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Pre-contact Agave domesticates – living legacy plants in Arizona’s landscape

Annals of Botany, 2023
Background and Scope Agaves played a central role as multi-use plants providing food, fibre and beverage to pre-contact and historical Mesoamerican cultures.
W. Hodgson, E. Jane Rosenthal, A. Salywon   +2 more
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Perspective of the social, economic and environmental sustainability of the tequila industry

Ra Ximhai, 2021
The tequila industry is one of the most prosperous in the country, contributing 18.6% to the national Gross Domestic Product in the alcoholic beverage sector, along with mezcal, with exports exceeding $1.874 billion in 2019.
Norberto Santiago Olivares, Fabiola Guadalupe Arriaga López, Celina Beltrán Hernández, Edgardo Martínez Orozco   +3 more
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Diversity of reproductive characters, seed set, and viability of Agave seeds used for pulque production and their wild relatives in Tlaxcala, Mexico

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2023
Agave is one of the most important genera of plants in Mexico in terms of biodiversity and cultural and economic impact; however, its reproductive traits and breeding systems are poorly known.
L. Trejo, Diana Soriano, Elvira Romano-Grande, Bárbara Sánchez-Carmona, Diego E. Dávila-Navarro   +4 more
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DIVERSIDAD GENÉTICA EN POBLACIONES DE AGAVES PULQUEROS (Agave spp.) DEL NORORIENTE DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO

Revista Fitotecnia Mexicana, 2022
Se analizaron seis poblaciones de magueyes pulqueros: ‘Manso’ (Agave salmiana var. ‘Salmiana’), ‘Ayoteco’ (Agave salmiana var. ‘Ayoteco’), ‘Verde’, ‘Carrizo’ Agave mapisaga Trel), ‘Negro’ y ‘Xilometl’, del Nororiente del Estado de México, para determinar
Guillermo Alfaro-Rojas, J. Legaria-Solano, J. E. Rodríguez-Pérez   +2 more
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Agave Syrup: Chemical Analysis and Nutritional Profile, Applications in the Food Industry and Health Impacts

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Agave syrup (AS), a food product made from agave plant sap, is a vegan sweetener that has become popular for replacing conventional sweeteners such as sucrose. As the demand for naturally derived sweeteners has grown in the last decade, this review paper
Ariana Saraiva, C. Carrascosa, F. Ramos, D. Raheem, A. Raposo   +4 more
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Dietary Supplementation with Agave tequilana (Weber Var. Blue) Stem Powder Improves the Performance and Intestinal Integrity of Broiler Rabbits

Animals, 2022
This study evaluated the effect of Agave tequilana (Weber var. azul) stem powder on the growth performance and the intestinal integrity in rabbits. A total of 120 male rabbits [New Zealand × California] were weaned for 35 days and randomized into four ...
Yordan Martínez, Maidelys Iser, Manuel Valdivié, Manuel Rosales, Esther Albarrán, David Sánchez   +5 more
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Genotypic and Phenotypic Diversity of Kluyveromyces marxianus Isolates Obtained from the Elaboration Process of Two Traditional Mexican Alcoholic Beverages Derived from Agave: Pulque and Henequen (Agave fourcroydes) Mezcal

Journal of Fungi, 2023
Seven Kluyveromyces marxianus isolates from the elaboration process of pulque and henequen mezcal were characterized. The isolates were identified based on the sequences of the D1/D2 domain of the 26S rRNA gene and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS-5 ...
Patricia Lappe-Oliveras, Morena Avitia, Sara Darinka Sánchez-Robledo, Ana Karina Castillo-Plata, Lorena Pedraza, Guillermo Baquerizo, Sylvie Le Borgne   +6 more
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Typification of the binomial Sedum boissierianum Hausskncht Crassulaceae

Annals of Forest Research, 2016
Genus Sedum, described by Linne in 1753, a polyphyletic genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, was extensively studied both by scholars and succulents enthusiasts.
Valentin Bârcă
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First record of the agave snout weevil, Scyphophorus acupunctatusGyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae), in Puerto Rico [PDF]

, 2011
The agave snout weevil, Scyphophorus acupunctatus Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae), is reported from Puerto Rico for the first time.
Anderson, Jesse A., Setliff, Gregory P.
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Advances in the Micropropagation and Genetic Transformation of Agave Species

Plants, 2022
The Agave genus is composed of approximately 210 species distributed from south United States to Colombia and Venezuela. Numerous Agave species have been used for the preparation of alcoholic beverages and have attracted interest in the pharmaceutical ...
Erika Bautista-Montes, Laura Hernández-Soriano, J. Simpson   +2 more
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