Quercus pubescens Willd., a species distributed from Spain to southwest Asia, ranks high for drought tolerance among European oaks. Q. pubescens performs a role of outstanding significance in most Mediterranean forest ecosystems, but few mechanistic studies have been conducted to explore its response to environmental constrains, due to the lack of genomic resources. In our study, we performed a...

There is an error in the title. The correct title is: Metabolomic Profiling of the Nectars of Aquilegia pubescens and A. canadensis. The correct citation is: Noutsos C, Perera AM, Nikolau BJ, Seaver SMD, Ware DH (2015) Metabolomic Profiling of the Nectars of Aquilegia pubescens and A. canadensis. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0124501. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124501 The images for Figs 3 and 4 are incorrec...

Past reproductive interactions among incompletely isolated species may leave behind a trail of introgressed alleles, shedding light on historical range movements. Betula pubescens is a widespread native tetraploid tree species in Britain, occupying habitats intermediate to those of its native diploid relatives, B. pendula and B. nana. Genotyping 1134 trees from the three species at 12 microsate...

Diversity of flower traits is often proposed as the outcome of selection exerted by pollinators. Positive directional pollinator-mediated selection on floral size has been widely shown to reduce phenotypic variance. However, the underlying mechanism of maintaining within-population floral color polymorphism is poorly understood. Divergent selection, mediated by different pollinators or by both ...

Tocopherols have previously been reported from R. pubescens (Demo et al., 1998).

Phyllostachys pubescens forests play an important role in soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems. However, the estimation and mechanism of SOC sequestration by P. pubescens forests remain unclear. In this study, the effect of P. pubescens forest distribution with elevation was investigated at two altitude sites in Jian-ou City, Southeast China. SOC storage was estimat...

A systematic study was conducted on Phyllostachys pubescens by analyzing the chemical constituents of its rhizome and culm at different ages. Our results indicated that the ash contents of the rhizome and culm of P. pubescens at different ages showed the largest coefficient of variation (CV), followed by alcohol benzene extractives. The CVs of acidinsoluble lignin, holocellulose, HNO3-C2H5OH ce...

The thymus may under certain conditions de termine susceptibility to the development of leu kemia in mice. The incidence of spontaneous leu kemia in Ak mice was remarkably reduced by thymectomy (2) ; extirpation of the thymus simi larly reduced the susceptibility of C57BL mice to the induction of leukemia by x-rays (4) and of DBA/2 mice to the leukemogenic activity of methylcholanthrene (10). A...