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Evidence of fruit syndromes in the recently diverged wild tomato clade opens new possibilities for the study of fleshy fruit evolution

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 5, Issue 6, Page 948-962, November 2023., 2023
Fleshy fruits provide humans with many flavorful and nutritious crops. Understanding the diversity of these plants is fundamental to managing agriculture and food security in a changing world. This study surveyed fruit trait variation across species of tomato wild relatives and explored associations among color, size, shape, sugars, and acids.
Jacob R. Barnett   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scientists' warning to humanity on tree extinctions

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 466-482, July 2023., 2023
Trees play vital roles in many of the world's ecosystems while providing many benefits to people. New evidence indicates that a third of tree species are threatened with extinction, representing a tree extinction crisis. Here we demonstrate how tree species extinction will lead to the loss of many other plants and animals and significantly alter the ...
Malin Rivers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable production of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the Mediterranean region to support the European Green Deal

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 5, Issue 1, Page 14-26, January 2023., 2023
The planet faces a climate crisis with severe health, economic and environmental consequences. Political actions such as the European Green Deal aim to mitigate climate change by shifting production and consumption patterns, and the production of mycorrhizal sporocarps—the fruiting body of fungi—is no exception. The production of mycorrhizal sporocarps
Inês Ferreira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
wiley   +1 more source

Mauritia flexuosa fruit production increases with increasing palm height in the Peruvian Amazon

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 4, Issue 6, Page 599-604, November 2022., 2022
Fruit number, size, and allometric relationships were evaluated in the Peruvian Amazon for Mauritia flexuosa, a socioeconomically important palm with conservation concerns due to destructive harvest. Significant relationships were found between total fruit number and both palm height and fruit volume. Taller palms experience more crown illumination and
Chelsie L. Romulo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biosafety legislation and the regulatory status of the products of precision breeding in the Latin America and the Caribbean region

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 214-231, May 2022., 2022
Precision breeding represents a new challenge for biosafety regulators when applying the legal definition of living modified organisms (LMOs) in accordance with their domestic biosafety legislation. Globally, there is uncertainty whether the products of precision breeding will be considered as LMOs and subject to the corresponding regulatory oversight.
André Rosado, Dennis Eriksson
wiley   +1 more source

Análisis espacial de la fecundidad adolescente en municipios de Chiapas

open access: yesLiminar: Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, 2018
Se analiza la distribución espacial de la fecundidad de adolescentes entre 10 y 19 años y algunos de sus determinantes en Chiapas en 2015. La importancia de esta investigación radica en tres factores: 1) Chiapas es el estado con mayor proporción de ...
Gerardo Núñez Medina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

El Hospital de Santa Marta de Sevilla: actividades y gestión económica (siglos XV a XVII)

open access: yesHispania Sacra, 2015
Durante más de cuatro siglos el Hospital de Santa Marta de Sevilla desempeñó la función que le encomendó su fundador en 1404: dar alimento a los pobres.
José Julián Hernández Borreguero
doaj   +1 more source

Prioritizing debt conversion opportunities for marine conservation

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 1065-1075, October 2020., 2020
Abstract Incentivized debt conversion is a financing mechanism that can assist countries with a heavy debt burden to bolster their long‐term domestic investment in nature conservation. The Nature Conservancy, an international conservation‐based nongovernmental organization, is adapting debt conversions to support marine conservation efforts by small ...
Jennifer McGowan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

El mecanismo europeo de estabilidad: uno de los pilares del modelo de gobernanza económica de la UE y su déficit de legitimidad

open access: yesOASIS, 2015
El establecimiento del mede, un organismo que facilita la ayuda financiera bajo unas condiciones estrictas, proporcionando de este modo el apoyo a la estabilidad de la zona euro, fue una clara respuesta de la Unión Europea ante la crisis económica ...
Marcin Roman Czubala
doaj   +1 more source

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