Accelerated breeding of plant species has the potential to help challenge environmental and biochemical cues to support global crop security. We demonstrate the over-expression of ArabidopsisFLOWERING LOCUS T in Agrobacterium-mediated transformed cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz; cultivar 60444) to trigger early flowering in glasshouse-grown plants. An event seldom seen in a glasshouse environ...

Cleome viscosa L., an annual rainy season weed, is cosmopolitan in distribution. Two naturally growing populations of C. viscosa from Jammu, J & K, India have been studied for floral variation at an intra-plant level and its possible role in its life cycle. Plants of both the populations bear flowers which exhibit tremendous intra-plant variation in size (large and small) and sex (hermaphrodite...

Introduction: Understanding the phenology of plant populations is vital for their conservation and management. We studied vegetative reproductive endangered palm Ceroxylon quindiuense along an altitudinal gradient in Central Cordillera Colombia. Objective: describe leaf production rate, flowering fruiting cycles, calculate food offer fauna, as a tool proper management palm. Methods: At each sam...

Summary Clusia falcata (Clusiaceae), a new species from Chiapas, Mexico, is described and illustrated. This taxon distinctive for its leaves, among the narrowest of all known species, having lanceolate to oblong laminas that are mostly 10 – 15 × 2 2.5 cm. The flowers have quadrangular perianth with succulent petals, non-resiniferous androecium gynoecium. Staminate androphore bearing 18 24 short...

Alternanthera philoxeroides is a perennial amphibious weed native to South America but has now spread to diverse parts of the world. A. philoxeroides reproduces both sexually and asexually in its native range, but propagates solely through vegetative means in its introduced range. Traits associated with sexual reproduction become degraded for sexual dysfunction, with flowers possessing either p...

Dalechampia is a mainly South American genus of generally climbing shrubs with usually sharp stiff trichomes in some the inflorescence parts. The bisexual inflorescences are very condensed and subtended by two, often showy, large bracts. three pistillate flowers separate from staminate subinflorescence (both groups their own bracts). contains staminodial-like bractlets that provide resin for fe...

BACKGROUND In many plant species, pollination syndromes predict the most effective pollinator. However, other floral visitors may also offer effective pollination services and promote mixed pollination systems. Several species of the species-rich Penstemon (Plantaginaceae) exhibit a suite of floral traits that suggest adaptation for pollination by both hymenopterans and hummingbirds. Transition...