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Leveraging machine learning and citizen science data to describe flowering phenology across South Africa

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Recent shifts in flowering times are an index of, and a response to, human driven climate change. However, most information on these flowering changes is heavily skewed to the northern hemisphere. This imbalance limits our understanding of how climate change is affecting ecosystems, including the mismatches of flowering times between species, increased
Ross D. Stewart, Nicholas W. Bard, Michelle van der Bank, T. Jonathan Davies   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants : W401 [PDF]

, 2013
Bananas (Musa spp.), including dessert and cooking types, are giant perennial monocotyledonous herbs of the Zingiberales order, a sister group to the well-studied Poales. We sequenced and assembled the 520 Mb genome of a doubled-haploid of the accession '
D'Hont, Angélique, Wincker, Patrick
core  

Gene turnover in the common ancestor of all C4 grasses

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Understanding how plants evolve more efficient photosynthesis is important in a warming world where improving crop productivity and resilience is a global priority. By generating the first reference genomes for an early‐diverging group of grasses called the Aristidoideae, we were able to reconstruct the genetic makeup of the last common ancestor of all
Lara Pereira, Ahmed S. Alenazi, Sahr Mian, Ilia J. Leitch, Pascal‐Antoine Christin, Colin P. Osborne, Luke T. Dunning   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic and Biological Evaluation of Pheromone Trap Types for Western Bean Cutworm, Striacosta albicosta, Monitoring in Dry Edible Bean Fields

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Pheromone trap use for monitoring Striacosta albicosta in dry edible beans was evaluated across multiple trap designs, lure replacement intervals, and insecticide timings. Bucket traps captured the most moths, yet trap counts poorly predicted crop damage.
Jeffrey D. Cluever, Julie A. Peterson, Robert J. Wright, Jeffrey D. Bradshaw   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal dynamics of aquatic communities and implications for pond conservation [PDF]

, 2012
Conservation through the protection of particular habitats is predicated on the assumption that the conservation value of those habitats is stable. We test this assumption for ponds by investigating temporal variation in macroinvertebrate and macrophyte ...
Andrew Hull, B Davies, B Moss, B Oertli, C Hassall, Christopher Hassall, EM Raebel, GW Fairchild, J Biggs, J Boothby, J Boothby, J Hawkins, James Hollinshead, JM Chase, K Cottenie, LE Barnes, MA Fortuna, MD Eyre, MJ Jeffries, MJ Jeffries, MJ Jeffries, MJ Jeffries, MP Wanielista, N Indermuehle, N Indermuehle, N Menetrey, NW Moore, P Koleff, P Williams, P Williams, P Williams, PM Wade, R Chadd, R Céréghino, R Development Core Team, RA Briers, S Angélibert, S Angélibert, TN Sherratt, TT Macan   +39 more
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Alternative Food for Litter‐Inhabiting Predators Decreases Thrips Densities and Above‐Ground Plant Damage

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
We studied predatory soil mites that control the thrips Frankliniella occidentalis. Thrips densities were significantly reduced by the predator Cosmolaelaps sabelisi. It presumably feeds on prepupae and pupae in the soil and on larvae aboveground.
Karen Muñoz‐Cárdenas, Diana Rueda‐Ramirez, Firdevs Ersin, Farid Faraji, Arne Janssen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confirmação da ocorrência de Abolboda poarchon Seub. (Xyridaceae) no Estado de São Paulo, Brasil Confirmation of occurrence of Abolboda poarchon Seub. (Xyridaceae) in São Paulo State, Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2009
A ocorrência de Abolboda poarchon Seub. é documentada para o Estado de São Paulo, com base em coletas realizadas no município de Itirapina. O trabalho apresenta a descrição detalhada de A. poarchon e A.
Alessandra Ike Coan, Aline Oriani, Julio Antonio Lombardi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of plant ribosome-inactivating proteins [PDF]

, 2010
This contribution presents an updated analysis of the evolution of ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) in plants. All evidence suggests that an ancestor of modern seed plants developed the RIP domain at least 300 million years ago.
Peumans, Willy J, Van Damme, Els
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Documenting biodiversity with digital data: comparing and contrasting the efficacy of specimen‐based and observation‐based approaches

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Digitized herbarium specimens and iNaturalist observations provide invaluable plant biodiversity data. Combining these two data sources could create a more holistic representation of local biodiversity; however, understanding biases inherent to each is critical to determine how to best combine and utilize these data.
Rebecca C. Wilcox, Anthony E. Baniaga, Avery P. Hill, Alison Young, Rebecca F. Johnson, Sarah J. Jacobs   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scleria (Cyperaceae) in the state of Pará, Amazon, Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2021
The present study analyzes the diversity of Scleria in the state of Pará and presents taxonomic treatments for all recorded species. The analysis was based on extensive herbarium studies (CEN, HBRA, HCJS, HSTM, IAN, IBGE, INPA, MFS, MG, RB, and UB) and ...
Layla Jamylle Costa Schneider, André dos Santos Bragança Gil   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source