Invited Special Paper:

C. L. Gross

A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes—more monoecy but why?
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 907-919. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

Anatomy and Morphology:

Frederic Lens, Stefan Dressler, Steven Jansen, Liesbeth van Evelghem, and Erik Smets

Relationships within balsaminoid Ericales: a wood anatomical approach
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 941-953. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Review:

M. Rejmánek

Invasive plants: what we know and what we want to know
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 901-902. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brief Communication:

G. W. Rothwell and S. Lev-Yadun

Evidence of polar auxin flow in 375 million-year-old fossil wood
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 903-906. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ecology:

Philip A. Fay and Heather L. Throop

Branching responses in Silphium integrifolium (Asteraceae) following mechanical or gall damage to apical meristems and neighbor removal
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 954-959. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Naomi J. Wender, Chandra R. Polisetty, and Kathleen Donohue

Density-dependent processes influencing the evolutionary dynamics of dispersal: a functional analysis of seed dispersal in Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 960-971. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amy E. Zanne, Colin A. Chapman, and Kaoru Kitajima

Evolutionary and ecological correlates of early seedling morphology in East African trees and shrubs
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 972-978. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Root Gorelick

Theory for why dioecious plants have equal length sex chromosomes
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 979-984. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Biochemistry:

Katherine A. McCulloh and John S. Sperry

The evaluation of Murray's law in Psilotum nudum (Psilotaceae), an analogue of ancestral vascular plants
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 985-989. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Biology:

Yingqing Lu, Donald M. Waller, and Peter David

Genetic variability is correlated with population size and reproduction in American wild-rice (Zizania palustris var. palustris, Poaceae) populations
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 990-997. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reproductive Biology:

Elizabeth P. Lacey and David Herr

Phenotypic plasticity, parental effects, and parental care in plants? I. An examination of spike reflectance in Plantago lanceolata (Plantaginaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 920-930. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

L. Irene Terry, Gimme H. Walter, John S. Donaldson, Elizabeth Snow, Paul I. Forster, and Peter J. Machin

Pollination of Australian Macrozamia cycads (Zamiaceae): effectiveness and behavior of specialist vectors in a dependent mutualism
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 931-940. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Systematics:

Kenneth M. Cameron

Leave it to the leaves: a molecular phylogenetic study of Malaxideae (Epidendroideae, Orchidaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 1025-1032. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

Tina Kyndt, Eliza Romeijn-Peeters, Bart Van Droogenbroeck, José P. Romero-Motochi, Godelieve Gheysen, and Paul Goetghebeur

Species relationships in the genus Vasconcellea (Caricaceae) based on molecular and morphological evidence
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 1033-1044. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roberta J. Mason-Gamer

The ß-amylase genes of grasses and a phylogenetic analysis of the Triticeae (Poaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 1045-1058. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Systematics and Phytogeography:

Thomas Denk, Guido W. Grimm, and Vera Hemleben

Patterns of molecular and morphological differentiation in Fagus (Fagaceae): phylogenetic implications
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 1006-1016. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

Quentin C. B. Cronk, Michael Kiehn, Warren L. Wagner, and James F. Smith

Evolution of Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) in the Pacific Ocean: the origin of a supertramp clade
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 1017-1024. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

Tropical Biology:

David F. Greene and Mauricio Quesada

Seed size, dispersal, and aerodynamic constraints within the Bombacaceae
Am. J. Bot. 2005 92: 998-1005. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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