Genomics and transcriptomics reveal genetic contribution to population diversity and specific traits in coconut

K Yousefi, SNA Abdullah, MAM Hatta, KL Ling - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coconut is an economically important palm species with a long history of human use. It has
applications in various food, nutraceuticals, and cosmetic products, and there has been …

Towards the understanding of important coconut endosperm phenotypes: is there an epigenetic control?

JGC Angeles, JP Lado, ED Pascual, CA Cueto… - Agronomy, 2018 - mdpi.com
The coconut is a major crop of many tropical countries, with the endosperm being one of its
main products. The coconut soft-endosperm variants, the Makapuno and the Lono, are …

Flower visitors of the licuri palm (Syagrus coronata): brood pollinators coexist with a diverse community of antagonists and mutualists

BAS De Medeiros, LA Núñez-Avellaneda… - Biological Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Communities of plants and their insect brood pollinators have provided important insights
into the evolution of mutualism. The discovery of new systems has the potential to extend our …

Flower development, pollen viability and pollen storage test of Aeschynanthus radicans

F Damayanti, RV Garvita, H Wawangningrum… - Biodiversitas Journal of …, 2021 - smujo.id
Damayanti F, Garvita RV, Wawangningrum H, Rahayu S. 2021. Flower development, pollen
viability and pollen storage test of Aeschynanthus radicans. Biodiversitas 22: 1940-1945 …

Understanding Physiology and Impacts of High Temperature Stress on the Progamic Phase of Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.)

KB Hebbar, P Neethu, PA Sukumar, M Sujithra… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The reproductive phase of coconut is extremely sensitive to high temperature, manifesting
as button (female flower) shedding and poor nut set. The progamic phase, which elapses …

Breeding of Coconut (Cocos Nucifera L.): The Tree of Life

Y Yang, A Iqbal, R Qadri - Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Fruits …, 2018 - Springer
Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is a continuous fruiting perennial tropical fruit and oil crop that is
mainly cultivated in the humid and sub-humid coastal tropics. It is a perennial multipurpose …

Diversity matters: Diet of Apis cerana in southeast India includes one consistently occurring and several seasonally available floral sources

J Lazar, S Prasad, D Barboni, L Das, V Kumaresan… - …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Little is known about the agroecological implications of the Asian honey bee Apis cerana
Fabricius in its vast native range including southeast India. To identify the foraging …

Insect pollination in horticultural crops

PVR Reddy, VV Rajan, M Mani, SJ Kavitha… - Trends in horticultural …, 2022 - Springer
Pollination is one such crucial ecosystem service that helps to sustain the biodiversity and
also to meet the global food demand. Majority of horticultural crops including fruit, vegetable …

Variation in yield and yield components of different coconut cultivars in response to within year rainfall and temperature variation

CRK Samarasinghe, MK Meegahakumbura… - Scientia …, 2018 - Elsevier
The yield (no. of nuts/palm/year) of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is highly influenced by the
amount and distribution of rainfall and year-round temperature. This study was conducted to …

[PDF][PDF] Flight activity and pollen resources of Apis nigrocincta and Apis cerana in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

R Raffiudin, NS Ariyanti, I Aprilianingrum… - Agriculture and …, 2022 - li01.tci-thaijo.org
Sulawesi in the Wallacea region was formed by the accretion of three tectonic plates
approximately 50 million years ago (Hall, 1998). The island is home to a high diversity of …