisted breeding of ...
Na Xing, Xiaoqi Li, Shuhua Wu, Zhiwei Wang   +3 more
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Leaf size variations in a dominant desert shrub, Reaumuria soongarica, adapted to heterogeneous environments [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
The climate in arid Central Asia (ACA) has changed rapidly in recent decades, but the ecological consequences of this are far from clear. To predict the impacts of climate change on ecosystem functioning, greater attention should be given to the ...
Xingke Fan, Xia Yan, Chaoju Qian, Daoura Goudia Bachir, Xiaoyue Yin, Peipei Sun, Xiao‐Fei Ma   +6 more
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Decline of Leaf Hydraulic Conductance with Dehydration: Relationship to Leaf Size and Venation Architecture     [PDF]

Plant Physiology, 2011
Abstract Across plant species, leaves vary enormously in their size and their venation architecture, of which one major function is to replace water lost to transpiration. The leaf hydraulic conductance (K  leaf) represents the capacity of the transport system to deliver water, allowing stomata to remain open for photosynthesis ...
Scoffoni, Christine, Rawls, Michael, Mckown, Athena, Cochard, Hervé, Sack, Lawren   +4 more
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