The ecological distribution pattern of many living cycads today suggests they have limited and ineffectual seed dispersal. For example, Macrozamia miquelii, a cycad endemic to Australia ...

seed dispersal. And they may have been among the first to evolve toxins to defend their leaves and seeds from animals. Cycads formed a partnership with nitrogen-fixing bacteria long before beans ...

The large heavy seeds of a species of Australian tree rely upon smaller animals for clumped seed dispersal. Researchers from the University of Queensland analysed cycad seed dispersal over a three ...

“Seed dispersal potentials of extinct animals are ... a plant ecologist at the University of Queensland and an expert on cycad plants. Of course, it would be wonderful if scientists could ...

Early seed dispersal Air- and waterborne seeds became ... with a few of the first cone-bearing trees, like conifers and cycads, appearing. "There were very different plants around at the time ...

This jungle was rich in primitive plants that reproduce by spores like ferns, while others such as the cycads were evolving more advanced reproductive processes such as seed and pollen.

Today seed dispersal is by birds and mammal (for coonties it is mocking birds, blue jays, squirrels and mice). Cycads utilize a strange, photosynthetic bacteria (cyanobacteria) that generates ...

A recent study from the Plant Physiology Laboratory at the University of Guam has determined that cycad seeds offer a unique approach for boosting seedling performance, and the results have been ...

The ecological distribution pattern of many living cycads today suggests they have limited and ineffectual seed dispersal. For example, Macrozamia miquelii, a cycad endemic to Australia ...