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Adansonia digitata and Adansonia gregorii fruit shells serve as a protection against high temperatures experienced during wildfires

The thick and woody shell of the fruit of Adansonia species cannot be explained solely by adaptation to zoochory or hydrochory. Since the trunks of Adansonia possess a thick and fire-resistant bark and wildfires occur regularly in its habitat (savannah), we examined with the African Adanonia digitat...

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Autores principales: Kempe, Andreas, Neinhuis, Christoph, Lautenschläger, Thea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5816730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29455307
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40529-018-0223-0