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Tag: Brazil

Growth & Development

How Do Seeds Save for a Rainy Day?

Timing is everything. For seeds it’s a matter of life or death.

by Carlos A. Ordóñez-ParraMay 30, 2022May 30, 2022
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Close Encounters

Toxomerus basalis: The fly that uses a killer as a babysitter

Sundews are carnivorous plants that feed on small naive insects. So why does a fly deliberately lay its eggs on the plant?

by Alun SaltMay 24, 2022May 24, 2022
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Bilingual Close Encounters

The colour of background vegetation reveals how bees see flowers

Studying how bees perceive flowers gives insight into how pollinators have influenced flower evolution.

by Andrea RomeroSeptember 7, 2021September 10, 2021
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Ant on a flowerhead
Annals of Botany News in Brief

Ant pollination in Brazilian savanna

by Alex AssiryJuly 16, 2019July 15, 2019
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The Amazon
News

Dark soils are the shadow of hidden agriculture

Stains left in the soil from past farmers, and the plants they cultivated, are helping illuminate prehistoric inhabitants of the Amazon.

by Alun SaltAugust 10, 2018August 10, 2018
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Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) swidden overlooking the Negro River
Annals of Botany

Genetic diversity and dispersal of manioc in Amazonia

The wide distribution of the most common chloroplast haplotype agrees with an early dispersal of manioc across Brazilian Amazonia.

by botanyoneApril 17, 2018April 17, 2018
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Savanna fire, an increasingly rare sight in parts of the Cerrado.
News

Expanding forests can be bad news for the environment

You might think that increasing forest cover is good news in Brazil, but that’s not always the case, according to a new study.

by Dale MayleaSeptember 5, 2017September 5, 2017
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Plant Cuttings

Gone but not forgotten…

by Nigel ChaffeyMarch 14, 2017March 24, 2017
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Cecropia pachystachya
Articles

In an oft-overlooked part of Brazil, botanists have found something bizarre growing

In the Pantanal it’s possible that botanists have found a plant that taking it’s first steps – upwards.

by Alun SaltJanuary 5, 2017January 5, 2017
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Cyril Zipfel
Conferences

Plant Science for the Future (AoB at IPMB Part Two)

by Guest AuthorNovember 19, 2015November 18, 2015
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Magnus Nordborg
Conferences

Inspiring new discoveries of the nature of plant life at the molecular level (AoB at IPMB Part One)

by Guest AuthorNovember 18, 2015November 18, 2015
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Chrysolaena obovata
Articles

Co-ordinated carbohydrate metabolism and hormone synthesis enables plants to survive unfavourable field conditions

by AJ CannMay 5, 2015May 5, 2015
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Trichome evolution in Neotropical lianas
Annals of Botany

Trichome evolution in Neotropical lianas

by botanyoneFebruary 23, 2014February 5, 2014
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Pollen limitation in hummingbird-pollinated plants
Articles

Pollen limitation in hummingbird-pollinated plants

Many species of hummingbird-pollinated plants in a tropical montane rain forest experience pollen limitation.

by AJ CannNovember 4, 2013October 28, 2013
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