supported by ESF project PRG323 and an Erasmus+scholarship provided under a traineeship agreement between Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and Estonian University of Life Sciences.
Menispermaceae are an angiosperm family of mostly climbing plants distributed throughout tropical regions. The fruits in this family have a strong sclerified endocarp and can be used for reliable species-level identif...
Tinospora cordifolia(Guduchi or Gurjo),a herbaceous vine or climbing deciduous shrub,is consider as an important medicine in the Ayurvedic system of medication,which is available in India,China,Myanmar,Bangladesh and ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.41922010,41988101,31800183);a joint research program of NSFC and NERC(Natural Environment Research Council of the UK)(Nos.41661134049,NE/P013805/1);a post-doctoral fellowship from XTBG;the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(Nos.XDA20070301 and XDB26000000);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition(No.2019QZKK0705)program;the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,CAS(No.QYZDB-SSW-SMC016);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,CAS(Nos.2017103,2017439);and the CAS 135 program(No.2017XTBG-F01);Yunnan Basic Research Projects(No.2019FB026);Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)“Light of West China”Program.
Menispermaceae are a pantropical and temperate family with an extensive fossil record during the Paleogene period,especially in North America and Europe,but with much less evidence from Asia.The latest fossil evidence...
The project was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31770203,31100141,and 31770200).
Menispermaceae is one of the core groups of Ranunculales.The single fertile ovule in each ovary in Menispermaceae varies greatly in integument number,micropyle formation,and integument lobe.However,data regarding ovul...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41872015,41820104002,and 41210001);the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeon-tology,CAS)(No.193118);the Scientific Research Fund,Hongda Zhang,Sun Yat-sen University,and the State Project(No.0135-2019-0044,Geological Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences,to TK).
We present here the earliest known Asian fossil records of the Menispermaceae based on fossil fruits from Paleocene and Eocene localities in South China.A new genus and species,Paleoorbicarpum parvum sp.noy,,and two n...
We thank the staff at the Sun Yat-sen University Herbarium and the South China Botanical Garden Herbarium for their permission to examine and photograph extant specimens. We also thank Fabiany Herrera (Chicago Botanic Garden) for providing us specimen photos of the genera Cissampelos and Cyclea for comparison. We are grateful to the Botany graduate students at Sun Yat-sen University for help with fossil collecting and Scott Wing (Smithsonian Institution) kindly provided access to his field collections from the PETM of Wyoming and to other type materials at USNM. We also express sincere gratitude to the researchers at Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences for helping us CT scan the Nanning fruit fossils. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41772009, 41372002, 4.1210001, 41528201), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 161gic28), the Scientific Research Fund, Hongda Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, and the State Scholarship Fund of China Scholarship Council (CSC; File No. 201606380086).
Stephania Loureiro is a large genus within Menispermaceae, with approximately 60 extant species naturally distributed in tropical to subtropical areas in Asia and Africa, and a few in Oceania. This genus possesses hig...
Anatomical data regarding the climbing modes and cambial variants of the stem transverse section in the Menispermaceae in Taiwan are lacking. Here, we examined the climbing modes and anomalous structure of climber ste...
Supported by the Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences and the DOST-National Science Consortium.
Objective:To determine the toxicity profile,anti-angiogenic and antibacterial activity of the crude and semi-crude leaf extracts of Tinomiscium philippinense(T.philippinense).Methods:The leaves of T.philippinense were...
Science and Technology Commission of China(2012CB722601);Science and Technology Department of Guizhou Province(QKHZYZ[2011]5085)
Objective To study the chemical constituents of Stephania hernandifolia. Methods Various chromato- graphic techniques were used to isolate the constituents, and the structures were elucidated on the basis of HR-EI-MS,...
Aim To find the original active compounds from three medicinal plants of Menispermaceae family in Qinling Montain,Shaanxi,China.Method Several kinds of isolation techniques such as liquid-liquid partition,column chrom...