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Elevational and seasonal patterns of butterflies and hawkmoths in plant-pollinator networks in tropical rainforests of Mount Cameroon

Scientific Reports, 2021
Butterflies and moths are conspicuous flower visitors but their role in plant-pollinator interactions has rarely been quantified, especially in tropical rainforests.
Jan E. J. Mertens, Lucas Brisson, Štěpán Janeček, Yannick Klomberg, Vincent Maicher, Szabolcs Sáfián, Sylvain Delabye, Pavel Potocký, Ishmeal N. Kobe, Tomasz Pyrcz, Robert Tropek   +10 more
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Potencial agroclimático para a Alpinia purpurata, no Estado de Pernambuco Agroclimatic potencial for Alpinia purpurata in the State of Pernambuco

Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, 2009
Objetivou-se realizar o zoneamento agroclimático do Estado de Pernambuco, visando dar subsídios à seleção de locais para a implantação da flor tropical Alpinia purpurata.
Sérgio R. R. Medeiros, Geber B. A. Moura, Pedro R. Giongo, Ana P. N. Silva   +3 more
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Development of Peach Flower Buds under Low Winter Chilling Conditions

Agronomy, 2020
Here, we reviewed both endogenous and exogenous factors involved in the processes of flower bud formation and flower development in peach, analyzing how they can be affected by climatic change in temperate zones, explored the expansion of peach to ...
Gener A. Penso, Idemir Citadin, Silvia Scariotto, Carlos E. Magalhães dos Santos, Américo W. Junior, Claudio H. Bruckner, Javier Rodrigo   +6 more
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Storage of cut Heliconia bihai (L.) cv. Lobster Claw flowers at low temperatures Armazenamento de hastes florais de Heliconia bihai (L.) cv. Lobster Claw em baixa temperatura

Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, 2011
The postharvest conservation of cut Heliconia flowers is an important factor to the success of commercialization, especially with regard to exportation. In the present study, the maximal storage time of cut inflorescences of Heliconia bihai cv.
Andreza S. Costa, Luis C. Nogueira, Venézio F. dos Santos, Terezinha R. Camara, Vivian Loges, Lilia Willadino   +5 more
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First record of non‐flying mammalian contributors to pollination in a tropical montane forest in Asia

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
This study aims to identify the flower visitors of Mucuna thailandica (Fabaceae), endemic plant species in montane forests in Thailand, to determine their potential pollinators. The genus Mucuna produces papilionaceous flowers and has an explosive flower‐
Shun Kobayashi, Somsak Panha, Teerapong Seesamut, Nattawadee Nantarat, Natdanai Likhitrakarn, Tetsuo Denda, Masako Izawa   +6 more
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Convergent relationships between flower economics and hydraulic traits across aquatic and terrestrial herbaceous plants

Plant Diversity, 2023
Maintaining open flowers is critical for successful pollination and depends on long-term water and carbon balance. Yet the relationship between how flower hydraulic traits are coordinated in different habitats is poorly understood.
Yan Ke, Feng-Ping Zhang, Yun-Bing Zhang, Wei Li, Qin Wang, Da Yang, Jiao-Lin Zhang, Kun-Fang Cao   +7 more
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Potential pollinators of understory populations of Symphonia globulifera in the Neotropics.

Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2018
One difference between the forest canopy and the understory is that animals pollinate the majority of understory species in the tropical wet forest. Pollinators active in the understory are also different from those in the forest canopy and are adapted ...
Andre Sanfiorenzo, Manuel Sanfiorenzo, Ronald Vargas Castro, Lisette Waits, Bryan Finegan   +4 more
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Quality maintenance Tropical Plants

Ornamental Horticulture, 2016
The climatic characteristics of the country favor the cultivation of tropical flowers. The continued expansion of this market is due the beauty, exoticit nature and postharvest longevity of flower.
Gláucia Moraes Dias
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Zingiber zerumbet flower stem postharvest characterization

Ornamental Horticulture, 2017
About the Zingiber zerumbet little is known about its cut flower postharvest and market, despite its high ornamental potential. The inflorescences, which resemble a compact cone, emerge from the base of the plants and start with green color changing to ...
Charleston Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira de Castro, Ana Cecília Ribeiro de Castro, Vivian Loges   +3 more
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Optimization of substrate formulation for Hericium erinaceus by replacing wood by straw and their effect on enzyme activities

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionChina is rich in straw resources. The utilization of straw in the cultivation of edible fungi partially resolves the resource conflicts between mushroom cultivation and forest industry and also contributes to environmental protection ...
Zhu Lu, Zhu Lu, Lingyun Liu, Ziming Ren, Shuang Hu, Yue Wang, Shujuan Ji, Xu Wang, Zhongwei Du, Yanni Liu, Yang Yang, Yanshen Yu   +11 more
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