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Mulching Increases Water Use Efficiency, Production and Profitability in Forage Cactus–Maize Intercropping Systems

Irrigation and Drainage, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 498-517, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This study evaluated the growth, forage production, soil water balance, water indices, biological efficiency and competitive capacity of forage cactus and maize in monoculture and intercropping, with or without mulch. The experiment was conducted in Serra Talhada, Pernambuco, Brazil, using the cactus clone ‘Orelha de Elefante Mexicana’ (OEM ...
Kaique Renan da Silva Salvador, Mário Adriano Ávila Queiroz, Cleber Pereira Alves, José Edson Florentino de Morais, Carlos André Alves de Souza, Agda Raiany Mota dos Santos, Ênio Gomes Flôr Souza, Jose Madson da Silva, Fabiano Barbosa de Souza Prates, Randerson Cavalcante Silva, Adriano do Nascimento Simões, Hugo Rafael Bentzen Santos, Luciana Sandra Bastos de Souza, Thieres George Freire da Silva   +13 more
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Sequencing complex plants on a budget: The development of Kalanchoë blossfeldiana as a C3, CAM comparative tool

Plants, People, Planet
Societal Impact Statement Research efforts in plant biology have often been focused on sequenced and well‐studied ‘model’ organisms. Despite the advent of relatively inexpensive genome sequencing, most plant taxonomic groups are underrepresented, with ...
Daniel Cowan‐Turner, Bethan A. Morris, Alexandra Sandéhn, Iwona Bernacka‐Wojcik, Eleni Stavrinidou, Robyn F. Powell, Ilia J. Leitch, Jessica Taylor, Max Walker, Osita Nwokeocha, Maxim V. Kapralov, Anne M. Borland   +11 more
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Relationships between Foliar Fungal Endophyte Communities and Ecophysiological Traits of CAM and C₃ Epiphytic Bromeliads in a Neotropical Rainforest

Diversity, 2020
Vascular epiphytes contribute up to 35% of the plant diversity and foliar biomass of flowering plants. The family Bromeliaceae is a monophyletic group of plants native to the Neotropics.
Peter H. Tellez, Carrie L. Woods, Stephen Formel, Sunshine A. Van Bael   +3 more
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Characterization of a microbial consortium with potential for biological degradation of cactus pear biomass for biofuel production

Heliyon, 2021
Cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) is a crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) species that serves as a food, feed, and bioenergy crop. O. ficus-indica is an attractive alternative biofuel feedstock due to its low water demand and high biomass productivity ...
Brittany B. Blair, Won Cheol Yim, John C. Cushman   +2 more
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Convergence and parallelism in the evolution of plant metabolism

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 1013-1031, April 2026.
Similar traits in different organisms may originate from shared ancestry or evolve independently. The terminology used to define phenotypic similarity is often confusing. This review attempts to clarify the definitions and present examples from plant domestication and specialized metabolism to explain how complex traits evolve repeatedly in plants ...
Federico Scossa, Mustafa Bulut, Thomas Naake, John C. D'Auria, Alisdair R. Fernie   +4 more
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Drought and extreme temperature tolerance for Tillandsia dasyliriifolia, an epiphytic bromeliad from the northern coastal dune scrubland in Yucatan, Mexico

Botan‪ical Sciences, 2016
The ecophysiological investigations about epiphytic plants have focused on the establishment of mechanistic explanations of how plants respond to changes in their environment.
Raiza J. Castillo, J. Carlos Cervera, Jorge Navarro-Alberto   +2 more
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Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase Is Involved in the Decarboxylation of Aspartate in the Bundle Sheath of Maize [PDF]

, 1999
We recently showed that maize (Zea mays L.) leaves contain appreciable amounts of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK; R.P. Walker, R.M. Acheson, L.I. Técsi, R.C. Leegood [1997] Aust J Plant Physiol 24: 459–468).
Chen, Z., Leegood, R.C., Walker, R.P., Wingler, A.   +3 more
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Limited drought tolerance in the neotropical seasonally dry forest plants impairs future species richness

Plant Biology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 846-859, April 2026.
Global climate change will likely modify the plant assemblages of the Neotropical seasonally dry forest based on the physiological capabilities of the species. Abstract Neotropical seasonal dry forest (NSDF) is one of the most threatened ecosystems according to global climate change predictions.
A. Manrique‐Ascencio, D. A. Prieto‐Torres, F. Villalobos, J. Mercado Gómez, R. Guevara   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Think tank: water relations of Bromeliaceae in their evolutionary context [PDF]

, 2016
This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Wiley via https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12423Water relations represent a pivotal nexus in plant biology due to the multiplicity of functions affected by water status.
Males, Jamie
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Phylogeographic and Potential Distribution of Wild Apricot (Prunus armeniaca) in Xinjiang: Insights From Chloroplast/Nuclear DNA and Ecological Niche Modeling

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
This study employed integrated analyses of chloroplast DNA and nuclear genes, which revealed significant divergence in genetic structure between the two genomic compartments in Xinjiang wild apricots, reflecting complex evolutionary processes influenced by natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow. Population history analyses indicated an absence
Mingyu Li, Xiaolan Wu, Mengfan Cui, Tao Hu, Chenyang Ma, Chen Yuan, Chenxi Liu, Deyin Cao, Wenwen Li, Kai Jia   +9 more
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