Notes on some plant collections from Bachok and several forest reserves in Kelantan by Lim, A.L., Haron, N.W., Yong, K.T., Wong, M.M.

“…A total of 54 species from 30 families, consisting of seashore and mangrove plants were identified from the coastal area of Bachok and Semerak; while 89 species of flowering plants representing 44 families, a single gymnosperm, Agathis borneensis (Araucariaceae); and 15 genera and 23 species of mosses (from 10 families) were recorded in the three forest reserves. …”
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Status of seagrass species and distribution in Peninsular Malaysia by Zakaria, Muta Harah, Bujang, Japar Sidik, Che Alias, Muhammad Afif, Syed, Nurul Nur Farahin, Ramaiya, Shiamala Devi

“…Seagrasses are the only flowering plants that have adapted to live in marine and estuarine habitats and are submerged most of the time. …”
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Effect of plant growth regulators on sex expression, fruit setting, seed yield and quality in the parental lines for hybrid seed production in bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) by S NAGAMANI, SUDIPTA BASU, SUKHBIR SINGH, S K LAL, T K BEHERA, S K CHAKRABARTY, AKSHAY TALUKDAR

“…In manually pollinated flowers, plants sprayed with GA3@ 50 ppm had higher fruit and seed setting, fruit weight and hybrid seed yield. …”
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The DnaJ-like Zinc Finger Protein ORANGE Promotes Proline Biosynthesis in Drought-Stressed <i>Arabidopsis</i> Seedlings by Farman Ali, Qi Wang, Aliya Fazal, Lin-Juan Wang, Shuyan Song, Meng-Juan Kong, Tariq Mahmood, Shan Lu

“…OR, and its orthologs, are highly conserved in flowering plants, sharing a characteristic C-terminal tandem 4× repeats of the CxxCxxxG signature. …”
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Phenylpyruvate Contributes to the Synthesis of Fragrant Benzenoid–Phenylpropanoids in Petunia × hybrida Flowers by Moran Oliva, Moran Oliva, Einat Bar, Rinat Ovadia, Avichai Perl, Gad Galili, Efraim Lewinsohn, Michal Oren-Shamir

“…This study emphasizes the potential of the PPY route in achieving fragrance enhancement in flowering plants.…”
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Flowering margins support natural enemies between cropping seasons by Janet N. Obanyi, Joshua O. Ogendo, Richard M. S. Mulwa, Jane G. Nyaanga, Erick K. Cheruiyot, Philip K. Bett, Steven R. Belmain, Sarah E. J. Arnold, Sarah E. J. Arnold, Victoria C. Nash-Woolley, Victoria C. Nash-Woolley, Philip C. Stevenson, Philip C. Stevenson

“…While time since harvesting was a significant factor influencing the overall abundance of natural enemies (ANOVA: F2, 1,133 = 8.11; P&lt; 0.0001), they were generally higher in abundance in locations with margin plants or where a diversity of margin plants was observed.DiscussionThese findings demonstrate that flowering plants in agricultural systems offer refuge and alternative food for natural enemies and potentially other beneficial insects between cropping seasons. …”
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Diversity, Ecological and Traditional Knowledge of Pteridophytes in the Western Himalayas by Aadil Abdullah Khoja, Shiekh Marifatul Haq, Muhammad Majeed, Musheerul Hassan, Muhammad Waheed, Umer Yaqoob, Rainer W. Bussmann, Abed Alataway, Ahmed Z. Dewidar, Mohamed Al-Yafrsi, Hosam O. Elansary, Kowiyou Yessoufou, Wajid Zaman

“…Pteridophytes have been used by humans for millennia, but in comparison to flowering plants, the documentation of their traditional uses is still neglected; as a result, they must be highlighted and popularized. …”
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Impacts of invasive ants on pollination of native plants are similar in invaded and restored plant communities by Alba Costa, Ruben Heleno, Edward Font Freide, Yanick Dufrene, Eleanor Huckle, Christopher N. Kaiser-Bunbury

“…Moreover, while flying pollinators approached flowering plants irrespective of invasive ant presence, the number of probed flowers per visit was reduced, in both restored and unrestored communities. …”
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Orchid Diversity at Three Elevations in the Mountain Sandstone Plateaus of the Cordillera del CóndorEcuador by Leisberth Vélez-Abarca, Marco M. Jiménez, Elizabeth Ramírez-Iglesias, Silvia Parra-Suarez, Esteban Torracchi-Carrasco, Ángel Benítez

“…Orchids comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants and have important roles in the total biomass, water balance, and nutrient cycling of tropical ecosystems; however, they are also one of the most endangered plant taxa. …”
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Cytotoxic Activity and Metabolic Profiling of Fifteen <i>Euphorbia</i> Species by Seham S. El-Hawary, Rabab Mohammed, Ahmed F. Tawfike, Nadia M. Lithy, Sameh Fekry AbouZid, Mohamed N. Amin, Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen, Elham Amin

“…<i>Euphorbia</i> is a large genus of flowering plants with a great diversity in metabolic pattern. …”
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Deep evaluation of the evolutionary history of the Heat Shock Factor (HSF) gene family and its expansion pattern in seed plants by Yiying Liao, Zhiming Liu, Andrew W. Gichira, Min Yang, Ruth Wambui Mbichi, Linping Meng, Tao Wan

“…This work proposes that during the radiation of flowering plants, an era during which there was a differentiation of angiosperms, the size of the HSF gene family was also being adjusted with considerable sub- or neo-functionalization. …”
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Genome-Wide Association Study in Pseudo-F2 Populations of Switchgrass Identifies Genetic Loci Affecting Heading and Anthesis Dates by Megan Taylor, Carl-Erik Tornqvist, Xiongwei Zhao, Xiongwei Zhao, Paul Grabowski, Rebecca Doerge, Rebecca Doerge, Jianxin Ma, Jeffrey Volenec, Joseph Evans, Guillaume P. Ramstein, Millicent D. Sanciangco, C. Robin Buell, Michael D. Casler, Michael D. Casler, Yiwei Jiang

“…The physiological change from juvenile to reproductive adult can draw important resources away from growth into producing reproductive structures, thereby limiting the growth potential of early flowering plants. Delaying the flowering of switchgrass is one approach by which to increase total biomass. …”
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Poison or Potion: Effects of Sunflower Phenolamides on Bumble Bees and Their Gut Parasite by Antoine Gekière, Irène Semay, Maxence Gérard, Denis Michez, Pascal Gerbaux, Maryse Vanderplanck

“…Recent studies suggested it could be due to phenolamides, a group of compounds commonly found in flowering plants. We, therefore, decided to assess separately the impacts of sunflower pollen and its phenolamides on a bumble bee and its gut parasite. …”
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Genome-wide comparison and identification of myosin gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana and Helianthus annuus by Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad, Hayat Ali Alafari, Sajid Fiaz, Dalal S. Alshaya, Sidra Toor, Munazza Ijaz, Nouman Rasool, Kotb A. Attia, Madiha Zaynab, Saira Azmat, Asmaa M. Abushady, Yinglong Chen

“…Myosin driven movement plays a vital role in the development of pollen tubes, root hairs and root tips of flowering plants. The present research characterized the myosin genes in Arabidopsis thaliana and Helianthus annuus by using different computational tools. …”
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The Evolution and Expression Profiles of <i>EC1</i> Gene Family during Development in Cotton by Xinyu Wang, Wei Chen, Jinbo Yao, Yan Li, Akwasi Yeboah, Shouhong Zhu, Yongshan Zhang

“…Fertilization is essential to sexual reproduction of flowering plants. EC1 (EGG CELL 1) proteins have a conserved cysteine spacer characteristic and play a crucial role in double fertilization process in many plant species. …”
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DEK48 Is Required for RNA Editing at Multiple Mitochondrial Sites and Seed Development in Maize by Dalin Yang, Shi-Kai Cao, Huanhuan Yang, Rui Liu, Feng Sun, Le Wang, Miaodi Wang, Bao-Cai Tan

“…In flowering plants, C-to-U RNA editing can be critical to normal functions of mitochondrion-encoded proteins. …”
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Volatiles Profile of the Floral Organs of a New Hybrid <i>Cymbidium</i>, ‘Sunny Bell’ Using Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Analysis by Yun-Su Baek, Mummadireddy Ramya, Hye-Ryun An, Pil-Man Park, Su-Young Lee, Nam-In Baek, Pue-Hee Park

“…<i>Cymbidium</i> is one of the most important genera of flowering plants in the Orchidaceae family, and comprises a wide variety of beautiful and colorful species. …”
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Ecological connectivity of bee communities in fragmented areas of Volcano Etna (Sicily, Italy) at different degrees of anthropogenic disturbance (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila) by Salvatore Bella, Roberto Catania, Pierluigi La Greca, Vittorio Nobile, Giuseppe Fabrizio Turrisi, Vera D'Urso

“…The data obtained highlight that reliable conservation strategies should consider firstly the maintenance of adequate ecological connectivity among environmental patches as well a high degree of local biodiversity, especially a high diversity of flowering plants. …”
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Sniff Species: SURMOF-Based Sensor Array Discriminates Aromatic Plants beyond the Genus Level by Salih Okur, Chun Li, Zejun Zhang, Sahi Vaidurya Pratap, Mohammed Sarheed, Adnan Kanbar, Leonard Franke, Felix Geislhöringer, Lars Heinke, Uli Lemmer, Peter Nick, Christof Wöll

“…Lamiaceae belong to the species-richest family of flowering plants and harbor many species that are used as herbs or in medicinal applications such as basils or mints. …”
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The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts by Lawrence N. Hudson, Tim Newbold, Sara Contu, Samantha L. L. Hill, Igor Lysenko, Adriana De Palma, Helen R. P. Phillips, Rebecca A. Senior, Dominic J. Bennett, Hollie Booth, Argyrios Choimes, David L. P. Correia, Julie Day, Susy Echeverría‐Londoño, Morgan Garon, Michelle L. K. Harrison, Daniel J. Ingram, Martin Jung, Victoria Kemp, Lucinda Kirkpatrick, Callum D. Martin, Yuan Pan, Hannah J. White, Job Aben, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Gilbert B. Adum, Virginia Aguilar‐Barquero, Marcelo A. Aizen, Marc Ancrenaz, Enrique Arbeláez‐Cortés, Inge Armbrecht, Badrul Azhar, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Lander Baeten, András Báldi, John E. Banks, Jos Barlow, Péter Batáry, Adam J. Bates, Erin M. Bayne, Pedro Beja, Åke Berg, Nicholas J. Berry, Jake E. Bicknell, Jochen H. Bihn, Katrin Böhning‐Gaese, Teun Boekhout, Céline Boutin, Jérémy Bouyer, Francis Q. Brearley, Isabel Brito, Jörg Brunet, Grzegorz Buczkowski, Erika Buscardo, Jimmy Cabra‐García, María Calviño‐Cancela, Sydney A. Cameron, Eliana M. Cancello, Tiago F. Carrijo, Anelena L. Carvalho, Helena Castro, Alejandro A. Castro‐Luna, Rolando Cerda, Alexis Cerezo, Matthieu Chauvat, Frank M. Clarke, Daniel F. R. Cleary, Stuart P. Connop, Biagio D'Aniello, Pedro Giovâni daSilva, Ben Darvill, Jens Dauber, Alain Dejean, Tim Diekötter, Yamileth Dominguez‐Haydar, Carsten F. Dormann, Bertrand Dumont, Simon G. Dures, Mats Dynesius, Lars Edenius, Zoltán Elek, Martin H. Entling, Nina Farwig, Tom M. Fayle, Antonio Felicioli, Annika M. Felton, Gentile F. Ficetola, Bruno K. C. Filgueiras, Steven J. Fonte, Lauchlan H. Fraser, Daisuke Fukuda, Dario Furlani, Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Jenni G. Garden, Carla Gheler‐Costa, Paolo Giordani, Simonetta Giordano, Marco S. Gottschalk, Dave Goulson, Aaron D. Gove, James Grogan, Mick E. Hanley, Thor Hanson, Nor R. Hashim, Joseph E. Hawes, Christian Hébert, Alvin J. Helden, John‐André Henden, Lionel Hernández, Felix Herzog, Diego Higuera‐Diaz, Branko Hilje, Finbarr G. Horgan, Roland Horváth, Kristoffer Hylander, Paola Isaacs‐Cubides, Masahiro Ishitani, Carmen T. Jacobs, Víctor J. Jaramillo, Birgit Jauker, Mats Jonsell, Thomas S. Jung, Vena Kapoor, Vassiliki Kati, Eric Katovai, Michael Kessler, Eva Knop, Annette Kolb, Ádám Kőrösi, Thibault Lachat, Victoria Lantschner, Violette Le Féon, Gretchen LeBuhn, Jean‐Philippe Légaré, Susan G. Letcher, Nick A. Littlewood, Carlos A. López‐Quintero, Mounir Louhaichi, Gabor L. Lövei, Manuel Esteban Lucas‐Borja, Victor H. Luja, Kaoru Maeto, Tibor Magura, Neil Aldrin Mallari, Erika Marin‐Spiotta, E. J. P. Marshall, Eliana Martínez, Margaret M. Mayfield, Grzegorz Mikusinski, Jeffrey C. Milder, James R. Miller, Carolina L. Morales, Mary N. Muchane, Muchai Muchane, Robin Naidoo, Akihiro Nakamura, Shoji Naoe, Guiomar Nates‐Parra, Dario A. Navarrete Gutierrez, Eike L. Neuschulz, Norbertas Noreika, Olivia Norfolk, Jorge Ari Noriega, Nicole M. Nöske, Niall O'Dea, William Oduro, Caleb Ofori‐Boateng, Chris O. Oke, Lynne M. Osgathorpe, Juan Paritsis, Alejandro Parra‐H, Nicolás Pelegrin, Carlos A. Peres, Anna S. Persson, Theodora Petanidou, Ben Phalan, T. Keith Philips, Katja Poveda, Eileen F. Power, Steven J. Presley, Vânia Proença, Marino Quaranta, Carolina Quintero, Nicola A. Redpath‐Downing, J. Leighton Reid, Yana T. Reis, Danilo B. Ribeiro, Barbara A. Richardson, Michael J. Richardson, Carolina A. Robles, Jörg Römbke, Luz Piedad Romero‐Duque, Loreta Rosselli, Stephen J. Rossiter, T'ai H. Roulston, Laurent Rousseau, Jonathan P. Sadler, Szabolcs Sáfián, Romeo A. Saldaña‐Vázquez, Ulrika Samnegård, Christof Schüepp, Oliver Schweiger, Jodi L. Sedlock, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Douglas Sheil, Fernando A. B. Silva, Eleanor M. Slade, Allan H. Smith‐Pardo, Navjot S. Sodhi, Eduardo J. Somarriba, Ramón A. Sosa, Jane C. Stout, Matthew J. Struebig, Yik‐Hei Sung, Caragh G. Threlfall, Rebecca Tonietto, Béla Tóthmérész, Teja Tscharntke, Edgar C. Turner, Jason M. Tylianakis, Adam J. Vanbergen, Kiril Vassilev, Hans A. F. Verboven, Carlos H. Vergara, Pablo M. Vergara, Jort Verhulst, Tony R. Walker, Yanping Wang, James I. Watling, Konstans Wells, Christopher D. Williams, Michael R. Willig, John C. Z. Woinarski, Jan H. D. Wolf, Ben A. Woodcock, Douglas W. Yu, Andrey S. Zaitsev, Ben Collen, Rob M. Ewers, Georgina M. Mace, Drew W. Purves, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, Andy Purvis

“…The database contains more than 1% of the total number of all species described, and more than 1% of the described species within many taxonomic groups – including flowering plants, gymnosperms, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, beetles, lepidopterans and hymenopterans. …”
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