Two independent research labs have developed fluorescent biosensors to report the levels of the stress hormone, abscisic acid, within cells in living plants in real-time.
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AoB Plants
January 2025
Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago 1032 W. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60660, United States.
The shift from outcrossing to predominantly selfing is one of the most common transitions in plant evolution. This evolutionary shift has received considerable attention from biologists; however, this work has almost exclusively been focused on animal-pollinated systems. Despite the seminal ecological and economic importance of wind-pollinated species, the mechanisms controlling the degree of outcrossing in wind-pollinated taxa remain poorly understood.
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January 2025
Assistant Features Editor, The Plant Cell, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA.
Plant Cell
December 2024
Assistant Features Editor, The Plant Cell, American Society of Plant Biologists.
Ecol Lett
January 2025
State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
Biotic interactions play an important role in species diversification and maintenance and, thus, are regarded as the architecture of biodiversity. Since Darwin and Wallace, biologists have debated whether biotic interactions are stronger towards the tropics and on continents, when compared to temperate regions and islands. Here, based on 354 avian frugivory networks accounting for 22,199 interactions between 1247 bird species and 2126 plant species, we quantified trait matching strength, which reflects interaction strength and specificity, across gradients of latitude and insularity globally.
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January 2025
Plant Physiology, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA.
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