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Pequi: a Brazilian fruit with potential uses for the fat industry

Oilseeds and fats, crops and lipids, 2017
Pequi is a native fruit from Brazil, found in the Amazon, Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Rain Forest regions. It is one of the main plants with great potential for sustainable use in Central Brazil.
Guedes Andréa Madalena Maciel, Antoniassi Rosemar, de Faria-Machado Adelia Ferreira   +2 more
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Can I Have a Bite? The Influence of Infant Begging on Food Sharing in Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus Libidinosus)

American Journal of Primatology, Volume 88, Issue 6, June 2026.
Food sharing between mother and offspring in capuchin monkeys is a response to the infant's begging. Infants solicit more frequently high‐quality and hard‐to‐process foods and they are more likely to succeed when they are older and if the food item is not a lizard. ABSTRACT In primates, food sharing from mothers to infants may serve two main functions:
Julia Omena, Mábia B. Cera, Guilbert Araujo, Helena F. Lima, Patrícia Izar   +4 more
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Aplicações da cultura de tecidos vegetais em fruteiras do Cerrado Applications of tissue culture techniques in Brazilian Cerrado fruit trees

Ciência Rural, 2011
Atualmente, percebe-se uma preocupação em relação às plantas do cerrado, com grande enfoque nas fruteiras em função de suas características e usos. Apesar de ser uma área ainda pouco explorada, é crescente o número de estudos dessas espécies nativas ...
Hernane Fernandes Pinhal, Maristela Rosália Anastácio, Pedro Augusto Porto Carneiro, Valdiney José da Silva, Tâmara Prado de Morais, José Magno Queiroz Luz   +5 more
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Physical-chemical, nutritional and antioxidant properties of tucumã (Astrocaryum huaimi Mart.) fruits

Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2018
The Brazilian Cerrado contains a large number of fruit species whose nutritional and physical-chemical properties have not been fully characterized to date.
Mirelly Marques Romeiro Santos, Dayane Stéphanie Fernandes, Camila Jordão Cândido, Leandro Fontoura Cavalheiro, Anderson Fernandes da Silva, Valter Aragão do Nascimento, Manoel Mendes Ramos Filho, Elisvânia Freitas dos Santos, Priscila Aiko Hiane   +8 more
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Open letter: A call to integrate plant regeneration into sustainability science and policy

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Fernando A. O. Silveira, Angelino Carta, Roberta L. C. Dayrell, Eduardo Fernández‐Pascual, Magda Garbowski, Thomas Hornick, Jitka Klimešová, Lotte Korell, Emma Ladouceur, Julie Larson, Alexandra N. Muellner‐Riehl, Ana Prohaska, Sergey Rosbakh, Christoph Rosche, Christiane Roscher, Mandy Slate, Jeronimo Vazquez‐Ramirez   +16 more
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A wolf that eats fruits? Fruit and small mammal selection in the diet of the largest canid of the Brazilian Cerrado

Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment
The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), the largest canid in South America, has a well-documented diet, but most studies report food items at low taxonomic resolution and rarely contrast diet composition with resource availability. We investigated prey selection and seasonal variation in the diet of the maned wolf by analyzing dung samples in relation ...
Renato D’Elia Feliciano, Luciana de Oliveira Furtado, Ana Paula Carmignotto, Alexander V. Christianini   +3 more
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Biometric aspects of fruits and diaspores from Mauritia flexuosa from the brazilian Cerrado

, 2023
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
Campos, Thiago Souza, de Souza, Antonio Maricélio Borges, Vieira, Guilherme Rodrigues, Pivetta, Kathia Fernandes Lopes   +3 more
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Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Platonia insignis Across Amazon–Cerrado Ecotones: Implications for Conservation and Germplasm Management of a Fruit Tree

Agronomy
Platonia insignis Mart. (Clusiaceae) is a native fruit tree of great ecological and socioeconomic importance in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado. However, habitat loss is threatening its genetic variability.
Thailson de Jesus Santos Silva, Gabriel Garcês Santos, Priscila Marlys Sá Rivas, Emily Gabrielle Cunha Mendes, Rômulo Nunes Sousa, Gabriel Campos Fernandes, Sérgio Heitor Sousa Felipe, Juliane Maciel Henschel, Thais Roseli Corrêa, José de Ribamar Silva Barros   +9 more
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Advances in the encapsulation of bioactive compounds present in Brazilian fruits.

Journal of Excipients and Food Chemicals, 2023
Recent advances in the encapsulation of bioactive compounds that are found in some important Brazilian fruits are discussedin this paper. Bacuri, Tucumã, Ticazo, Taperebá, Pineapple, and Jabuticaba are examples of typical fruits from the Brazilian ...
Nicole G Lima, Emille L Almeida, Hugo J Carvalho, Paolo H Lopes, David L Nelson, Joyce M daCosta   +5 more
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Feeding habit of the Brazilian tapir, Tapirus terrestris (Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) in a vegetation transition zone in south-eastern Brazil

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2009
Tapirs are considered generalist herbivores and the differences in the proportions of dietary items are often attributed to differences in the habitats where individuals live.
Sônia A. Talamoni, Miguel A. C. Assis
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