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2025

(2025) Mišina, I., Lazdiņa, D. & Górnaś, P. Tocochromanols in the Leaves of Plants in the Hypericum and Clusia Genera. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 30, 709. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30030709
(2025) Murrell, O. Using pedigree tracking of the ex situ metacollection of Amorphophallus titanum (Araceae) to identify challenges to maintaining genetic diversity in the botanical community. Annals of Botany, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf038
(2025) Woudstra, Y., Rees, P., Rakotoarisoa, S.E., Klopper, R.R., Smith, G.F., Rønsted, N. & Grace, O.M. Nuclear phylogenomics reveals strong geographic patterns in the evolutionary history of <em>Aloe</em> and related genera (alooids). bioRxiv, 2025.02.28.640761. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.28.640761

2024

(2024) Ang, A.C.H., Mutte, S., Weijers, D. & Østergaard, L. ETTIN-mediated auxin signalling is an angiosperm-specific neofunctionalization for carpel development. bioRxiv, 2024.09.02.610784. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.02.610784
(2024) Carruthers, T., Moerland, M.S., Ebersbach, J., Favre, A., Folk, R.A., Hawkins, J.A., Muellner-Riehl, A.N., Röser, M., Soltis, D.E., Tkach, N., Baker, W.J., de Vos, J.M. & Eiserhardt, W.L. Repeated upslope biome shifts in Saxifraga during late-Cenozoic climate cooling. Nature Communications, 15, 1100. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45289-w
(2024) de Vos, J.M., Woudstra, Y., Leitch, I.J. & Hidalgo, O. Assessing male reproductive investment in Papaveraceae using flow cytometry reveals lineage-specific trajectories to pollen-to-ovule ratio reduction. bioRxiv, 2024.08.23.609364. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.23.609364
(2024) Fraiture, M.-A. Development and validation of a ddPCR assay to detect and quantify tobacco DNA in smoke and smokeless tobacco and tobacco-free products. Heliyon, 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32964
(2024) Lyczakowski, J.J. & Wightman, R. Convergent and adaptive evolution drove change of secondary cell wall ultrastructure in extant lineages of seed plants. New Phytologist, 243, 2061–2065. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19983
(2024) Namusoke, E. African Collections Futures, University of Cambridge.
(2024) Rhizopoulou, S. & Pouris, J. Retrospective Approach to the Endemic Dianthus fruticosus L. ssp. fruticosus on Serifos Island (Cyclades, Greece). Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 13, 3002. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13213002
(2024) Woudstra, Y., Rees, P., Rakotoarisoa, S.E., Rønsted, N., Howard, C. & Grace, O.M. An updated DNA barcoding tool for <em>Aloe vera</em> and related CITES-regulated species. bioRxiv, 2024.07.09.602761. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.09.602761
(2024) Yu, L., Wilson, L.F.L., Terrett, O.M., Wurman-Rodrich, J., Łyczakowski, J.J., Yu, X., Krogh, K.B.R.M. & Dupree, P. Evolution of glucuronoxylan side chain variability in vascular plants and the compensatory adaptations of cell wall–degrading hydrolases. New Phytologist, 244, 1024–1040. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19957

2023

(2023) Fricker, R.A., Anderson, J., Anderton, C., Cheng, E., Choi, H., Miao, S., Wenban-Smith, E. & Clark, N. Establishing a Phenology Research Project at Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Nature in Cambridgeshire, 64.
(2023) Jacquemyn, H., Pankhurst, T., Jones, P.S., Brys, R. & Hutchings, M.J. Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Liparis loeselii. Journal of Ecology, 111, 943–966. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14086
(2023) Tryfona, T., Bourdon, M., Delgado Marques, R., Busse-Wicher, M., Vilaplana, F., Stott, K. & Dupree, P. Grass xylan structural variation suggests functional specialization and distinctive interaction with cellulose and lignin. The Plant Journal, 113, 1004–1020. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16096
(2023) Wilson, L.F.L., Neun, S., Yu, L., Tryfona, T., Stott, K., Hollfelder, F. & Dupree, P. The biosynthesis, degradation, and function of cell wall β-xylosylated xyloglucan mirrors that of arabinoxyloglucan. New Phytologist, 240, 2353–2371. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19305

2022

(2022) Brook, T.S., Coates, E., Orchard, L., Leggett, H. & Helm, C.V. Winter bat activity at Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Nature in Cambridgeshire.
(2022) Debray, K., Le Paslier, M.-C., Bérard, A., Thouroude, T., Michel, G., Marie-Magdelaine, J., Bruneau, A., Foucher, F. & Malécot, V. Unveiling the Patterns of Reticulated Evolutionary Processes with Phylogenomics: Hybridization and Polyploidy in the Genus Rosa. Systematic Biology, 71, 547–569. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syab064
(2022) Preston, C.D. The bryophytes of Cambridge University Botanic Garden resurveyed, 2021–22. Nature in Cambridgeshire.

2021

(2021) Melelli, A., Pantaloni, D., Balnois, E., Arnould, O., Jamme, F., Baley, C., Beaugrand, J., Shah, D.U. & Bourmaud, A. Investigations by AFM of Ageing Mechanisms in PLA-Flax Fibre Composites during Garden Composting. Polymers, 13, 2225. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13142225

2020

(2020) Ives, J. Biological controls in botanic gardens. Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, 117–125. https://doi.org/10.24823/Sibbaldia.2020.292
(2020) Lei, J., Zhou, J., Sun, H., Wan, W., Xiao, J., Yuan, C., Karafiátová, M., Doležel, J., Wang, H. & Wang, X. Development of oligonucleotide probes for FISH karyotyping in Haynaldia villosa, a wild relative of common wheat. The Crop Journal, 8, 676–681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2020.02.008
(2020) Pantaloni, D., Shah, D., Baley, C. & Bourmaud, A. Monitoring of mechanical performances of flax non-woven biocomposites during a home compost degradation. Polymer Degradation and Stability, 177, 109166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2020.109166
(2020) Rumsey, F. & Stroh, P. Will de-extinction be forever? Lessons from the re-introductions of Bromus interruptus (Hack.) Druce. Journal for Nature Conservation, 56, 125835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125835
(2020) Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Lee, C., Clement, W.L. & Donoghue, M.J. Fruit syndromes in Viburnum: correlated evolution of color, nutritional content, and morphology in bird-dispersed fleshy fruits. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 20, 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1546-5
(2020) Song, X., Song, R., Zhou, J., Yan, W., Zhang, T., Sun, H., Xiao, J., Wu, Y., Xi, M., Lou, Q., Wang, H. & Wang, X. Development and application of oligonucleotide-based chromosome painting for chromosome 4D of Triticum aestivum L. Chromosome Research, 28, 171–182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10577-020-09627-0

2019

(2019) Craene, L.P.R.D. & Wei, L. Floral development and anatomy of Macarthuria australis (Macarthuriaceae): key to understanding the unusual initiation sequence of Caryophyllales. Australian Systematic Botany, 32, 49–60. https://doi.org/10.1071/SB18069
(2019) Loiseau, O., Olivares, I., Paris, M., de La Harpe, M., Weigand, A., Koubínová, D., Rolland, J., Bacon, C.D., Balslev, H., Borchsenius, F., Cano, A., Couvreur, T.L.P., Delnatte, C., Fardin, F., Gayot, M., Mejía, F., Mota-Machado, T., Perret, M., Roncal, J., Sanin, M.J., Stauffer, F., Lexer, C., Kessler, M. & Salamin, N. Targeted Capture of Hundreds of Nuclear Genes Unravels Phylogenetic Relationships of the Diverse Neotropical Palm Tribe Geonomateae. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00864
(2019) Lyczakowski, J.J., Bourdon, M., Terrett, O.M., Helariutta, Y., Wightman, R. & Dupree, P. Structural Imaging of Native Cryo-Preserved Secondary Cell Walls Reveals the Presence of Macrofibrils and Their Formation Requires Normal Cellulose, Lignin and Xylan Biosynthesis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01398
(2019) McCarthy, E.W., Landis, J.B., Kurti, A., Lawhorn, A.J., Chase, M.W., Knapp, S., Le Comber, S.C., Leitch, A.R. & Litt, A. Early consequences of allopolyploidy alter floral evolution in Nicotiana (Solanaceae). BMC Plant Biology, 19, 162. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1771-5

2018

(2018) Gross, M. Can botanic gardens save all plants? Current Biology, 28, R1075–R1078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.010
(2018) Males, J. & Griffiths, H. Economic and hydraulic divergences underpin ecological differentiation in the Bromeliaceae. Plant, Cell & Environment, 41, 64–78. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP17071
(2018) Males, J. Concerted anatomical change associated with crassulacean acid metabolism in the Bromeliaceae. Functional Plant Biology, 45, 681–695. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12954
(2018) Ridley, C.J.A., Parker, B.M., Norman, L., Schlarb-Ridley, B., Dennis, R., Jamieson, A.E., Clark, D., Skill, S.C., Smith, A.G. & Davey, M.P. Growth of microalgae using nitrate-rich brine wash from the water industry. Algal Research, 33, 91–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2018.04.018

2017

(2017) Borgia, V., Carlin, M.G. & Crezzini, J. Poison, plants and Palaeolithic hunters. An analytical method to investigate the presence of plant poison on archaeological artefacts. Quaternary International, 427, 94–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.025
(2017) Busà, C., Rickard, J.J.S., Chun, E., Chong, Y., Navaratnam, V. & Oppenheimer, P.G. Tunable superapolar Lotus-to-Rose hierarchical nanosurfaces via vertical carbon nanotubes driven electrohydrodynamic lithography. Nanoscale, 9, 1625–1636. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6NR08706J
(2017) Males, J. & Griffiths, H. Functional types in the Bromeliaceae: relationships with drought-resistance traits and bioclimatic distributions. Functional Ecology, 31, 1868–1880. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-3956-7
(2017) Males, J. & Griffiths, H. Specialized stomatal humidity responses underpin ecological diversity in C3 bromeliads. Plant, Cell & Environment, 40, 2931–2945. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12475
(2017) Males, J. Adaptive variation in vein placement underpins diversity in a major Neotropical plant radiation. Oecologia, 185, 375–386. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13024
(2017) Males, J. Hydraulics link leaf shape and environmental niche in terrestrial bromeliads. Biotropica, 49, 891–902. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12900
(2017) Schimpf, N.G., Terblanche, J.S., Smit, M.F. & Matthews, P.G.D. Respiration, thermogenesis, and thermoregulation of Victoria cruziana flowers. Aquatic Botany, 138, 37–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2016.11.014
(2017) Stroh, P. & Scott, W. Angelica archangelica subsp. littoralis (Apiaceae) – a new native taxon for Britain. New Journal of Botany, 7, 57–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1297353
(2017) Stroh, P.A., Pescott, O.L. & Mountford, J.O. Long-term changes in lowland calcareous grassland plots using Tephroseris integrifolia subsp. integrifolia as an indicator species. Plant Ecology, 218, 1269–1281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-017-0767-1
(2017) York, J.E. & Davies, N.B. Female cuckoo calls misdirect host defences towards the wrong enemy. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 1520–1525. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0279-3

2016

(2016) Busse-Wicher, M., Li, A., Silveira, R.L., Pereira, C.S., Tryfona, T., Gomes, T.C.F., Skaf, M.S. & Dupree, P. Evolution of Xylan Substitution Patterns in Gymnosperms and Angiosperms: Implications for Xylan Interaction with Cellulose. Plant Physiology, 171, 2418–2431. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.16.00539
(2016) Colchester, C. & Harrison, N.M. Personality in Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and its Effect on Their Breeding Success. Ethology, 122, 695–701. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12516
(2016) Figueiredo, E., Smith, G.F. & Crouch, N.R. The taxonomy and type of Kalanchoe sexangularis N.E.Br. (Crassulaceae). Bradleya, 2016, 92–96. https://doi.org/10.25223/brad.n34.2016.a24

2015

(2015) Collett, C., Ardron, A., Bauer, U., Chapman, G., Chaudan, E., Hallmark, B., Pratt, L., Torres-Perez, M.D. & Wilson, D.I. A portable extensional rheometer for measuring the viscoelasticity of pitcher plant and other sticky liquids in the field. Plant Methods, 11, 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-015-0059-5
(2015) López-Merino, L., Leroy, S.A.G., Haldorsen, S., Heun, M. & Reynolds, A. Can Triticum urartu (Poaceae) be identified by pollen analysis? Implications for detecting the ancestor of the extinct two-grained einkorn-like wheat. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 177, 278–289. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12238
(2015) Williams, S.J., Jones, J.P.G., Gibbons, J.M. & Clubbe, C. Botanic gardens can positively influence visitors’ environmental attitudes. Biodiversity and Conservation, 24, 1609–1620. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0879-7

2012

(2012) Bauer, U., Clemente, C.J., Renner, T. & Federle, W. Form follows function: morphological diversification and alternative trapping strategies in carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25, 90–102. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02406.x
(2012) Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, G., Hunt, H.V. & Jones, M.K. Experimental approaches to understanding variation in grain size in Panicum miliaceum (broomcorn millet) and its relevance for interpreting archaeobotanical assemblages. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 21, 69–77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0322-2
(2012) Thornham, D.G., Smith, J.M., Ulmar Grafe, T. & Federle, W. Setting the trap: cleaning behaviour of Camponotus schmitzi ants increases long-term capture efficiency of their pitcher plant host, Nepenthes bicalcarata. Functional Ecology, 26, 11–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01937.x

2011

(2011) Bauer, U., Grafe, T.U. & Federle, W. Evidence for alternative trapping strategies in two forms of the pitcher plant, Nepenthes rafflesiana. Journal of Experimental Botany, 62, 3683–3692. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/err082
(2011) Hunt, H.V., Campana, M.G., Lawes, M.C., Park, Y.-J., Bower, M.A., Howe, C.J. & Jones, M.K. Genetic diversity and phylogeography of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) across Eurasia. Molecular Ecology, 20, 4756–4771. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05318.x

2010

(2010) Hunt, H.V., Denyer, K., Packman, L.C., Jones, M.K. & Howe, C.J. Molecular Basis of the Waxy Endosperm Starch Phenotype in Broomcorn Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 27, 1478–1494. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq040
(2010) Kromdijk, J., Griffiths, H. & Schepers, H.E. Can the progressive increase of C4 bundle sheath leakiness at low PFD be explained by incomplete suppression of photorespiration? Plant, Cell & Environment, 33, 1935–1948. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02196.x