Harnessing genomic resources for passion fruit improvement: Progress and prospects. [PDF]
Plant GenomeAbstract Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) is a highly nutritious horticultural crop cultivated widely across tropical and subtropical regions. Despite decades of breeding efforts that have led to the release of a few high‐yielding cultivars, on‐farm productivity remains suboptimal, and several existing cultivars are showing signs of declining vigor ...
Fulara K +8 more
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A Practical Guide for Harnessing Phylogenomics in Biocontrol: Accounting for Topological Uncertainty and Phylogenetic Distance in the Centrifugal Phylogenetic Method and Beyond. [PDF]
Evol ApplABSTRACT In the genomic era, phylogenomics is playing an increasingly important role in biological control research for prioritising species in host specificity testing, species delimitation, and elucidating the origins of introduced species. This paper outlines key concepts in phylogenomics relevant to biocontrol practitioners and provides practical ...
Chen SH +3 more
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Bioscience Journal, 2020 The carpel is the female reproductive structure composed of a set of stigma, style and ovary. Normally passionflower have three carpels, however, some cultivars have this structure in greater quantity.
Danilo Akio de Sousa Esashika +2 more
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Seed quality of some species of the genus Passiflora L. of The Botanical Garden of Samara University
Hortus Botanicus, 2022 Data on functional and morphological parameters of seeds of three species of the genus Passiflora L., which were collected in the period from 2014 to 2020 in the greenhouse of the Botanical Garden of Samara University are presented.
Kavelenova Lyudmila Mikhailovna +2 more
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Tracing the metabolic rift in Colombia's greengrocer: an environmental history of the Anaime Valley [PDF]
, 2020 This paper stems from research to reconstruct an environmental history of agriculture in the Anaime Canyon Valley and better understand the environmental consequences of having transformed the area into “Colombia's greengrocer”.
Doughman, Richard
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VASCULAR MECHANISMS OF TRITERPENOID SAPONINS ISOLATED FROM Passiflora quadrangularis L.
Vitae, 2020 Background: Passiflora quadrangularis L. has antihypertensive and anxiolytic properties observed in experimental models. Objectives: The aim of this work was to establish the vascular effects exerted by two known monodesmosidic triterpene saponins, 3-O-β-
Mario Francisco Guerrero Pabón +3 more
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The large carpenter bee Xylocopa augusti (Hymenoptera: Apidae): new record for Chile [PDF]
, 2013 The large carpenter bee Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) augusti Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1841, is here recorded for the first time in Chile. This new record increases to four the number of carpenter bees known for the country.
Allendes, Juan L. +2 more
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Compositional and Bioactive Characterization of Industrial Fruit Wastes in Sri Lanka. [PDF]
J Food SciABSTRACT The potential of industrial fruit processing wastes for nutritional and bioactive applications was evaluated. A survey of four major fruit processors in Sri Lanka identified pineapple (Ananas comosus), mango (Mangifera indica L.), papaya (Carica papaya), and passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) as the most processed fruits, generating waste ...
Jayasinghe CVL +2 more
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Conservation and use of genetic resources of underutilized crops in the Americas - A continental analysis [PDF]
, 2014 Latin America is home to dramatically diverse agroecological regions which harbor a high concentration of underutilized plant species, whose genetic resources hold the potential to address challenges such as sustainable agricultural development, food ...
Galluzzi, Gea, López Noriega, Isabel
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), one of the main viruses, is responsible for Passiflora spp. (passion fruit) virus diseases, which negatively affect its planting, cultivation, and commercial quality.
Liqun Zhang +5 more
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