How barriers to gene flow arise and are maintained are key questions in evolutionary
biology. Speciation research has mainly focused on barriers that occur either before mating …

Improvements of in vitro culture protocols are essential to increase productivity in order to
ensure their practical application in commercial laboratories. The aim of the present work …

Seed aging is the key factor leading to the loss of genetic integrity. In this study, the seeds of
Dongxiang wild rice, Xianggu, 9194 and Nipponbare were kept in a plant incubator with …

Castanopsis chinensis (Spreng.) Hance is widespread in the subtropical forests of China.
Castanopsis qiongbeiensis GA Fu and Castanopsis glabrifolia JQ Li & Li Chen are limited to …

Viburnum japonicum is a rare plant species and endemic to the coastal region of Eastern
Asia with extremely small populations. Within mainland China, this species can be only …

Based on recent field work on an insular granitic outcrop in southeast Brazil, a new
Tillandsia species was collected and described here. Tillandsia alcatrazensis belongs to T …

The word" Ökologie" derives from the combination of the Greek terms" oikos", which means
house, and" logos", which means" study"(Schwarz and Jax, 2011). It is defined as: the …