Woody plants are characterised by a highly complex vascular system, wherein the
secondary xylem (wood) is responsible for the axial transport of water and various …

Wood is the most important natural and endlessly renewable source of energy. Despite the
ecological and economic importance of wood, many aspects of its formation have not yet …

Orchids are widely used in traditional medicine for the treatment of a whole range of different
health conditions, and representatives of the Neotropical subtribe Maxillariinae are not an …

Stone cells are the brachysclereid cells in pear (Pyrus) fruit, consisting almost entirely of
lignified secondary cell walls. They are distributed mainly near the fruit core and spread …

Drought is a severe environmental stress that exerts negative effects on plant growth. In
trees, drought leads to reduced secondary growth and altered wood anatomy. The …

Grafting is widely used in horticulture. Shortly after grafting, callus tissues appear at the graft
interface and the vascular tissues of the scion and rootstock connect. The graft interface …

The young bamboo shoot of Bambusa oldhamii (green bamboo) has a good taste and is rich
in nutrition and widely used in traditional Chinese cuisines. But the shoots flavor of Bambusa …

The functional composition of plant communities (FCPC) makes a significant contribution to
ecosystem properties, functions, and services. Here, we used 18 plant functional traits from …

Wood is the most important repository of assimilated carbon in the biosphere, in the form of
large polymers (cellulose, hemicelluloses including glucuronoxylan, and lignin) that …

Xylem sap is the major transport route for nutrients from roots to shoots. In the present study,
we investigated how variations in nitrogen (N) nutrition affected the metabolome and …