The current epidemic, population growth, and decreasing arable lands lead to a severe food
crisis, which calls for productive and efficient agricultural methods to ensure a sustainable …

A transition from qualitative to quantitative descriptors of morphology has been facilitated
through the growing field of morphometrics, representing the conversion of shapes and …

Chiral morphology has been intensively studied in various fields including biology, organic
chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and optics. On-demand and dynamic chiral inversion not only …

Symmetric tissue alignment is pivotal to the functions of plant vascular tissue, such as long-
distance molecular transport and lateral organ formation. During the vascular development …

Indices of morphological disparity seek to summarise the highly multivariate morphological
variation across groups of species within clades, time bins or other groups. Morphological …

Premise Morphometric analysis is a common approach for comparing and categorizing
botanical samples; however, completing a suite of analyses using existing tools may require …

Plant leaves play a pivotal role in automated species identification using deep learning (DL).
However, achieving reproducible capture of leaf variation remains challenging due to the …

The estimation of biological sex is of paramount relevance in the analysis of skeletal
remains recovered in forensic contexts. This study aims to assess sexual dimorphism for …

Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of a genotype of producing different phenotypes when
exposed to different environments, may impact ecological interactions. We study here how …

Abstract Background and Aims Grass silica short cell (GSSC) phytoliths appear to be the
most reliable source of fossil evidence for tracking the evolutionary history and paleoecology …