Coffee is highly appreciated as stimulant. Brazil is the first producer and second consumer in the world. Flower evocation triggered by environmental signals is essential for adaptability and productivity, and despite...
Breakdown of self-incompatibility increases opportunities for both self-fertilization and interspecific hybridization,although the latter is dependent on the extent of competition between heterospecific and conspecifi...
Funding was provided by the Spanish Government,through grants CGL2015‐67849‐P(MINECO/FEDER)to IS.MR was supported by a MINECO FPI Fellowship(BES‐2013‐065389);jointly supervised by IS and RR.RR was supported by grant CGL2015‐73621‐JIN(AEI/FEDER);LP was supported through an EU‐funded SYNTHESYS3 grant(GB‐TAF‐5153).
Abstract Wide-range geographically discontinuous distributions have long intrigued scientists.We explore the role of ecology,geology,and dispersal in the formation of these large-scale disjunctions,using the angiosper...
The project was funded by grants from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,Stockholm University,and the Swedish Research Council(A0529602 to B.B.and 2017-03985 to C.R.).
Reconstructions of phylogenetic relationships in the flowering plant family Rubiaceae have up until now relied heavily on single-or multi-gene data,primarily from the plastid compartment.With the availability of cost-...
Objective:To explore the immunomodulatory,anti-inflammatory,anti-oxidant and anti-arthritic activity of aqueous and methanolic extracts of Nauclea pobeguinii stem bark.Methods:For in vitro assays,the production of rea...
supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(Nos.81630094,21732008,and 81730093);CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Science of China(Nos.2017-I2M-3-010 and 2016-I2M-1-010);the Drug Innovation Major Project(No.2018ZX09711001-001-001)
Two new folate-derived analogues,named uncarophyllofolic acids A(1)and B(2),respectively,were isolated from the Uncaria rhynchophylla hook bearing stem(Gouteng in Chinese).The distinct stereochemical structures of 1 a...
the project‘‘PROY_IECOLOGIA_0036’’financed by the third internal call for projects of the Universidad Tcnica Particular de Loja(UTPL)
Cinchona officinalis (Rubiaceae) is an endemic species of the Loja Valley in southern Ecuador with medicinal uses. Because of over-exploitation in the nine- teenth century and more recent disturbances to its ecosyst...
Acknowledgements This study was supported by grants-in-aid from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31370244 to ZLN and 31110103911 to HS), the NSFC-Yunnan Natural Science Foundation Unite Project (Grant No. U1136601 to HS), the Construct Program of the Key Discipline in Hunan Province (JSU0713), and the aid program for Science and Technology Innovative Research Team in Higher Educational Institutions of Hunan Province (201208). We thank Dun-Yan Tan and Feng qiu, Tao Deng, Zhi-Wei Wang and Xiao-Juan Li for field assistance and sample collections. The first author is grateful to De-Li Peng, and to Wei-Ping Huang and Zhuo Zhou for their help with data analyses.
Rubia L. is the type genus of the coffee family Rubiaceae and the third largest genus in the tribe Rubieae, comprising ca. 80 species restricted to the Old World. China is an important diversity center for Rubia, wher...
This study is a review of the Condamineeae tribe, through the acquisition of data from phytochemical studies and evaluation of genera activities that constitute the tribe, in order to contribute to chemotaxonomic clas...