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Lecythidaceae
Known as:
Brazil nut family
A plant family of the order Lecythidales, subclass Dilleniidae, class Magnoliopsida.
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2013
Highly Cited
2013
Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles Using Cannonball Leaves and Their Cytotoxic Activity against MCF-7 Cell Line
P. Devaraj
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Prachi Kumari
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C. Aarti
,
A. Renganathan
2013
Corpus ID: 55735792
Cannonball (Couroupita guianensis) is a tree belonging to the family Lecythidaceae. Various parts of the tree have been reported…
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Review
2011
Review
2011
“Made in Brazil”: Human Dispersal of the Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) in Ancient Amazonia1
G. Shepard
,
H. Ramírez
Economic Botany
2011
Corpus ID: 43465637
Abstract“Made in Brazil”: Human Dispersal of the Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) in Ancient Amazonia. The Brazil…
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Anti-Arthritic Activity of Bartogenic Acid Isolated from Fruits of Barringtonia racemosa Roxb. (Lecythidaceae)
K. Patil
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C. Patil
,
R. B. Jadhav
,
V. K. Mahajan
,
Prabhakar R. Patil
,
Pradeep Gaikwad
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative…
2011
Corpus ID: 14132303
The fruits of Barringtonia racemosa are prescribed in the ayurvedic literature for the treatment of pain, inflammation and…
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Evolution of Lecythidaceae with an emphasis on the circumscription of neotropical genera: information from combined ndhF and trnL-F sequence data.
S. Mori
,
C. Tsou
,
Chi-Chih Wu
,
B. Cronholm
,
A. Anderberg
American-Eurasian journal of botany
2007
Corpus ID: 25829651
The Lecythidaceae comprise a pantropical family best known for the edible seeds of the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) and the…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Screening of plants acting against Heterometrus laoticus scorpion venom activity on fibroblast cell lysis.
N. Uawonggul
,
A. Chaveerach
,
S. Thammasirirak
,
T. Arkaravichien
,
Chattong Chuachan
,
S. Daduang
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
2006
Corpus ID: 5970424
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Survival and development of different life stages of Bactrocera zonata (Diptera: Tephritidae) reared at five constant temperatures compared to other fruit fly species
P. Duyck
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J. Sterlin
,
S. Quilici
Bulletin of entomological research
2004
Corpus ID: 8501006
is native from India where it was firstrecorded in Bengal (Kapoor, 1993). It is present in numerouscountries of tropical Asia…
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Antinociceptive effect and toxicological study of the aqueous bark extract of Barringtonia racemosa on rats.
S. Deraniyagala
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W. Ratnasooriya
,
C. Goonasekara
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
2003
Corpus ID: 42408070
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Patterns and relative rates of nucleotide and insertion/deletion evolution at six chloroplast intergenic regions in new world species of the Lecythidaceae.
M. B. Hamilton
,
J. Braverman
,
David F. Soria-Hernanz
Molecular biology and evolution
2003
Corpus ID: 44950839
Insertions and deletions (indels) in chloroplast noncoding regions are common genetic markers to estimate population structure…
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1999
1999
Host utilization of the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) by sympatric wood-boring species of Palame (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Acanthocinini)
A. Berkov
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G. Tavakilian
1999
Corpus ID: 59432335
Abstract Estimates of the total number of arthropod species in existence are based, in part, upon assumptions about both the host…
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Phylogenetic relationships of Lecythidaceae: a cladistic analysis using rbcL sequence and morphological data.
C. Morton
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S. Mori
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G. Prance
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K. Karol
,
M. Chase
American-Eurasian journal of botany
1997
Corpus ID: 23623131
This study examined in detail the rbcL sequence and morphological support for subfamilial relationships and monophyly of…
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