Plant species complexes as models to understand speciation and evolution: a review of South American studies

F Pinheiro, MV Dantas-Queiroz… - Critical Reviews in Plant …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Identifying discontinuous entities within species complexes is a major topic in systematic
and evolutionary biology. Comprehensive inventories describing and identifying species …

[HTML][HTML] Honey as an antioxidant therapy to reduce cognitive ageing

KF Azman, R Zakaria - Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This paper reviews the potential role of honey as a therapeutic antioxidant to reduce
oxidative stress and improve cognitive ageing. All articles indexed to PubMed Central (PMC) …

Phylogeny, character evolution, and biogeography of Cuscuta (dodders; Convolvulaceae) inferred from coding plastid and nuclear sequences

MA García, M Costea, M Kuzmina… - American journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: The parasitic genus Cuscuta, containing some 200 species
circumscribed traditionally in three subgenera, is nearly cosmopolitan, occurring in a wide …

A phylogenetically based infrageneric classification of the parasitic plant genus Cuscuta (dodders, Convolvulaceae)

M Costea, MA García, S Stefanović - Systematic Botany, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Cuscuta (dodders, Convolvulaceae) is one of the largest and most economically important
lineages of parasitic plants. The genus has a sub-cosmopolitan distribution with more than …

[HTML][HTML] The Evolution of Cytogenetic Traits in Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae), the Genus With the Most Diverse Chromosomes in Angiosperms

A Ibiapino, MA García, B Amorim, M Baez… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Karyotypes are characterized by traits such as chromosome number, which can change
through whole-genome duplication and dysploidy. In the parasitic plant genus Cuscuta …

[HTML][HTML] The genus Cuscuta (Convolvolaceac): An updated review on indigenous uses, phytochemistry, and pharmacology

S Noureen, S Noreen, SA Ghumman… - Iranian Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cuscuta, commonly known as dodder, is a genus of family convolvolaceace. Approximately
170 species of Cuscuta are extensively distributed in temperate and subtropical areas of the …

[HTML][HTML] Cuscuta seeds: Diversity and evolution, value for systematics/identification and exploration of allometric relationships

M Olszewski, M Dilliott, I García-Ruiz, B Bendarvandi… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Cuscuta (dodders) is a group of parasitic plants with tremendous economic and ecological
significance. Their seeds are often described as “simple” or “unspecialized” because they do …

Entangled evolutionary history of Cuscuta pentagona clade: A story involving hybridization and Darwin in the Galapagos

M Costea, MA García, K Baute, S Stefanović - Taxon, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution of Cuscuta subg. Grammica sect. Cleistogrammica (Cuscuta pentagona
clade) is centered in North America (C. campestris, C. glabrior, C. harperi, C. pentagona, C …

Waterfowl endozoochory: An overlooked long‐distance dispersal mode for Cuscuta (dodder)

M Costea, S Stefanović, MA García… - American Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Dispersal of parasitic Cuscuta species (dodders) worldwide has
been assumed to be largely anthropomorphic because their seeds do not match any …

Systematics of Cuscuta chinensis species complex (subgenus Grammica, Convolvulaceae): evidence for long-distance dispersal and one new species

M Costea, I Spence, S Stefanović - Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 2011 - Springer
Cuscuta chinensis species complex is a small clade from subgenus Grammica (Cuscuta,
Convolvulaceae). Many species of this clade exhibit crest-or dome-like multicellular …