Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 21, 2016

Plastome data reveal multiple geographic origins of Quercus Group Ilex

Marco Cosimo Simeone, Guido W. Grimm, Alessio Papini, Federico Vessella, Simone Cardoni, Enrico Tordoni, Roberta Piredda, Alain Franc, Thomas Denk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1897 PubMed 27123376

April 11, 2016

Differences in stability of seed-associated microbial assemblages in response to invasion by phytopathogenic microorganisms

Samir Rezki, Claire Campion, Beatrice Iacomi-Vasilescu, Anne Preveaux, Youness Toualbia, Sophie Bonneau, Martial Briand, Emmanuelle Laurent, Gilles Hunault, Philippe Simoneau, Marie-Agnès Jacques, Matthieu Barret

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1923 PubMed 27077013

April 26, 2016

NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C plays a role in nonhost disease resistance against Pseudomonas syringae pathogens by regulating chloroplast-generated reactive oxygen species

Yasuhiro Ishiga, Takako Ishiga, Yoko Ikeda, Takakazu Matsuura, Kirankumar S. Mysore

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1938 PubMed 27168965

April 25, 2016

Ectopic expression of Jatropha curcas APETALA1 (JcAP1) caused early flowering in Arabidopsis, but not in Jatropha

Mingyong Tang, Yan-Bin Tao, Zeng-Fu Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1969 PubMed 27168978

April 21, 2016

Growth and physiological responses of submerged plant Vallisneria natans to water column ammonia nitrogen and sediment copper

Zhengjie Zhu, Siyuan Song, Pengshan Li, Nasreen Jeelani, Penghe Wang, Hezhong Yuan, Jinghan Zhang, Shuqing An, Xin Leng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1953 PubMed 27123381

April 21, 2016

A comparison of species composition and community assemblage of secondary forests between the birch and pine-oak belts in the mid-altitude zone of the Qinling Mountains, China

Zongzheng Chai, Dexiang Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1900 PubMed 27123377

April 14, 2016

Natural selection drives chemical resistance of Datura stramonium

Adán Miranda-Pérez, Guillermo Castillo, Johnattan Hernández-Cumplido, Pedro L. Valverde, María Borbolla, Laura L. Cruz, Rosalinda Tapia-López, Juan Fornoni, César M. Flores-Ortiz, Juan Núñez-Farfán

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1898 PubMed 27114866

April 7, 2016

Genetic diversity in Oryza glumaepatula wild rice populations in Costa Rica and possible gene flow from O. sativa

Eric J. Fuchs, Allan Meneses Martínez, Amanda Calvo, Melania Muñoz, Griselda Arrieta-Espinoza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1875 PubMed 27077002

April 25, 2016

Development of a stem taper equation and modelling the effect of stand density on taper for Chinese fir plantations in Southern China

Aiguo Duan, Sensen Zhang, Xiongqing Zhang, Jianguo Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1929 PubMed 27168964

April 7, 2016

Unique haplotypes of cacao trees as revealed by trnH-psbA chloroplast DNA

Nidia Gutiérrez-López, Isidro Ovando-Medina, Miguel Salvador-Figueroa, Francisco Molina-Freaner, Carlos H. Avendaño-Arrazate, Alfredo Vázquez-Ovando