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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 |
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Nieukerken, E.J. van; Doorenweerd, C.; Ellis, W.N.; Huisman, K.J.; Koster, J.C.; Mey, W.; Muus, T.S.T.; Schreurs, A.. |
Bucculatrix ainsliella Murtfeldt, 1905 is for the first time reported from Europe: the Netherlands, Belgium, and adjacent Germany. DNA barcodes confirm its identity. It is the first North American lepidopteranspecies feeding on northern red oak Quercus rubra ever found in Europe, and only the second North American oak-feeding insect found in Europe. The species has regularly been found in the Netherlands and northern Belgium since 2006, and in 2011 also in Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany, adjacent to the Dutch border, but the earliest records are from the Netherlands, Amersfoort in 1989 and 1990. Early stages, leafmines, and the adult are described, illustrated, and diagnosed against oak-feeding Bucculatrix ulmella Zeller, 1848 and other similar species.... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Bucculatrix ainsliella; Invasive species; Northern red oaks; Quercus rubra; Bucculatricidae; The Netherlands; Belgium; Germany; 42.75; 42.56. |
Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/433335 |
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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 |
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Lens, F.; Smets, E.; Melzer, S.. |
The soc1 ful double mutant of A. thaliana produced substantial secondary growth throughout all aboveground stems, whereas in the Col accession only a few cell layers of wood were produced at the base of old stems. This increased wood formation may be linked to inactivation of the flowering time genes SOC1 and FUL (Melzer et al., 2008). These two genes could play a crucial regulatory role in triggering genetic mechanisms that lead to insular woodiness outside A. thaliana, and this ‘simple’ two-gene loss could explain why many nonrelated herbaceous families have independently evolved into woody insular lineages throughout the world. However, SOC1 and FUL might not be the only suppressors of cambium formation; other upstream, downstream or parallel-acting... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Stem anatomy; Arabidopsis thaliana; Insular woodiness; Brassicaceae; Wood formation; 42.56. |
Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/429528 |
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Rabaey, D.; Huysmans, S.; Lens, F.; Smets, E.; Jansen, S.. |
Recent studies on the functional significance of pit membranes in water conducting cells have renewed general interest in their micromorphology. At least two types of pit membrane thickenings have been described in angiosperm families, i.e. genuine tori and pseudo-tori. This study explores the distribution and morphology of pit membrane thickenings in 69 species and 23 genera within Oleaceae using light and electron microscopy. Torus-bearing pit membranes are confirmed for Osmanthus, and new records are reported for Chionanthus retusa, Picconia azorica, and P. excelsa, but not for the other species studied of Chionanthus. This infrageneric variation suggests that tori represent a plastic feature that has evolved more than once within the family as the... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Electron microscopy; Pit aperture; Pit membrane; Plasmodesmata; Pseudo-torus; Torus; Tracheid; Vessel element; 42.56. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/429536 |
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Lens, F.; Sperry, J.S.; Christmas, M.A.; Rabaey, D.; Jansen, S.. |
• Vulnerability to cavitation and conductive efficiency depend on xylem anatomy. We tested a large range of structure–function hypotheses, some for the first time, within a single genus to minimize phylogenetic ‘noise’ and maximize detection of functionally relevant variation. • This integrative study combined in-depth anatomical observations using light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy of seven Acer taxa, and compared these observations with empirical measures of xylem hydraulics. • Our results reveal a 2 MPa range in species’ mean cavitation pressure (MCP). MCP was strongly correlated with intervessel pit structure (membrane thickness and porosity, chamber depth), weakly correlated with pit number per vessel, and not related to pit area... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Acer; Cavitation resistance; Hydraulic conductivity; Pit structure; Rare pit hypothesis; Vessel distribution; Vessel wall thickenings; Wood density; 42.56. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/429474 |
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Jansen, S.; Watanabe, T.; Caris, P.; Geuten, K.; Lens, F.; Pyck, N.; Smets, E.. |
The distribution of aluminium (Al) accumulation in the Ericales is surveyed, based on semi-quantitative tests of 114 species and literature data. Al accumulation mainly characterises the families Diapensiaceae, Pentaphylacaceae, Symplocaceae, Ternstroemiaceae, and Theaceae. Al accumulation is consistently present or absent in most families examined, but the character appears to be more variable in a few taxa (e.g., Lecythidaceae, Myrsinaceae). Although the interfamilial relationships within the Ericales require further research, the ability to accumulate high levels of Al appears to show considerable taxonomic significance. While the majority of Al accumulating Ericales includes woody, tropical plants, the feature is remarkably present in several... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Aluminium accumulation; Ericales; Phyogeny; Diapensiaceae; Pentaphylacaceae; Symplocaceae; Ternstroemiaceae; Theaceae; 42.56. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/431739 |
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Lens, F.; Gasson, P.; Smets, E.; Jansen, S.. |
The wood anatomy of 16 of the 37 genera within the epacrids (Styphelioideae, Ericaceae s.l.) is investigated by light and scanning electron microscopy. Several features in the secondary xylem occur consistently at the tribal level: arrangement of vessel‐ray pits, distribution of axial parenchyma, ray width, and the presence and location of crystals. The primitive nature of Prionoteae and Archerieae is supported by the presence of scalariform perforation plates with many bars and scalariform to opposite vessel pitting. The wood structure of Oligarrheneae is similar to that of Styphelieae, but the very narrow vessel elements, exclusively uniseriate rays and the lack of prismatic crystals in Oligarrheneae distinguish these two tribes. The secondary xylem of... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Ecological wood anatomy; Epacrids; Ericaceae s.l.; Styphelioideae; Systematic wood anatomy; 42.56. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/431740 |
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