Not all plants can be stored in a seed bank. Cryopreservation offers an alternative, but critics question whether this form of conservation will work.

It belongs to the Magnoliaceae, and although its use is restricted to minor applications for its wood, Lorenzi (1992) recommends its use in programs aimed at regenerating the riverine vegetation as ...

This work aimed to study the expression of genes, at the mRNA level, related to seed development, cell cycle, cytoskeleton and desiccation tolerance during drying and subsequent imbibition of the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rhododendrons belong to the family Ericaceae and are primarily trees of the mountains. Rhododendrons also include several species of ornamental ...

Magnolias are magnificent plants, with thickly textured tepals resembling the sort of heavy satin normally worn by upmarket brides and debutantes of old. This ancient group of plants evolved some ...

Modern-day magnolias have evolved from ancestral plants in the Magnoliaceae family that flowered 95 million years ago during the Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. At that time, bees ...

The overexploitation of 25 species of host plants valued for their medicinal properties threatens the swallowtail butterflies in the forest habitats of a part of Assam often referred to as the ...

When it comes to a big, beautiful family, the flowering trees known as Magnoliaceae number in the hundreds. It's not all about white when it comes to blooms, though; many magnolia trees have beautiful ...

This tree belongs to the Magnoliaceae family and can grow to a mature height from 16 ft up to 80 ft. You can easily identify the magnolia tree from its large and fragrant flowers that often reach ...