The paper is published in the journal HortScience. Cycads, known for their primitive features and slow growth, are one of the ...

Morongwa Joyce Thobejane,53, a stenographer at the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court, and Warrant Officer Matladi Jeridah Chokoe, ...

Thrips try to enter the green cone of a male cycad plant before the cone opens. The insects feed on pollen in the male cones. University of Utah researchers found that certain cycad plants make ...

Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that ...

Electron microscope image of an adult insect Cycadothrips chadwicki-- known as a thrips (the word is singular and plural) -- after it emerged from the male cone of a cycad plant covered with bits ...

Harding. The site protected one of the world’s greatest concentrations of Cretaceous-period fossils, known informally as cycads or scientifically as Bennettitales. These 120-million-year-old plant ...

The nuts grow in a cluster atop the stems of the plant. These may be mixed with other foods to stretch Unspecified area: a ‘sago’-type starch can be extracted from the stem and is used during times of ...

We are using GIS (Geographic Information System) to map and study large datasets. Test specific hypotheses relating to the evolution of cycad-like plants and flowering plants.

Unlike most of its close relatives, whose larvae feed on a diversity of plants, cycad blue caterpillars feed almost exclusively on cycads, one of the world’s oldest plant groups. Vidyun is a keen ...