Angiosperm leaves manifest a remarkable diversity of shapes that range from
developmental sequences within a shoot and within crown response to microenvironment to …

The island syndrome is defined as a suite of predictable and consistent differences between
island and mainland organisms. In seed plants, much of what we know about the island …

Southwestern Australia (hereafter referred to as the 'SouthWest')—defined as the area south
of a line from Shark Bay in the north to Eyre in the south-east—is unique among Australia's …

The research of functional genes in Acacia melanoxylon, a precious and fast-growing timber
species with wide adaptability, has been greatly limited due to the absence of reliable and …

Field surveys were conducted to test whether plants deploy structural defences in ways that
match the distribution of megaherbivores. In Western Australian scrublands, where adult …

Hawaiian endemic tree Acacia koa is a model for heteroblasty with bipinnately compound
leaves and phyllodes. Previous studies suggested three hypotheses for their functional …

The genetic pathways which control leaf shape have been revealed through work in a range
of model systems. We are now beginning to understand how plants produce leaves of …

Abstract Background and Aims Heteroblastic plant species, whose morphology or growth
habit changes suddenly during development, offer unique opportunities to investigate the …

Pine seedlings exhibit heteroblastic foliage (primary and secondary needles) during
seedling development. However, few trials have studied how heteroblastic foliage …

Pines have heteroblastic foliage (primary and secondary needles) during seedling stage,
but how heteroblastic foliage affects carbon storage and biomass accumulation, contributing …