DEAR GARDEN COACH: I enjoyed your article on plant adaptations; it got me thinking about something I recently discovered when looking for a plant called mock orange. There were two — Pittosporum ...
The Earth is home to a diversity of plants with highly varied forms and functions. This extraordinary morphological, physiological and biochemical diversity determines how plants adapt and respond to ...
The study of local adaptation is often focused on polygenic traits and requires the estimation of fitness in the field — both aspects pose many challenges. Reciprocal transplant experiments are the ...