Achieving zero extinction for land plants

RT Corlett - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Despite the importance of plants for humans and the threats to their future, plant
conservation receives far less support compared with vertebrate conservation. Plants are …

Wild orchids: A framework for identifying and improving sustainable harvest

T Ticktin, M Charitonidou, J Douglas, JM Halley… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Worldwide, thousands of orchid species are harvested from the wild. Widespread legal and
illegal unsustainable trade has contributed to the decline of many species. However, there is …

Beyond the various contrivances by which orchids are pollinated: global patterns in orchid pollination biology

JD Ackerman, RD Phillips, RL Tremblay… - Botanical Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Orchidaceae show remarkable diversity in pollination strategies, but how these strategies
vary globally is not entirely clear. To identify regions and taxa that are data-rich and lend …

Advances and prospects of orchid research and industrialization

D Zhang, XW Zhao, YY Li, SJ Ke, WL Yin… - Horticulture …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Orchidaceae is one of the largest, most diverse families in angiosperms with significant
ecological and economical values. Orchids have long fascinated scientists by their complex …

Consistent population declines but idiosyncratic range shifts in Alpine orchids under global change

C Geppert, G Perazza, RJ Wilson, A Bertolli… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mountains are plant biodiversity hotspots considered particularly vulnerable to multiple
environmental changes. Here, we quantify population changes and range-shift dynamics …

A case for studying biotic interactions in epiphyte ecology and evolution

ME Spicer, CL Woods - Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biotic interactions are widely accepted as an important driver of ecological and evolutionary
patterns, contributing to the structure of systems as diverse as tropical tree seedlings …

The volatile chemistry of orchid pollination

J Perkins, T Hayashi, R Peakall, GR Flematti… - Natural Product …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to September 2022 Orchids are renowned not only for their diversity of floral
forms, but also for their many and often highly specialised pollination strategies. Volatile …

Resilience to summer bushfire in the threatened orchid, Caladenia tessellata, in terms of pollination success, herbivory, and mycorrhizal associations

RD Phillips, J Hatley, X Li, RJ Dimon… - Botanical Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In some biogeographic regions, many threatened plant species occur in habitats that
periodically experience bushfire. However, we currently have relatively little information on …

Orchid phylotranscriptomics: the prospects of repurposing multi-tissue transcriptomes for phylogenetic analysis and beyond

DCJ Wong, R Peakall - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Orchidaceae is rivaled only by the Asteraceae as the largest plant family, with the
estimated number of species exceeding 25,000 and encompassing more than 700 genera …

Comparative Transcriptomics Analysis of the Symbiotic Germination of D. officinale (Orchidaceae) With Emphasis on Plant Cell Wall Modification and Cell Wall …

J Chen, Y Tang, A Kohler, A Lebreton, Y Xing… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Orchid seed germination in nature is an extremely complex physiological and ecological
process involving seed development and mutualistic interactions with a restricted range of …