🌍🌳Check out the newly published paper ‘Underground trees inhabit varied environmental extremes across the Afrotropics’ in @AnnBot by Anya Courtenay and co-authors

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad124 (1/8)

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🌵🧬The study uncovers dynamic plastome evolution, revealing unique traits. Opuntieae group wows with diverse plastome sizes, structures, and content, potentially shaping species distinctions. (9/9)

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad098

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📣 🌵The @AnnBot paper ‘More than a spiny morphology: plastome variation in the prickly pear cacti (Opuntieae)’ by Matias Köhler et. al. is now #free for a limited period.
https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad098 (1/9)

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🧬🔬Check out the newly published review ‘Beyond parasitic convergence: unraveling the evolution of the organellar genomes in holoparasites’ in @AnnBot by Virginia Sanchez-Puerta and co-authors

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad108 🧵(1/8)

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🌎 The study sheds light on how diverse environments contribute to plant adaptation and endemism, highlighting the importance of understanding ecological dynamics in preserving biodiversity. (10/10)

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad029 #AoBpapers

🌳Exciting news! The newly published paper ‘The evolution of ecological specialization underlies plant endemism in the Atlantic Forest’ in @AnnBot by Eduardo Nery and co-authors is now #openaccess for a limited time. (1/10)

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad029

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🌿🌊Great news! The newly published paper ‘Wave damping by giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera’ in @AnnBot by @keelsmore and co-authors is now #openaccess for a limited period

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad094

#AoBpapers #GiantKelp #KelpForest (1/7)

🌿🌸Check out the newly published paper ‘Pseudanthia in angiosperms: a review’ in @AnnBot by Jakub Baczyński and Regine Claßen-Bockhoff https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad103 (1/8)

#AoBpapers #Pseudanthia #FlowerMimicry

📣 Good news! The newly published paper ‘Spatial expression patterns of genes encoding sugar sensors in leaves of C4 and C3 grasses’ in @AnnBot by Urs Benning and co-authors is now #openaccess for limited time.

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad057

#AoBpapers #Grasses #PlantScience (1/8)

♻ Check out the #openaccess paper ‘Are chromosome number and genome size associated with habit and environmental niche variables? Insights from the Neotropical orchids’ in @AnnBot by Ana Paula Moraes and co-authors

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac021

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☀🌾 With the background knowledge and publicly available genomic resources, Alloteropsis semialata holds great potential for advancing our understanding of photosynthetic diversification.

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad078 (7/7)

#C4metabolism #Genomics #PlantAdaptation #Photosynthesis #Grasses #AoBpapers

🌾 Join us to learn about the free access paper ‘Alloteropsis semialata as a study system for C4 evolution in grasses’ in @AnnBot by @LarrLarrr and co-authors

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad078 #AoBpapers (1/7)

🌿🌍 The article suggests the Proteaceae family migrated gradually from North-West-Central Africa to the Cape region over 95-70 million years ago, driven by adaptation and speciation.

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad055

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📢Good news! The newly published paper ‘Fossil pollen resolves origin of the South African Proteaceae as transcontinental not transoceanic’ in @AnnBot by Byron Lamont and co-authors is now #openaccess for limited time.

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad055

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🌳The study highlights the importance of intraspecific responses to drought and the role of species' traits in shaping forest resilience. It offers valuable information for forest management and conservation strategies in the face of climate change.

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad053 (8/8)

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📢Exciting news! The newly published paper ‘Climate change-related growth improvements in a wide niche-breadth tree species across contrasting environments’ in @AnnBot by Alex Fajardo is now #openaccess for a limited period of time.
https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad053

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🦠🔬The study highlights the tightly adherent biofilms of microbes on the giant horsetail wetland plants and their role in crucial biogeochemical processes, reinforcing the importance of conservation efforts to maintain the integrity of the Atacama Desert. (8/8)

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac060

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🌵🌱 Join us to learn about the free access paper ‘Nitrogen fixation and other biogeochemically important features of Atacama Desert giant horsetail plant microbiomes inferred from metagenomic contig analysis’ in @AnnBot by Anchittha Satjarak (1/8)

https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac060
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Check out the now free access paper ‘Seed macro- and micromorphology in Allium (Amaryllidaceae) and its phylogenetic significance’ in @AnnBot by Ziyoviddin Yusupov https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac067 #AoBpapers (1/9)

🌵Join us to learn about the newly published review ‘The Diverse Diaspora of CAM – a Pole-to-Pole Sketch’ in @AnnBot by Joseph Holtumand https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad067 #AoBpapers (1/10)