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Scrub encroachment promotes biodiversity in temperate European wetlands under eutrophic conditions. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2022
We examine the effects of encroachment on biodiversity along gradients of soil moisture and soil fertility in open and wooded wetlands in Denmark. Our results support existing knowledge of the importance of nutrient poor, wet mires and meadows for rare species but on former arable lands where restoration of infertile habitats is less feasible we ...
Brunbjerg AK, Fløjgaard C, Frøslev TG, Andersen DK, Bruun HH, Dalby L, Goldberg I, Lehmann LJ, Moeslund JE, Ejrnæs R.   +9 more
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Convergent losses of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in carnivorous plants. [PDF]

New Phytol
Summary Most land plants form the ancient arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis, while carnivory is a younger trait that evolved in several angiosperm orders. The two biotic interactions similarly help plants acquire mineral nutrients, raising the question of whether they can coexist.
Montero H, Freund M, Fukushima K.
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The genome of Eleocharis vivipara elucidates the genetics of C₃-C₄ photosynthetic plasticity and karyotype evolution in the Cyperaceae. [PDF]

J Integr Plant Biol
Eleocharis vivipara provides a prime model for studying photosynthetic plasticity, as it uses C3 photosynthesis underwater and C4 photosynthesis on land. The assembled genome and dynamic gene expression patterns provide new insights into the genetic basis of this photosynthetic transition, which can contribute to crop improvement and breeding ...
Liu H, Zhao H, Zhang Y, Li X, Zuo Y, Wu Z, Jin K, Xian W, Wang W, Ning W, Liu Z, Zhao X, Wang L, Sage RF, Lu T, Stata M, Cheng S.   +16 more
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Centromere diversity and its evolutionary impacts on plant karyotypes and plant reproduction. [PDF]

New Phytol
Summary Karyotype changes are a formidable evolutionary force by directly impacting cross‐incompatibility, gene dosage, genetic linkage, chromosome segregation, and meiotic recombination landscape. These changes often arise spontaneously and are commonly detected within plant lineages, even between closely related accessions.
Steckenborn S, Marques A.
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Genomic and Cis-Regulatory Basis of a Plastic C₃-C₄ Photosynthesis in Eleocharis Baldwinii. [PDF]

Adv Sci (Weinh)
The sedge Eleocharis baldwinii remarkably switches between C3‐like and C4‐like photosynthesis in response to environmental conditions. Combining gap‐free genome assembly with single‐cell multi‐omics, this study uncovers how subgenome dominance and cell‐specific cis‐regulation enable C4 photosynthesis.
Chen L, Jia Y, Zhou Z, Jiang Q, Liu J, Gu J, Chen C, Cheng S, Chu J, Liu X, Lin Y, Li X.   +11 more
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Developing and Validating Species Distribution Models for Wetland Plants Across Europe. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We fitted species distribution models (SDMs) for 265 wetland plant species in Europe. We validated predicted occurrences using independent data. The SDMs showed a high predictive performance, such that our SDMs can be used to predict broad‐scale distributions of wetland plants.
Sumbh O, Hellegers M, Barbarossa V, Ćušterevska R, Jiménez-Alfaro B, Kozub Ł, Napoleone F, Stančić Z, Schipper AM.   +8 more
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International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature. 4th edition

Applied Vegetation Science, Volume 24, Issue 1, January/March 2021., 2021
The new edition of the ICPN will become effectively binding on 1 January 2021. It consists of 14 Definitions, 7 Principles, 53 Articles, and 7 Appendices. Some Articles bring important amendments, among which the acceptance of electronic publications or the possibility to request a binding decision on controversial cases. Abstract The fourth edition of
Jean‐Paul Theurillat, Wolfgang Willner, Federico Fernández‐González, Helga Bültmann, Andraž Čarni, Daniela Gigante, Ladislav Mucina, Heinrich Weber, Milan Chytrý   +8 more
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Genome Size Dynamics and Evolution in Monocots

Journal of Botany, Volume 2010, Issue 1, 2010., 2010
Monocot genomic diversity includes striking variation at many levels. This paper compares various genomic characters (e.g., range of chromosome numbers and ploidy levels, occurrence of endopolyploidy, GC content, chromosome packaging and organization, genome size) between monocots and the remaining angiosperms to discern just how distinctive monocot ...
Ilia J. Leitch, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Mark W. Chase, Andrew R. Leitch, Michael F. Fay, Johann Greilhuber   +5 more
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Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Generate Grazing Lawns and Maintain Plant Diversity in Neotropical Savanna

Applied Vegetation Science, Volume 28, Issue 1, January/March 2025.
We show that excluding native grazers from a South American grassy ecosystem leads to strong declines in plant species richness over an 18‐month period. Our results imply that severely defaunated South American ecosystems have retained plant taxa and functional trait complexes that can tolerate intense herbivory, identifying herbivore reintroductions ...
Julia C. Mata, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Renata Nicora Chequín, Marcos Davalos, Roberto Salas, Ayrton Vucko, Robert Buitenwerf   +6 more
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Genome evolution in intracellular parasites: Microsporidia and Apicomplexa

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Volume 71, Issue 5, September/October 2024.
Abstract Microsporidia and Apicomplexa are eukaryotic, single‐celled, intracellular parasites with huge public health and economic importance. Typically, these parasites are studied separately, emphasizing their uniqueness and diversity. In this review, we explore the huge amount of genomic data that has recently become available for the two groups. We
Amjad Khalaf, Ore Francis, Mark L. Blaxter   +2 more
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