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    Volume 212, Issue 3
    527-793
    November 2016
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  • Pages: 527-530
  • First Published: 13 October 2016
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Cover Legend Postelsia palmaeformis, the sea palm, in the wave-swept intertidal zone (Big Sur, CA, USA). Courtesy of Patrick T. Martone (Starko & Martone pp. 719-729)

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Editorial

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Introduction to a Virtual Issue on plant senescence

Howard Thomas,  Helen Ougham, 
  • Pages: 531-536
  • First Published: 13 October 2016

Commentary

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What the population genetic structures of host and pathogen tell us about disease evolution

Daniel Croll,  Anna-Liisa Laine, 
  • Pages: 537-539
  • First Published: 13 October 2016

This article is a commentary on Feurtey et al., 212: 668–679.

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Towards unified hypotheses of the impact of polyploidy on ecological niches

Christian Parisod,  Olivier Broennimann, 
  • Pages: 540-542
  • First Published: 13 October 2016

This article is a commentary on Marchant et al., 212: 708–718.

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Gene tagging in Physcomitrella patens: an addition to the genetic toolbox

Andrew C. Cuming, 
  • Pages: 543-545
  • First Published: 13 October 2016

This article is a commentary on Vives et al., 212: 759–769.

Review

Tansley reviews

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Mechanisms of mast seeding: resources, weather, cues, and selection

Ian S. Pearse,  Walter D. Koenig,  Dave Kelly, 
  • Pages: 546-562
  • First Published: 01 August 2016

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Dark-induced leaf senescence: new insights into a complex light-dependent regulatory pathway

Daniela Liebsch,  Olivier Keech, 
  • Pages: 563-570
  • First Published: 26 September 2016

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Epigenetic contribution to successful polyploidizations: variation in global cytosine methylation along an extensive ploidy series in Dianthus broteri (Caryophyllaceae)

Conchita Alonso,  Francisco Balao,  Pilar Bazaga,  Ricardo Pérez, 
  • Pages: 571-576
  • First Published: 02 August 2016

Full papers

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Pragmatic hydraulic theory predicts stomatal responses to climatic water deficits

John S. Sperry,  Yujie Wang,  Brett T. Wolfe,  D. Scott Mackay,  William R. L. Anderegg,  Nate G. McDowell,  William T. Pockman, 
  • Pages: 577-589
  • First Published: 22 June 2016
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Three times greater weight of daytime than of night-time temperature on leaf unfolding phenology in temperate trees

Yongshuo H. Fu,  Yongjie Liu,  Hans J. De Boeck,  Annette Menzel,  Ivan Nijs,  Marc Peaucelle,  Josep Peñuelas,  Shilong Piao,  Ivan A. Janssens, 
  • Pages: 590-597
  • First Published: 04 July 2016
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NtDRP is necessary for accurate zygotic division orientation and differentiation of basal cell lineage toward suspensor formation

Jing Zhao,  Haiping Xin,  Lingyan Cao,  Xiaorong Huang,  Ce Shi,  Peng Zhao,  Ying Fu,  Meng-Xiang Sun, 
  • Pages: 598-612
  • First Published: 27 June 2016
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Knockdown of strigolactone biosynthesis genes in Populus affects BRANCHED1 expression and shoot architecture

Merlin Muhr,  Nele Prüfer,  Maria Paulat,  Thomas Teichmann, 
  • Pages: 613-626
  • First Published: 04 July 2016
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Cooperative functioning between phenylalanine ammonia lyase and isochorismate synthase activities contributes to salicylic acid biosynthesis in soybean

M. B. Shine,  Jung-Wook Yang,  Mohamed El-Habbak,  Padmaja Nagyabhyru,  Da-Qi Fu,  Duroy Navarre,  Said Ghabrial,  Pradeep Kachroo,  Aardra Kachroo, 
  • Pages: 627-636
  • First Published: 13 July 2016
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Loss-of-function of Arabidopsis receptor-like kinase BIR1 activates cell death and defense responses mediated by BAK1 and SOBIR1

Yanan Liu,  Xingchuan Huang,  Meng Li,  Ping He,  Yuelin Zhang, 
  • Pages: 637-645
  • First Published: 12 July 2016
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Biological nitrification inhibition by rice root exudates and its relationship with nitrogen-use efficiency

Li Sun,  Yufang Lu,  Fangwei Yu,  Herbert J. Kronzucker,  Weiming Shi, 
  • Pages: 646-656
  • First Published: 13 June 2016
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Taxonomic similarity, more than contact opportunity, explains novel plant–pathogen associations between native and alien taxa

Jennifer L. Bufford,  Philip E. Hulme,  Benjamin A. Sikes,  Jerry A. Cooper,  Peter R. Johnston,  Richard P. Duncan, 
  • Pages: 657-667
  • First Published: 21 July 2016
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Strong phylogeographic co-structure between the anther-smut fungus and its white campion host

Alice Feurtey,  Pierre Gladieux,  Michael E. Hood,  Alodie Snirc,  Amandine Cornille,  Lisa Rosenthal,  Tatiana Giraud, 
  • Pages: 668-679
  • First Published: 08 August 2016

See also the Commentary on this article by Croll & Laine, 212: 537–539.

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Deciphering the biology of deltasatellites from the New World: maintenance by New World begomoviruses and whitefly transmission

Elvira Fiallo-Olivé,  Remedios Tovar,  Jesús Navas-Castillo, 
  • Pages: 680-692
  • First Published: 11 July 2016
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A spontaneous mutation in MutL-Homolog 3 (HvMLH3) affects synapsis and crossover resolution in the barley desynaptic mutant des10

Isabelle Colas,  Malcolm Macaulay,  James D. Higgins,  Dylan Phillips,  Abdellah Barakate,  Markus Posch,  Susan J. Armstrong,  F. Chris H. Franklin,  Claire Halpin,  Robbie Waugh,  Luke Ramsay, 
  • Pages: 693-707
  • First Published: 08 July 2016

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Patterns of abiotic niche shifts in allopolyploids relative to their progenitors

D. Blaine Marchant,  Douglas E. Soltis,  Pamela S. Soltis, 
  • Pages: 708-718
  • First Published: 11 July 2016

See also the Commentary on this article by Parisod & Broennimann, 212: 540–542.

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An empirical test of ‘universal’ biomass scaling relationships in kelps: evidence of convergence with seed plants

Samuel Starko,  Patrick T. Martone, 
  • Pages: 719-729
  • First Published: 01 August 2016
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Revisiting the phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein (PEBP) gene family reveals cryptic FLOWERING LOCUS T gene homologs in gymnosperms and sheds new light on functional evolution

Yan-Yan Liu,  Ke-Zhen Yang,  Xiao-Xin Wei,  Xiao-Quan Wang, 
  • Pages: 730-744
  • First Published: 04 July 2016
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Challenging the paradigms of leaf evolution: Class III HD-Zips in ferns and lycophytes

Alejandra Vasco,  Tynisha L. Smalls,  Sean W. Graham,  Endymion D. Cooper,  Gane Ka-Shu Wong,  Dennis W. Stevenson,  Robbin C. Moran,  Barbara A. Ambrose, 
  • Pages: 745-758
  • First Published: 07 July 2016

Methods

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Highly efficient gene tagging in the bryophyte Physcomitrella patens using the tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Tnt1 retrotransposon

Cristina Vives,  Florence Charlot,  Corinne Mhiri,  Beatriz Contreras,  Julien Daniel,  Aline Epert,  Daniel F. Voytas,  Marie-Angèle Grandbastien,  Fabien Nogué,  Josep M. Casacuberta, 
  • Pages: 759-769
  • First Published: 22 August 2016

See also the Commentary on this article by Cuming, 212: 543–545.

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Enzyme-driven metabolomic screening: a proof-of-principle method for discovery of plant defence compounds targeted by pathogens

Jason Carere,  Michelle L. Colgrave,  Jiri Stiller,  Chunji Liu,  John M. Manners,  Kemal Kazan,  Donald M. Gardiner, 
  • Pages: 770-779
  • First Published: 29 June 2016
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High-resolution community profiling of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Klaus Schlaeppi,  S. Franz Bender,  Fabio Mascher,  Giancarlo Russo,  Andrea Patrignani,  Tessa Camenzind,  Stefan Hempel,  Matthias C. Rillig,  Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, 
  • Pages: 780-791
  • First Published: 06 July 2016

Corrigendum

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Corrigendum

  • Pages: 792
  • First Published: 02 September 2016

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Corrigendum

  • Pages: 793
  • First Published: 06 September 2016