True Jay Holder, a farming consultant in Ashburn, Georgia, first noticed Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) in a client s transgenic cotton fields about five years ago.
Palmer amaranth is a particular pain for farmers in the southeastern United states, where it outcompetes cotton for moisture, light
and soil nutrients and can quickly take over fields. Since the late 1990s, US farmers had adopted widely GM cotton engineered to tolerate the herbicide glyphosate,
which is marketed as Roundup by Monsanto in St louis, Missouri. The herbicidecrop combination worked spectacularly well#until it didn t. In 2004,
herbicide-resistant amaranth was found in one county in Georgia; by 2011, it had spread to 76.#
#oeit got to the point where some farmers were losing half their cotton fields to the weed,
by encouraging liberal use of glyphosate, were spurring the evolution of herbicide resistance in many weeds.
Twenty-four glyphosate-resistant weed species have been identified since Roundup-tolerant crops were introduced in 1996. But herbicide resistance is a problem for farmers regardless of
Some 64 weed species are resistant to the herbicide atrazine, for example, and no crops have been modified genetically to withstand it (see The rise of superweeds).
They also controlled weeds through ploughing and tilling#practices that deplete topsoil and release carbon dioxide,
which is less toxic than many other chemicals and kills a broad range of weeds without ploughing.
and purchasing the best ingredients at their favorite market in the same way vintage clothing lovers relish visits to their favorite secret thrift stores.
#oebacteria, fungi, lots of these things we think of as bad#they re all part of our environment,
was published in the March 7 issue of Cell Stem Cell. If the inhibitor is equally effective in other animals,
animals and fungi, revolutionizing genetic engineering. The protein, called Cas9, is quite simply a way to more accurately cut a piece of DNA.#
Then you d create what s known as an induced pluripotent stem cell a cell that behaves much like one in an embryo.
this could be done by changing the genes of a human stem cell (in the case of a Neanderthal)
Designers have come up with ideas that cover the walls with vegetation and give them an all new life.
and also reduce the number of insects and weeds. The soil needs to be changed once every year to keep the garden in a great state...
and will keep your spaces twinkling with greenery. The vertical garden is a great way to stay connected with nature even in the hustle-bustle of city life...
So, grow vegetables, flowers and plants of your choice and lead a healthy life. Via Design Buzz..
you will see that the area around that watering point looks as brown and devoid of vegetation as the top of this table,
I m not saying that seed production is not important, but basically, if part of this landscape s call is to support animals,
upon the current year s pattern of rainfall, pattern of poisonous weed growth, pattern of endangered species growth,
A magnetometer in the device worn on the cow s head determines the animal s angle of approach.
you can encompass a soil type, a vegetation situation, a poisonous plant, or whatever, much better than you can
#The Carson city Library Branch Anywhere in Nevada#oeprovides patrons at the Boys and girls Clubs of Western Nevada with access to current library materials, digital tools and librarian-educator programming.
#Seed Library STEM Programs for Youth include Science Saturdays, astronomy programs, and LEGO Robotics programs for youth.
and yard art Heirloom seed workshops including raising from seed, transplanting, saving your own seed Local History potluck series (once a month) local historians, Chautauqua speakers, etc.
Needlefelting Quilting Traditional Kentucky textiles#ag rug making, cornshuck mats, rug hooking, etc. Wheel-throwing classes (pottery) Hypertufa plant container making Soy candle making Adult miniaturist s clinic#sing Dremels,
Seed lending library Reading camp for struggling first grade readers ipad and e-Reader/Kindle classes Civil war re-enactment bivouac on back lawn, Dessert contest, scarecrow
The trunks, which we refer to as Ready 2 Read Goes Wild, utilize the Growing Up Wild curriculum with a focus on Montana wildlife.
We have developed trunks that feature ungulates, bears, owls, creepy-crawlies, water, and tracks. Each of the trunks includes between 15#20 books on the subject,(both fiction and non-fiction;
puppets; the Growing Up Wild curriculum guide; and wildlife resources, such as grizzly hides, elk antlers, deer hooves, a number of rubber tracks, skulls, and more.
there are now 30 of these trunks circulating throughout our state. They circulate just like any library material
#New jersey Medford/Pinelands Branch Burlington County Library System offers Storytime Yoga, which#oecombines storytelling with practice of yoga involves listening and literary skills, body awareness, creativity and imagination.#
You could replace a hive of honeybees that would otherwise be working on a field of flowers.
They would be able to perform the same task of going from flower to flower picking up
When can we see Robobees pollinating flowers? Ma: With continued government funding and research we could see this thing functional in 10 to 15 years.
and catch up on the latest insta-snap-vine-whatsapp-videos. Don t take away from the beautiful, seemingly insignificant,
The base of each trunk features an power outlet that can be used to juice up your eco ride as you run errands.
and leaf design wasn t a goal but came naturally as they tried to maximize the shaded surface that the structures provide.
with a few extra nutrients thrown in, like brewer s yeast for minerals like chromium and selenium. I am an advocate of whole
Last November another seed producer, Du pont Pioneer, linked up with a farm-machinery maker John Deere, to beam advice on seeds and fertilisers to farmers in the field.
A farm-supply cooperative, Land O Lakes, bought Geosys, a satellite-imaging company, in December 2013,
The seed companies think providing more data to farmers could increase America s maize yield from 160 bushels an acre (10 tonnes a hectare) to 200 bushelsgiving a terrific boost to growers meagre margins.
roots sprang in all sorts of directions. If shoots emerged there was no sun. In short the space station is a gardener s nightmare.
which orient the seeds and embryonic plant, with the roots growingdown into the soil and the shoots being attracted upwards towards the light.
The veggie pillows also expand as the plants grow. With one placed on top of another, they resemble a bellows.
Building on existing geolocation technologies, future swath control could save on seed, minerals, fertilizer and herbicides by reducing overlapping inputs.
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and several of her colleagues also say they re here to put down roots. WHERE THERE ARE JOBS#Alex Summer, a software developer from Newberry,
and even blue and violet. Time-temperature indicators have previously been limited by high-cost, but these little sensors cost less than one cent per tag to make, according to researchers.
#Doomsday vault keeps over 800,000 plant species on ice Svalbard Global Seed Vault The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, ordoomsday vault,
and with an average 500 seeds per sample, some 400 million seeds. That may sound like a lot,
the vault can fit 4. 5 million species and some 2. 25 billion seeds. Think of the doomsday vault as the external hard drive backing up the genetic data of the world s plant-based food.
In Afghanistan, looters were after the glass jars storing the seeds. A typhoon wiped out most of an important genebank storing rice in the Philippines
But perhaps the vault s greatest attribute is the arctic cold chilling its chambers of seeds.
Even lacking power, the seeds would remain viable for years. The permafrost acts as a natural freezer
The idea of collecting seeds is not exactly new. The US Department of agriculture has been at it for over a century.
seed gatherers save them for their DNA. Genetic variants found in certain species, for example, confer resistance to disease or drought.
seeds are easier to revive. Provided proper storage, one need only thaw and plant them in the ground.
These little garden bots are meant to meander about your topiaries and flower pots, altering the overall aesthetic of your garden every time you lift your head.
For us, just the thought of looking out the window to see the shrubbery sneaking across the lawn on robotic legs is enough to have us scrambling for our wallets.
including arugula, two types of lettuce, two types of chard and spinach. While many of the plants were underdeveloped due to factors like not enough LED lighting
the sprouting project yielded alfalfa, broccoli, clover, radish and mung bean. He says the mung beans were used in a curry dish consumed by the astronauts,
Martian soil Ecologist Dr. Wieger Wamelink of the Alterra Institute in The netherlands also recently studied the possibility of food growth on Mars. Wamelink planted seeds of 14 plants on artificial Martian
Rye and cress germinated within 24 hours and after about a month the rye, cress and a wild plant field mustard started growing flowers.
Wamelink says he was pleased especially that he was able to fertilize a few plants by hand with a brush.
the cress and field mustard plants grew seeds, which is a welcome sign to ecologists hoping to reproduce plants in Martian soil.
Living produce at Sunrise Hydroponics, harvested with the roots intact, not only maintains amazing freshness, but also holds on to the extraordinary nutrition the plant had at the point of harvest!
Living lettuce in water pouch, with roots intact. Sunrise Hydroponics produces a wide range of crops,
and wildflowers in the area contain pesticides, and if so, how much. The 5, 000 bees are being released in the Australian island state of Tasmania.
In contrast, Thailand has experienced an increase in the per-head consumption of starchy roots and pulses as well as fruit,
Broom Stealing Like many other places in the world Norway celebrates Christmas eve with a big dinner and the opening of presents however
At the conclusion of the night all the brooms in the house are hidden. It is a long-lasting belief that on the night of the holiday evil spirits would come out
and steal brooms from families and proceed to ride them around in the sky. So as a result all the broomsticks are hidden due to superstition.
Here's a look at the weirdest effects of the shutdown from a panda cam going dark to bored Congressional workers. 1. Poison-ivy eating goats sent home Last Friday in anticipation of a nearing government shutdown a herd
of ivy-eating goats from the Gateway national recreation area in Sandy Hook N. J. was sent back home to a farm in Rhinebeck N y. The goats were there to help eradicate masses of poison ivy that threatened the historic Fort Hancock situated in the park their owner told news media
On Oct 1 U s. stocks rose as investors assumed the shutdown impact would be limited. The Standard & poor's 500-stock index added 0. 4 percent in early trading
and mate the females lay eggs at the edges of tree branches which can damage the branches on a small tree.
A single female can produce hundreds of eggs across several batches. When the larvae hatch they crawl down the trunk
and burrow into the soil to feed on plant and tree roots. The larvae have mouths that behave like a hypodermic needle Fredericks said which sticks into tree tissue
and takes the juices out. The larvae go through several stages of youth. In annual cicadas these stages pass quickly
</p><p></p><p>Last Friday in anticipation of a nearing government shutdown a herd of ivy-eating goats from the Gateway national recreation area in Sandy Hook N. J. was sent back home to a farm in Rhinebeck
N y. The goats were there to help eradicate masses of poison ivy that threatened the historic Fort Hancock situated in the park their owner told news media.</
On Oct 1 U s. stocks rose as investors assumed the shutdown impact would be limited. The Standard &
Even NASA is considering quinoa for long-duration planetary space flights perhaps as an apology for its Tang years.
Quinoa an ancient crop grown mainly for its seeds is really a food for modern times.
It is a cousin to beets spinach and lambsquarters an edible weed most city dwellers walk by daily;
</p><p></p><p>Carnivorous bog-dwelling plants called bladderworts can snap their traps shut in less than a millisecond 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap.</
</p><p></p><p><em>Amprophophallus titanium</em>blooms with clusters of flowers that can reach 10 feet (3 m) in height.
But these petals smell so much like rotting flesh that the plant is known as the "
corpse flower. "</</p><p></p><p>Gravity on the moon is a sixth of
I proceeded to tell her that those little black things were in fact chia seeds she became flabbergasted.
You mean to tell me that you're eating the seeds that are used to grow'hair'on a Chia Pet?
But then I realized that many people might think of chia seeds as a novelty item instead of the super food they really are and
Chia Seeds: Chia seeds are an amazing source of fiber (nearly 10 grams per ounce)
and they also contain protein and omega-3 fatty acids. A 2005 study of rats in the journal Nutrition Research found that chia seed diets dramatically decreased triglyceride levels and increased HDL (good cholesterol) levels.
The seeds are also quite interesting in that they can gelatinize virtually any liquid. Just put  cup into about 2 cups of milk add sweetener
and refrigerate for about four hours. Viola. You now have pudding! It's similar to the consistency of rice pudding.
Chia seeds are also a great addition to many recipes from smoothies to salads. Amaranth:
This quick-cooking ancient grain contains about 13 percent protein by weight is high in Vitamin b6
and folate and is gluten free. Amaranth a great substitute for rice pasta or potatoes to boost the nutritional profile of any meal.
Dulse: Dulse is a type of red algae and is an excellent source of iodine especially for those who avoid dairy.
Adults need about 150 micrograms daily according to the National institutes of health and without it our bodies will not function properly.
Instead of using iodized Salt i combine natural sea salt with dulse flakes. This way I also benefit from this sea vegetable's high potassium and antioxidant content.
Raw Apple Cider vinegar: Apple cider vinegar isn't a mysterious ingredient but the raw version seems to elude most people.
Kale and other brassica vegetables including cabbage and Brussels sprouts may also help reduce cancer risk.
Sprouts grow from germinating seeds and seem to be gaining popularity as more people learn about the raw food movement.
First seeds are soaked and rinsed to remove enzyme inhibitors. Then each seed starts to germinate.
This is when the seed's nutrition begins breaking down into simple components. For example proteins break down into amino acids
You can sprout legumes oats wheat broccoli alfalfa and many other seeds. 9 Snack foods: Healthy or Not?
Be sure a whole grain such as whole wheat whole rye whole oats or brown rice is the first and preferably the only grain in the ingredient list.
Try Wasa or Finn Crisp Original Rye crackers. They're 100 percent whole grain and have little sodium.
</p><p>The chytrid fungus(<em>Batrachochytium dendrobatidis</em>)— which infects frogs and other amphibians by way of their skin —
and chomping on vegetation hunter-gatherers are thought to have walked 9 or more kilometers (5. 6 miles) every day Lieberman said.
Humans lived thousands of years walking barefoot and developing calluses that would protect their feet from twigs
Modern technology allows humans to extract sugar from a wide range of sources including sugar cane maple trees beehives
and not available for marine creatures) and contributing to algal blooms which can be toxic to marine life.</
which directs water right onto the roots of the plant. But such systems are expensive to implement and don'
t make sense for desert-dwellers to grow thirsty crops such as cotton or raise cattle which requires much more water than producing an equivalent weight of wheat or potatoes.</
The plants then direct more growth into the fruit away from leaves and stems. That means farmers can grow more crops with less water. </
and not available for marine creatures) and contributing to algal blooms which can be toxic to marine life.
which directs water right onto the roots of the plant. But such systems are expensive to implement
Poor crop choice As the population grows it doesn't make sense for desert-dwellers to grow thirsty crops such as cotton or raise cattle
The plants then direct more growth into the fruit away from leaves and stems. That means farmers can grow more crops with less water.
</p><p>These seeds contain high amounts of plant estrogen-like compounds.</</p><p>A study of nearly 3000 breast cancer patients and 5000 women without the disease suggested that higher consumption of these seeds as well as soybeans reduced the risk of breast cancer after menopause.
The study was published in the journal Nutrition and Cancer in 2012.</</p p
#6 Surprising Environmentalists There was a time not very long ago when it was safe to be a politician who supported environmental causes even among conservative Republicans.
Yet decades of studies have found that gluten-containing foods such as whole wheat rye and barley are vital for good health and associated with a reduced risk of diabetes heart disease cancer and excess weight.
On the other hand the unsaturated fats monounsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids e g. canola safflower and olive oils have significant metabolic benefits
The grubs are harvested from underground where they feed upon the roots of Australian trees such as eucalyptus and black wattle trees.
African palm weevil A delicacy among many African tribes the palm weevil (Rhychophorus phoenicis) is collected off the trunks of palm trees.
It is a fungal infection consisting of several different species of fungus that feeds on keratin the substance found in hair nails and the outer layer of skin within humans and domesticated animals.
The call of the prairie dog is thought to sound like the bark of a dog but given its small size the tone of its bark only matches that of the smallest true dogs.
With wingspans reaching up to about 4. 5 feet (1. 4 meters) wide these animals can grow to be as large as a fox.
and perform all kinds of vital roles in their environments from eating fecal matter to pollinating flowers.
when it reaches the oceans also creates so-called dead zones algae blooms develop and consume all the oxygen in the area
which yeast or bacteria convert sugars to acids gases or alcohol. Fermentation scientists or zymologists study how these microorganisms can be used in fermentation processes such as beer brewing.
Louis Pasteur was the first zymologist discovering that yeast led to fermentation. Some universities even have programs now where students can major in fermentation sciences.
when we try to explore what that means said panelist Paul Root Wolpe an ethicist at Emory University.
Panel moderator Fred Kaufman an economic journalist noted that this issue is being tried in a case currently before the U s. Supreme court. A farmer is challenging the company Monsanto's right to prevent farmers from planting seeds from crops grown from its genetically modified soybeans.
Why would anyone spend the money to improve seed without the right to protect their invention going forward?
</strong>Heather Mangieri a nutrition consultant and spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.<
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and fungi to commune with the spirit world said John Rush an anthropologist and instructor at Sierra College in Rocklin Calif. Here are eight ways that hallucinogenic mushrooms explain the story of Santa
or priests connected to the older traditions would collect Amanita muscaria (the Holy Mushroom) dry them
That's just one of the symbolic connections between the Amanita muscaria mushroom and the iconography of Christmas according to several historians and ethnomycologists or people who study fungi's influence on human societies.
History of Magic Mushrooms & Other Hallucinogens In his book Mushrooms and Mankind (The Book Tree 2003) the late author James Arthur points out that Amanita muscaria also known as fly agaric lives throughout the Northern hemisphere under conifers
and birch trees with which the fungi which are deep red with white flecks have a symbiotic relationship.
which look like Amanita mushrooms he wrote. Why do people bring pine trees into their houses at the winter solstice placing brightly colored (red-and-white) packages under their boughs as gifts to show their love for each other?
It is because underneath the pine bough is the exact location where one would find this'Most Sacred'substance the Amanita muscaria in the wild.
and Northern europe and seek out these hallucinogenic fungi as the area's human inhabitants have also been known to do.
Donald Pfister a Harvard university biologist who studies fungi suggests that Siberian tribesmen who ingested fly agaric may have hallucinated that the grazing reindeer were flying.
Tree ornaments shaped like Amanita mushrooms and other depictions of the fungi are also prevalent in Christmas decorations throughout the world particularly in Scandinavia
and Northern europe Pfister pointed out. That said Pfister made it clear that the connection between modern-day Christmas
but the coloring of Santa's garb is meant mainly to mirror the coloring of Amanita mushrooms Rush added.
or the reindeer as the hallucinogenic compounds are excreted this way without some of the harmful chemicals present in the fungi
. htm>Dead sea scrolls Made Locally Tests Show</a p></p><p>Adam and eve were kicked out of paradise after eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge the one restriction God placed on them in Eden.</
and popular imagination as the fruit that led humankind down the path of eternal suffering and toil as mortals the fig might actually be the fruit that tempted Adam and eve.</
>.And when Adam and eve realize they' re naked they attempt to hide their shame with fig leafs.</
</p><p>No fruit was mentioned specifically in the Bible so this is a claim religious and historical scholars are not likely to challenge.</
Put a mint leaf sliver of kiwi or cucumber slice into your H20.</</p><p>These refreshing twists on water may jazz up its taste be a flavorful stand-in for sugary soft drinks
and spills as well as its moist and porous texture make it a perfect breeding ground for food-borne bacteria mold and mildew.</
East of Ketchikan a basalt flow lapped onto a 42000-year-old beach preserving shells pinecones pine needles and pollen.
A few escaped carrying with them a fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis that's blamed for a massive die off of native North american frogs and other amphibians.
and they taste like a dry roasted nut with some likening their flavor to walnuts
To help shed light on this giant rain forest's tree composition more than 120 scientists catalogued any trees with stems thicker than 3. 9 inches (10 centimeters) at 1170 different locations throughout Amazonia the 2. 3
Incidentally the most common tree species in Amazonia is the palm species Euterpe precatoria a relative of the aã§aã palm Euterpe oleracea)
The researchers estimate that 5. 2 billion Euterpe precatoria live in Amazonia. The scientists also estimated that 11000 of Amazonia's tree species are very rare
if they push out native ant populations that play a crucial role in dispersing plant seeds.
Genesis 11:1-9 NIV) In 2011 an ancient stele with an image of Nebuchadnezzar II was published formally.
The artifact has been given the name oethe Tower of babel Stele. Hanging Gardens Scholars do not know where the Hanging Gardens were in Babylon
and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth.
and shrubs to feeding on grass several million years before their teeth were adapted fully for grazing according to a new study.
what we describe as'browsers'which eat mostly leaves from trees and shrubs to what we call'grazers
and some still bearing roots and even a bit of bark the Juneau Empire first reported last week.
or hemlock based on the diameter of the trunks and because these are the types of trees growing in the region today Connor said
The team plans to return to the Mendenhall Glacier to dig through sediment in search of pine needles associated with the trees along with other vegetation.
which are the Eucalyptus gum trees) of Australia and Sequoia redwoods) of California. Both of those living trees can reach about 130 meters (425 feet) in height.
 To my knowledge the highest tree yet recorded in Thailand is a Krabak tree belonging to the Dipterocarpaceae (tropical oaks) 58 meters (190 feet) tall.
and found that 30 meters (100 feet) of trunk were unexposed still. In 2005 funds were found to excavate the whole trunk.
At present seven of nine discovered petrified trunks have been excavated mostly in 2005. oethe result was the appearance of
what is considered the world s longest piece of petrified wood with a length of 72.22 meters (236.9 feet) the researchers report. oein 2006 the name of the park was changed to the Petrified Forest Park because of the fascinating discoveries.
It s just an extremely very rare thing to get an entire petrified trunk to confirm it.
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