funded by the National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFD1000203 and 2019YFD1000900);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32270712);the earmarked fund for CARS (CARS-31-01);GDAAS (202102TD,and R2020PY-JX002);funds for the strategy of rural vitalization of Guangdong province,a Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture Project (NT2021004);a Maoming Branch grant (2021TDQD003).
Bananas(Musa spp.)are monocotyledonous plants with high genetic diversity in the Musaceae family that are cultivated mainly in tropical and subtropical countries.The fruits are a popular food,and the plants themselves...
The genus Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae, which includes bananas and plantains, which are monocotyledonous plants. Bananas have valuable nutritional content of vitamin C, B6, minerals, and dietary ...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 41502017 and No. 41072022);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDPB05)
Spirematospermum is a well-known extinct zingiberalean taxon, characterized by trilocular capsules containing many distinctive, spirally striate and arillate seeds. It is frequently found and studied in European Neoge...
Supported by a local grant from the University of Greenwich(GRE Mini-Proof-of-Concept No.HEIF-Po C-SCI-02/13)
Objective: To investigate the antioxidant, anti-a-glucosidase and pancreatic b-cell protective potential of Ensete superbum(E. superbum) seeds.Methods: A variety of in vitro assays including radical scavenging, reduci...
The center of diversity of the genus Musa (Musaceae) is in Southeast Asia, a region not studied in detail and where new species and varieties continue to be reported. A new wild banana species, M. chunii Hakkinen fr...
Since the initial description, the name Musa dasycarpa Kurz (1867) has been unclear to most botanists. It has usually been synonymized with M. velutina H. Wendl. & Drude (1875). However, although the original diagnosi...
Since the initial description, the name Musa aurantiaca Baker (1893) has been unclear to most botanists. The aim of this study is to settle its true identity and to update the description. The plant is distributed in ...