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Cycads: An Overview

2015
Cycads are regarded as the “Living Fossils” and belong to a specialized group of plants having ancient lineage possessing great significance from the evolutionary point of view. During excavations, the cycad fossils located and accepted as related to the similar lineage as the present-day cycads have been known from the early Permian period, ca.
Anil K. Goel, J. S. Khuraijam
exaly   +2 more sources

The ubiquity of cycasin in cycads

Phytochemistry, 1980
De Luca P.   +3 more
exaly   +3 more sources

A Cycad Neurotoxin

2022
The cycads are a group of relict Mesozoic plants of which 10 genera now exist in the mainly tropical to warm temperate regions of the world. An additional toxicity which affects cattle after weeks of consumption of cycad leaves is a posterior ataxia known locally as “zamia staggers”. A toxin responsible for this condition has not so far been discovered.
Seawright, Alan A.   +3 more
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Somatic Reduction in Cycads

Science, 1968
Recurrent somatic reduction is a normal ontogenetic process in apogeotropic roots of cycads, which develop into dichotomously branching coralloid masses. The reduced cells make up part of a ring of differentiated cortical tissue lying midway between the pericycle and the epidermis; they serve as fillers among the large cells and become charged with ...
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African Cycad

2019
The Nigerian Field, 21 (1), 36 ...
Berrie, A, Berrie, G K
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