A5101547593- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant and animal studies
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
- Online and Blended Learning
- Coffee research and impacts
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Botanical Research and Applications
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Seed Germination and Physiology
- Pineapple and bromelain studies
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Teacher Professional Development and Motivation
- Nematode management and characterization studies
Meise Botanic Garden
2016-2025
KU Leuven
2013-2025
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2021
Abstract In educational contexts, understanding the student’s learning must take account of construction reality. Reality as experienced by student has an important additional value. This assumption also applies to a perception evaluation and assessment. Students’ study behaviour is not only determined examination or assessment modes that are used. perceptions about methods play significant role. review aims examine from point view. Research findings reveal students’ significantly influence...
Abstract Impatiens L. is one of the largest angiosperm genera, containing over 1000 species, and notorious for its taxonomic difficulty. Here, we present, to our knowledge, most comprehensive phylogenetic analysis genus date based on a total evidence approach. Forty‐six morphological characters, mainly obtained from own investigations, are combined with sequence data three genetic regions, including nuclear ribosomal ITS plastid atpB‐rbcL trnL‐F . We include 150 species representing all...
• The factors driving the evolution of relative embryo length in Apiaceae were examined. We tested hypothesis that seeds with large length, because more rapid germination, are beneficial dry and open habitats for short-lived species. also analyzed to what extent delayed germination as a result growth can be considered dormancy mechanism. Hypotheses by correlating other plant traits, habitat climatic variables. adaptive nature was determined comparing performance pure drift, Brownian motion...
Summary Tropical Southeast Asia, which harbors most of the Musaceae biodiversity, is one species‐rich regions in world. Its high degree endemism shaped by region's tectonic and climatic history, with large differences between northern Indo‐Burma Malayan Archipelago. Here, we aim to find a link diversification biogeography geological history Asian subcontinent. The family (including five Ensete , 45 Musa Musella species) was dated using phylogenetic framework encompassing 163 species from all...
This study investigates the effects of teaching and learning environments on student teachers' approaches to compares a lecture‐based setting student‐activating environment, in which self‐discovery by means authentic tasks is central. Data collection (N = 852) was obtained pre‐test/post‐test design including Approaches Teaching Inventory. Though changed significantly, direction only consistent with assumption that experiences push students towards conceptual change/student‐focused...
Confirmamos la presencia de Oxalis dillenii Jacq. en provincia Lérida (Cataluña, España). La identidad especie fue confirmada tanto por sus características morfológicas como a través secuenciación del código barras ADN. Se proporciona un mapa distribución O. dillenii, así notas sobre su identificación.
The assessment of population vulnerability under climate change is crucial for planning conservation as well ensuring food security. Coffea canephora is, in its native habitat, an understorey tree that mainly distributed the lowland rainforests tropical Africa. Also known Robusta, commercial value constitutes a significant revenue many human populations countries. Comparing ecological and genomic vulnerabilities within species' range can provide valuable insights about habitat loss adaptive...
Carajasia is described as a new genus of Rubiaceae. It so far known only from the mountain summits Serra dos Carajás (Pará, Brazil), where it part shrubby vegetation surrounded by tropical rainforest. The belongs to tribe Spermacoceae and positioned within Spermacoce clade. unique clade in having very particular combination characters: flowering branches with two axillary flowers per node, homostylous flowers, corollas fringe moniliform hairs, pubescent styles distinct stigma lobes, bilobed...
The attractiveness of nectar rewards depends both on the quantity produced and its chemical composition. It is known that composition can differ in plant species depending main pollinator associated with species. aims this study were to test formally whether traits are adapted pollination syndromes speciose Balsaminaceae and, if so, a combination mirrors syndromes.Comparative methods based Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models used volume, sucrose proportion, sugar amino acid concentration had evolved...
Abstract Aim Crop wild relatives (CWR) are an essential source of genetic material for the improvement certain traits in related crop species. Despite their importance, increasing public, scientific and political support, large gaps exist amount collected conserved many CWR. Here, we construct a dataset on distribution banana species ( Musa spp.) assess risk conservation status. We deal with following questions: (a) What areas potentially suitable species? (b) How much diversity is currently...
Abstract Geographic range size is a key ecological and evolutionary characteristic of species, yet the causal basis variation in among species remains largely unresolved. One major reason for this that several traits may jointly shape species' differences size. We here present an integrated study contribution (dispersal capacity, body latitudinal position) macroevolutionary (species' age) shaping C oenagrion damselflies. reconstructed phylogenetic tree genus to account history when assessing...
Many cultivated coffee varieties descend from Coffea canephora, commonly known as Robusta coffee. The Congo Basin has a century-long history of cultivation and breeding, is hypothesized to be the region origin many varieties. Since little about genetic composition C. canephora in this region, we assessed diversity wild shrubs Democratic Republic Congo.Using 18 microsatellite markers, studied backyard-grown Tshopo Ituri provinces multiple accessions INERA Yangambi Coffee Collection. We...
Species delimitation is essential to study and conserve biological diversity. It traditionally based on morphological trait variation observed in one or a few specimens. Nevertheless, such assessments may not sufficiently take intraspecific into account, misidentifying morphotypes as separate species. The use of high-throughput sequencing data alongside taxonomic studies substantially improve the accuracy assessments. Musa genus, commonly known for comprising wild relatives banana varieties,...
Abstract The Neotropical genus Galianthe belongs to the tribe Spermacoceae, which constitutes one of largest herbaceous lineages within family Rubiaceae. This comprises 55 species traditionally divided into two subgenera: G. subg. , with 40 and Ebelia 15 species; latter subdivided sect. Laxae . Historically, has been morphologically closely associated genera Borreria Diodia, Denscantia, Emmeorhiza Spermacoce However, recent molecular studies have positioned Carajasia Schwendenera as...
Abstract This is the first phylogenetic study focused on Pavetteae, one of most species‐rich and morphologically diverse tribes within coffee family (Rubiaceae). Fifteen 17 currently recognized genera, represented by 85 taxa, were sequenced for rps16 , trnT ‐ F ITS analysed using Bayesian inference maximum likelihood methods. The monophyly Pavetteae confirmed. Four major lineages are identified, but their relationships not fully resolved. continental African genera Rutidea Nichallea...
Ex situ seed conservation of banana crop wild relatives (Musa spp. L.), is constrained by critical knowledge gaps in their storage and germination behaviour. Additionally, challenges collecting seeds from populations impact the quality collections. It is, therefore, crucial to evaluate viability such missions order improve value future We 37 accessions seven Musa species, collected Papua New Guinea, during two missions. Seeds one mission had already been stored conventional (dried for four...
Crop wild relatives, the closely related species of crops, may harbour potentially important sources new allelic diversity for (a)biotic tolerance or resistance. However, to date, is only poorly characterized and evaluated. Banana has a large but narrow proportion currently used in breeding programmes. The main objective this study was evaluate genotype-dependent transpiration responses relation environment. By applying continuous high-throughput phenotyping, we were able construct...
For a long time, the taxonomic status of Denscantia, genus endemic to Atlantic Forest along Brazilian coast, has been topic discussion. Phylogenetic analyses using two nuclear and four chloroplast DNA markers from 82 accessions representing 19 genera Spermacoce clade (tribe Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae) confirm that Denscantia is biphyletic. Together with recovered phylogenetic relationships, reproductive morphological characters, leaf morphology anatomy, histochemical, geographic distribution...