American Journal of Botany

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Genetic variation of the relict maple Acer miyabei: uncovering its history of disjunct occurrence and the role of mountain refugia in shaping genetic diversity	73
Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live‐leaf flammability in plant species of fire‐prone forests	66
Floral scent of artificial hybrids between two Schiedea species that share a moth pollinator	63
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	52
Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers	47
Direct tracking of pollen with quantum dots reveals surprising uniformity in dispersal distance across 11 populations of an annual plant	36
Botany and geogenomics: Constraining geological hypotheses in the neotropics with large‐scale genetic data derived from plants	32
Molecular phylogeny and evolution of inflorescence types in Eperua	32
Corrigendum to “The tiny drivers behind plant ecology and evolution”	27
Hyperaccumulation of nickel but not selenium drives floral microbiome differentiation: A study with six species of Brassicaceae	27
The first Gondwanan Euphorbiaceae fossils reset the biogeographic history of the Macaranga‐Mallotus clade	26
Night and day: Contributions of diurnal and nocturnal visitors to pollen dispersal, paternity diversity, and fruit set in an early‐blooming shrub, Daphne jezoensis	26
Heterotic growth of hybrids of Arabidopsis thaliana is enhanced by elevated atmospheric CO2	25
Symbiotic fungi alter plant resource allocation independent of water availability	23
Reconstructing the introduction history of the invasive grass Taeniatherum caput‐medusae subsp. asperum in the western United States: Low within‐population genetic diversity does	23
First Bignoniaceae liana from the Miocene of South America and its evolutionary significance	22
Effects of temperature on seed dormancy and germination of the coastal dune plant Viola grayi: germination phenology and responses to winter warming	22
Young evolutionary origins of dioecy in the genus Asparagus	22
The reconstructed evolutionary history of the Engelhardia spicata complex highlights the impact of a three‐tiered landform in the Indo‐Burma ecoregion	20
Clonal reproduction as a driver of liana proliferation following large‐scale disturbances in temperate forests	20
Scaling relationships of leaf vein and areole traits versus leaf size for nine Magnoliaceae species differing in venation density	20
Relationships among sporophytic and gametophytic traits of 27 subtropical montane moss species	19
Incongruent phylogenies and their implications for the study of diversification, taxonomy, and genome size evolution of Rhododendron	19
Growth and tissue nutrient responses of adults of Sarracenia alata to prey exclusion, nutrient addition, and neighbor reduction	19
Investigating historical drivers of latitudinal gradients in polyploid plant biogeography: A multiclade perspective	19

Anatomy of a mega‐radiation: Biogeography and niche evolution in Astragalus	19
The pollen virome: A review of pollen‐associated viruses and consequences for plants and their interactions with pollinators	19
Functional traits mediate individualistic species‐environment distributions at broad spatial scales while fine‐scale species associations remain unpredictable	18
When numbers matter: Rethinking the role of gene duplication on short evolutionary timescales	18
How early does the selfing syndrome arise? Associations between selfing ability and flower size within populations of the mixed‐mater Collinsia verna	17
Pollinators exert selection on floral traits in a pollen‐limited, narrowly endemic spring ephemeral	17
Population‐specific responses of floral volatiles to abiotic factors in changing environments	17
How does a self‐incompatible individual transition to self‐compatibility during its lifetime?	17
Floral morphogenesis of Celtis species: implications for breeding system and reduced floral structure	17
Analyzing trait‐climate relationships within and among taxa using machine learning and herbarium specimens	16
Nitrogen‐fixing bacteria boost floral attractiveness in a tropical legume species during nutrient limitation	16
The unexplored effects of artificial selection on urban tree populations	16
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Towards a species‐level phylogeny for Neotropical Myrtaceae: Notes on topology and resources for future studies	15
Flower position within plants influences reproductive success both directly and via phenology	15
Fine‐scale genetic structure in the orchidGymnadenia conopseais not associated with local density of flowering plants	15
Foliar spectra accurately distinguish most temperate tree species and show strong phylogenetic signal	15
Measuring leaf and root functional traits uncovers multidimensionality of plant responses to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	15
The evolution of Ericaceae flowers and their pollination syndromes at a global scale	15
Highlighted articles for December 2022	15
Sexual reproduction is light‐limited as marsh grasses colonize maritime forest	14
Genetic relatedness can alter the strength of plant–soil interactions	14
A new phylogeny of the cladoxylopsid plexus: contribution of an early cladoxylopsid from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) of Quebec	14
Eco‐phylogenetic study of Trebouxia in southern Africa reveals interbiome connectivity and potential endemism in a green algal lichen photobiont	14
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Rapid detection of RNase‐based self‐incompatibility in Lysimachia monelli (Primulaceae)	14
The immediate metabolomic effects of whole‐genome duplication in the greater duckweed, Spirodela polyrhiza	14
Hawkmoth and bee pollinators impact pollen dispersal at the landscape but not local scales in two species of Oenothera	14
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Landscape genetics of the tropical willowSalix humboldtiana: influence of climate, salinity, and orography in an altitudinal gradient	13
Idahoa and Subularia: Hidden polyploid origins of two enigmatic genera of crucifers	13
Changes in female function and autonomous selfing across floral lifespan interact to drive variation in the cost of selfing	13
The phylogeny of the Triticeae: Resolution and phylogenetic conflict based on genomewide nuclear loci	13
Silky dogwood (Swida amomum) seed dispersal by freshwater turtles	13
Airborne ascospore discharge with co‐dispersal of attached epihymenial algae in some foliicolous lichens	13
Leaf traits linked to structure and palatability drive plant–insect interactions within three forested ecosystems	13
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Evolvability and constraint in the evolution of three‐dimensional flower morphology	12
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Antheridiogen controls spatial dynamics of sex expression in naturally occurring gametophytes of the tree fern Cyathea multiflora	12
Phenotypic trait variation in the North American Tragopogon allopolyploid complex	11
Lineage diversification and rampant hybridization among subspecies explain taxonomic confusion in the endemic Hawaiian fern Polypodium pellucidum	11
Genotype accounts for intraspecific variation in the timing and duration of multiple, sequential life‐cycle events in a willow species	11
Does the abiotic environment influence the distribution of flower and fruit colors?	11
Opportunities to improve our understanding of the impact of photosynthetic acclimation on terrestrial ecosystem processes under global change	11
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Post‐fire germination and plant invasion in Mediterranean Chile	11
Are plant traits drivers of endophytic communities in seasonally flooded tropical forests?	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
Largely invariant communities of bacterial endophytes in the nonphotosynthetic mycoheterotrophic plant Pterospora andromedea	11
Seed size–seed number trade‐offs: influence of seed size on the density of fire‐stimulated persistent soil seed banks	10
Heat waves decrease fitness and alter maternal provisioning in natural populations of Mimulus guttatus	10
Disruptive selection via pollinators and seed predators on the height of flowers on a wind‐dispersed alpine herb	10
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Genetic diversity, gene flow, and differentiation among wild, semiwild, and landrace chile pepper (Capsicum annuum) populations in Oaxaca, Mexico	10
Rapid‐cycling Brassica rapa evolves even earlier flowering under experimental drought	10
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Older populations of the invader Solidago canadensis exhibit stronger positive plant‐soil feedbacks and competitive ability in China	10
Biomass allocation ofVincetoxicum rossicumandV. nigrumin contrasting competitive environments	10
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Evolution and development of inflorescences and floral symmetry in Solanaceae	9
Carbon stress causes earlier budbreak in shade‐tolerant species and delays it in shade‐intolerant species	9
Spatiotemporal variation in population dynamics of a narrow endemic, Ranunculus austro‐oreganus	9
The selective advantage of mast flowering in Veratrum album subsp. oxysepalum: Implications of the predator satiation hypothesis	9
The consequences of winter climate change for plant performance	9
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A phylogenomic analysis of Lonicera and its bearing on the evolution of organ fusion	9
The spatial distribution of a hummingbird‐pollinated plant is not strongly influenced by hummingbird abundance	9
A first complete phylogenomic hypothesis for diploid blueberries (Vaccinium section Cyanococcus)	9
Selection against early flowering in geothermally heated soils is associated with pollen but not prey availability in a carnivorous plant	9
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Intraspecific plant–soil feedback in four tropical tree species is inconsistent in a field experiment	9
Pollinators differ in their contribution to the male fitness of a self‐incompatible composite	9
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Embracing uncertainty: The way forward in plant fossil phylogenetics	9
Locations of seed abortion in response to defoliation differ with pollen source in a native perennial legume herb	9
Herbarium specimens reveal links between leaf shape of Capsella bursa‐pastoris and climate	9
Importance of habit and environmental characteristics in shaping patterns of richness and range size of ferns and lycophytes in the Atlantic Forest	8
Deep sequencing across multiple host species tests pine‐endophyte specificity	8
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Pushing the boundaries of organ identity: Homology of the grass lemma	8
Impacts of ramet density and herbivory on floral volatile emissions and seed production in Solidago altissima	8
Phylogeny does not predict the outcome of heterospecific pollen–pistil interactions in a species‐rich alpine plant community	8
Structural changes in Nelumbo flower petals during opening and closing	8
Testing hypotheses of hybrid taxon formation in the shrubby beardtongues (PenstemonsubgenusDasanthera)	8
Comparative diversification analyses of Hydrangeaceae and Loasaceae reveal complex evolutionary history as species disperse out of Mesoamerica	8
Fossils of an endangered, endemic, giant dipterocarp species open a historical portal into Borneo's vanishing rainforests	8
Diversification in the Rosales is influenced by dispersal, geographic range size, and pre‐existing species richness	8
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Leaf functional traits and ecological niche of Fagus grandifolia and Oreomunnea mexicana in natural forests and plantings as a proxy of climate change	8
Beyond pollen:ovule ratios: Evolutionary consequences of pollinator dependence and pollination efficiency for pollen and ovule production in angiosperms	8
High‐intensity light promotes adaptive divergence of photosynthetic traits between sun‐exposed and shaded populations in Saxifraga fortunei	8
No phylogenomic support for a Cenozoic origin of the “living fossil” Isoetes	8
Unravelling plant diversification: Intraspecific genetic differentiation in hybridizingAnacyclusspecies in the western Mediterranean Basin	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
Looking beyond history: tracing the dispersal of the Malaysian complex of crops to Africa	8
Highlighted articles for June 2022	8
Moss functional trait ecology: Trends, gaps, and biases in the current literature	8
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Species‐tree topology impacts the inference of ancient whole‐genome duplications across the angiosperm phylogeny	8
Genetic consequences of Last Glacial–Holocene changes in snowfall regime in Arnica mallotopus populations: A plant confined to heavy‐snow areas of Japan	8
Phylogenomic and morphological data reveal hidden patterns of diversity in the national tree of Brazil, Paubrasilia echinata	8
Evaluation of tropical–temperate transitions: An example of climatic characterization in the Asian Palmate group of Araliaceae	7
Tree height and not climate influences intraspecific variations in wood parenchyma fractions of angiosperm species in a mountain forest of eastern China	7
A metabolic perspective on polyploid invasion and the emergence of life histories: Insights from a mechanistic model	7
The quiet evolutionary response to cellular challenges	7
Aging varies greatly within a single genus: A demographic study of Rhododendron spp. in botanic gardens	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
The soil microbiome affects patterns of local adaptation in an alpine plant under moisture stress	7
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Spring and autumn phenology in an understory herb are uncorrelated and driven by different factors	7
Adaptive function of duodichogamy: Why do chestnut trees have two pollen emission phases?	7
Phylogenomics and plastome evolution of a Brazilian mycoheterotrophic orchid, Pogoniopsis schenckii	7
Evaluating niche changes during invasion with seasonal models in Capsella bursa‐pastoris	7
Early Eocene infructescences from Argentine Patagonia expand the biogeography of Malvoideae	7
The changing biodiversity of the Arctic flora in the Anthropocene	7
Unraveling subcellular functional traits: Adaptive insights into chloroplast ultrastructure in nonmodel species	7
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The link between ancient whole‐genome duplications and cold adaptations in the Caryophyllaceae	7
Fossil papilionoids of the Bowdichia clade (Leguminosae) from the Paleogene of North America	7
Functional responses to climate change may increase invasive potential ofCarpobrotus edulis	7
The role of maternal age, growth, and environment in shaping offspring performance in an aerial conifer seed bank	7
Apocynaceae wood evolution matches key morphological innovations	7
Genetic variation in reproductive timing in a long‐lived herbaceous perennial	7
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Simulated pollinator decline has similar effects on seed production of female and hermaphrodite Lobelia siphilitica, but different effects on selection on floral traits	7
Selective forces on the maintenance of outcrossing in an almost exclusively cleistogamous violet species	7
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What determines the evolutionary trajectories of wild plant species? Approaches to the study of quantitative fitness‐related traits	7
Differential reward in “male” versus “female” pollen of functionally dioecious Solanum	7
Vessel dimorphism and wood traits in lianas and trees among three contrasting environments	7
Fossil evidence for sporeling development of a Mesozoic osmundaceous fern	6
The vessel wall thickness–vessel diameter relationship across woody angiosperms	6
Genetic diversity of wild and cultivated Coffea canephora in northeastern DR Congo and the implications for conservation	6
Conflicting constraints on male mating success shape reward size in pollen‐rewarding plants	6
Loss of branches due to winter storms could favor deciduousness in oaks	6
Not dead yet: Diatom resting spores can survive in nature for several millennia	6
Plastid phylogenomics of the Gynoxoid group (Senecioneae, Asteraceae) highlights the importance of motif‐based sequence alignment amid low genetic distances	6
Where did they come from, where did they go? Niche conservatism in woody and herbaceous plants and implications for plant‐based paleoclimatic reconstructions	6
Natural and anthropogenic factors influence flowering synchrony and reproduction of a dominant plant in an inter‐Andean scrub	6
A Hyb‐Seq phylogeny of Boechera and related genera using a combination of Angiosperms353 and Brassicaceae‐specific bait sets	6
Gelatinous fibers develop asymmetrically to support bends and coils in common bean vines (Phaseolus vulgaris)	6
Correction to “Fruit and seed structure in the ANA‐grade angiosperms: Ancestral traits and specializations”	6
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As prey and pollinators, insects increase reproduction and allow for outcrossing in the carnivorous plant Dionaea muscipula	6
Limited reproductive interference despite high rates of heterospecific pollen transfer among co‐occurring bat‐pollinated Burmeistera	6
PaleogeneFicusleaves from India and their implications for fig evolution and diversification	6
Herbaria as critical resources for studying plant‐virus biodiversity and epidemiology	6
Light signals counteract alterations caused by simulated microgravity in proliferating plant cells	6
Once more unto the breach, dear friends: Resolving the origins and relationships of the Pellaea wrightiana hybrid complex	6
Ploidy and local environment drive intraspecific variation in endoreduplication in Arabidopsis arenosa	6
What explains the high island endemicity of Philippine Rafflesia? A species distribution modeling analysis of three threatened parasitic plant species and their hosts	6
Biosilicification in monocots: Comparative analysis highlights contrasting patterns of deposition	6
Neopolyploidy‐induced changes in giant duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) alter herbivore preference and performance and plant population performance	6
Strong conservatism of floral morphology during the rapid diversification of the genus Helianthemum	6
Neopolyploidy has variable effects on the diversity and composition of the wild strawberry microbiome	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
Epiphytic bryophyte and lichen transplant niches along an elevational gradient in Pacific Northwest coniferous forests	6
Flowers that self‐shade reduce heat stress and pollen limitation	6
A missing link: Connecting plant and pollinator population structure	6
Drought mediates Sphagnum defense response to herbivory	6
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Evolutionary patterns of variations in chromosome counts and genome sizes show positive correlations with taxonomic diversity in tropical gingers	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
Identification of key regulatory genes involved in the sporophyte and gametophyte development in Ginkgo biloba ovules revealed by in situ expression analyses	6
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Lichen ecophysiology in a changing climate	6
Ocean exposure and latitude drive multiple clines within the coastal perennial ecotype of the yellow monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus	6
Effects of snow on reproduction of perennial Thalictrum dioicum: Plants survive but seedlings fail to recruit with reduced snow cover	6
Grass functional traits reflect the long history of fire and grazers in the savannas of Texas	6
Living collections: Biodiversity cultivated at public gardens has the power to connect ecological questions and evolutionary context	6
High‐resolution time‐course observations of pollination drop withdrawal in Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata)	5
Why are triploid quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) common?	5
Contrasting effects of nectar yeasts on the reproduction of Mediterranean plant species	5
Functional traits and trait coordination change over the life of a leaf in a tropical fern species	5
Germination of grass species from dry and wet grasslands in response to osmotic stress under present and future temperatures	5
Insights from an ancient gymnosperm lineage: ambient temperature and light and the timing of thermogenesis in cycad cones	5
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Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity drive leaf trait variation in the California endemic toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)	5
Highlighted articles for December 2021	5
Climate‐change‐driven shifts in C3 and C4 grass distributions and leaf traits could lead to changes in community‐level flammability	5
Ontogenetic changes in ecophysiology are an understudied yet important component of plant adaptation	5
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Arabidopsis response to copper is mediated by density and root exudates: Evidence that plant density and toxic soils can shape plant communities	5
Extreme fire severity interacts with seed traits to moderate post‐fire species assemblages	5
Multiple genotypes of Phelipanche ramosa indicate repeated introduction to the Americas	5
No end in sight: Mysteries of the telomeric variation in plants	5
Holding on or falling off: The attachment mechanism of epiphytic Anthurium obtusum changes with substrate roughness	5
Compartmentalization of specialized metabolites across vegetative and reproductive tissues in two sympatric Psychotria species	5
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Ploidy effects on the relationship between floral phenotype, reproductive investment, and fitness in an autogamous species complex	5
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Will molecular phylogenetics help decrease nomenclatural instability?	5
Judge it by its shape: a pollinator‐blind approach reveals convergence in petal shape and infers pollination modes in the genus Erythrina	5
Floral traits differentiate pollination syndromes and species but fail to predict the identity of floral visitors to Castilleja	5
Diminishing returns among lamina fresh and dry mass, surface area, and petiole fresh mass among nine Lauraceae species	5
When it only takes one to tango: assessing the impact of apomixis in the fern genus Pteris	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
Pollen competition in hybridizingCakilespecies: How does a latecomer win the race?	5
Effects of anther‐stigma position on cross‐pollination efficiency in a hermaphroditic plant	5
Individual bee foragers are less‐efficient transporters of pollen for plants from which they collect the most pollen in their scopae	5
Linking the macroclimatic niche of native lithophytic ferns and their prevalence in urban environments	5
Herbivory exacerbates pollen limitation by isolating unconsumed plants from prospective mates	5
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Trade‐off between dispersal traits in a heterocarpic plant across its invasion route	5
Linkages among stem xylem transport, biomechanics, and storage in lianas and trees across three contrasting environments	5
An early snapshot of plant–herbivore interactions: Psilophyton diakanthon sp. nov. from the Early Devonian of Gaspé (Quebec, Canada)	5
Genomic resources for crop wild relatives are critical for perennial fruit breeding and conservation	5
The phylogeny of Syntrichia: An ecologically diverse clade of mosses with an origin in South America	5
Resurrected seeds from herbarium specimens reveal rapid evolution of drought resistance in a selfing annual	5
Multiplexed shotgun genotyping (MSG) data resolve phylogenetic relationships within and among archipelagos in Macaronesian Tolpis	5