As leguminosas do gênero Cajanus são principalmente conhecidas pela espécie cajan, vulgarmente denominada de “feijão guandu” e pigeonpea, originária da Ásia foi levada para a África as Américas. Ela é cultivada em todas regiões tropicais semi-tropicais mundo utilizada como planta fitorremediadora solos, renovação pastagens degradadas, na alimentação (animal humana), além dos empregos farmacológ...

Plant leaves exist in a dizzying array of shapes and sizes, from the tiny duckweed (Lemna minor) to the enormous Raphia palm (Raphia farinifera), and the simpleleaved poplar (Populus sp) to the deeply lobed oak (Quercus spp) or the delicate compound-leaved Mimosa spp. Class I KNOTTED-like (KNOX1) genes have been found to play an important role in the development of compound leaves in many vascu...

A new cassane diterpene was isolated from Amazonian crude drug, "Acapu, " the wood of Vouacapoua americana, together with two known cassane furanoditerpenes, (+)-vouacapenic acid and (+)-methyl vouacapenate. The structure was characterized as cassa-13(14), 15-dien-19-oic acid on the basis of spectroscopic evidence.

The “Tree-of-Life” is a national and international project to collect information about the origin, evolution, and diversity of organisms, with the goal of producing a tree of all life on Earth (Pennisi, 2003). The obstacles to achieving this goal are many. From questions related to the kinds and number of data to be used, to building that phylogeny, to the methodological and computational reso...

Evolution is eminent for all living organisms which determines how the organism will change and adapt to ever changing external environment. This provides divergence different species helps in creation of new ones. The that we see at present have evolved from one or other ancestor. study was held Rabi 2021 decipher evolutionary relationships between members Fabaceae. Phylogenetic analysis TFL s...