Functional trade-offs and ecological correlates of seed oil traits in alpine ecosystems.

Seed oil content is a crucial energy reserve in angiosperms, with effects on biological functions and plant fitness, playing an important role in seed protection from environmental conditions. However, the eco-evolutionary role of seed oil traits in natural ecosystems is largely unexplored. We studied functional trade-offs and ecological drivers of seed oil traits in 47 species of an alpine flora.

Invasive plants have a delayed and longer flowering phenology than native plants in an ecoregional flora.

Background And Aims: Flowering phenology has been suggested as an important factor to explain invasions of non-native plant species. Invasive species success may be enhanced by flowering at different times (the vacant niche hypothesis) or flowering for longer periods (the niche breath hypothesis) than native species. However, comprehensive regional assessments of the flowering phenology of invasive and native floras are lacking in the literature.

Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity.

Anthropogenic biodiversity decline threatens the functioning of ecosystems and the many benefits they provide to humanity. As well as causing species losses in directly affected locations, human influence might also reduce biodiversity in relatively unmodified vegetation if far-reaching anthropogenic effects trigger local extinctions and hinder recolonization. Here we show that local plant diversity is globally negatively related to the level of anthropogenic activity in the surrounding region.

Initial linguistic and cultural validation of the satisfaction survey for inflatable penile implant (SSIPI) in Spanish.

Introduction: The Satisfaction Survey for Inflatable Penile Implant (SSIPI) is useful tool to assess patient outcomes after inflatable penile prosthesis (IPP) surgery. However, this survey is not validated in Spanish. This work aims to report the initial steps carried out for the linguistic validation of the SSIPI translation into Spanish.

Lipid metabolism during seed germination of Pistacia chinensis and its response to gibberellic acid.

Lipid metabolism may play a critical role in fueling seed germination, but the knowledge of lipid metabolism during germination is still ambiguous. Here, we hypothesize that gibberellic acid (GA) promotes germination by means of enhancing lipid mobilization in Chinese pistachio (Pistacia chinensis Bunge), a species belonging to Anacardiaceae with high oil content in its seeds. A multi-omics approach has been applied to measure lipid mobilization during seed germination, and to identify the key regulators involved in GA-mediated lipid metabolism.