Sentences with phrase «cycads seeds»

An answer came when he traced the origin of the BMAA in cycad seeds to cyanobacteria growing in the plant's roots.

Cox was intrigued by the diet of those bats: They feasted on cycad seeds.

Cox, a researcher in Guam in the 1990s, hypothesized that BMAA worked its way up the food chain from the cycad seeds to bats to the Chamorro who hunted them.

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The seeds were meticulously washed to remove toxins, such as beta - methylamino - L - alanine (BMAA), produced by cyanobacteria that inhabit cycad roots.

Flowering plants evolved from extinct plants related to conifers, ginkgos, cycads, and seed ferns.

Chamorros made tortillas using flour ground from the seeds of cycads — plants often confused for ferns or palms and distantly related to both.

The most familiar gymnosperms are conifers, but this cycad is also a gymnosperm, meaning «naked seed plant.»

Cycads are the oldest seed - bearing plants on Earth.

Adam - and - Eve Alfalfa Almond Pits Alocasia Amaryllis Ambrosia Mexicana Apple Seeds Apple Leaf Croton Apricot Pits Arrowgrass Arum Asparagus Fern Autumn Crocus Avacado Fruit and Pit Azalea Baby's Breath Baneberry Bayonet Beargrass Beech Belladonna Bird of Paradise Bittersweet Black Locust Bleeding Heart Bloodroot Boxwood Buckeyes Buddhist Pine Burning Bush Buttercup Caladium Castor Bean Ceriman Cherry Pits, Seeds and Leaves Chamomile Chinaberry Christmas Rose Chrysanthemum Clematis Coriaria Cornflower Cornstalk Plant Corydalis Crocus Autumn Cuban Laurel Cycads Cyclamen Daffodil Dahlia Daisy Daphne Deadly Nightshade Death Camas Delphinium Dieffenbachia Dracaena Palm Dragon Tree Dumbcane

Alfalfa Aloe Vera Amaryllis Apple seeds Apple leaf croton Apricot pit Asparagus fern Autumn crocus Avocado (both the fruit and pit) Azalea Baby's breath Bittersweet Bird of paradise Branching ivy Buckey Buddhist pine Caladium Calla lily Castor bean Ceriman Charming dieffenbachia Cherry (seeds and wilting leaves) Chinese evergreen Christmas rose Cineraria Clematis Cordatum Corn plant Cornstalk plant Croton Cuban laurel Cutleaf philodendron Cycads Cyclamen Daffodil Devil's ivy Dieffenbachia Dracaena palm Dragon tree Dumb cane Elaine Elephant ears Emerald feather English ivy Fiddle - leaf fig Florida beauty Foxglove Fruit salad plant Geranium German ivy Giant dumb cane Glacier ivy Gold dieffenbachia Gold dust dracaena Golden pothos

The other lineage (known as Euphyllophyta) includes two major clades: the spermatophytes or seed plants (including more than 250,000 species of angiosperms [flowering plants], conifers, cycads, gnetophytes, and the Gingko) and the monilophytes or ferns (sensu lato, including the horsetails, whisk ferns, and eusporangiate and leptosporangiate ferns, with most of the roughly 12,000 monilophyte species being leptosporangiate ferns).

Wiki says: «The gymnosperms are a group of seed - producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes.»