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A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1616-1633, September 2026.
The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori, Tiziana Cossu, Hicham El Zein, Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Ulian, Gianluigi Bacchetta   +5 more
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Comparative studies on the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of water extracts from eight kinds of foods

Shipin yu jixie, 2023
Objective： This study aimed to investigate the active ingredients, and their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities, as well as the correlation between each other of different food water extracts.
YANG Hong, TANG Li, LI Yi, YUAN Hongxia, LI Qingshan   +4 more
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Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1853-1871, September 2026.
As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu, Pei‐yan Wang, Ya‐nan Li, Nan Hu, Yun‐yuan Li   +4 more
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Why Fire Suppression Persists: Territorial Politics and the Criminalisation of Fire in India's Political Forests

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Why does fire suppression remain central to forest governance globally, despite the increasing recognition of fire's ecological and livelihood significance? This study examines the persistence of fire suppression in India, arguing that it continues not for ecological reasons but as a political technology of state territorial control.
Kapil Yadav, Emma Tebbs, Kate Schreckenberg   +2 more
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Establishing Baseline Information for the Risk of Flatheaded Borer Attack in Specialty Tree Crops Using Trapping and On‐Farm Surveys

Journal of Applied Entomology, Volume 150, Issue 8, Page 1088-1101, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Flatheaded borers (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) are largely xylophagous insects. Larvae of flatheaded borers tunnel into the trunks of trees, with boring and feeding damage eventually appearing on the surface as discolored bark, sunken areas, bark splits or bark sloughing.
Zia V. Williamson, Brett R. Blaauw, Shimat V. Joseph   +2 more
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Taxonomical implications of fruit and seed morphology in wild species of Diospyros L. (Ebenaceae) in Odisha, Eastern India

Acta Biologica Slovenica
The family Ebenaceae exhibits a diverse array of characteristics and evolutionary histories. The members of the genus Diospyros L. are mostly dioecious and exhibit a great variation in their leaf, flower, fruit and seed morphology.
Sabita Tudu, Jeevan Kumar Jena, Sifan Priyadarshini, Dr. Sudhansu Sekhar Dash, Dr. Sudam Charan Sahu   +4 more
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Lippia umbellata Cav.: Chemical Composition, Insecticidal, and Antimicrobial Activities

Chemistry &Biodiversity, Volume 23, Issue 8, August 2026.
Hexane extracts of Lippia umbellata leaves and flowers contain lupenone, α‐amyrin, and hentriacontane. They exhibit insecticidal activity against Drosophila melanogaster and inhibit AChE in vitro and in silico. Furthermore, the extracts can inhibit the growth of medically important bacteria and yeasts, including multidrug‐resistant strains.
José Guillermo Avila‐Acevedo, Miriam Arlette López‐Pérez, Ana Karen Villagómez‐Guzmán, Edgar Antonio Estrella‐Parra, Nallely Álvarez‐Santos, Israel Valencia‐Quiroz, Julieta Orozco‐Martínez, Ma. Edith López‐Villafranco, Silvia Aguilar‐Rodríguez, Carlos Leonardo Céspedes‐Acuña, Juio Alarcón‐Enos, Ana María García‐Bores   +11 more
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Leaf Morphological Traits of then Shrub Species at the Tamaulipan Thorn Scrub

International Journal of Bio-Resource and Stress Management, 2023
The aim of this work was to conduct a research study of the leaf morphological traits of ten woody species that grow and develop in the Tamaulipan Thorn scrub Shrub land. Study species were Cordia boissieri, Helietta parvifolia (A.DC.), Condalia hookeri 
Perla Cecilia Rodriguez Balboa, Humberto Gonzalez Rodriguez, Israel Cantu Silva, Artemio Carrillo Parra, Roque G. Ramirez Lozano   +4 more
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Dietary Terpenoids in Advancing Biofilm‐Mediated Cancer Prevention: Antibiofilm Cascade, Molecular Crosstalk, and Nano‐Facilitated Functional Delivery

Cell Biochemistry and Function, Volume 44, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The role of microbes in cancer is gaining attention these days, especially in the context of tumor‐associated biofilms and dysbiotic microbiota. Biofilm‐producing microorganisms, such as Fusobacterium nucleatum and Helicobacter pylori, trigger oncogenic inflammation and immune evasion in tumor initiation and progression, and in the development
Saikat Mazumder, Aditi Dey, Debasmita Bhattacharya, Dibyajit Lahiri, Moupriya Nag, Sudhriti Maity, Navin Kumar, Soumya Pandit, Vaseem Raja, Shubham Sharma, Shashi Prakash Dwivedi, Mithul Rajeev, Juwita Ratna Dewi, Lola Sanayeva, Dilbar Azimova   +14 more
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Diospyros squamosa A. DC.

, 2020
Diospyros squamosa Bojer ex A. DC. (Fig. 11) Prodromus 8: 232 (1844). — Lectotype (here designated): Madagascar. Analanjirofo Region [Prov. Toamasina], in sylvis Madagascar prope Foule-Pointe, bud, Bojer s.n. (lecto-, G [G00142024]!; isolecto-, G [G00142114]!, K [K000350812]!, M [M-015315, M-015316] scans seen, P [P00573616]!, TUB [TUB-003374] scan ...
Schatz, George E., Lowry II, Porter P.
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