Submissions tagged with Plants
(18 documents)
Bio-communication of Plants
Plants communicate with a great variety of symbiotic partners, above and below ground. Constant monitoring of signals of biotic origin as well as abiotic environmental influences allows plants to g…
Received 15 December 2007 14:29 UTC; Posted 20 December 2007
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Molecular Cell Biology, Plant Biology
Age and origin of enigmatic megaherbs from the subantarctic islands
Biogeographic relationships in the southern hemisphere have puzzled biologists for the last two centuries. Once joined to form the supercontinent Gondwana, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealan…
Received 28 October 2007 20:54 UTC; Posted 29 October 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
PlnTFDB: Plant Transcription Factor Database – Update
PlnTFDB is a publicly available computational resource comprising putative complete sets of transcription factors from plants. The original database listed the putative complete sets of TFs from fi…
Received 24 September 2007 11:25 UTC; Posted 26 September 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
Plant Functional Types and Plant Trait Measurements in the Eastern Ghats, South India
Classifying terrestrial plant species on the basis of function rather than on taxonomy facilitates addressing ecological questions at the scale of ecosystems, landscapes or Biomes. The concept of p…
Received 07 September 2007 11:35 UTC; Posted 07 September 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology
Biological Activities of Extracts from Sumac (Rhus spp.): A Review
Sumac is the common name for a genus (Rhus) that contains over 250 individual species of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae. These plants are found in temperate and tropical regions world…
Received 06 August 2007 22:12 UTC; Posted 07 August 2007
Posted to: Chemistry, Pharmacology, Plant Biology
Third-codon transversion rate-based Nymphaea basal angiosperm phylogeny—concordance with developmental evidence
Flowering plants (angiosperms) appeared on Earth rather suddenly approximately 130 million years ago and underwent a massive expansion in the subsequent 10-12 million years. Current molecular phylo…
Received 02 July 2007 13:10 UTC; Posted 02 July 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Plant Transcription Factors @ uni-potsdam.de
We present the Plant Transcription Factor Database (PlnTFDB), and the putative complete set of TFs in the algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Ostreococcus tauri and the vascular plants _Oryza sati…
Received 26 June 2007 12:09 UTC; Posted 26 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
A Meta-analysis of Studies on Plant Growth Rate and Allocation to Roots and Shoots
I performed a meta-analysis of studies examining the relationships among nutrient availability, plant growth rate and allocation to roots vs. shoots. Species characteristic of high fertility habits…
Received 22 June 2007 17:33 UTC; Posted 22 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology
