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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2024.Afrotropical cities are growing rapidly but how this impacts biodiversity is largely unclear. Our study on São Tomé Island, Central Africa, reveals that the urban tree assemblage is impoverished and dominated by introduced species, while the natural forest is essential for the protection of native and endemic species.
Lena Strauß +12 more
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In vitro maintenance, under slow-growth conditions, of oil palm germplasm obtained by embryo rescue
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2015 The objective of this work was to evaluate the in vitro maintenance of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis and E. oleifera) accessions under slow-growth conditions.
Julcéia Camillo +1 more
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Ecosphere, Volume 15, Issue 9, September 2024.Abstract Foraging for wild resources links urban citizens to nature and biodiversity while providing resources important for local livelihoods and culture. However, the abundance and distributional (in)equity of forageable urban tree resources have rarely been examined.
Opeyemi Adeyemi, Charlie M. Shackleton
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A Perennial Green Revolution to address 21st‐century food insecurity and malnutrition
Food and Energy Security, Volume 13, Issue 4, July/August 2024.Abstract Farming practices of the past century have dramatically increased annual crop yields to unprecedented levels but have consequentially created increasing ecological and public health concerns, posing a long‐term threat to global food security. Soil tillage and chemical inputs perpetuate soil erosion, biodiversity loss, wetlands eutrophication ...
Jacob D. Paul +2 more
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Ciência Rural, 2009 O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a germinação in vitro de pólen de híbridos interespecíficos entre o caiaué e o dendezeiro das variedades dura, pisífera e tenera. O percentual de germinação de pólen (PGP) dos híbridos variou de 54,8 a 58,3%. As médias
Gilson Sanchez Chia +3 more
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The Scientific World Journal, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Medicinal plants used for wound healing in Lubumbashi have yet to be discovered. Inventory or profile of their taxa has yet to be established. The present study was carried out to survey the plants used in traditional medicine in Lubumbashi to treat wounds and to define their ethnomedical characteristics.
Bashige Chiribagula Valentin +7 more
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Seed biometric parameters in oil palm accessions from a Brazilian germplasm bank
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2014 The objective of this work was to evaluate the morphological diversity of oil palm seeds and to cluster the accessions according to their morphological characteristics.
Julcéia Camillo +6 more
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Current Knowledge on Interspecific Hybrid Palm Oils as Food and Food Ingredient
Foods, 2020 The consumers’ opinion concerning conventional palm (Elaeis guineensis) oil is negatively affected by environmental and nutritional issues. However, oils extracted from drupes of interspecific hybrids Elaeis oleifera × E.
Massimo Mozzon +2 more
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Novel Helicoma and Neohelicosporium (Tubeufiaceae, Tubeufiales) species and two new host records of Helicoma on tropical palms (Arecaceae) from China [PDF]
MycoKeysAsexual species of Tubeufiaceae are characterised as helicosporous hyphomycetes and are abundantly discovered in tropical and subtropical regions. The present study collected helicosporous fungal samples from rotting tissues of Caryota mitis, Elaeis ...
Yinru Xiong +7 more
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Agronomía Colombiana, 2012 <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US">Statistical models were used to estimate the bunch dry weight through indirect ...
Contreras B Ángela P. +2 more
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