While the functional genetics and physiological mechanisms controlling drought resistance
in crop plants have been intensely studied, less research has examined the genetic basis of …

Growing evidence shows that epigenetic mechanisms contribute to complex traits, with
implications across many fields of biology. In plant ecology, recent studies have attempted to …

Molecular ecology has moved beyond the use of a relatively small number of markers, often
noncoding, and it is now possible to use whole‐genome measures of gene expression with …

Although it is well appreciated that genetic studies of flowering time regulation have led to
fundamental advances in the fields of molecular and developmental biology, the ways in …

Previously, large-scale proteomics was possible only for organisms whose genomes were
sequenced, meaning the most common model organisms. The use of next-generation …

Asian tropical forests are amongst the most diverse on the planet, a richness that belies the
fact that they are dominated by a single family of trees, the Dipterocarpaceae. Many other …

Plants have evolved to time their leafing, flowering and fruiting in appropriate seasons for
growth, reproduction and resting. As a consequence of their adaptation to geographically …

Phenology refers to the study of seasonal schedules of organisms. Molecular phenology is
defined here as the study of the seasonal patterns of organisms captured by molecular …

Highly variable and synchronised production of seeds by plant populations, known as
masting, is implicated in many important ecological processes, but how it arises remains …

The role of resource availability in determining the incidence of masting has been widely
studied, but how floral transition and initiation are regulated by the resource level is unclear …