In some animal populations, immigrants have lower survival than philopatric individuals. Costs of dispersal or low phenotypic quality of dispersers may explain the pattern. However, apparent adult survival estimates, which ...

[EN] Salt stress responses were studied in three Plantago species (P. crassifolia, P. coronopus and P. major), with different levels of salt stress tolerance, at growth and reproductive stages of the life cycle. Plants ...

[EN] Autofertility describes the ability of faba bean flowers to self-fertilize thereby ensuring the productivity of this crop in the absence of pollinators or mechanical disturbance. In the legume crop faba bean (Vicia ...