The research focuses on assessing the abundance and types of carbohydrates stored in the stems, contributing to knowledge on how cycads manage energy storage and resilience in their natural habitats.
Caption Thomas Marler (left) and Gil Cruz (center) measure cycad plant size traits in the foothills of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, along with Ulysses Ferreras (right) from the Philippine Native ...
Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the Park Service in 1957, but the story doesn’t end there. More than 20 years ago, in the dusty basement of a park Service library in West Virginia, ...
Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...
When cycad coralloid roots are cut open, the blue-green color verifies the presence of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...
Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that ...
The University of Southampton in England is leading the project. The Wood's cycad (Encephalartos woodii) is a rare and ...
At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. At the end of the ...
Crumbling landmasses and inland seas. Sea monsters, sharks, and blood-red plankton. Forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place ...
We have evidence from West Antarctica of polar forests that would have been dominated mainly by conifers, things like podocarps, araucarias, and probably gingko trees as well, with understories of ...
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