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Free Sugar Profile in Cycads [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014 The sugars fructose, glucose, maltose, and sucrose were quantified in seven tissues of Zamia muricata Willd. to determine their distribution throughout various organs of a model cycad species, and in lateral structural roots of 18 cycad species to ...
Thomas Edward Marler, Anders eLindstrom
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Early evolutionary history of the seed. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Bateman RM, Spencer ART, Hilton J.
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Diversity, 2020 The United States is currently home to five native cycad species. We provide a discussion on these five cycad species to illuminate how evolutionary and geopolitical processes influence phytogeography and published checklists of threatened plants.
Benjamin E. Deloso +2 more
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Taxonomy, 2023 Zamia magnifica (Zamiaceae), a new species endemic to Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico, is described. Zamia magnifica is characterized by having a rupicolous habit, pendent leaves bearing leaflets that are densely tomentose and pink to caramel in color when ...
Miguel Angel Pérez-Farrera +3 more
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Kampō medicine and Muro disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex)
eNeurologicalSci, 2020 Western Pacific Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinsonism-dementia Complex (ALS/PDC) is a disappearing neurodegenerative disease in three former high-incidence foci of Guam-USA, Papua-Indonesia and Kii Peninsula, Honshu Island, Japan.
Peter S. Spencer +6 more
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Carbohydrates, pollinators, and cycads [PDF]
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2015 Cycad biology, ecology, and horticulture decisions are not supported by adequate research, and experiments in cycad physiology in particular have been deficient. Our recent report on free sugar content in a range of cycad taxa and tissues sets the stage for developing continued carbohydrate research. Growth and development of cycad pollen, mediation of
Marler, Thomas E, Lindström, Anders J
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Aulacaspis yasumatsui Delivers a Blow to International Cycad Horticulture
Horticulturae, 2021 The literature covering the biology, invasion chronology, host plant responses, and control efforts of the armored scale Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi (Hempitera: Diaspididae) is reviewed.
Thomas E. Marler +2 more
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Publishing trends for the Cycadales, the most threatened plant group
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2016 Trends in published cycad research within various fields of study were determined using proceedings from international conferences on cycad biology and Google Scholar to access the primary literature.
April N. Cascasan, Thomas E. Marler
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Reciprocal Garden Study Reveals Acute Spatial-Edaphic Adaptation for Cycas micronesica
Diversity, 2021 A long-term reciprocal garden study was used to determine adaptive variation between Cycas micronesica K.D. Hill plants from north versus south Guam.
Thomas E. Marler
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MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS ON SADF GROUND
Scientia Militaria, 2012 4 SA Infantry Battalion cycad memorial This unit unveiled the cycad memorial at 4 SAl Bn on 11 November 1983. The memorial was erected in honour of all those members of 4 SAl and the Middelburg Community that have offered their lives in the defence of ...
A. Kruger
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