Terrestrial crops are directly exposed to silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) and their
environmentally transformed analog silver sulfide nanoparticles (Ag2S-NPs) when …

Both germination and seedling establishment in palm trees are strongly influenced by the
morphoanatomy of the fruits, although the interactions of these processes with …

Associations of recalcitrance and dormancy are rare, and little information is available
concerning the structure of seeds demonstrating this type of behavior or their ecological …

Butia capitata is a palm tree endemic to the Cerrado biome of Brazil and has significant
potential for ornamental and food uses. In this work, we characterized the structures of the …

We investigated seed dormancy among species of Melastomataceae from Neotropical
montane vegetation of Brazil. Four out of 50 studied species had dormant seeds: Miconia …

The genus Rupestrea is described to include two species previously described in Miconia.
Rupestrea carvalhoana and R. johnwurdackiana are restricted to Campos Rupestres at the …

Acrocomia aculeata is an oil producing tropical palm tree with exceptional potential for
producing biofuel. As the propagation of this species is often difficult because of its …

The continuous refinement of the morphological, anatomical, and molecular studies on the
genera of the “Cryptanthoid complex”, mainly considering the recently discovered outlier …

The mobilization of palm seed reserves is a complex process because of the abundance
and diversity of stored compounds and results from the development of a highly specialized …

Studies on native medicinal plants strengthen initiatives to preserve the environments where
those species naturally occur, many of them already strongly menaced even before their …