This series, of a planned 60+ volumes, describes the flowering plants, pines, ferns, mosses, liverworts and lichens to the species level. The families contained in each volume are set out below. Links ...

Abstract: Chemical investigation on Pinellia ternate (Thunb.) Breit led to the isolation and identification of 12 cyclodipeptides alkaloids. Compounds 1-3, 7 and 10-12 were isolated from P. ternate ...

References to the plant genus Dianthus go back as far as the Greek botanist Theophrastus. He named these plants from the Caryophyllaceae family “divine flower” (dios = divine plus anthos = flower).

The anamorphic fungal genus Septoria is one of the largest genera of plant pathogens, causing a range of disease symptoms including leaf and fruit spots in agricultural crops, as well as horticultural ...

The name of the genus is thought to refer to Silenus, rustic god of woodland and drunkenness in Greek mythology, or possibly the related Greek word ‘sialon’ meaning saliva, a reference to the female ...

Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing, HTS (i.e., next generation sequencing), now allow genomic-level approaches to the study of evolutionary processes (e.g., hybridization, adaptive ...

Four kinds of carnation materials with different colors, white flower (WF), yellow flower (YF), green flower (GF), and purple flower (PF), were used in this study (Figure 1). The plants were grown in ...

Globally upscaling demands for native seeds for ecosystem restoration can be covered by agricultural seed propagation. Yet, agricultural practice can unintentionally select for specific traits and ...

Baby’s breath is a terrestrial herbaceous invasive that colonizes sunny, disturbed, sandy sites, which makes it problematic near Michigan’s waterways. It is part of the Caryophyllaceae family and is a ...

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1 Department of Environmental Science, Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya. 2 Dryland Research Training and Ecotourism Centre, Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya. 3 Department of Geography, Egerton ...