Publications by authors named "Antonio Giaco"
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- In February 2024, a course on cytotaxonomy took place in Pisa, Italy, where scientists used image analysis software to see if different people could give different results when measuring plant cells.
- They found that people measuring short arms of cell structures might make them look longer than they really are.
- To get more accurate and consistent measurements, they suggested making a standard way to measure these cell parts.
Moretti and Jord. (Asteraceae) are endemic to the central-western Mediterranean and include, respectively, ten and six subspecies, mostly occurring in north-western Italy and south-eastern France. As part of an ongoing systematic study on CentaureaL.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe genus (Asteraceae, Anthemideae) includes 26 species of aromatic evergreen shrubs endemic to the western Mediterranean Basin. is widely used as ornamental plant, in xerigardening, and in ethnobotany. The complex, including about half of the known species diversity, has been properly investigated on systematic and taxonomic grounds only recently, and a complete morphometric study is still missing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a plant genus of dwarf aromatic shrubs that includes about 26 species native to the western Mediterranean Basin. In Corsica and Sardinia, two of the main islands of the Mediterranean, (tetraploid) and (hexaploid) are reported. Along with the cultivated pentaploid , these species form a group of taxa that is hard to distinguish only by morphology.
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