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Cactaceae - Science topic
The cactus plant family of the order Caryophyllales, subclass Caryophyllidae, class Magnoliopsida. Cacti are succulent perennial plants well adapted to dry regions.
Questions related to Cactaceae
Greetings!
I´m on a proyect about cacti pollination. My team and I want to learn about pollen techniques to obtain permanent samples, as well with some stain procedure, once extracting it from collected floral visitors.
I´ve readed about acetolysis and another technique using glycerin and hot water.
Any suggestons and experiences are welcome!
I want to carried out a study of karyology in cuban cactus and I would like to know advice from experienced people in this field
For research regarding phytoremediation using cactaceae, specifically gymnocalycium.
I know Qiagen makes plant specific extraction kits, but has anyone tried the DNeasy blood and tissue kit with plant material?
Thanks, Matt
Bonjour,
I am looking for informations about the growth speed of Melocactus cephalium.
Would you have data, references ?
seasonnal greetings
marc
I 'm trying to find a dichotomous key to cactus (covering all genus) as well as the document where the defining characteristics of the Cactaceae genus are defined. Is there any working group who defines the characteristics to be met by a cactus to be included in a specif genus? any oficial organism?
Thank you in advance
Best regars,
Elena
Im working with dragonfruit stems under shadow to see his response.
I am writing a protocol to determine the biomass of Cactaceae and have hit a road block in finding the allometric equations that determine the biomass of the genus Cylindropuntia. Does anyone have a paper they could send me or a researcher I could ask? Thanks!
I found it in Kåseberga, in the grazing site close to Ales Stenar, Southern Sweden. It looks like a cactus.

I'm trying to do a nucleic acid extraction from cacti. Has anyone worked with that? I'm facing problems to extract DNA and RNA from the aerial part, mainly due to the amount of mucilage. Most of the references about the subject do extract (D/R)NA from fruits, but I need to do the extraction very early after germination.
If any of you have worked with this and have a reference or any suggestion, it will be much appreciated.