P.E.J.acknowledges funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG,German Research Foundation)project number 443701866;SEM imaging was financially supported by the grants XDB26000000 and 41877437(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Nanjing,China).
The grasses are one of the most diverse plant families on Earth.However,their classification and evolutionary history are obscured by their pollen stenopalynous(similar)morphology.A combination of high-resolution imag...
This research was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32072023);the Project of Sanya Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City(SCKJ-JYRC-2022-88).
Background Plant pollen has diverse morphological characteristics that can be consistently passed down from generation to generation.Information on pollen morphology is thus immensely important for plant classificatio...
Cytisus aeolicus is a narrow endemic species restricted to the Aeolian archipelago(SE Tyrrhenian Sea,Italy)and it is one of the most evolutionarily isolated plants in the Mediterranean flora.Historical and literature ...
The genus Saraca L.(Leguminosae)is a universal panacea in herbal medicine.The present study investigates the comparative pollen morphology of four species of Saraca viz.S.asoca(Roxb.)de Wilde,S.declinata(Jack)Miq.,S.i...
supported by Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resource [Grant No.8918113107]
Pollen and trichome morphology of the genus Betula were evaluated from three main habitats in Iran using light and electron microscopy.Pollen types were identical and tri-porate;however,in terms of quantitative data,s...
Pollen morphology & pollen fertility estimation of three medicinal species belonging to genus Hypericum L. from flora of Kaghan valley, Northern Pakistan was investigated by light and scanning electron microscopy for ...
Acknowledgements We thank IBSC, PE, and US for herbarium materials, Wei-Tao Jin and Nan-Cai Pei for collecting pollen samples, and Xiao- Ying Hu for technical assistance. We also thank James Doyle and Editor Sean Graham for their valuable comments. This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31270260).
A close relationship between Androsace and related genera (Douglasia, Vitaliana, and Pomatosace) has long been recognized. Recent molecular studies have provided abundant evidence that Douglasia, Vitaliana, and Poma...
This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the National Science Infrastructure Platform Foundation of China
The genus Codonopsis has been controversial in its circumscription. In the strict sense, the genus consists of three subgenera, Codonopsis, Pseudocodonopsis, and Obconicicapsula. Recent molecular and palynological ana...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant no.41271222);Main Direction Program of Knowledge Innovation of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant no.KSCX2-EW-J-1);Projects of the CAA,SOA(Grant nos.2012YR06006 and13/14YR05);SKLSEB-IBCAS(Grant no.56176G1048);Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists(Grant no.90004F1005);Visiting Scholarship funded by the China Scholarship Council(Grant no.201204910043)
Pollen morphology of eight species of Saxifraga, i.e.S, cespitosa, S. oppositifolia, S. cernua, S. nivalis, S. aizoides, S. rivularis, S. hieraciifolia, and S. hirculus, collected from Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Arctic was...