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New Phytologist |
| Neighbourhood Diversity Effects on Tree Growth Shift Over Time in a Long-Term Forest Biodiversity Experiment |
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Ecology Letters |
| Precipitation threshold-driven shifts in dominant controls of ecosystem nitrogen retention |
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Nature Geoscience |
| Climate dominance gives way to litter chemistry during long-term Scots pine needle decomposition along a boreal-to-temperate climate gradient |
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BMC Plant Biology |
| Range expansion and climatic niche divergence-driven vicariance shaped historical biogeography of Leonticeae (Berberidaceae) across the Northern Hemisphere |
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Annals of Botany |
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BMC Plant Biology |
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Annals of Botany |
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Plant Communications |
| Cryo-EM structural analyses of chlorophyll b-enriched PSI-LHC and PSII-LHC supercomplexes of the siphonous green alga Bryopsis corticulans |
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Plant Communications |
| Soil and Microbial Controls Jointly Regulate Elevational Patterns of Free-Living Nitrogen Fixation Rate and Its Temperature Sensitivity |
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Global Change Biology |
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PNAS |
| Tree diversity-soil organic carbon relationships strengthen under colder and more arid conditions |
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New Phytologist |
| Phytochrome B integrates jasmonic acid and warm temperature signaling pathways to regulate cotyledon chloroplast development |
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Nature Communications |
| A comprehensive dated phylogeny of China's vascular plants reveals a hidden global biodiversity hotspot |
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Nature Ecology & Evolution |
| The GreenCut protein TEF6 maintains photosystem II homeostasis under high light by stabilizing FtsH accumulation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii |
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Plant Communications |
| The circadian morning complex modulates abscisic acid signaling by transcriptionally repressing PYL4, PYL5, and PYL6 at dawn |
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| A revised generic classification of Ranunculaceae based on molecular data |
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| The ZmHEAT1/ZmKAKU42-ZmNCH1 module regulates heat stress tolerance by modulating nuclear envelope structure in maize |
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Cell Reports |
| OsALY4 acts as an m5C-mRNA reader facilitating mRNA export and contributing to chilling and salt tolerance in rice |
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Cell Reports |
