bachelor's in Biological Sciences (2002), Master (2005) and Ph.D. (2008) in Plant Biology at State University of Campinas. Currently, Associate Professor at Department of Botany, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, working in the area of Plant Anatomy, with emphasis on secretory structures and flower development and evolution. These lines of research involve ontogenetic and structural analysis in light microscopy, including polarization, fluorescence and confocal, as well as scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. To better understand the secretory process I also perform histochemical analysis of the exudate, allowing an ecological approach to activity and function of the glands, besides the investigation of the evolutionary strategies that have emerged in different groups of plants. Currently, the study of development and evolution of flowers and inflorescences are also being performed through immunocytochemistry and gene expression analyses. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Laticifer is a secretory structure, which occurs in several families of vascular plants, from ferns to the most derived groups of angiosperms, and apparently has appeared several times throughout the evolutionary history of terrestrial plants. Although the descriptions refer to latescent families, a minority of these groups have laticifers in all their members. Likewise, the absence of la…
Parasitic plants are Angiosperms which can withdraw part or all of their nutritional needs of other plants. In order to do so they need to establish a morpho-functional connection called haustorium, which links to the vascular systems of the host plants and acts on transporting of various substances, among which are nutrients and metabolism regulators. The largest group of these plants is…
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Apocynaceae is a family that stands out for having a huge morphological diversity, the most elaborate flowers among the eudicots and the largest number of glands in the same structure, which are involved in the production of compounds related to defense or pollination. Among the floral glands, only two are ubiquitous in the family: laticifers and style head. The style head is an expansion…
Apocynaceae is a diverse family, with the highest degree of floral synorganization of the eudicotyledons. The various unions between organs of the same whorl and between different whorls gave rise to a complex morphology that is also reflected in an elaborate pollination system. These characteristics of the flowers of the family are linked, in large part, to a varied set of secretory tiss…
Sapindaceae is one of the largest families of the order Sapindales, standing out from the others due to the presence of latex and extrastaminal nectariferous disk. Although there is a great diversity of nectaries in the order and a significant volume of studies on them, there is no information about the extrafloral nectaries of Sapindaceae, with the exception of morphological and topologi…
Sapindales is one of the main orders of Malvids, known for having families of great economic importance, such as Anacardiaceae and Rutaceae. The species of Sapindales are widely distributed, occupying the most diverse types of environments. Among the families of the order there is a wide floral morphological diversity and little is known about the development and floral evolution of Sapin…
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Euphorbiaceae is a wide family known by its floral morphology variation and by the presence of different cyme or racemose inflorescences. This flower and inflorescences variation is notable in Croton L., the second largest genus in the family, which is composed of about 1.200 species, with a notable diversity of floral shapes and different structures in pistillate and staminate flowers an…
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