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Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl.) Breeding

2019
Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl.), member of the Lecythidaceae family, is a native monotypic tree species which occurs in the Amazon Region and is important for its economic, social and environmental values. The tree bears fruit containing seeds known as Brazil nuts, Para nuts or Amazon nuts.
Aisy Botega Baldoni, Lúcia Helena de Oliveira Wadt, Cássia Ângela Pedrozo   +2 more
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Microstructural features influencing the mechanical performance of the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) mesocarp

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2021
Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) fruits are capable of resisting high mechanical forces when released from trees as tall as 50 m, as well as during animal dispersal by sharp-teethed rodents. Thick mesocarp plays a crucial part in seed protection.
Marilia Sonego, Mauro Madia, Michaela Eder, Claudia Fleck, Luiz A. Pessan   +4 more
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Functionality of Succinylated Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa HBK) Kernel Globulin

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, 2005
One of the possible ways to improve the utilisation of defatted Brazil nut kernel flour, a by-product of oil extraction industries, is to improve its functional properties by chemical modification as it possesses very modest functional characteristics.
Cíntia Maria, Pinto Ramos, Pushkar Singh, Bora   +1 more
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Floral structure and nectary anatomy of Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidaceae)

Botany Letters
Fil: Amarilla, Leonardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales.
Amarilla, Leonardo, Tello, Natalia R., Cavalcante, Marcelo C., Maués, Márcia M., Galetto, Leonardo   +4 more
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Raman spectra and ab-initio calculations in Bertholletia excelsa oil

Vibrational Spectroscopy, 2020
Abstract In the Brazilian Amazon, many plants are important in the economic context, since they can be obtained from raw material for the most diverse commercial applications. Oils extracted from plants in general are in this context. Bertholletia excelsa produces one of the best-known fruits of the Amazon, the Brazil nut, from which the oil of the ...
Q.S. Martins, L.M.S. Santos, J.L.B. Faria   +2 more
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Study of Selenium Distribution in the Protein Fractions of the Brazil Nut, Bertholletia excelsa

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2004
The high selenium content of the Brazil nut, Bertholletia excelsa, makes this seed a healthy food qualified as an antiradical protector. The studied nut contained 126 ppm of selenium. Selenium was found to be distributed in the nut protein fractions. The water-extracted fraction, which represented 17.7% of the cake protein, was the richest in selenium ...
Chunhieng, Thavarith, Petritis, Konstantinos, Elfaki, M.G., Brochier, José, Goli, Thierry, Montet, Didier   +5 more
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Primary and secondary dispersal of Bertholletia excelsa: Implications for sustainable harvests

Forest Ecology and Management, 2018
Abstract Our study tracked intact whole fruits of the giant, large-seeded tropical tree Bertholletia excelsa for the first time during primary (fruitfall) and secondary mammalian fruit dispersal. The scatterhoarding Dasyprocta spp. is particularly important for B.
Lúcia Helena de Oliveira Wadt, Camila Lima Faustino, Christina Lynn Staudhammer, Karen A. Kainer, Joziane Silva Evangelista   +4 more
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Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl.) in health and disease: A narrative review

Food Chemistry
Brazil nut is one of the most consumed nut-producing species from South America. This narrative review evaluates the potential benefits of Brazil nut in health and disease. Various preclinical studies have shown that Brazil nut possesses antioxidant and anti-inflammatory actions and may be associated with antihypertensive, anti-nephrotoxic ...
Larissa Naomi, Takeda, Amanda, Omine, Lucas Fornari, Laurindo, Adriano Cressoni, Araújo, Nathália Mendes, Machado, Jefferson A, Dias, Joachim, Kavalakatt, Sabyasachi, Banerjee, Ricardo, de Alvares Goulart, Atanas G, Atanasov, Anupam, Bishayee, Sandra Maria, Barbalho   +11 more
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Cosmetic application of the stem‐bark extract of Bertholletia excelsa H.B.K

International Journal of Cosmetic Science
AbstractObjectiveThe Amazon has a rich biodiversity where many different plant species can be found. This diversity is an important source of bioactive substances, mainly due to the different structural components of their phytometabolites. Research for natural products is a strategy for the development of new agents in therapeutic applications ...
Márcia J. A. Silva, Leonard D. R. Acho, Simone B. Carneiro, Anderson C. Guimarães, Emerson S. Lima   +4 more
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Genetics of Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa Humb. & Bonpl.: Lecythidaceae)

Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 1988
Here we report the results of a mating system analysis of an Amazonian population of Bertholletia excelsa, a tropical rain forest canopy tree species. Using progeny data from 29 seed parents, two highly polymorphic isozymes were analyzed to derive single locus and multilocus estimates of outcrossing, based on a mixed mating model.
D M, O'Malley, D P, Buckley, G T, Prance, K S, Bawa   +3 more
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