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The climatic challenge: Which plants will people use in the next century?
More than 31,000 useful plant species have been documented to fulfil needs and services for humans or the animals and environment we depend on. Despite this diversity, humans currently satisfy most requirements with surprisingly few plant species; for example, just three crops – rice, wheat and maize – comprise more... -
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Lipid Thermal Fingerprints of Long-term Stored Seeds of Brassicaceae
Thermal fingerprints for seeds of 20 crop wild relatives of Brassicaceae stored for 8 to 44 years at the Plant Germplasm Bank—Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank—were generated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and analyzed in relation to storage stability. Relatively poor storing... -
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Inversodicraea koukoutamba and I. tassing (Podostemaceae), new waterfall species from Guinea, West Africa.
Two new species of and , both from the Republic of Guinea, are described as new to science, increasing the number of species known in this African genus to 32, making it the most species-diverse among African . Both species are remarkable, among other features, for their styles. is only...Cheek, M. ; Molmou, D. ; Jennings, L. ; Magassouba, S. ; van der Burgt, X.
Waterfalls, Conservation, Dams, Guinea, OMVS, World Bank, Bafing River, Extinct, and Hydroelectricity
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Ternstroemia guineensis (Ternstroemiaceae), a new endangered cloudforest shrub with neotropical affinities from Kounounkan, Guinea, W. Africa.
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935. Vachellia anegadensis.
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Born to Eat Wild: An Integrated Conservation Approach to Secure Wild Food Plants for Food Security and Nutrition.
Overlooked in national reports and in conservation programs, wild food plants (WFPs) have been a vital component of food and nutrition security for centuries. Recently, several countries have reported on the widespread and regular consumption of WFPs, particularly by rural and indigenous communities but also in urban contexts. They are...Borelli, Teresa ; Hunter, Danny ; Powell, Bronwen ; Ulian, Tiziana ; Mattana, Efisio …
Policy, Nutrition data, Multi-sectoral collaboration, Wild food plants, Food security, and Conservation
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Leptorhaphis atomaria [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
A description is provided for . Some information on its dispersal and transmission and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution (Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick and Ontario), USA (Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Washington), Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia (Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Kemerovo...