Marantaceae

Sweetoiing agents thaumatin/ca. 22,000 MW prrtein, in different forms fruits of Thaumatococcus danielli Benth., Marantaceae, Ang. from W Afnca... 

In all, 40 families had more than 50% of their genera sampled, and 23 families had more than 100 samples each (Table 3.2). These were primarily families of woody plants that are important structural components of forests, are species that lend themselves to being divided into component samples, and are often of widespread taxa. Of families with 50% or more of their genera collected, only Marantaceae, Commelinaceae, and Polygalaceae are primarily herbaceous and represent only 32 of the 722 genera in these 40 families. In addition, Acanthaceae and Asteraceae were the only primarily herbaceous families from which more than 100 samples had been collected, but both are very large families that are well represented in the flora of tropical Africa. 

Thaumatin I Thaumatococcus danielli (Marantaceae) Sweet protein... 

Thaumatin Thaumatococcus daniellii (Bennett) Benth. (Marantaceae) 1,600 39... 

Alexandra Ley and Regine Classen-Bockhoff (Chapter 10) study the variation in the elaborate pollination mechanism of Marantaceae. By mapping major... 

In the present chapter we summarize recent phylogenetic and floral structural findings for the Marantaceae. By using additional ecological and geographical data, we reconstruct the major character transformations per node and test the hypotheses of the pollination mechanism being (1) a key innovation for speciation or (2) exclusively a tool for optimization of the mating system. 

Sequences for more than 130 of the known -530 species of Marantaceae are so far available and used in either family-level phylogenies (Andersson and Chase, 2001 ... 

Though the processes of bud development, pollen transfer to the pollen plate, secondary pollen presentation, set-up of style tension and pollination by means of the explosive style movement are found in all Marantaceae, adult flowers vary in... 

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