Distribution of Biominerals and Mineral-Organic Composites in Plant Trichomes [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 Biomineralization is a common phenomenon in plants and has been shown to be chemically, functionally and topologically diverse. Silica and calcium carbonate have long been known as structural plant biominerals and calcium phosphate (apatite)–long known ...
Hans-Jürgen Ensikat, Maximilian Weigend
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When the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence: Nasa (Loasaceae) rediscoveries from Peru and Ecuador, and the contribution of community science networks [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2023 Documentation of plant taxa has long been subject to the temporal and spatial selectivity of professional research expeditions, especially in tropical regions.
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Taxonomic revision of the peculiar genus Xylopodia (Loasaceae) with a new species from Argentina and Bolivia demonstrating an atypical trans-Andean disjunction [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2022 Loasaceae subfam. Loasoideae are a nearly exclusively American plant group with a center of diversity in Peru. Numerous new taxa have been described over the past decades; one of the most striking discoveries was that of the narrowly endemic Xylopodia ...
Claudia M. Martín +5 more
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Distribution, Ecology, Chemistry and Toxicology of Plant Stinging Hairs [PDF]
Toxins, 2021 Plant stinging hairs have fascinated humans for time immemorial. True stinging hairs are highly specialized plant structures that are able to inject a physiologically active liquid into the skin and can be differentiated from irritant hairs (causing ...
Hans-Jürgen Ensikat +3 more
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A new striking and critically endangered species of Nasa (Loasaceae, Cornales) from North Peru [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2019 Nasa angeldiazioides sp. nov. is described and illustrated. The species is restricted to two forest remnants on the western slope of the northern Peruvian Andes (Dept. Lambayeque) where it is found in the undergrowth of primary forest.
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Revista Peruana de Biología, 2013 La familia Loasaceae está representada en el Perú por ocho géneros y alrededor de 112 especies (Brako & Zarucchi, 1993; Ulloa Ulloa et al., 2004), la mayoría herbáceas.
Eric Rodriguez, Maximilian Weigend
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Delayed differentiation of epidermal cells walls can underlie pedomorphosis in plants: the case of pedomorphic petals in the hummingbird-pollinated Caiophora hibiscifolia (Loasaceae, subfam. Loasoideae) species [PDF]
EvoDevo, 2022 Background Understanding the relationship between macroevolutionary diversity and variation in organism development is an important goal of evolutionary biology.
Marina M. Strelin +4 more
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No end to endemism – contributions to the difficult Nasa Weigend Series Alatae (Loasaceae). A new species from Peru and the rehabilitation of “ Loasa” calycina Benth. [PDF]
PhytoKeysA new species of Nasa ser. Alatae (Urban & Gilg) Weigend from Northern Peru is described and illustrated. Nasa katjae sp. nov. was at first encountered by an observation on iNaturalist and subsequently collected in the humid Andean forests near ...
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Flora da Paraíba, Brasil: Loasaceae [PDF]
HoehneaRESUMO Loasaceae é uma família amplamente distribuída nas Américas, frequentemente associada às regiões semiáridas. Apesar disso, estudos taxonômicos com foco nessa família são escassos no Nordeste brasileiro.
Igor Meneses Cavalcanti de Albuquerque +2 more
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Inferring the genetic responses to acute drought stress across an ecological gradient [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2022 Background How do xerophytic species thrive in environments that experience extreme annual drought? Although critical to the survival of many species, the genetic responses to drought stress in many non-model organisms has yet to be explored.
Jessica K. Devitt +2 more
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