American Journal of Botany

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Dispersal across Wallace's Line: A case study in Endiandra	74
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Sources of variation in plant chemical diversity: Lessons from Malagasy Ficus	69
The reconstructed evolutionary history of the Engelhardia spicata complex highlights the impact of a three‐tiered landform in the Indo‐Burma ecoregion	49
Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live‐leaf flammability in plant species of fire‐prone forests	41
Relationships among sporophytic and gametophytic traits of 27 subtropical montane moss species	36
Modifications in fire frequency impact belowground plant components in old‐growth grasslands, posing risks to their resilience	33
Night and day: Contributions of diurnal and nocturnal visitors to pollen dispersal, paternity diversity, and fruit set in an early‐blooming shrub, Daphne jezoensis	32
Direct tracking of pollen with quantum dots reveals surprising uniformity in dispersal distance across 11 populations of an annual plant	30
Botany and geogenomics: Constraining geological hypotheses in the neotropics with large‐scale genetic data derived from plants	27
Molecular phylogeny and evolution of inflorescence types in Eperua	26
Genetic variation of the relict maple Acer miyabei: uncovering its history of disjunct occurrence and the role of mountain refugia in shaping genetic diversity	23
Jack pine of all trades: Deciphering intraspecific variability of a key adaptive trait at the rear edge of a widespread fire‐embracing North American conifer	22
Corrigendum to “The tiny drivers behind plant ecology and evolution”	22
Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers	22
Heterotic growth of hybrids of Arabidopsis thaliana is enhanced by elevated atmospheric CO2	22
The first Gondwanan Euphorbiaceae fossils reset the biogeographic history of the Macaranga‐Mallotus clade	21
Clonal reproduction as a driver of liana proliferation following large‐scale disturbances in temperate forests	21
Effects of temperature on seed dormancy and germination of the coastal dune plant Viola grayi: germination phenology and responses to winter warming	20
Reconstructing the introduction history of the invasive grass Taeniatherum caput‐medusae subsp. asperum in the western United States: Low within‐population genetic diversity does	20
Anatomy of a mega‐radiation: Biogeography and niche evolution in Astragalus	20
Floral scent of artificial hybrids between two Schiedea species that share a moth pollinator	20
Symbiotic fungi alter plant resource allocation independent of water availability	20
Scaling relationships of leaf vein and areole traits versus leaf size for nine Magnoliaceae species differing in venation density	20
Hyperaccumulation of nickel but not selenium drives floral microbiome differentiation: A study with six species of Brassicaceae	20

Young evolutionary origins of dioecy in the genus Asparagus	19
Growth and tissue nutrient responses of adults of Sarracenia alata to prey exclusion, nutrient addition, and neighbor reduction	18
When numbers matter: Rethinking the role of gene duplication on short evolutionary timescales	17
Population‐specific responses of floral volatiles to abiotic factors in changing environments	17
How early does the selfing syndrome arise? Associations between selfing ability and flower size within populations of the mixed‐mater Collinsia verna	17
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Pollinators exert selection on floral traits in a pollen‐limited, narrowly endemic spring ephemeral	16
Nitrogen‐fixing bacteria boost floral attractiveness in a tropical legume species during nutrient limitation	16
Analyzing trait‐climate relationships within and among taxa using machine learning and herbarium specimens	16
The unexplored effects of artificial selection on urban tree populations	16
The pollen virome: A review of pollen‐associated viruses and consequences for plants and their interactions with pollinators	16
How does a self‐incompatible individual transition to self‐compatibility during its lifetime?	16
Functional traits mediate individualistic species‐environment distributions at broad spatial scales while fine‐scale species associations remain unpredictable	16
Sequoia and Sequoiadendron : Two paleoendemic megatrees with markedly different adaptive responses to recent high‐severity fir	16
Landscape genetics of the tropical willow Salix humboldtiana: influence of climate, salinity, and orography in an altitudinal gradient	15
Highlighted articles for December 2022	15
Eco‐phylogenetic study of Trebouxia in southern Africa reveals interbiome connectivity and potential endemism in a green algal lichen photobiont	15
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Investigating historical drivers of latitudinal gradients in polyploid plant biogeography: A multiclade perspective	15
Rapid detection of RNase‐based self‐incompatibility in Lysimachia monelli (Primulaceae)	15
Genetic relatedness can alter the strength of plant–soil interactions	14
Silky dogwood (Swida amomum) seed dispersal by freshwater turtles	14
Sexual reproduction is light‐limited as marsh grasses colonize maritime forest	14
Fine‐scale genetic structure in the orchid Gymnadenia conopsea is not associated with local density of flowering plants	14
Leaf traits linked to structure and palatability drive plant–insect interactions within three forested ecosystems	14
Hawkmoth and bee pollinators impact pollen dispersal at the landscape but not local scales in two species of Oenothera	14
The immediate metabolomic effects of whole‐genome duplication in the greater duckweed, Spirodela polyrhiza	14
The evolution of Ericaceae flowers and their pollination syndromes at a global scale	14
Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches: An introduction	13
Measuring leaf and root functional traits uncovers multidimensionality of plant responses to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	13
The phylogeny of the Triticeae: Resolution and phylogenetic conflict based on genomewide nuclear loci	13
Flower position within plants influences reproductive success both directly and via phenology	13
Idahoa and Subularia: Hidden polyploid origins of two enigmatic genera of crucifers	13
Towards a species‐level phylogeny for Neotropical Myrtaceae: Notes on topology and resources for future studies	12
Inoculation with native, late‐successional arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improves the growth and establishment of desirable forbs in low‐quality prairie restoration	12
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Airborne ascospore discharge with co‐dispersal of attached epihymenial algae in some foliicolous lichens	12
Floral specialization for beetle pollination and its implications for pollen dispersal in an African orchid	12
Are plant traits drivers of endophytic communities in seasonally flooded tropical forests?	12
Genotype accounts for intraspecific variation in the timing and duration of multiple, sequential life‐cycle events in a willow species	12
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Foliar spectra accurately distinguish most temperate tree species and show strong phylogenetic signal	12
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Heat waves decrease fitness and alter maternal provisioning in natural populations of Mimulus guttatus	12
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Rapid‐cycling Brassica rapa evolves even earlier flowering under experimental drought	11
Does the abiotic environment influence the distribution of flower and fruit colors?	11
Corrigendum to “Oomycete communities in lowland tropical forest soils vary in species abundance and comprise saprophytes and pathogens of seeds and seedlings of multiple plant species”	11
Highlighted articles for August 2022	11
Changes in female function and autonomous selfing across floral lifespan interact to drive variation in the cost of selfing	11

Older populations of the invader Solidago canadensis exhibit stronger positive plant‐soil feedbacks and competitive ability in China	11
Antheridiogen controls spatial dynamics of sex expression in naturally occurring gametophytes of the tree fern Cyathea multiflora	11
Lineage diversification and rampant hybridization among subspecies explain taxonomic confusion in the endemic Hawaiian fern Polypodium pellucidum	11
Seed size–seed number trade‐offs: influence of seed size on the density of fire‐stimulated persistent soil seed banks	11
Largely invariant communities of bacterial endophytes in the nonphotosynthetic mycoheterotrophic plant Pterospora andromedea	11
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Environmental versus phylogenetic control of leaf anatomical traits in Fabaceae, across a continental scale	11
Pollinators differ in their contribution to the male fitness of a self‐incompatible composite	10
Phenotypic trait variation in the North American Tragopogon allopolyploid complex	10
Opportunities to improve our understanding of the impact of photosynthetic acclimation on terrestrial ecosystem processes under global change	10
Genetic diversity, gene flow, and differentiation among wild, semiwild, and landrace chile pepper (Capsicum annuum) populations in Oaxaca, Mexico	10
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Herbarium specimens reveal links between leaf shape of Capsella bursa‐pastoris and climate	10
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Post‐fire germination and plant invasion in Mediterranean Chile	10
Beyond pollen:ovule ratios: Evolutionary consequences of pollinator dependence and pollination efficiency for pollen and ovule production in angiosperms	10
Disruptive selection via pollinators and seed predators on the height of flowers on a wind‐dispersed alpine herb	10
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Evolvability and constraint in the evolution of three‐dimensional flower morphology	10
A first complete phylogenomic hypothesis for diploid blueberries (Vaccinium section Cyanococcus)	10
Refugial isolation and ecological niche differentiation promote genetic divergence of Oresitrophe and Mukdenia in Northeast Asia	10
Intraspecific plant–soil feedback in four tropical tree species is inconsistent in a field experiment	9
Selection against early flowering in geothermally heated soils is associated with pollen but not prey availability in a carnivorous plant	9
Locations of seed abortion in response to defoliation differ with pollen source in a native perennial legume herb	9
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The consequences of winter climate change for plant performance	9
Carbon stress causes earlier budbreak in shade‐tolerant species and delays it in shade‐intolerant species	9
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A phylogenomic analysis of Lonicera and its bearing on the evolution of organ fusion	9
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Spatiotemporal variation in population dynamics of a narrow endemic, Ranunculus austro‐oreganus	9
Evolution and development of inflorescences and floral symmetry in Solanaceae	9
Leaf functional traits and ecological niche of Fagus grandifolia and Oreomunnea mexicana in natural forests and plantings as a proxy of climate change	9
Pushing the boundaries of organ identity: Homology of the grass lemma	9
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The spatial distribution of a hummingbird‐pollinated plant is not strongly influenced by hummingbird abundance	9
The selective advantage of mast flowering in Veratrum album subsp. oxysepalum: Implications of the predator satiation hypothesis	9
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Embracing uncertainty: The way forward in plant fossil phylogenetics	9
Moss functional trait ecology: Trends, gaps, and biases in the current literature	9
Diversification in the Rosales is influenced by dispersal, geographic range size, and pre‐existing species richness	8
The soil microbiome affects patterns of local adaptation in an alpine plant under moisture stress	8
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Structural changes in Nelumbo flower petals during opening and closing	8
Deep sequencing across multiple host species tests pine‐endophyte specificity	8
Species‐tree topology impacts the inference of ancient whole‐genome duplications across the angiosperm phylogeny	8
Aboveground‐belowground microbial interactions in plants: A call to recognize the complexity within multispecies microbial communities	8
Phylogeny does not predict the outcome of heterospecific pollen–pistil interactions in a species‐rich alpine plant community	8
Phylogenomic and morphological data reveal hidden patterns of diversity in the national tree of Brazil, Paubrasilia echinata	8
Highlighted articles for June 2022	8
High‐intensity light promotes adaptive divergence of photosynthetic traits between sun‐exposed and shaded populations in Saxifraga fortunei	8
Testing hypotheses of hybrid taxon formation in the shrubby beardtongues (Penstemon subgenus Dasanthera)	8
Trait plasticity and adaptive strategies of vascular epiphytes to a large‐scale experimental reduction of fog immersion in a tropical montane cloud forest	8
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Unravelling plant diversification: Intraspecific genetic differentiation in hybridizing Anacyclus species in the western Mediterranean Basin	8
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Looking beyond history: tracing the dispersal of the Malaysian complex of crops to Africa	7
No phylogenomic support for a Cenozoic origin of the “living fossil” Isoetes	7
Aging varies greatly within a single genus: A demographic study of Rhododendron spp. in botanic gardens	7
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Apocynaceae wood evolution matches key morphological innovations	7
Tree height and not climate influences intraspecific variations in wood parenchyma fractions of angiosperm species in a mountain forest of eastern China	7
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Fires in rainforests: Quantifying litter bed flammability of cool temperate rainforests in eastern Australia	7
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Evaluating niche changes during invasion with seasonal models in Capsella bursa‐pastoris	7
The quiet evolutionary response to cellular challenges	7
Unraveling subcellular functional traits: Adaptive insights into chloroplast ultrastructure in nonmodel species	7
Impacts of ramet density and herbivory on floral volatile emissions and seed production in Solidago altissima	7
Comparative diversification analyses of Hydrangeaceae and Loasaceae reveal complex evolutionary history as species disperse out of Mesoamerica	7
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Adaptive function of duodichogamy: Why do chestnut trees have two pollen emission phases?	7
Spring and autumn phenology in an understory herb are uncorrelated and driven by different factors	7

Early Eocene infructescences from Argentine Patagonia expand the biogeography of Malvoideae	7
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Characterizing each step of pollination in Phlox drummondii reveals that a single butterfly species predominates in the pollinator assemblage	7
What determines the evolutionary trajectories of wild plant species? Approaches to the study of quantitative fitness‐related traits	7
Simulated pollinator decline has similar effects on seed production of female and hermaphrodite Lobelia siphilitica, but different effects on selection on floral traits	7
Fossils of an endangered, endemic, giant dipterocarp species open a historical portal into Borneo's vanishing rainforests	7
Importance of habit and environmental characteristics in shaping patterns of richness and range size of ferns and lycophytes in the Atlantic Forest	7
Highlighted articles for March 2022	7
Genetic consequences of Last Glacial–Holocene changes in snowfall regime in Arnica mallotopus populations: A plant confined to heavy‐snow areas of Japan	7
The changing biodiversity of the Arctic flora in the Anthropocene	7
Vessel dimorphism and wood traits in lianas and trees among three contrasting environments	7
Differential reward in “male” versus “female” pollen of functionally dioecious Solanum	7
A metabolic perspective on polyploid invasion and the emergence of life histories: Insights from a mechanistic model	7
Selective forces on the maintenance of outcrossing in an almost exclusively cleistogamous violet species	7
The link between ancient whole‐genome duplications and cold adaptations in the Caryophyllaceae	7
Correction to “Fruit and seed structure in the ANA‐grade angiosperms: Ancestral traits and specializations”	6
Adaptive plant traits under anthropogenic burning regimes: A database for UK heath and mire plant species	6
Drought mediates Sphagnum defense response to herbivory	6
Neopolyploidy has variable effects on the diversity and composition of the wild strawberry microbiome	6
Biosilicification in monocots: Comparative analysis highlights contrasting patterns of deposition	6
Grass functional traits reflect the long history of fire and grazers in the savannas of Texas	6
Ocean exposure and latitude drive multiple clines within the coastal perennial ecotype of the yellow monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus	6
The vessel wall thickness–vessel diameter relationship across woody angiosperms	6
Color polymorphism in Anemone coronaria: Correlations with soil, climate, and flowering phenology	6
Strong conservatism of floral morphology during the rapid diversification of the genus Helianthemum	6
Effects of snow on reproduction of perennial Thalictrum dioicum: Plants survive but seedlings fail to recruit with reduced snow cover	6
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Evaluation of tropical–temperate transitions: An example of climatic characterization in the Asian Palmate group of Araliaceae	6
Genetic variation in reproductive timing in a long‐lived herbaceous perennial	6
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Flowers that self‐shade reduce heat stress and pollen limitation	6
Lichen ecophysiology in a changing climate	6
As prey and pollinators, insects increase reproduction and allow for outcrossing in the carnivorous plant Dionaea muscipula	6
Fossil papilionoids of the Bowdichia clade (Leguminosae) from the Paleogene of North America	6
Epiphytic bryophyte and lichen transplant niches along an elevational gradient in Pacific Northwest coniferous forests	6
Stacked scattering: The key to bright flowers lies in the mesophyll	6
Natural and anthropogenic factors influence flowering synchrony and reproduction of a dominant plant in an inter‐Andean scrub	6
Gelatinous fibers develop asymmetrically to support bends and coils in common bean vines (Phaseolus vulgaris)	6
Fossil evidence for sporeling development of a Mesozoic osmundaceous fern	6
Phylogenomics and plastome evolution of a Brazilian mycoheterotrophic orchid, Pogoniopsis schenckii	6
Phylogenetics and population structure of the western North American endemic Pacific Laurasian clade of Isoëtes	6
Can biocrust moss hide from climate change? Fine‐scale habitat sheltering improves summer stress resistance in Syntrichia caninervis	6
Evolutionary patterns of variations in chromosome counts and genome sizes show positive correlations with taxonomic diversity in tropical gingers	6
The origin and diversification of Amaryllidaceae: A phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis	6
Heat drastically alters floral color and pigment composition without affecting flower conspicuousness	6
Halophytes and heavy metals: A multi‐omics approach to understand the role of gene and genome duplication in the abiotic stress tolerance of Cakile maritima	6
Living collections: Biodiversity cultivated at public gardens has the power to connect ecological questions and evolutionary context	6
Herbaria as critical resources for studying plant‐virus biodiversity and epidemiology	6
Limited reproductive interference despite high rates of heterospecific pollen transfer among co‐occurring bat‐pollinated Burmeistera	6
The role of maternal age, growth, and environment in shaping offspring performance in an aerial conifer seed bank	6
Herbivory exacerbates pollen limitation by isolating unconsumed plants from prospective mates	5
Corrigendum to “Inter‐archipelago dispersal, anagenetic evolution, and the origin of a rare, enigmatic plant genus on a remote oceanic archipelago”	5
Ploidy effects on the relationship between floral phenotype, reproductive investment, and fitness in an autogamous species complex	5
When it only takes one to tango: assessing the impact of apomixis in the fern genus Pteris	5
Multiplexed shotgun genotyping (MSG) data resolve phylogenetic relationships within and among archipelagos in Macaronesian Tolpis	5
Highlighted articles for December 2021	5
Identification of key regulatory genes involved in the sporophyte and gametophyte development in Ginkgo biloba ovules revealed by in situ expression analyses	5
Trade‐off between dispersal traits in a heterocarpic plant across its invasion route	5
Not dead yet: Diatom resting spores can survive in nature for several millennia	5
Insights from an ancient gymnosperm lineage: ambient temperature and light and the timing of thermogenesis in cycad cones	5
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The phylogeny of Syntrichia: An ecologically diverse clade of mosses with an origin in South America	5
A missing link: Connecting plant and pollinator population structure	5
Where did they come from, where did they go? Niche conservatism in woody and herbaceous plants and implications for plant‐based paleoclimatic reconstructions	5
Once more unto the breach, dear friends: Resolving the origins and relationships of the Pellaea wrightiana hybrid complex	5
Functional traits and trait coordination change over the life of a leaf in a tropical fern species	5
Insect visitation patterns in diploid Centaurea aspera and its related allotetraploid and triploid hybrids: Similar rates but distinct assemblages	5
Extreme fire severity interacts with seed traits to moderate post‐fire species assemblages	5
Ontogenetic changes in ecophysiology are an understudied yet important component of plant adaptation	5
A Hyb‐Seq phylogeny of Boechera and related genera using a combination of Angiosperms353 and Brassicaceae‐specific bait sets	5
Evolution and conservation genetics of an insular hemiparasitic plant lineage at the limit of survival: the case of Thesium sect. Kunkeliella in the Canary Islands	5
Loss of branches due to winter storms could favor deciduousness in oaks	5
Resurrected seeds from herbarium specimens reveal rapid evolution of drought resistance in a selfing annual	5
What explains the high island endemicity of Philippine Rafflesia? A species distribution modeling analysis of three threatened parasitic plant species and their hosts	5
Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity drive leaf trait variation in the California endemic toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)	5
Plastid phylogenomics of the Gynoxoid group (Senecioneae, Asteraceae) highlights the importance of motif‐based sequence alignment amid low genetic distances	5
Genetic diversity of wild and cultivated Coffea canephora in northeastern DR Congo and the implications for conservation	5
Ploidy and local environment drive intraspecific variation in endoreduplication in Arabidopsis arenosa	5
Conflicting constraints on male mating success shape reward size in pollen‐rewarding plants	5
Will molecular phylogenetics help decrease nomenclatural instability?	5
Climate‐change‐driven shifts in C 3 and C 4 grass distributions and leaf traits could lead to chan	5
Compartmentalization of specialized metabolites across vegetative and reproductive tissues in two sympatric Psychotria species	5
Pollen competition in hybridizing Cakile species: How does a latecomer win the race?	5
Linkages among stem xylem transport, biomechanics, and storage in lianas and trees across three contrasting environments	5
Diminishing returns among lamina fresh and dry mass, surface area, and petiole fresh mass among nine Lauraceae species	5
An early snapshot of plant–herbivore interactions: Psilophyton diakanthon sp. nov. from the Early Devonian of Gaspé (Quebec, Canada)	5
Arabidopsis response to copper is mediated by density and root exudates: Evidence that plant density and toxic soils can shape plant communities	5
Neopolyploidy‐induced changes in giant duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) alter herbivore preference and performance and plant population performance	5
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Paleogene Ficus leaves from India and their implications for fig evolution and diversification	5
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Genomic resources for crop wild relatives are critical for perennial fruit breeding and conservation	5
Variations in water economy traits in two Sphagnum species across their distribution boundaries	4
Inbreeding in Chinese fir: Insights into the adaptive growth traits of selfed progeny from mRNA, miRNA, and copy number variation	4
Oomycete communities in lowland tropical forest soils vary in species abundance and comprise saprophytes and pathogens of seeds and seedlings of multiple plant species	4