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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
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Plantas medicinais e preparações tradicionais à base de plantas usadas como ansiolítico

, 2021
Os ansiolíticos consistem em medicamentos utilizados na terapêutica de neuroses e distúrbios psicossomáticos relacionados com a ansiedade. As plantas medicinais e as preparações à base de plantas são utilizadas para o tratamento de doenças do foro neurológico e, nos últimos vinte anos, tem existido uma multiplicidade de estudos sobre a sua utilização ...
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Genomic structure and ex situ conservation of the North American grapevine Vitis labrusca

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The North American wild grapevine species Vitis labrusca is an important source of disease resistance and climate resilience traits for breeding new grapevine cultivars. To ensure its continued use in breeding, V. labrusca must be accurately identified and genetically diverse material must be conserved.
Zoë Migicovsky, Clay Elzinga, Mia C. Lauzon, Thomas Connor, Kylie DeViller, Claire Dinn, Grace M. Earle, Emma Hockley, Olivia Lennon, Lillian A. Ricker, Peter M. Roberts, Katrina M. Robinson, Aditi Sharma, Paris N. Spencer, Sammy Stockdale, Liam L. Tingley, Annelies Yates, Jason P. Londo, Peter Cousins   +18 more
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Variabilidade genética entre acessos de pinhão-manso na fase juvenil. [PDF]

, 2015
O pinhão-manso está entre as oleaginosas que podem ser cultivadas para aumentar a produção de biodiesel. Este trabalho teve como objetivo estudar a variabilidade genética entre acessos de pinhão-manso do Banco Ativo de Germoplasma da Universidade Federal
ABREU, F. B., ANSELMO, J. L., BRENHA, J. A. M., FREITAS, F. B. de, RESENDE, M. D. V. de, SATURNINO, H. M.   +5 more
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A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

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The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori, Tiziana Cossu, Hicham El Zein, Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Ulian, Gianluigi Bacchetta   +5 more
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Plantas medicinais e produtos à base de plantas com ação no emagrecimento

, 2023
A obesidade constitui uma crescente preocupação global, afetando significativamente a saúde das pessoas e a economia mundial, estando associada a doenças graves como Diabetes Tipo 2, problemas cardiovasculares e alguns tipos de cancros. A título adicional, prevê-se um aumento em 167 milhões de pessoas obesas até 2025, sendo que o contexto pandémico ...
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An integrated social and natural sciences case study for the reuse of organic wastes as soil amendments

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Reusing organic waste materials, such as animal manure, as soil amendments reduces water and fertiliser demand, contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. However, organic wastes may contain contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), posing potential ecosystem and human health risks. Despite the importance of this issue, there is a lack
Felicity C. T. Elder, Jose‐Luis Fajardo‐Escoffié, Laura Carter, Emily K. Durant, Katie J. Field, John Nightingale, Brett Sallach, Andrea‐Lorena Garduño‐Jiménez   +7 more
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Integrating indigenous crops in agroforestry systems: Lesser yam and teak mixed systems are more profitable than monocultures in Indonesia

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Major staple crops are often introduced and cultivated in monocultures. Yams are staple crops native to the majority of low‐ and middle‐income countries and can provide an alternative to introduced staple crops. We showed that lesser yams cultivated together with teak trees (planted at the border of the farm) are more profitable than lesser yam ...
Budiadi, Sawitri, Enggal Primananda, Aqmal Nur Jihad, Marco Campera, Rika Bela Rahmawati   +5 more
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ESTUDIO DE LOS RECURSOS FORRAJEROS, BAJO EL DOSEL DE ARBOLES EN POTREROS, ESTUDIO DE CASO, FINCA LAS MERCEDES, MANAGUA, NICARAGUA

La Calera, 2001
Se condujo un experimento de campo en la finca Las Mercedes, Universidad Nacional Agraria. El objetivo del estudio fue determinar el número de componentes forrajeros herbáceos y su tipo en un sistema de producción pecuario bajo condiciones con y sin ...
Carlos J. Ruiz Fonseca, Wilmer Maradiaga, Nelson Cruz   +2 more
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Plantas medicinais e produtos à base de plantas com ação na menopausa

, 2023
Trabalho Final de Mestrado Integrado, Ciências Farmacêuticas, 2023, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Farmácia.
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