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A Comprehensive Review on Nutrition, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology and Food Application Perspectives of Bioactive Rich Superfruits

Future Postharvest and Food, EarlyView.
The review critically evaluated and compared the selected superfruit phytochemistry, their bioactive composition and the key health benefits majorly emphasizing the antioxidant potential. It has highlighted the translational challenges in formulating functional foods by addressing the issues related to delivery system, bioavailability mechanism and the
Sharath Kumar Nagaraja, Javid Iqbal Mir, Mahendra Kumar Verma, Aamir Hussain Dar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Morphological specialization influences nectar extraction efficiency of sympatric nectar-feeding bats [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2012
SummaryMammals frequently use nectar as a supplementary food, while a predominantly nectarivorous lifestyle with morphological specializations for this feeding mode is rare within the class. However, Neotropical flower-visiting bats largely depend on nectar resources and show distinct adaptations to a nectar diet.
Tania P, Gonzalez-Terrazas, Rodrigo A, Medellin, Mirjam, Knörnschild, Marco, Tschapka   +3 more
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Fitness consequences of trait‐mediated plant–pollinator interactions

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Christine S. Sheppard, Frank M. Schurr, Ingo Grass   +2 more
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Functional Stability Despite Taxonomic Changes in Mixed‐Species Foraging Flock Participants Along an Elevational Gradient in Knuckles Montane Reserve, Sri Lanka 斯里兰卡纳克斯山地保护区 (Knuckles Montane Reserve) 海拔梯度上混合物种觅食群参与者的功能稳定性与分类变化

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
This research reveals the functional stability of mixed species foraging flocks (MSF) and their foraging height change with different taxonomic differences along the elevational gradient at Knuckles Montane Reserve, Sri Lanka. This offers new insights into how MSFs sustain with the elevational gradients supporting the altitudinal shifting species ...
Vimukthi. R. Gunasekeara, Iresha Wijerathne, Tharuka Wickramasinghe, Sriyani Wickramasinghe   +3 more
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Soft Lithography Using Nectar Droplets [PDF]

Langmuir, 2015
In spite of significant advances in replication technologies, methods to produce well-defined three dimensional structures are still at its infancy. Such a limitation would be evident if we were to produce a large array of simple and, especially, compound convex lenses, also guaranteeing that their surfaces would be molecularly smooth.
Biswas, Saheli, Chakrabarti, Aditi, Chateauminois, Antoine, Wandersman, Elie, Prevost, Alexis M., Chaudhury, Manoj K.   +5 more
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Application of Principal Component Analysis and Probabilistic Neural Networks in Ferralsols Recovery Evaluation Through Planting of Mabea Fistulifera and Eucalyptus Urograndis

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents an innovative assessment model for analyzing the evolution of degraded soils subjected to different reclamation strategies. The proposal combines statistical and artificial intelligence tools to jointly integrate multiple physical and chemical soil properties, allowing for a more synthetic view of the processes.
Melissa Alexandre Santos, Borja Velázquez‐Martí, Jorge João Delfim, Laura Silva Nantes, Jose Augusto Liberato de Souza, Gabriel Augusto da Silva Lunardelli, Dayara Vivian Alvares, Carolina dos Santos Batista Bonini   +7 more
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Nectary Structure and Nectar Secretion Characteristics Among Various Cultivars of Paeonia lactiflora

Plants
Background: Paeonia lactiflora Pall. produces substantial quantities of nectar during the bud stage. In the production of cut flowers, this nectar attracts contaminants that compromise the quality of the flowers.
Hui Cai, Wenjie Ma, Yingling Wan, Yan Liu   +3 more
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Sex-Dependent Variation of Pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima cv. Big Max) Nectar and Nectaries as Determined by Proteomics and Metabolomics

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018
Nectar is a floral reward that sustains mutualisms with pollinators, which in turn, improves fruit set. While it is known that nectar is a chemically complex solution, extensive identification and quantification of this complexity has been lacking ...
Elizabeth C. Chatt, Patrick von Aderkas, Clay J. Carter, Derek Smith, Monica Elliott, Basil J. Nikolau   +5 more
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Distasteful Nectar Deters Floral Robbery [PDF]

Current Biology, 2017
Toxic nectar is an ecological paradox [1, 2]. Plants divert substantial resources to produce nectar that attracts pollinators [3], but toxins in this reward could disrupt the mutualism and reduce plant fitness [4]. Alternatively, such compounds could protect nectar from robbers [2], provided that they do not significantly alter pollinator visitation to
Barlow, SE, Wright, GA, Ma, C, Barberis, M, Farrell, IW, Marr, EC, Brankin, A, Pavlik, BM, Stevenson, PC   +8 more
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Longitudinal Videofluorographic Dysphagia Measures in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Dysphagia can lead to fatal aspiration pneumonia in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Little is known about the longitudinal progression of dysphagia or whether it differs across PSP clinical variants. Objectives To characterize longitudinal changes in dysphagia across PSP variants and determine relationships with disease ...
Anna Chiara Cattani, Jerusha G. Bhaskaran, Farwa Ali, Julie Stierwalt, Federica Agosta, Massimo Filippi, Keith A. Josephs, Heather M. Clark, Jennifer L. Whitwell   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source