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Wendy Applequist

Associate Scientist, Missouri Botanical Garden
Verified email at mobot.org
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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.): A Neglected Panacea? A Review of Ethnobotany, Bioactivity, and Biomedical Research1

WL Applequist, DE Moerman - Economic Botany, 2011 - Springer
Yarrow ( Achillea millefolium L.): A Neglected Panacea? A Review of Ethnobotany, Bioactivity,
and Biomedical Research. Yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.) is one of the most widely used …

[HTML][HTML] Scientistsʼ warning on climate change and medicinal plants

WL Applequist, JA Brinckmann, AB Cunningham… - Planta …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
The recent publication of a World Scientistsʼ Warning to Humanity highlighted the fact that
climate change, absent strenuous mitigation or adaptation efforts, will have profound …

Comparative development of fiber in wild and cultivated cotton

WL Applequist, R Cronn, JF Wendel - Evolution & development, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most striking examples of plant hairs is the single‐celled epidermal seed trichome
of cultivated cotton. The developmental morphology of these commercial “fibers” has been …

Comparative fatty acid content of seeds of four Cucurbita species grown in a common (shared) garden

WL Applequist, B Avula, BT Schaneberg… - Journal of Food …, 2006 - Elsevier
Great variation has been observed in fatty acid content of pumpkin seeds from Cucurbita pepo,
while other pumpkin or winter squash species, including C. moschata, C. maxima, and C. …

A brief review of recent controversies in the taxonomy and nomenclature of Sambucus nigra sensu lato

WL Applequist - I International Symposium on Elderberry 1061, 2013 - actahort.org
The genus Sambucus is widespread and morphologically difficult, and as a result, no
taxonomic treatment to date has been entirely satisfactory. The only modern revision, by Bolli, …

Phylogeny of the portulacaceous cohort based on ndhF sequence data

WL Applequist, RS Wallace - Systematic Botany, 2001 - BioOne
… Several indels were observed, including a deletion found in Anacampseros retusa (shared
by several other species of Anacampseros; Applequist and Wallace, unpubl. data) of 699 …

[HTML][HTML] Variation of select flavonols and chlorogenic acid content of elderberry collected throughout the Eastern United States

E Mudge, WL Applequist, J Finley, P Lister… - Journal of Food …, 2016 - Elsevier
American elderberries are commonly collected from wild plants for use as food and medicinal
products. The degree of phytochemical variation among wild populations has not been …

The phylogeny of Salix revealed by whole genome re-sequencing suggests different sex-determination systems in major groups of the genus

…, XJ Cai, FY Guo, S Kikuchi, WL Applequist… - Annals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background and Aims The largest genus of Salicaceae sensu lato, Salix, has been shown
to consist of two main clades: clade Salix, in which species have XY sex-determination …

Sex chromosome turnover plays an important role in the maintenance of barriers to post-speciation introgression in willows

ZQ Xue, WL Applequist, E Hörandl, L He - Evolution Letters, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Almost all species in the genus Salix (willow) are dioecious and willows have variable sex-determining
systems, the role of this variation in maintaining species barriers is relatively …

Adulteration of selected unprocessed botanicals in the US retail herbal trade

KM Walker, WL Applequist - Economic botany, 2012 - Springer
… Morphological and organoleptic characters pertaining to the species of interest and
reported adulterants were determined by reference to pharmacognostic compilations (Applequist