|
|
|
| Registros recuperados: 41 | |
|
|
| Lens, F.; Baas, P.; Jansen, S.; Smets, E.. |
| The wood structure of 71 species representing 24 genera of the pantropical Lecythidaceae s.l., including the edible Brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa) and the spectacular cannon-ball tree (Couroupita guianensis), was investigated using light and scanning electron microscopy. This study focused on finding phylogenetically informative characters to help elucidate any obscure evolutionary patterns within the family. The earliest diverging subfamily Napoleonaeoideae has mixed simple/scalariform vessel perforations, scalariform vessel-ray pitting, and high multiseriate rays, all features that are also present in Scytopetaloideae. The wood structure of Napoleonaea is distinct, but its supposed close relative Crateranthus strongly resembles Scytopetaloideae. The... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Ericales; Lecythidaceae s.l.; Lecythidaceae s.s.; Napoleonaeaceae; Scytopetalaceae; Systematic wood anatomy; 42.48. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/422216 |
| |
|
|
| Melzer, S.; Lens, F.; Gennen, J.; Vanneste, S.; Rohde , A.; Beeckman, T.. |
| Plants have evolved annual and perennial life forms as alternative strategies to adapt reproduction and survival to environmental constraints. In isolated situations, such as islands, woody perennials have evolved repeatedly from annual ancestors1. Although the molecular basis of the rapid evolution of insular woodiness is unknown, the molecular difference between perennials and annuals might be rather small, and a change between these life strategies might not require major genetic innovations2,3. Developmental regulators can strongly affect evolutionary variation4 and genes involved in meristem transitions are good candidates for a switch in growth habit. We found that the MADS box proteins SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS 1 (SOC1) and FRUITFULL... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Flowering-time; Meristem determinacy; Growth form; Arabidopsis thaliana; Insular woodiness; Secondary growth; Annual life forms; 42.56. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/429531 |
| |
|
|
| Lens, F.; Smets, E.; Jansen, S.. |
| The wood anatomical structure of 11 out of 13 genera from four tribes of the Vaccinioideae, namely Andromedeae s.s., Gaultherieae, Lyonieae and Oxydendreae (Ericaceae s.l.), is described using light and scanning electron microscopy. Several features of the secondary xylem support the tribal classification based on molecular data: arrangement of vessel-ray pitting, height of multiseriate rays and the shape of the body ray cells. Oxydendreae are clearly defined from the other representatives by various wood anatomical features. Gaultherieae can be distinguished from Lyonieae by differences in vessel perforation plates, vessel-ray pitting, height and structure of multiseriate rays, and occurrence of prismatic crystals, but the wood of Andromedeae s.s. is... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Comparative wood anatomy; Andromedeae; Gaultherieae; Lyonieae; Oxydendreae; Vaccinioideae; Ericaceae; Andromedeae sensu Stevens; Pith structure; 42.58. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/424620 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Lens, F.; Endress, M.E.; Baas, P.; Jansen, S.; Smets, E.; , D.. |
| This study contributes to our understanding of the phylogenetic signifi cance and major evolutionary trends in the wood of the dogbane family (Apocynaceae), one of the largest and economically most important angiosperm families. Based on LM and SEM observations of 56 Apocynoideae species — representing all currently recognized tribes — and eight Periplocoideae, we found striking differences in vessel grouping patterns (radial multiples vs. large clusters) between the mainly nonclimbing apocynoid tribes (Wrightieae, Malouetieae, Nerieae) and the climbing lineages (remaining Apocynoideae and Periplocoideae). The presence of large vessel clusters in combination with fibers in the ground tissue characterizing the climbing Apocynoideae and Periplocoideae... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Apocynaceae; Apocynoideae; APSA clade; Climbing vs. nonclimbing anatomy; Periplocoideae; Systematic wood anatomy; Tribal classification; 42.58. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/424670 |
| |
|
|
| Dessein, S.; Ochoterena, H.; De Block, P.; Lens, F.; Robbrecht, E.; Schols, P.; Smets, E.; Vinckier, S.; Huysmans, S.. |
| In the 1990s Rubiaceae became a hot spot for systematists, mainly due to the comprehensive treatment of the family by Robbrecht in 1988. Next to the exploration of macromolecular characters to infer the phylogeny, the palynology of Rubiaceae finally received the attention it deserves. This article aims to present a state-of-the-art analysis of the systematic palynology of the family. The range of variation in pollen morphology is wide, and some of the pollen features are not known from other angiosperm taxa; e.g., a looplike or spiral pattern for the position of apertures in pantoaperturate grains. We compiled an online database at the generic level for the major pollen characters and orbicule presence in Rubiaceae. An overview of the variation is... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Rubiaceae; Pollen morphology; Palynology; Phylogeny. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/407298 |
| |
|
|
| Lens, F.; Dressler, S.; Jansen, S.; Van Evelghem, L.; Smets, E.. |
| Wood samples of 49 specimens representing 31 species and 11 genera of woody balsaminoids, i.e., Balsaminaceae, Marcgraviaceae, Pellicieraceae, and Tetrameristaceae, were investigated using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The wood structure of Marcgraviaceae, Pellicieraceae, and Tetrameristaceae is characterized by radial vessel multiples with simple perforation plates, alternate vessel pitting, apotracheal and paratracheal parenchyma, septate libriform fibers, and the presence of raphides in ray cells. Tetrameristaceae and Pellicieraceae are found to be closely related based on the occurrence of unilaterally compound vessel-ray pitting and multiseriate rays with long uniseriate ends. The narrow rays in Pelliciera are characteristic of... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Balsaminaceae; Balsaminoid clade; Ericales; Marcgraviaceae; Paedomorphism; Pellicieraceae; Tetrameristaceae; Wood anatomy; 42.40. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/407273 |
| |
|
|
| Jansen, S.; Gortan, E.; Lens, F.; Assunta Lo Gullo, M.; Salleo, S.; Scholtz, A.; Stein, A.; Trifilò, P.; Nardini, A.. |
| • The hydraulic conductance of angiosperm xylem has been suggested to vary with changes in sap solute concentrations because of intervessel pit properties. • The magnitude of the ‘ionic effect’ was linked with vessel and pit dimensions in 20 angiosperm species covering 13 families including six Lauraceae species. • A positive correlation was found between ionic effect and vessel grouping parameters, especially the portion of vessel walls in contact with neighbouring vessels. Species with intervessel contact fraction (FC) values < 0.1 showed an ionic effect between 2% and 17%, while species with FC values > 0.1 exhibited a response between 10% and 32%. The ionic effect increased linearly with the mean fraction of the total vessel wall area occupied... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Angiosperms; Hydraulic conductivity; Intervessel pit membrane; Ionic effect; Vessel grouping; Wood anatomy; 42.41. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/423644 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Rabaey, D.; Lens, F.; Smets, E.; Janssen, S.. |
| Background and Aims Intervascular pit membranes were examined within Ericales to determine the distribution and structure of torus-like thickenings. Methods Forty-nine species representing 12 families of the order Ericales were investigated using light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy. They were compared with four species of Oleaceae to determine the true nature of the thickenings. Key Results Pit membranes with torus-like thickenings were observed in seven species of Ericaceae and were found to be amorphous, plasmodesmata-associated structures with an irregular distribution. These pseudo-tori show major differences compared with true tori with respect to their distribution and ultrastructure. Genuine tori, which are strongly correlated... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Ericaceae; Ericales; Oleaceae; Pit membrane; Plasmodesmata; Pseudo-torus; Torus; Tracheary elements. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/407321 |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Lens, F.; Luteyn, J.L.; Smets, E.; Jansen, S.. |
| The ecological wood anatomy of 128 vaccinioid wood samples (including 115 species, 35 genera), collected between 39°S and 60°N latitude and 10 m to 3400 m altitude is studied. Several wood anatomical features within the subfamily, viz. tangential vessel diameter, average length of tracheary elements, height of multiseriate rays, and presence of prismatic crystals are negatively correlated with increasing latitude, while vessel density and helical thickenings show a positive correlation with increasing latitude. Similar latitudinal trends are found within the genus Vaccinium (31 species studied). The correlation between various wood anatomical features and latitude is surprisingly high despite the fact that most tropical species grow in montane regions,... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Altitude; Ecological and functional wood anatomy; Ericaceae; Latitude; Vaccinioideae; Vaccinium; 42.58. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/424624 |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Jansen, S.; Lens, F.; Ntore, S.; Piesschaert, F.; Robbrechf, E.; Smets, E.. |
| The secondary xylem of Craterispermeae, Coussareeae, Morindeae s.str., Prismatomerideae, Pauridiantheae, Urophylleae, and Triainolepideae (Rubiaceae, Rubioideae) is described and illustrated in detail. Genera that were previously placed in the Morindeae or Psychotrieae such as Damnacanthus, Lasianthus, Saldinia, and Trichosfachys are also included. Wood anatomical characters are compared with recent phylogenetic insights into the study group on the basis of molecular data. The observations demonstrate that the delimitation and separation of several taxa from the former Coussareeae/Morindeae/Prismatomerideae/Psychotrieae aggregate is supported by wood anatomical data. The Coussareeae can be distinguished from the other Rubioideae by their scanty parenchyma,... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Rubiaceae; Rubioideae; Systematic wood anatomy; 42.58. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/421859 |
| |
|
|
| Jansen, S.; Sano, Y.; Choat, B.; Rabaey, D.; Lens, F.; Dute, R.R.. |
| The micromorphology of pits in tracheary elements was examined in 35 species representing 29 genera of Rosaceae and related families to evaluate the assumption that angiosperm pits are largely invariant. In most Rosaceae, pit membranes between fibers and tracheids frequently appear to have amorphous thickenings with an irregular distribution. Although these structures are toruslike under the light microscope, observations by electron microscopy illustrate that they represent ‘‘pseudotori’’ or plasmodesmata-associated thickenings. These thickenings frequently extend from the periphery of the pit membrane and form a cap-like, hollow structure. Pseudotori are occasionally found in few Elaeagnaceae and Rhamnaceae and appear to be related to species with... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Fiber; Pit; Pit membrane; Pseudotorus; Rosaceae; Rosales; Torus; Tracheid; 42.58. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/423505 |
| |
|
|
| Rabaey, D.; Lens, F.; Huysmans, S.; Smets, E.; Jansen, S.. |
| Recent micromorphological observations of angiosperm pit membranes have extended the number and range of taxa with pseudo-tori in tracheary elements. This study investigates at ultrastructural level (TEM) the development of pseudo-tori in the unrelated Malus yunnanensis, Ligustrum vulgare, Pittosporum tenuifolium, and Vaccinium myrtillus in order to determine whether these plasmodesmata associated thickenings have a similar developmental pattern across flowering plants. At early ontogenetic stages, the formation of a primary thickening was observed, resulting from swelling of the pit membrane in fibre-tracheids and vesselelements. Since plasmodesmata appear to be frequently, but not always, associated with these primary pit membrane thickenings, it remains... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Ontogeny; Pseudo-torus; Tracheary element; Pit membrane; Bordered pit; Wood ultrastructure; 42.56. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/430078 |
| |
|
|
| Lens, F.; Endress, M.E.; Baas, P.; Jansen, S.; Smets, E.. |
| Wood anatomical studies in the economically important Apocynaceae or dogbane family are fragmentary. This study represents a first attempt to unravel the phylogenetic signifi cance and major evolutionary trends in the wood of the family, using existing and new microscopic wood observations within the large subfamily Rauvolfi oideae. On the basis of LM and SEM observations of 91 species representing all 10 currently recognized tribes, we found that most of the tribes are characterized by a unique combination of wood characters, such as vessel grouping, vessel element length, fi ber type, frequency of uniseriate rays, and fused multiseriate rays. Climbing rauvolfi oid taxa can generally be distinguished from erect species by their wider vessels, tendency to... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Apocynaceae; APSA clade; Climbing vs. nonclimbing habit; Rauvolfi oideae; Systematic wood anatomy; Tribal classification; 42.58. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/424647 |
| |
| Registros recuperados: 41 | |
|
|
|
