Caracterização anatômica, histoquímica e de classes de metabólitos secundários de folhas de Guzmania lingulata (L.) Mez. [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Plantas Medicinais, 2014 Na medicina natural pouco se sabe sobre a importância curativa da maior parte das espécies pertencentes à Bromeliaceae. Tal fato evidencia a necessidade da realização de investigações para a comprovação de possíveis potenciais fitoterápicos em espécies ...
E.M. Belotto +5 more
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Acid waters in tank bromeliads: Causes and potential consequences. [PDF]
Am J Bot, 2023 Abstract Premise The consequences of acidity for plant performance are profound, yet the prevalence and causes of low pH in bromeliad tank water are unknown despite its functional relevance to key members of many neotropical plant communities. Methods We investigated tank water pH for eight bromeliad species in the field and for the widely occurring ...
North GB +7 more
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Crassulacean acid metabolism species differ in the contribution of C3 and C4 carboxylation to end of day CO2 fixation. [PDF]
Physiol Plant, 2021 Abstract Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a photosynthetic pathway that temporally separates the nocturnal CO2 uptake, via phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC, C4 carboxylation), from the diurnal refixation by Rubisco (C3 carboxylation). At the end of the day (CAM‐Phase IV), when nocturnally stored CO2 has depleted, stomata reopen and allow ...
van Tongerlo E +5 more
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Leaf hydraulic conductance for a tank bromeliad: axial and radial pathways for moving and conserving water [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2013 Plants in the Bromeliaceae known as tank bromeliads essentially lack stems and absorptive roots and instead take up water from reservoirs formed by their overlapping leaf bases.
Gretchen B. North +4 more
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Hydraulic conductance, resistance, and resilience: how leaves of a tropical epiphyte respond to drought. [PDF]
Am J Bot, 2019 Premise Because of its broad range in the neotropical rainforest and within tree canopies, the tank bromeliad Guzmania monostachia was investigated as a model of how varying leaf hydraulic conductance (Kleaf) could help plants resist and recover from episodic drought.
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Ecosystem services provided by bromeliad plants: A systematic review. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2019 Bromeliads have been widely used as a model system for testing fundamental ecological theory; nevertheless, their benefits to the surrounding ecosystems and human society have been largely overlooked. Using a systematic review, we showed that while the publication of studies about supporting ecosystem services have accelerated over the last 30 years ...
Ladino G +4 more
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Floristic composition and community structure of epiphytic angiosperms in a terra firme forest in central Amazonia [PDF]
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2013 This survey aimed to describe the floristic composition and structure of the epiphytic community occurring in a terra firme forest in the city of Coari, Brazil, in the Amazon region.
Mariana Victória Irume +3 more
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Molecular characterization of cultivated bromeliad accessions with Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) Markers. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2012 Bromeliads are of great economic importance in flower production; however little information is available with respect to genetic characterization of cultivated bromeliads thus far.
Zhang F +9 more
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Extraction of DNA from plant and fungus tissues in situ. [PDF]
BMC Res Notes, 2012 Background: When samples are collected in the field and transported to the lab, degradation of the nucleic acids contained in the samples is frequently observed. Immediate extraction and precipitation of the nucleic acids reduces degradation to a minimum,
Abu Almakarem AS +4 more
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Nitrogen efficiency indexes for evaluating nitrogen uptake and use in ornamental bromeliad’s root system and tank [PDF]
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2018 : The objective of this work was to evaluate if nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) indexes can elucidate functional differences in nutrient uptake between the root system and tank of epiphytic bromeliads. The bromeliads Guzmania lingulata and Vriesea 'Harmony'
Karina Gonçalves da Silva +5 more
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