Non-native plants can reduce grassland biodiversity, degrade wildlife habitat, and threaten rural livelihoods. Management be costly, the successful eradication of undesirable species does not guarantee restoration ecosystem service delivery. An alternative to invasive in rangelands is target diversity heterogeneous plant structure, which have direct links function. In this study, we evaluate pa...

Two isovitexin glycosides have been found in the cotyledons and foliage leaves o f Silene pratensis plants that are unable to glycosylate isovitexin in their petals (genotype gg glgl fgfg). The glycosides (isovitexin 7-O -galactoside and isovitexin 7-O -galactose 2 " -0 -a rab in o sid e ) were present only in the lower leaves: leaves p roduced later in the developm ent o f the flower stem accu...

Seed production generally requires the mating of opposite sex gametes. Apomixis, an asexual mode of reproduction, avoids both meiotic reduction and egg fertilization. The essential feature of apomixis is that an embryo is formed autonomously by parthenogenesis from an unreduced egg of an embryo sac generated through apomeiosis. If apomixis were well understood and harnessed, it could be exploit...