Clonal herbs that attain maximum development in late-seral forest are often assumed to have similar responses to disturbance and to be functionally equivalent. However, little is known about the demographic or physiological responses of these plants to disturbance or to the altered conditions of the post-disturbance environment. Following harvest of a mature coniferous forest, we compared abund...

Anti-inflammatory compounds were investigated from the ethanol extract of the roots and rhizomes of Asarum heterotropoides var. mandshuricum, a traditional Chinese medicine called Xixin and used for pain and inflammatory. Nine new compounds were isolated, including six new lignans, neoasarinin A-C (1-3), neoasarininoside A and B (4 and 5), and asarinin B (7), and one new monoterpene, asarincin ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Twenty microsatellite loci were developed for the federally threatened species Hexastylis naniflora (Aristolochiaceae) to examine genetic diversity and to distinguish this species from co-occurring congeners, H. heterophylla and H. minor. METHODS AND RESULTS Next-generation sequencing approaches were used to identify microsatellite loci and design primers. One hundred fif...

The 2004 Harvest Survey of Canadian canola (1) had higher than average chlorophyll content due to a cooler than normal season combined with an early damaging frost resulting in immature seed. As a result, chlorophyll levels in many No. 1 Canada Canola (1CC) export shipments increased to over 30 mg/kg (2). Dockage has been suspected in contributing to the chlorophyll levels in canola cargoes but...

The effects of pollen limitation on reproductive success in plants have been well-documented using pollen supplementation experiments. However, the role of local demographics in determining pollen limitation, particularly in terms of the additive and interactive effects of pollen availability and competition are not well known. We measured fruit set in the dioecious shrub Canada buffaloberry (S...