Seed coating is considered one of the best methods to promote sustainable agriculture
where the physical and physiological properties of seeds can be improved to facilitate …

Rhizobia form specialized nodules on the roots of legumes (family Fabaceae) and fix
nitrogen in exchange for carbon from the host plant. Although the majority of legumes form …

Abstract The Caatinga Domain (CD) in northeastern Brazil harbors the largest and most
continuous expanse of the seasonally dry tropical forest and woodland biome (SDTFW) in …

 Abstract Subfamily Caesalpinioideae with ca. 4,600 species in 152 genera is the second-
largest subfamily of legumes (Leguminosae) and forms an ecologically and economically …

Early natural historians—Comte de Buffon, von Humboldt, and De Candolle—established
environment and geography as two principal axes determining the distribution of groups of …

The Leguminosae, the third–largest angiosperm family, has a global distribution and high
ecological and economic impor tance. We examine how the legume systematic research …

The Leguminosae has emerged as a model for studying angiosperm plastome evolution
because of its striking diversity of structural rearrangements and sequence variation …

The Brazilian Caatinga is considered the richest nucleus of the Seasonally Dry Tropical
Forests (SDTF) in the Neotropics, also exhibiting high levels of endemism, but the timing of …

The symbiosis between plants and nitrogen‐fixing bacteria is widespread among legumes
and actinorhizal plants within the nitrogen‐fixing root nodule (NFN) clade. However, there …

In this study we present a phylogenetic analysis of Melastomeae, focusing on the
Neotropical members of the tribe, a group of c. 70 species in 30 genera. In total, 236 …