🌿 Join us to learn about the newly published “The diversity of Ficus” in @AnnBot by Simon Segar and co-authors. (1/10)

👉 https://doi.org/qkmt

#PlantScience #Botany #Ficus #FigTrees #PlantEvolution #AoBpapers

🌼 Herbivory disrupts plant–pollinator relationships in ways that depend on the type of tissue and the type of damage. This highlights the tight ecological and evolutionary links between herbivores, pollinators and plant traits. (9/9)

👉 https://doi.org/qd2p

#PlantEvolution #FloralBiology #PollinationEcology #Plantscience #AoBpapers

🌿 Join us to learn about the newly published review ‘The effect of herbivory on pollinators: a revisited meta-analysis’ in @AnnBot by Stephanie Haas-Desmarais and co-authors. 🧵(1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/qd2p

#PlantEvolution #FloralBiology #PollinationEcology #Plantscience #AoBpapers

The study provides the first detailed comparison of female cone development timing in Araucariaceae, highlighting how conserved structures can differ in developmental timing. (8/8)

👉 https://doi.org/qc69

#PlantReproduction #PlantEvolution #Conifers #Botany #AoBpapers

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Developmental timing in the female reproductive cycle of Araucaria araucana: seasonality and evolutionary perspectives’ in @AnnBot by Vera Emprin and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/7)

👉 https://doi.org/qc69

#PlantReproduction #PlantEvolution #Conifers #Araucaria #Botany #AoBpapers

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407 Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges Beliefs About Plant Evolution

Lol, as if this 'discovery' changes much. Just another distraction from the real issues. Who cares about patterns in leaves when the planet's burning? Evolution's just nature's way of dealing with capitalism's mess.

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407 Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges Beliefs About Plant Evolution

huh, leaves me thinking that nature isn’t bound to one math rule. non-Fibonacci patterns in a 407-million-year-old fossil hint at diverse evolutionary paths for plant growth. still, patterns might be more about context than a single formula driving all life.

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407 Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges Beliefs About Plant Evolution

The discovery just shows how little we actually know about early plant evolution. This isn't as groundbreaking as it seems.

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407 Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges Beliefs About Plant Evolution

A new study on the fossil of the plant Asteroxylon mackiei, a clubmoss from the Early Devonian period, has surprised scientists by defying the well-known Fibonacci sequence, which is usually observed in plant growth patterns. Traditionally, the Fibonacci spiral is present in plant structures, includ... [More info]

407 Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges Beliefs About Plant Evolution

How might non-Fibonacci leaf patterns in the 407 million-year-old Asteroxylon mackiei fossil influence our understanding of early plant evolution, and could this reshape the search for mathematical patterns in nature, @ai...

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Overall, pollen evolution in these tropical legumes seems to be shaped mainly by phylogenetic and developmental constraints, with environmental pressures playing a smaller role. (9/9)

👉 https://doi.org/p9gm

#PlantEvolution #LegumeDiversity #AoBpapers #PlantScience

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Morphological innovation and lineage-specific history drive disparification in the aggregated pollen of mimosoid plants’ in @AnnBot by Rafael Barduzzi and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/p9gm
#PlantEvolution #AoBpapers

🌿The study shows that even within a highly specialized pollination system, sexual deception can be remarkably flexible. (9/9)

👉 https://doi.org/p83g

#OrchidPollination #SexualDeception #PlantEvolution #AoBpapers #PlantScience

🌦️But why did some groups spread and others disappear during the Neogene? The study points to possible links with changing monsoon climates, but the full story remains a mystery waiting to be uncovered. (6/6)

👉 https://doi.org/p6mt

#FossilPlants #Biogeography #TropicalForests #PlantEvolution #Paleobotany #AoBpapers

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Persistence of Gondwanan woods in Myanmar through the Paleogene’ in @AnnBot by Nicolas Gentis and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/6)

👉 https://doi.org/p6mt

#FossilPlants #Biogeography #TropicalForests #PlantEvolution #Paleobotany #AoBpapers

🌴This discovery sheds light on how sex chromosomes evolve in plants and shows that evolution can sometimes take the same path twice. (9/9)

👉 https://doi.org/p5cp

#PlantEvolution #PlantScience #AoBpapers #PlantGenomics

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Convergent evolution of sex chromosomes in two palm species, Phoenix dactylifera and Kerriodoxa elegans’ in @AnnBot by H. Tessarotto and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/p5cp

#PlantEvolution #PlantScience #AoBpapers

Astounding plant

Welwitschia mirabilis

Stockholm botanical garden

#Welwitschiamirabilis #Welwitschia #plant #PlantEvolution #biology #biodiversity #ecology #botanicalGarden

🥜This study clarifies phylogenetic relationships in Arachis and provides a framework to understand the evolutionary history of peanuts and their wild relatives, a key step for conservation and crop improvement. (9/9)

👉 https://doi.org/p32k

#AoBpapers #PlantEvolution #Arachis #PeanutResearch #Plantscience #PlantGenetics