🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The transition from outcrossing to selfing involve convergent patterns of flower trait covariation doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Canopy theory for photosynthetic production by macroalgal forests doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🎉🆕📰🎉: High-throughput design of defined microbial consortia for crop protection doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

High-throughput design of defined microbial consortia for crop protection

AbstractBackground. Synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) are changing the mechanism of crop protection that ensures global sustainability in agricultu

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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Can long-term survival models improve inference in seed germination studies? evidence from tropical forest species doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🆕 New issue out now! 🌿 Special Issue: Plant Conservation Genetics From population genomics and genetic diversity to habitat fragmentation, translocations and conservation management, discover the latest research shaping plant conservation. 📖 botany.fyi/865ujn

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Integrative Insights into Physiology, Nutrient Dynamics, and Multi-Omics Reveal Climate Stress Adaptation and Genomic Gaps in Rhododendron doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

♻️🆓: Uncovering the physiology and distribution of thallium in Tl-hyperaccumulating and Tl-sensitive populations of Biscutella laevigata L. doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Uncovering the physiology and distribution of thallium in Tl-hyperaccumulating and Tl-sensitive populations of Biscutella laevigata L.

AbstractBackground and Aims. Thallium (Tl) is extremely toxic to all life forms and is an emerging pollutant. Plants in the Brassicaceae family, including

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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Changes in primary productivity and carbon balance of intertidal macroalgal assemblages doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Integrated LC/MS-MS approaches reveal toxicity differences across seed layers of Cycas angulata doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Integrated LC/MS-MS approaches reveal toxicity differences across seed layers of Cycas angulata

AbstractBackground and Aims. Indigenous Australians have long recognised the toxicity of cycad seeds and have developed methods to process them for consump

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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Managed grazing as a strategy for climate change mitigation: a commentary on ‘Grazing-driven ontogenetic aging and reproductive shifts in a dominant Stipa grass mediate community reorganization’ doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Multiple defense networks in cadmium-excluding plants: from adaptive mechanisms to agricultural applications doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🌱 Annals of Botany welcomes three new Handling Editors We welcome Stefanie Ickert-Bond, Mario Coiro, and Atsushi Kawakita, bringing expertise in plant morphology & systematics 🌿, palaeobotany & plant evolution 🌍🌱, and plant reproductive biology, pollination, & coevolution 🐝

🎉🆕📰🎉: Random and non-random variation in flower colour along an urban–rural gradient in the introduced mustard Hesperis matronalis doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Random and non-random variation in flower colour along an urban–rural gradient in the introduced mustard Hesperis matronalis

AbstractBackground and Aims. Urbanization can alter the interplay of evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift, but these effects

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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Crown roots dominate nitrate uptake in maize (Zea mays L.) under varying soil moisture conditions doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: How much cross-sectional area is needed to estimate vessel traits in tropical tree branches? doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: History for ecologists: Biases and best practices in the use of nautical charts to understand long-term change to kelp doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Integrated seed mucilage syndromes evolve dynamically across climatic gradients in Helianthemum’ in @annbot.bsky.social by López-Vallez and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/7) 👉 doi.org/rhpc #Seeds #PlantEvolution #Botany #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Fatal attraction: flowers lure pollinators as prey in the carnivorous Drosera hookeri (Droseraceae) doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Fatal attraction: flowers lure pollinators as prey in the carnivorous Drosera hookeri (Droseraceae)

Carnivorous plants are thought to avoid trapping their own pollinators by separating flowers from traps. We tested the opposite condition in the sundew Dro

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🎉🆕📰🎉: Lifespan and dormancy type affect post-fire seed germination strategies: evidence from a multispecies experiment in a temperate grassland doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

♻️🆓: Exploring geography and evolutionary history as drivers of variation in floral scent chemistry in western sessile-flowered Trillium using parsimony-constrained phylogenetics doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Exploring geography and evolutionary history as drivers of variation in floral scent chemistry in western sessile-flowered Trillium using parsimony-constrained phylogenetics

AbstractBackground and Aims. The sessile-flowered Trillium species from western North America have been challenging to distinguish morphologically owing to

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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Functional synonymous variants in plants: an emerging perspective on hidden causal alleles in domestication and agronomic traits doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🎉🆕📰🎉: Floral syndromes in Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) are associated with nectar- but not pollen-collecting pollinators doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Floral syndromes in Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) are associated with nectar- but not pollen-collecting pollinators

AbstractBackground and Aims. Plant–pollinator interactions span a continuum from strict specialization to generalization and most flowers are visited by mo

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🌱 Annals of Botany welcomes new Handling Editors Welcome Dylan Craven, Erin Sparks, and Mohamed Abdelaziz, whose expertise spans ecology 🌳, root biology 🌱, and plant reproductive biology & pollination ecology 🌸🧬 Great to have them on the editorial team!

🎉🆕📰🎉: Thermodynamic insights into thermal acclimation of leaf dark respiration in two subtropical species: comparative analysis of MMRT and GTD models doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Thermodynamic insights into thermal acclimation of leaf dark respiration in two subtropical species: comparative analysis of MMRT and GTD models

AbstractBackground. Leaf dark respiration (Rd) responds to short-term temperatures and acclimates to changes in long-term temperatures. Although accurate R

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🎉🆕📰🎉: Genome–environment associations reveal adaptive responses and forecast genomic offset in Calotropis procera doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Genome–environment associations reveal adaptive responses and forecast genomic offset in Calotropis procera

AbstractBackground and Aims. Calotropis procera, a resilient shrub of arid ecosystems, holds considerable potential for domestication, yet its genomic adap

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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Deciduous and Evergreen Leaf Habit Structures Intraspecific Trait Expression along an Elevational Gradient doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

✅📄Now Free Access: Genome-wide analysis of the CsAP2/ERF gene family of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) and joint analysis of transcriptional metabolism under salt stress Get the paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Genome-wide analysis of the CsAP2/ERF gene family of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) and joint analysis of transcriptional metabolism under salt stress

AbstractBackground. Sweet orange is an important economic crop, and salt stress can inhibit its growth and development.Methods. In this study, we identifie

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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: A global three-dimensional leaf functional space reveals partial decoupling between carbon investment and water regulation doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

A global three-dimensional leaf functional space reveals partial decoupling between carbon investment and water regulation

Abstract. Plant–atmosphere exchanges of CO2 and water are commonly parameterised using trait-based assumptions that implicitly couple leaf economic strateg

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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Preface: Using past, present, and future genetic knowledge to inform the conservation and management of plant biodiversity around the globe doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The EU Nature Restoration Regulation as an opportunity for kelp forest conservation and restoration in Europe doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

The EU Nature Restoration Regulation as an opportunity for kelp forest conservation and restoration in Europe

AbstractBackground. Kelp forests are among the most productive and biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, yet they are currently facing unprecedented degradation

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