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International journal publishing novel and rigorous research in all areas of plant science, managed by the Annals of Botany Company, a not-for-profit educational charity.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 7d
🆕 The new issue of @annbot.bsky.social is now online!

🌿 Plant anatomy & functional traits
🧬 Phylogenetics & lineage diversification
🌸 Floral development & pollination
🌍 Environmental stress, climate extremes & adaptation
🧪 Genomics & gene regulation

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The cover image shows Tecticornia crotalus, which is an Australian endemic halophyte named after the rattlesnake genus Crotalus, due to the terminal, spike-like inflorescences resembling its iconic rattle-like tail. This low-lying halophyte also has leafless, glossy green vegetative articles tinged with orange. Because of its restricted distribution, narrow habitat niche, and increasing threats from climate-driven hydrological changes and proposed mining infrastructure, this species may be at risk of extinction, despite having been discovered only recently. [See Žerdoner Čalasan et al., pp. 247–266.]
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Anthropogenic disturbances lead to phylogenetic overdispersion but functional clustering within forest communities of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Timing, patterns, and environmental drivers of wood formation in Larix olgensis in Changbai Mountain, Northeast China
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January 20, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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🦠🌱 Join us to learn about the newly published “High throughput design of defined microbial consortia for crop protection” in @annbot.bsky.social by Temitope Ruth Folorunso and co-authors. (1/10)

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High throughput design of defined microbial consortia for crop protection
January 20, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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♻️🆓: Anatomical insights into the vascular layout of the barley rachis: implications for transport and spikelet connection
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Anatomical insights into the vascular layout of the barley rachis: implications for transport and spikelet connection
AbstractBackground and Aims. Vascular patterning is intimately related to plant form and function. Here, using barley (Hordeum vulgare) as a model, we stud
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January 20, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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🎉🆕📰🎉: Plant life without leaves, roots or stems: anatomy, development and three-dimensional structure of the endoparasite Pilostyles blanchetii (Apodanthaceae) in Mimosa hosts
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Plant life without leaves, roots or stems: anatomy, development and three-dimensional structure of the endoparasite Pilostyles blanchetii (Apodanthaceae) in Mimosa hosts
AbstractBackground and Aims. The vegetative body of Pilostyles (Apodanthaceae) is highly reduced, composed of cell clusters that occupy the bark of the hos
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January 19, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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🎉🆕📰🎉: 3-D Growth: the diversity of strategies in brown algae
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3-D Growth: the diversity of strategies in brown algae
AbstractBackground. Brown algae developed multicellularity independently of plants and animals. Once formed, the embryo rapidly establishes growth hotspots
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January 19, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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♻️🆓: Crop-to-wild gene flow in wild coffee species: the case of Coffea canephora in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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January 19, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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✅📄 Now Free Access: Untangling poikilohydry and desiccation tolerance: evolutionary and macroecological drivers in ferns
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Untangling poikilohydry and desiccation tolerance: evolutionary and macroecological drivers in ferns
AbstractBackground and Aims. Poikilohydry describes the inability of plants to internally regulate their water content (hydroregulation), whereas desiccati
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January 18, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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✅📄 Now Free Access: Out of and in East Asia: phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of Thalictroideae (Ranunculaceae) in the Northern Hemisphere
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Out of and in East Asia: phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of Thalictroideae (Ranunculaceae) in the Northern Hemisphere
AbstractBackground and Aims. Understanding the biogeographical patterns and processes underlying the distribution of diversity within the Northern Hemisphe
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January 18, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Structural conservation of phi thickenings in diverse plant taxa
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January 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The diversity of Ficus
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January 17, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Genetic signatures of long-term evolutionary history in a herbaceous, high-polyploid, clonal plant species in Central Europe
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January 17, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Fruit morphology, anatomy and inferred brassicalean affinities of Scalarifructus coloradensis (Knowlton) gen. et comb. nov. from the Eocene of North America and Europe
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January 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Comparative seed physiological ecology in Coffea species highlights variation in germination strategies associated with climate and phylogeny
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January 16, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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📝 “An Endless Passion For Tropical Plants”

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Laura Lagomarsino: An Endless Passion For Tropical Plants
Botany One interviews Dr. Laura Lagomarsino, a plant evolutionary biologist that once she fell in love with tropical plants,...
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January 16, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Selection for fewer, water- and carbon-conservative needles in black spruce trees under warm, dry climates
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January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Resolving the tribal affiliation of the East Asia clade: phylogenomic evidence for its inclusion into Komarovieae (Apiaceae: Apioideae)
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January 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Single fire events impose lasting reproductive costs in savanna trees’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Marcelle de Castro Cavalheiro and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)

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Single fire events impose lasting reproductive costs in savanna trees
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The presence and strength of post-pollination barriers in an orchid lineage that lacks pollinator specialization
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January 15, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Phylogenomic analyses of the diverse desert–alpine plant lineage Cistantheae
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January 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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♻️🆓: Changes in maerl-associated macroalgal community dynamics as evidence of anthropogenic pressure
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January 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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♻️🆓: Function and induction of the root barrier to radial O2 loss. A commentary on ‘Exogenous abscisic acid induces the formation of a suberized barrier to radial oxygen loss in adventitious roots of barley (Hordeum vulgare)’
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January 14, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Genome-wide association study reveals genomic regions impacting yield-related traits in allohexaploid Brassica with AABBCC genomes
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January 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Conservation genetics and genetic vulnerability of Craigia yunnanensis (Malvaceae), a relict plant species with extremely small populations from Southwest China
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January 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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🌱🌱🌱Proposals for our special issue on seedling traits and climate change closes 1st Feb.
Papers will be due in September. 🌱🌱🌱
annbot.bsky.social Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 13d
⏳ There’s still time to submit!

The call for papers for the Special Issue
Seedling Traits and Climate Change remains open until February 1, 2026 🗓

We look forward to your research on how early plant life stages respond to a changing climate 🌱

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Green flyer for an Annals of Botany Special Issue, “Seedling Traits and Climate Change,” listing the editor and guest editors, with a February 1, 2026 submission deadline and a photo of sprouting seeds.
January 12, 2026 at 11:06 PM