Aim Understanding plant diversity and how different traits have shaped the current biodiversity setting across world is one of major challenges for evolutionary biology. In this sense, genus Linum been broadly studied as a model species showing heterostyly, but no studies attempted to investigate possible correlations between heterostyly diversification. Thus, in study we aim explore origin div...

The strategies of metal tolerance developed by several plants that enable them to survive in metal contaminated and polluted sites. Some of them may accumulate significant concentration of a specific element. The work presented here is part of the on going study in Central Portugal, and it focus only in a preliminary description. We have observed that Apium nodiflorum, Callitriche stagnalis, Le...