Michael Bhardwaj, Christopher G. Eckert
Dichogamy is one of the most widespread floral mechanisms in flowering plants and is thought to have evolved to reduce interference between pollen import and export within flowers, especially self-pollination. Self-pollination between flowers may also be reduced if dichogamy is synchronous among flo...
Hong Qian, Shenhua Qian, Jian Zhang, Michael Kessler
The tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological distributions (phylogenetic niche conservatism) is thought to influence which species from a species pool can persist in a particular environment. Thus, investigating the relationships between measures of phylogenetic structure and environmental...
Viviane Paquin, Lonnie W. Aarssen
Evidence is reported for size-dependent (allometric) gender allocation in the monoecious, wind-pollinated annual Ambrosia artemissifolia. Consistent with established theory, the pattern of allometry displayed adaptive plasticity, depending on the environmental cause of variation in plant size. Plant...
Li Huang, Cheng Jin, Ying Pan, Lihua Zhou et al.
Old trees have many ecological and socio-cultural values. However, knowledge of the factors influencing their long-term persistence in human-dominated landscapes is limited. Here, using an extensive database (nearly 1.8 million individual old trees belonging to 1,580 species) from China, we identifi...
Johanna Villenave, Dominique Thierry, Abdullah Al Mamun, Thierry Lodé et al.
The pollens consumed by common green lacewings Chrysoperla spp. in crop environment in western France, were analysed. The diverticulum contents including quantity of pollen of Chrysoperla adults were analysed to compare a feeding behaviour between the sexes. Females consume more pollen than males. T...
Biplob Dey, Romel Ahmed, Jannatul Ferdous, Mohammed Masum Ul Haque et al.
Thomas Abeli, Paolo Cauzzi, Graziano Rossi, Michele Adorni et al.
Conservation of Leucojum aestivum, a wetland-dependent species distributed in Europe and west Asia, should aim to reduce the fragmentation of wild stands, through the establishment of new populations. However, density-dependent dynamics occur in L. a estivum. For instance, fruit set and seed set inc...
Mohammad Faizan, Shi-Hui Cheng, Sadia Haque Tonny, Merajul Islam Robab
Strigolactones (SLs) have been implicated in various developmental processes of the plant, including the response against several abiotic stresses. It is well known as a class of endogenous phytohormones that regulates shoot branching, secondary growth and root morphology. This hormone facilitates p...
Jacob Weiner, Lars Rosenmeier, Emma Soy Massoni, Josep Nogués Vera et al.
Several purported cases of plasticity in plant allocation patterns appear to be the effects of size and allometric growth (“apparent plasticity”). To ask whether there is true plasticity (i.e., a change in the allometric trajectory) in reproductive allocation in Senecio vulgaris L., we grew S. vulga...
Javad Sharifi‐Rad, Cristina Quispe, Abdelhakim Bouyahya, Naoual El Menyiy et al.
The genus Bulbophyllum is of scientific interest due to the phytochemical components and diverse biological activities found across species of the genus. Most Bulbophyllum species are epiphytic and located in habitats that range from subtropical dry forests to wet montane cloud forests. In many cult...
Rumana Rana, Katharina Herz, Helge Bruelheide, Sophie Dietz et al.
M. P. Ali, Alharbi Abdullah Naif, Dingcheng Huang
The spider mite, Tetranychus macfarlanei (Baker and Pritchard) (Acari: Tetranychidae) is a pest of various crops and trees with a cosmopolitan geographic range that includes the country of Bangladesh. This study was conducted to evaluate the biological control potential of the predacious mite, Neose...
Philip J. Lester, H. M. A. Thistlewood, R. Harmsen
Amblyseius fallacis Garman has been selected for pyrethroid resistance and mass reared for experimental release as a biological control agent for tetranychid mites on a number of crops in Canada. Several releases of this predator onto apple and peach trees have failed to result in the establishment ...
Mohammad Faisal, Mohammad Faizan, Sadia Haque Tonny, Vishnu D. Rajput et al.
Soil salinity is one of the main barriers to increasing global food production as it reduces crop growth and productivity. While irrigated lands in arid climates (about 20% of total affected) are more prone to salinization, many other natural and anthropogenic factors contribute to an increase in sa...
Manuel J. Steinbauer, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, David E. V. Harter et al.
Abstract Positive plant–plant interactions (i.e. facilitation) receive increasing attention as a potentially important driver of community assembly. We conducted a systematic literature review indicating broad support for positive effects of potential facilitator species. However, a large majority o...