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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Two New Cultivars of Cornus kousa: Melissa’s Mountain Snowfall and Sarah’s Mountain Pixie

open access: yesHortScience, 2023
Sarah L. Boggess, Robert N. Trigiano
doaj   +1 more source

Identification of Phytopathogenic Fungi in Cultivars of the Heliconiaceae Family

open access: yesRevista de Ciencias, 2017
The main pathogens that affect the foliage and floral bracts of Heliconia cultivars in Las Heliconias National Park (Caicedonia, Colombia) were identified.
Eliana Martínez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design and Deployment of a Regulation‐Compliant Infrared Heating System for UK Field Trials

open access: yesPlant-Environment Interactions, Volume 7, Issue 5, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Free‐air warming systems are essential for simulating climate change in field conditions, yet most are not designed to meet UK or EU health and safety standards. We present the design and field deployment of a hexagonal temperature‐free air controlled enhancement (T‐FACE) system that meets UK and EU health and safety requirements for outdoor ...
Isabel Faci   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defense and carnivory: dual role of bracts in Passiflort foetida

open access: yes, 1995
Members of the genus Passiflora are reported to have evolved modifications which kill insects; they have however never been tested for carnivorous syndrome. The flowers of Passiflora foetida consists of highly reticulate bracts which cover and grow along
Radhamani, TR   +2 more
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Cornus florida var. rubra: Pink Flowering Dogwood

open access: yesEDIS, 2003
The state tree of Virginia, Flowering Dogwood grows 20 to 30 feet tall and spreads 20 to 25 feet. It can be trained with one central trunk or as a picturesque multi-trunked tree.
Edward Gilman, Dennis Watson
doaj   +1 more source

Typification of Caesalpinia desertorum and its nomenclatural priority over Caesalpinia bracteosa (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae)

open access: yesTAXON, Volume 75, Issue 5, October 2026.
Abstract Caesalpinia desertorum was not properly typified and has long remained of uncertain taxonomic position. A critical reassessment of the original material cited in the protologue, together with historical herbarium collections and associated literature, allows us to designate a lectotype and clarify its identity.
Filipe Gomes Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic Regulation of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Cornus Species: The Roles of R2R3‐MYB Transcription Factors

open access: yesPlant Direct
Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida L.) and Asian dogwood (Cornus kousa F. Buerger ex Hance) are popular deciduous ornamental trees native to a wide range of the eastern and southeastern United States and East Asia, respectively.
Žaklina Pavlović   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

New Artichoke Flours with High Content of Bioactive Compounds

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Artichoke by-products are rich in bioactive compounds and could be valorized for use as flour. Blanching is a critical pretreatment in the production of flour from artichokes, as it helps preserve bioactive and nutritional compounds before cutting ...
Luis Tortosa-Díaz   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flavone -Glucosides Responsible for Yellow Pigmentation Induced by Low Temperature in Bracts of

open access: yesNatural Product Communications, 2015
We aimed to identify the main compounds responsible for low temperature-induced yellow pigmentation of the bracts of Zantedeschia aethiopica ‘Wedding March’.
Masayoshi Nakayama   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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