The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change

AM Hetherington, FI Woodward - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Stomata, the small pores on the surfaces of leaves and stalks, regulate the flow of gases in
and out of leaves and thus plants as a whole. They adapt to local and global changes on all …

Evolution of grasses and grassland ecosystems

CAE Strömberg - Annual review of Earth and planetary sciences, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The evolution and subsequent ecological expansion of grasses (Poaceae) since the Late
Cretaceous have resulted in the establishment of one of Earth's dominant biomes, the …

Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

DNA sequencing and assembly Barry Kerrie 5 Lucas … - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Three subfamilies of grasses, the Ehrhartoideae, Panicoideae and Pooideae, provide the
bulk of human nutrition and are poised to become major sources of renewable energy. Here …

Genome sequence of the progenitor of wheat A subgenome Triticum urartu

HQ Ling, B Ma, X Shi, H Liu, L Dong, H Sun, Y Cao… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Triticum urartu (diploid, AA) is the progenitor of the A subgenome of tetraploid (Triticum
turgidum, AABB) and hexaploid (Triticum aestivum, AABBDD) wheat,. Genomic studies of T …

A well-supported nuclear phylogeny of Poaceae and implications for the evolution of C4 photosynthesis

W Huang, L Zhang, JT Columbus, Y Hu, Y Zhao… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
Poaceae (the grasses) includes rice, maize, wheat, and other crops, and is the most
economically important angiosperm family. Poaceae is also one of the largest plant families …

[BOOK][B] Plant form: an illustrated guide to flowering plant morphology

AD Bell, A Bryan - 2008 - books.google.com
The ideal reference for students of botany and horticulture, gardeners, and naturalists. The
diverse external shapes and structures that make up flowering plants can be bewildering …

The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications

J Yu, J Wang, W Lin, S Li, H Li, J Zhou, P Ni… - PLoS …, 2005 - journals.plos.org
We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and
japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over …

The mechanical diversity of stomata and its significance in gas-exchange control

PJ Franks, GD Farquhar - Plant physiology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Given that stomatal movement is ultimately a mechanical process and that stomata are
morphologically and mechanically diverse, we explored the influence of stomatal …

Comparative analysis of plant immune receptor architectures uncovers host proteins likely targeted by pathogens

PF Sarris, V Cevik, G Dagdas, JDG Jones… - BMC biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Plants deploy immune receptors to detect pathogen-derived molecules and
initiate defense responses. Intracellular plant immune receptors called nucleotide-binding …

Phylogenetic analyses of RPB1 and RPB2 support a middle Cretaceous origin for a clade comprising all agriculturally and medically important fusaria

K O'Donnell, AP Rooney, RH Proctor, DW Brown… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Fusarium (Hypocreales, Nectriaceae) is one of the most economically important and
systematically challenging groups of mycotoxigenic phytopathogens and emergent human …