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Modelling landscape vulnerability to the Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) invasion in a remnant urban Sandstone Sourveldt grassland ecosystem

Scientific African, 2023
The Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) is one of the world's most pervasive alien invasive plants, exerting adverse effects on the sustainability and balance of remnant urban green ecosystems and thereby threatening the provision of valuable ecological ...
Luyanda Mkungo, John Odindi, Onisimo Mutanga, Trylee Nyasha Matongera   +3 more
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Synthetic Seed Technology Development and Production Studies for Storage, Transport, and Industrialization of Bracken Spores

Plants, 2020
Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum (Desv.) Underw. ex A. Heller) has long been grown industrially in South Korea. Conventional propagation methods, including planting rhizomes and in vitro seedling culture, are labor intensive and ...
Bo Kook Jang, Ju Sung Cho, Cheol Hee Lee
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Alterações anátomo-histopatológicas em ratos submetidos à dieta com extrato de broto de samambaia (Pteridium aquilinum var. arachnoideum) de dois municípios do estado do Paraná Macroscopic and microscopic changes in rats fed on a bracken fern diet (Pteridium aquilinum var. arachnoideum) from different regions of Parana State, Brazil

Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2005
The carcinogenicity of bracken fern harvest from two regions of Paraná State to induce hematury in rats was studied. In order to do that, 33 Wistar rats were divided in three groups.
G.D. Cruz, A.P.F.R.L. Bracarense, L. Yamasaki, D.E.A. Cortez   +3 more
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Biological Protein Value of Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn

Техника и технология пищевых производств, 2022
Contemporary human diet is poor in proteins. Therefore, the modern food science should find new sources of high-grade protein. The bracken fern is rich in proteins can be an unconventional solution to this problem. The research objective was to study the
Daria A. Cheremnykh, Galina A. Gubanenko, Ekaterina A. Rechkina, Larisa A. Mayurnikova, Nadezhda Yu. Teplyuk   +4 more
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Control of bracken by promoting regeneration of woody vegetation in the Yucatan Peninsula

Trees, Forests and People, 2023
In the tropical dry forest of the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico, as in many parts of the Neotropics, deforested areas have been colonized by the highly competitive invasive bracken (Pteridium arachnoideum), which inhabits naturally regenerated and
Samuel Israel Levy-Tacher, Alejandro Morón-Ríos   +1 more
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Bracken fern poisoning to cattle raised in Parana State, Brazil/
A intoxicação por samambaia em bovinos criados no Estado do Paraná

Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2003
The author presents a revision about bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum, L. Kuhn), in cattle, raised in the state of the Paraná. This toxic plant represents huge damages to the creators in the state and is being disseminated quickly, becoming the toxic ...
Wilmar Sachetin Marçal
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Hemorrhagic diathesis in cattle due to consumption of Adiantopsis chlorophylla (Swartz) Fée (Pteridaceae)

Toxicon: X, 2020
An outbreak of acute febrile syndrome associated with coagulopathy and severe pancytopenia occurred in cattle grazing in paddocks with high infestation by Adiantopsis chlorophylla.
Luiz Gustavo Schneider de Oliveira, Fabiana Marques Boabaid, Vaidotas Kisielius, Lars Holm Rasmussen, Florencia Buroni, Martín Lucas, Carlos Omar Schild, Fabiana López, Mizael Machado, Franklin Riet-Correa   +9 more
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Cattle acute intoxication by bracken fern ( Pteridium aquilinum, L. Kuhn) at north Paraná State-Brazil/
Ocorrência de intoxicação aguda em bovinos pela samambaia ( Pteridium aquilinum, L. Kuhn) no norte do Paraná-Brasil

Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2001
The authors describe a case of acute intoxication by bracken fern ( Pteridium aquilinum) in a cattle herd raised in the city of Reserva, Parana State. A total of 25 animals died due to intoxication caused by the ingestion of large amounts of the toxic ...
Alexandre Amorim Monteiro, Reginaldo Pontes Fernandes, Marcelo Carlos Gargantini Marques, Ney Carlos Reichert Netto, Laurenil Gaste, Wilmar Sachetin Marçal   +5 more
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Who will win where and why? An ecophysiological dissection of the competition between a tropical pasture grass and the invasive weed Bracken over an elevation range of 1000 m in the tropical Andes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
In tropical agriculture, the vigorously growing Bracken fern causes severe problems by invading pastures and out-competing the common pasture grasses. Due to infestation by that weed, pastures are abandoned after a few years, and as a fatal consequence ...
Johannes Knuesting, Marie Clara Brinkmann, Brenner Silva, Michael Schorsch, Jörg Bendix, Erwin Beck, Renate Scheibe   +6 more
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Glycophenotypic alterations induced by Pteridium aquilinum in mice gastric mucosa: synergistic effect with Helicobacter pylori infection. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
The bracken fern Pteridium aquilinum is a plant known to be carcinogenic to animals. Epidemiological studies have shown an association between bracken fern exposure and gastric cancer development in humans.
Joana Gomes, Ana Magalhães, Ana S Carvalho, Gilberto E Hernandez, Suzanne L Papp, Steven R Head, Valérie Michel, Leonor David, Fátima Gärtner, Eliette Touati, Celso A Reis   +10 more
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