Germination, carbohydrate composition and vigor of cryopreserved Caesalpinia echinata seeds [PDF]
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2012 The present study investigated the germination and vigor of Caesalpinia echinata (Brazilwood) seeds stored at negative temperatures. Recently harvested seeds were cryopreserved at -18º or -196ºC and periodically evaluated for germination, seed vigor and ...
CARLOS Alberto Labate +2 more
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Storage sites in seeds of Caesalpinia echinata and C. ferrea (Leguminosae) with considerations on nutrients flow [PDF]
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2008 The seeds of Caesalpinia echinata and C. ferrea behaved as typical endospermic seeds, despite their different morphological classification (exendospermic seeds were described for C. echinata and endospermic seeds for C. ferrea).
Simone Pádua Teixeira +1 more
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Protease Inhibitors Extracted from Caesalpinia echinata Lam. Affect Kinin Release during Lung Inflammation [PDF]
Pulmonary Medicine, 2016 Inflammation is an essential process in many pulmonary diseases in which kinins are generated by protease action on kininogen, a phenomenon that is blocked by protease inhibitors.
Ilana Cruz-Silva +6 more
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Evaluation of antioxidant and antiangiogenic properties of caesalpinia echinata extracts. [PDF]
J Cancer, 2014 Natural products contain important combinations of ingredients, which may to some extent help to modulate the effects produced by oxidation substrates in biological systems. It is known that substances capable of modulating the action of these oxidants on tissue may be important allies in the control of neovascularization in pathological processes. The
da Silva Gomes EC +6 more
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Karyotype diversity and 2C DNA content in species of the Caesalpinia group [PDF]
BMC Genetics, 2018 Background The Leguminosae family is the third-largest family of angiosperms, and Caesalpinioideae is its second-largest subfamily. A great number of species (approximately 205) are found in the Caesalpinia group within this subfamily; together with ...
Polliana Silva Rodrigues +4 more
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Short storability of Caesalpinia echinata Lam. seeds as a consequence of oxidative processes [PDF]
Hoehnea, 2012 The seed bank is one of the strategies for the preservation of endangered species, such as Caesalpinia echinata Lam. In this work we studied the changes in O2 consumption and CO2 release by seeds incubated at different temperatures and water contents ...
Edmir Vicente Lamarca +1 more
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Plants and Other Materials Used for Dyeing in the Present Territory of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine according to Rostafiński’s Questionnaire from 1883 [PDF]
Plants, 2023 Background: Traditional dyeing methods are practically forgotten in Poland. Józef Rostafiński included questions on the use of dyes in his ethnobotanical survey from 1883. Methods: 126 questionnaires contained information on dye plants.
Piotr Köhler +2 more
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The representation of Caesalpinia echinata (Brazilwood) in Sixteenth-and-Seventeenth-Century Maps [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2007 Brazilwood was the first product found in Terra de Santa Cruz, and the first explored by Portuguese colonization of Brazil. This study aims at the Occidental Cartography and the historical files represented by Portugal's interest on mapping the marketed ...
Yuri T. Rocha +2 more
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Leishmanicidal compounds of Nectria pseudotrichia, an endophytic fungus isolated from the plant Caesalpinia echinata (Brazilwood). [PDF]
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, 2018 BACKGROUND In a screen of extracts from plants and fungi to detect antileishmanial activity, we found that the ethyl acetate extract of the fungus Nectria pseudotrichia, isolated from the tree Caesalpinia echinata (Brazilwood), is a promising source of bioactive compounds.
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Revista Árvore, 2007 Estudaram-se parâmetros indicativos da maturação de frutos de árvores de Caesalpinia echinata, visando determinar a melhor época de colheita para propagação. Foram utilizadas 10 plantas-matriz cultivadas em Mogi-Guaçu, SP, nas quais foram etiquetadas 250
Francismar Francisco Alves Aguiar +3 more
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