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Book chapter
Profile of compounds in different cultivars of apple (Malus x domestica).
The cultivation of apples (Malus x domestica) can be traced back for thousands of years to Asia and to Malus sieversii, which grows in temperate forests of central Asia. As the apple spread through Asia, into Europe, Russia and then into the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand, the number of...Simmonds, Monique S.J. ; Howes, Melanie-Jayne R.
Phenolic compounds, Phytochemicals, Biological activity, Malus x domestica, and Apples
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Conference paper (published)
Plant name resources: building bridges with users.
Plant names are the key to communicating and managing information about plants. This paper considers how providers of high quality technical plant name information can better meet the requirements non-botanical audiences who also rely on plant names for elements of their work. The International Plant Name Index, World Checklist of... -
Conference paper (published)
Identifying Novel Features from Specimen Data for the Prediction of Valuable Collection Trips.
Primary biodiversity data provide “what, where, and when” data points: the assertion that a species occurred at a particular point in space and time. These are most valuable when associated with specimens stored in natural history museums and herbaria, which evidence the assertions with reference to a physical specimen. The...Nicolson, Nicky ; Tucker, Allan
Collecting trip, Identification, Specimen data, Data-mining, Collectors, and Metadata
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Presentation
Evolution and functional ecology of the embryo to seed size ratio.
Continuous variation exists in the ratio of embryo to nutritive tissues of Angiosperms. Embryo to seed size ratio ranges from seeds dispersed with an embryo consisting of a clump of cells embedded in copious endosperm, e.g. several Ranunculaceae, to seeds containing only an embryo and no nutritive tissue, e.g. many...Vandelook, Filip ; Dickie, John B. ; Carta, Angelino
Evolution, Functional ecology, and Embryo to seed size ratio
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Conference paper (published)
Wild bananas detect forest gaps.
Banana crop wild relatives (CWR) grow in tropical to sub-tropical Asia and Pacific forest. They take advantage of forest disturbances to form patches in the forest or on the edges of cleared land. We investigate the mechanism by which seeds from banana CWRs are able to detect gaps and germinate...Kallow, Simon ; Davies, Rachael ; Janssens, Steven B. ; Vandelook, Filip ; Panis, Bart …
Pacific, Forest gaps, Bananas, Crop wild relatives, Seed germination, Musa, and Asia
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Journal article
First person – Tom Carruthers.
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Tom Carruthers is first author on ‘ exTREEmaTIME: a method for incorporating uncertainty into divergence time estimates’, published in BiO. Tom conducted...Carruthers, Tom
Carruthers, Tom, Biography, Assumptions, Early-career researchers, Uncertainty, Science careers, and Divergence times
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Journal article
Synonymies in Ananas (Bromeliaceae).
To clarify the last pineapple classification, which only recognizes the tetraploid crownless A. macrodontes and the diploid A. comosus, with three cultivated and two wild botanical varieties, we re-establish A. comosus var. microstachys and revise ancient synonymies, underlining misinterpretations and distinguishing horticultural names from botanical names whenever possible.Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge, Geo ; Govaerts, Rafaël
Perú, French Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Bromeliaceae, Ananas, Monocots, Paraguay, and Brazil