Consistent spatial-temporal variations of stigmatic pollen load among co-flowering species across six sub-alpine meadows
Available online 20 December 2024
Co-flowering species may have evolved strategies to avoid or tolerate the adverse effects of heterospecific pollen deposition. However, the precondition for this evolutionary response is spatial-temporal...
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The ethics of theft: reevaluating the impacts of floral larceny on plant reproductive success
Available online 20 December 2024
Plants and their interaction partners offer unparalleled views of evolutionary ecology. Nectar larceny, entailing nectar extraction without pollinating, is thought to be an example of a harmful, antagonistic...
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The effects of the invasive plants on soil nematodes vary with the duration of elevated CO2 treatment
Available online 19 December 2024
Exotic plant invasions and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration have been determined to independently affect soil nematodes, a key component of soil biota. However, little is known...
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The island rule-like patterns of plant size variation in a young land-bridge archipelago: Roles of environmental circumstance and biotic competition
Available online 14 December 2024
The island rule, a general pattern of dwarfism in large species to gigantism in small species on islands relative to mainland, is typically seen as a macroevolutionary phenomenon. However, whether the...
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Climate space, traits, and the spread of nonnative plants in North America
Available online 2 December 2024
The future distribution of invading species depends on the climate space available and certain life history traits that facilitate invasion. Here, to predict the spread potential of plant species introduced...
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Leaf nitrogen and phosphorus are more sensitive to environmental factors in dicots than in monocots, globally
November 2024
Leaf nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) levels provide critical strategies for plant adaptions to changing environments. However, it is unclear whether leaf N and P levels of different plant functional...
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The Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot for ferns: Updated phylogeny, hidden diversity, and biogeography of the java fern genus Leptochilus (Polypodiaceae)
November 2024
The Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot is renowned for its rich biodiversity, including that of vascular plants. However, the fern diversity and its endemism in this hotspot have not been well understood...
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Diversity of Symplocos (Symplocaceae, Ericales) at low latitudes in Asia during late Oligocene and Miocene
November 2024
•Three types of Symplocos from the late Oligocene and Miocene of Guangxi showcase the diversity of Symplocos during this time.•Earliest Asian megafossils of Symplocos are from the late Oligocene of...
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Transcription factor ABF3 modulates salinity stress-enhanced jasmonate signaling in Arabidopsis
November 2024
Salinity is a severe abiotic stress that affects plant growth and yield. Salinity stress activates jasmonate (JA) signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana, but the underlying molecular mechanism remains to...
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From a bee's eye: Effects of UV bullseye size on reproductive success in a dioecious vine Herpetospermum pedunculosum (Cucurbitaceae)
November 2024
Descriptions of floral traits based on the visual capabilities of pollinators would advance our understanding of flower evolution and plant–pollinator relationships. One such trait is the contrasting...
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Detection of functional diversity gradients and their geoclimatic filters is sensitive to data types (occurrence vs. abundance) and spatial scales (sites vs. regions)
November 2024
Functional diversity (FD) reflects within- and between-site variation of species traits (α- and β-FD, respectively). Understanding how much data types (occurrence-based vs. abundance-weighted) and spatial...
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Environment and management jointly shape the spatial patterns of plant species diversity of moist grasslands in the mountains of northeastern Yunnan
November 2024
Grasslands account for about a quarter of the Earth's land area and are one of the major terrestrial ecosystems, with significant ecological and economic values. The influence of environmental factors...
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Climate change impacts flowering phenology in Gongga Mountains, Southwest China
November 2024
Flowering phenology of plants, which is important for reproductive growth, has been shown to be influenced by climate change. Understanding how flowering phenology responds to climate change and exploring...
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Does season regulate heterochronous leaf growth? Mechanisms of petiole-lamina trade-offs in broad-leaved woody plants of the Tianshan Mountains
November 2024
As the core of leaf functional traits, the trade-off relationship between the petiole and lamina expresses the plant's adaptability to the environment in terms of support structure and photosynthesis....
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Geographic patterns and climatic drivers of the mean genus age of liverworts in North America
November 2024
Phylogenetic niche conservatism posits that species tend to retain ancestral ecological traits and distributions, which has been broadly tested for lineages originating in tropical climates but has...
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Skmer approach improves species discrimination in taxonomically problematic genus Schima (Theaceae)
November 2024
Genome skimming has dramatically extended DNA barcoding from short DNA fragments to next generation barcodes in plants. However, conserved DNA barcoding markers, including complete plastid genome and...
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Phylogenomics, reticulation, and biogeographical history of Elaeagnaceae
November 2024
The angiosperm family Elaeagnaceae comprises three genera and ca. 100 species distributed mainly in Eurasia and North America. Little family-wide phylogenetic and biogeographic research on Elaeagnaceae...
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An integrative approach clarifies species delimitation and biogeographic history of Debregeasia (Urticaceae)
Available online 26 November 2024
Integrative data from plastid and nuclear loci are increasingly utilized to resolve species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships within major angiosperm clades. Debregeasia (Urticaceae), an economically...
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Global invasive alien plant management lists: Assessing current practices and adapting to new demands
Available online 14 November 2024
Invasive alien species (IAS) significantly threaten global biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Despite increasing management efforts, a critical knowledge gap existed in understanding commonalities...
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Latitudinal patterns of tree β-diversity and relevant ecological processes vary across spatial extents in forests of southeastern China
Available online 13 November 2024
Latitudinal patterns of tree β-diversity reveal important insights into the biogeographical processes that influence forest ecosystems. Although previous studies have extensively documented β-diversity...
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The evolutionarily diverged single-stranded DNA-binding proteins SSB1/SSB2 differentially affect the replication, recombination and mutation of organellar genomes in Arabidopsis thaliana
Available online 9 November 2024
Single-stranded DNA-binding proteins (SSBs) play essential roles in the replication, recombination and repair processes of organellar DNA molecules. In Arabidopsis thaliana, SSBs are encoded by a small...
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Morphological adaptation strategy of invasive plant Ambrosia trifida seed distributed along rivers is closely related to soil nutrients
Available online 8 November 2024
Rivers are crucial in the spread of invasive plants. Invasive plants alter their seed traits to adapt to environmental changes and promote invasion. Studying the trait changes in invasive plant seeds...
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Subgenome asymmetry of gibberellins-related genes plays important roles in regulating rapid growth of bamboos
Available online 25 October 2024
Rapid growth is an innovative trait of woody bamboos that has been widely studied. However, the genetic basis and evolution of this trait are poorly understood. Taking advantage of genomic resources...
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New insights into the phylogeny and infrageneric taxonomy of Saussurea based on hybrid capture phylogenomics (Hyb-Seq)
Available online 18 October 2024
Saussurea is one of the largest and most rapidly evolving genera within the Asteraceae, comprising approximately 520 species from the Northern Hemisphere. A comprehensive infrageneric classification,...
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Assembly-free reads accurate identification (AFRAID) approach outperforms other methods of DNA barcoding in the walnut family (Juglandaceae)
Available online 16 October 2024
DNA barcoding has been extensively used for species identification. However, species identification of mixed samples or degraded DNA is limited by current DNA barcoding methods. In this study, we use...
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