Impact of Anthropogenic Pollution on the Plant Species Diversity and Composition Along the Riparian Ecotones of Goa's Sal and Zuari Rivers. [PDF]
Plant Environ InteractABSTRACT Anthropogenic pressures are increasingly constraining the health of riparian ecosystems by exposing their remnant vegetation to edge effects. Despite being at the land–water interface, conservation efforts have often overlooked how water pollution may indirectly exacerbate the broader impacts of anthropogenic pressures on riparian vegetation ...
Musisi M, Quadros C, Sellappan K.
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Evaluación de la actividad antifúngica de extractos vegetales sobre el hongo mycosphaerella fijiensis MORELET [PDF]
, 2009 Los cultivos de plátano y banano son afectados por el hongo Mycosphaerella fijiensis Morelet causante de una de las enfermedades más destructivas concida como Sigatoka Negra (SN), la cual genera cuantiosas pérdidas económicas para los cultivadores.
Echeverry Clavijo, Lina Marcela +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023 We analyzed floral traits and pollinator assemblages in the Neotropical species Costus guanaiensis var. tarmicus along a steep elevational gradient in Peru. Results show floral traits and pollinator assemblage variation along the elevational gradient. We examined our results considering two hypotheses: (1) local adaptation to different bee assemblages ...
Rossana Maguiña‐Conde +2 more
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Costus igneus Spiral Flag, Fiery Costus
EDIS, 2007 This document provides a detailed description of the Costus igneus, commonly known as the spiral flag or fiery costus. It highlights the plant’s characteristics, including its large, dark green leaves with light purple undersides, and its striking ...
Edward Gilman
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Pest categorisation of Paracoccus marginatus
EFSA Journal, Volume 21, Issue 3, March 2023., 2023 Abstract The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Paracoccus marginatus (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Pseudococcidae), the papaya scale, for the EU. It is native to Central America and since the 1990s, it has spread rapidly in mainly tropical areas of the Caribbean, islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Africa and southern ...
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Kajian Etnofarmasi Etnik Bungku di Kecamatan Bungku Tengah Kabupaten Morowali Provinsi Sulawesi Tengah [PDF]
, 2016 This study aims to find out and to inventory the types and parts of plants as well as to dig up information about ways of their utilization as remedy used by Bungku people “To Bungku”.
Hermin, H. (Hermin) +2 more
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Saponins from the rhizomes of Chamaecostus subsessilis and their cytotoxic activity against HL60 human promyelocytic leukemia cells [PDF]
Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacognosy Research, 2020 Context: Species of the Costaceae family have been traditionally used for the treatment of infections, tumors and inflammatory diseases. Chamaecostus subsessilis (Nees & Mart.) C. D. Specht & D.W. Stev.
Ezequias Pessoa de Siqueira +4 more
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Effect of ethyl acetate fraction of Costus afer on glycaemic control and essential haematological and biochemical indices of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats [PDF]
Journal of HerbMed Pharmacology, 2022 Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a common global cause of sudden unpredictable death if undiagnosed and untreated. Costus afer (Costaceae) is a tropical plant with quite a lot of pharmacological properties.
Obiajulu Christian Ezeigwe +4 more
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Self-pollination by sliding pollen in Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Zingiberaceae) [PDF]
, 2005 Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Zingiberaceae) forms dense populations on steep cliffs in shady, humid monsoon forests in south China. It produces few consecutively opening bright yellow flowers that are 3 cm long and oriented parallel to the ground.
Chen, Zhongyi +3 more
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The Phyllotaxy of Costus (Costaceae) [PDF]
Botanical Gazette, 1990 The spiromonostichous phyllotaxy of Costus, and other Costaceae, is characterized by low divergence angles, often as low as (30°—) 50°. This constrasts with the main series Fibonacci (divergence angles ap-proximating 137.5°) or distichous phyllotaxy found in all other Zingiberales.
Bruce K. Kirchoff, Rolf Rutishauser
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