Genetic and Morphological Variation in Tropical and Temperate Plant Species

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: abiotic stresses; Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr; Agribusiness and primary industries; allometry; anatomy; antenna protein; artificial selection; autumn leaf senescence; Biology, life sciences; birch; breeding population; bulked segregant analysis; carry-over effect; chlorophyll fluorescence; climate change; co-expression; conservation; conserved domains; creeping trait; cumulative logistic regression; cytochrome p450; Dalbergia odorifera T. Chen; DEGs; DNA barcoding; drought; early selection; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; edible forest product; endophytes; EST-SSR marker; Eucalyptus; expression profiles; flowering; flushing; forest biodiversity; forest biology; forest management; Forestry industry; gas exchange; gene structures; genetic differentiation; genetic diversity; genetic variation; glycotransferases; graft union; grafting; growth trait; Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium; hawthorn; HbMad-box genes; heat shock factor gene; Hevea brasiliensis Müll. Arg; Industry and industrial studies; introgression hybrid; Lagerstroemia species; leafing out; lime application; macro-fungi; mangroves; Mathematics and Science; medicinal plants; memory; metabolic pathway; microbial community; microsatellite locus; microsatellite marker; miRNA; molecular identification; moso bamboo; non-local populations; non-timber forest products (NTFPs); nutrition; oil tea; Pan-Pearl River Delta; pathogen; pecan; pedunculate oak; phenological shift; phenology; phosphate solubilizing bacteria; photosynthesis; phylogenetic relation; Pinus massoniana; plant architecture; plant traits; plant-microbe interaction; plant–environment interactions; pollen viability; Polygonatum multiflorum; Polygonatum odoratum; polyploidy; population structure; protandry (PA); protogyny (PG); provenance trial; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; reproduction; Research and information: general; RNA sequencing; rosewood; seed success; senescence; sequencing; shape; shoot; simple sequence repeat markers; simple sequence repeats; species identification; stress; stress treatments; transcription factors; transcriptome; transcriptome assembly; understory removal; urbanization; variance analysis; yellow-green leaf mutant
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03936-757-3
• ISBN: 3039367560; 3039367579; 9783039367566; 9783039367573

Plants provide the foundation for the structure and function, as well as interactions, among organisms in both tropical and temperate zone habitats. To date, many investigations have revealed patterns and mechanisms generating plant diversity at various scales and from diverse ecological perspectives. However, in the era of climate change, anthropogenic disturbance, and rapid urbanization, new insights are needed to understand how plant species in these forest habitats are changing and adapting. Investigations of plants in both little-disturbed, more natural environments, as well as in urban areas in which crucial green infrastructure is ever more important for sustaining complex human societies are needed. This Special Issue of Forests will focus on plant variation from the perspectives of morphology, genetics, and function, especially plant interactions with biotic and abiotic factors. Research articles may address any aspect of plant evolution and community phylogenetics (explorations of patterns and mechanisms from diverse organismal levels, e.g., molecular, population, species, community, landscape, and ecosystem), plant functional traits (e.g., nutrient traits of leaf, stem, root; reproductive traits of flower, fruit, seed), and/or responses of plant species to changing environments (e.g., water, atmosphere, soil, human activities). Studies providing quantitative evaluation or description of interactions of plants with animals and microbes, both in natural and urban environments, including terrestrial and aquatic systems, are also welcome.