Encompassing ca.200 species distributed in paleotropical Africa and Asia,Amorphophallus is one of the largest genera of Araceae.In spite of the great economic interest in its glucomannan production,only a few studies ...
This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China-International(Regional)Cooperation and Exchange Program(No.31750110477);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funding(No.2016M602731);the Postdoctoral Fellowship of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden(CAS),and a grant from the Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology of CAS(No.09KF001B04).
The Asian paleotropical flora is characterized by abundance of endemic species,high biodiversity,and complex geological and climatic histories.However,the main driving mechanism underlying such high tropical biodivers...
funded by a grant from The Yakumo Foundation for Environmental Science(2015,to Y.M.)
General decline of understory cover can result from increased abundance of and foraging pressure by deer.But population size and degree of aggregation can increase for unpalatable understory plants that escape foragin...
Proto-Araceae,the earliest diverged lineage within the family Araceae,includes two subfamilies,Gymnostachydoideae(one species)and Orontioideae(eight species).Based on an extensive sampling(a total of 198 accessions)of...
The relationships between Araceae diversity and altitude gradients in mountain ecosystem at Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, Chiang Mai Province in Thailand, were studied during January 2016-March 2018. The strip-plots, ...
Modern cultivated caladiums(Caladium×hortulanum)are grown for their long-lasting and colorful leaves.Understanding the mode of inheritance for caladium leaf characteristics is critical for plant breeders to select ap...
The Araceae are rhizomatous or tuberous herbs comprising about 110 genera and 1,800 species,usually with calcium ocalate crystals or raphides and commonly with milky sap.Amorphophallus is a genus of about 200 species,...
Support by Science and Technology Development Fund,with Grant No.4402
Objective: To evaluate the in vitro cytotoxic activity of the fractionated extract as well as isolated compounds of Arum palaestinum Boiss.(A. palaestinum)(black calla lily), and to identify the volatile components wh...
Supported by Special Fund of President of the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences(201217)
In this study,embryogenic cell aggregates obtained from the established embryogenic cell suspension culture system of Anthurium andraeanum‘Alabama’were used as experimental materials to investigate the effects of ka...