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Plants, Volume 1, Issue 2

2012 December - 5 articles

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Articles (5)

  • Short Note
  • Open Access
6,088 Views
6 Pages

Isolation and Characterization of Microsatellite Markers for Mimusops balata (Sapotaceae) and Cross-Amplification in Other Mimusops Species

  • Stéphanie Dafreville,
  • Cláudia Baider,
  • F. B. Vincent Florens,
  • Gérard Lebreton,
  • Eric Rivière,
  • Dominique Strasberg and
  • Marie-Hélène Chevallier

17 December 2012

Mimusops balata (Sapotaceae) is an endemic tree species from La Réunion and Mauritius. Like many species growing in lowland forests in La Réunion, it has suffered from human disturbances. We developed twelve microsatellite markers for M. balata and t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
11,178 Views
18 Pages

Tungsten Toxicity in Plants

  • Ioannis-Dimosthenis S. Adamakis,
  • Emmanuel Panteris and
  • Eleftherios P. Eleftheriou

16 November 2012

Tungsten (W) is a rare heavy metal, widely used in a range of industrial, military and household applications due to its unique physical properties. These activities inevitably have accounted for local W accumulation at high concentrations, raising c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,593 Views
13 Pages

Phylogeny of Cirsium spp. in North America: Host Specificity Does Not Follow Phylogeny

  • Tracey A. Bodo Slotta,
  • David P. Horvath and
  • Michael E. Foley

24 October 2012

Weedy invasive Cirsium spp. are widespread in temperate regions of North America and some of their biological control agents have attacked native Cirsium spp. A phylogenetic tree was developed from DNA sequences for the internal transcribed spacer an...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,360 Views
8 Pages

24 October 2012

Plants used to treat inflammatory ailments, pain, fever and infections in the Pamir Mountains in northeastern Afghanistan, were tested for antibacterial and COX-1 inhibitory activity. Water and ethanol extracts of 20 species were tested for antibacte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,777 Views
22 Pages

Photobiont Relationships and Phylogenetic History of Dermatocarpon luridum var. luridum and Related Dermatocarpon Species

  • Kyle M. Fontaine,
  • Andreas Beck,
  • Elfie Stocker-Wörgötter and
  • Michele D. Piercey-Normore

10 October 2012

Members of the genus Dermatocarpon are widespread throughout the Northern Hemisphere along the edge of lakes, rivers and streams, and are subject to abiotic conditions reflecting both aquatic and terrestrial environments. Little is known about the ev...

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Plants - ISSN 2223-7747