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scientists increasingly advocate the use of crops that grow in areas that would not normally support agriculture oe such as salicornia, a salt loving plant oe or the use of algae,
HP now has an edge over competitors such Dell and Acer by offering its new devices without ties to operating systems from Google and Microsoft.
holding a six-year-old Acer laptop with a 40-gigabyte hard drive. oemy wife finally gave me a new one for Christmas.
The consortium released the 464 megabyte draft genome of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) in the current issue of PLOS Biology. oebecause this is a different kind of insect not a fruit fly, not a beetle,
We plant sunflowers, field mustard, amaranthus and cockscomb, which are believed all to absorb radiation, #said the monk.
Rose amber, frankincense, myrrh, champaca flower, Peru balsam, cistus, palisander, cananga, hyssop, and narcissus absolute.
In addition, many of these greens are members of the Brassicas family, which means they are prone to cabbage worm infestations.
2010 Aleta Florentin of Amber Lotus Publishing curated a new 2014 calendar that brings some of the best examples of environmental art all together in one place.
#Now, courtesy of Amber Lotus Publishing, here is what you can expect to find inside the 2014 Environmental Art Calendar.
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.
Kale and other brassica vegetables including cabbage and Brussels sprouts may also help reduce cancer risk.
This work and research through the NSF-funded Solanum Trichome Project will help agricultural planners devise new strategies to protect tomato crops.
In their study Wright and colleagues measured how much caffeine was in the nectar of three different species of the Coffea plant including the robusta plant used to make freeze-dried coffee
The lotus leaf on the other hand maintains its squeaky clean reputation with a waxy surface structure that repels water a property called superhydrophobicity.
Combined with low adhesion this is known as the lotus effect. The September 2012 study published in the journal Soft Matter by Dr. Bhushan
and butterfly wings combine the low drag of shark skin with the superhydrophobicity of the lotus leaf putting these surfaces at the top of the list of nature-made self-cleaners.
and lotus leaves rice leaves and butterfly wings have special properties that make them particularly resistant to fouling.
They exhibited lotus-like properties including superhydrophobicity and low adhesion. This effect was magnified in coated samples
and lotus effects and was published online in the journal Soft Matter on September 11 2012. DOI:
but you can create a counterfeit product that looks very similar using sugar instead of bees David Bell director of Protium (manufacturer of the isotope ratio-meter) told Wired UK.
The researchers'most recent study appearing in June in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology was on P. mirabilis.
because P. mirabilis is the main bacterium behind UTIS caused by catheters in hospitals. Scientists think that P. mirabilis can migrate up the catheter into the urinary tract.
So a catheter dusted or infused with cranberry might prevent infection. Indeed a second paper by Tufenkji's group posted online in advance of publication in the journal Colloids
Kudzu (Pueraria montana) was introduced first to the United states as an ornamental plant in the 19th century
The bandaging around the mummy contained remnants of an elaborate balm made of fat or oil and resin from a Pistacia tree a shrubby desert plant.
Though flattened the ancient fruit (scientific name Physalis) looks remarkably like a modern version of the popular salsa ingredient.
The fossil has a dark fruit enclosed by a ribbed calyx (a papery husk) just like modern Physalis Wilf said.
Acorns and leaves from Castanopsis the first oak ever found in South america and the first evidence of the African cycad called Encephalartos from South america.
One exception was a combination of garcinia cambogiaâ taken with another herb called gymnema sylvestre which showed a slight increase in weight loss results.
or the species Rosaceae Rubus ideaus L. Red raspberries are native to Europe Northern Africa and Central asia.
when aquatic ecologistcarlos de la Rosa was sailing on a slow quiet boat down the Puerto Viejo River in northeastern Costa rica with researchers students
and wildlife said de la Rosa director of the La Selva Biological Station for the Organization for Tropical Field Studies in San pedro Costa rica.
& Tear-Drinking Images It was one of those natural history moments that you long to see up close de la Rosa said in a statement.
and even blood de la Rosa said. These new findings support a 2012 report of a bee sipping the tears of a yellow-spotted river turtle in Ecuador's Yasunã National park. Similar findings were seen with butterflies drinking the tears of yellow-spotted river
When de la Rosa did research online he was surprised to find more evidence of tear-drinking than he expected not only from scientists but also casual tourists wilderness enthusiasts and professional photographers.
and micronutrients that could also play a role in the fitness of the insects tapping this resource de la Rosa said.
and the bee de la Rosa said. However I've seen these bees approach river turtles
de la Rosa asked. What could we learn from these and other interactions about the stability and sustainability of ecosystems?
De la Rosa detailed the findings in the May issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Excerpt from Traitor's Blade (Jo Fletcher Books 2014) an imprint of Quercus first published in the United states by Quercus July 2014 by Sebastien de Castell.
The watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is related to cucumbers pumpkins and squash. The watermelon probably originated in the Kalahari desert in Africa.
For example bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) is a highly nutritious drought-tolerant African food legume. However during Africa s colonial period it was displaced increasingly by the oil-rich peanut grown for its cash and export potential.
On the other hand I am beginning to feel kindly towards the Genus nicotiana (the tobacco plants) which seems to contain a molecule that bursts cancer cells.
The parasitic plant Cuscuta pentagona commonly known as strangleweed or dodder preys on many common crop plants.
Irvingia or African mango extract is touted another product for weight loss that Oz has talked about on his show.
The period sometimes nicknamed the Big Freeze is technically known as the Younger Dryas. This era was not a glacial period often called an ice age but rather a cold time in the relatively warm spans between glacial periods.
and Garcinia increase serotonin levels he recommends that people who are taking an SSRI not use Garcinia at least until further research is done.
or a patient who was considering starting Garcinia and they were on an SSRI I would recommend that they don't do it for now Hendrickson told Live Science.
And one study in rats suggested that extremely high doses of Garcinia may cause testicular atrophy and toxicity.
At that time she had also been taking Garcinia for a month or two but she didn't tell the doctor who prescribed her antidepressant that she had also been taking the weight-loss supplement Hendrickson said.
or two if this is a bigger problem given the number of people taking Garcinia we will see
The researchers said they cannot be absolutely sure that it was indeed the use of Garcinia that caused the patient to develop serotonin toxicity.
although the supplement she was taking was labeled as Garcinia it might not have contained the supplement
and prove that there is Garcinia in it Hendrickson said adding that there is also currently no way to test
whether a certain pill really contains Garcinia or not. Previous research has shown that some supplements did not contain the herbs
However most capsules labeled Garcinia likely do include Garcinia Hendrickson said. And because previous studies have shown that Garcinia causes a serotonin increase it is quite likely that this also occurred in the case discussed in the study the researchers said.
The study was published online April 4 in the Journal of Medical Toxicology. Follow Agata Blaszczak-Boxe on Twitter.
Rosewood also known as bois de rose is an umbrella term for a whole group of tropical timber species mostly from the Genus dalbergia Pterocarpus Diospyros and Milletia
One of the bison a female named Glen Rosa born in July 2012 was raised at Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park
The World's Biggest Beasts Glen Rosa and the other bison will join an already established herd in Vanatori Neamt Nature Park Romania to help augment both numbers
including some invasive plants such as blackberry (Rubus niveus). Control efforts are weed under way to them out.
EU grain prices would double along with the price of potatoes and brassicas like spinach and cabbage.
And as researchers push into other potential cash crops in the region including jatropha and palm trees for biofuels many worry that appropriate regulation and controls may come too late.
Nature News The business of biofuels The promise of green gold is fading from Jatropha curcas,
Just last year, some analysts were predicting that the area planted with jatropha worldwide at the time,
The Jatropha Alliance, an advocacy group based in Berlin was estimating that investments of up to US$1 billion could be expected annually.
only four or five have been in jatropha projects. Jatropha has gone very quiet, he says. What happened?
It's difficult to untangle the impacts of the global financial downturn from disappointment with jatropha in particular,
says Rob Bailis, an environmental scientist at Yale university. But over the past three years, the investment got way ahead of the plant science,
Jatropha can live in very dry conditions, but doesn't necessarily yield a lot of seeds. The plant takes three years
And jatropha seedlings are often not well-suited to the climate in which they are planted.
Even supporters acknowledge that the allure of jatropha is fading somewhat. This year a lot of projects did not continue,
admits Thilo Zelt, director of the Jatropha Alliance. One blow came with the publication of a controversial paper in June, in
which a team led by Arjen Hoekstra at the University of Twente in The netherlands suggested that jatropha needs more water than other bioenergy crops, such as maize (corn),
) Jatropha had nearly four times the water footprint of sugar-cane ethanol, for instance. Critics point out what they see as flaws in that analysis,
including the fact that it is difficult to compare jatropha, which is wild, with crops such as maize that were domesticated for optimal use thousands of years ago.
But Hoekstra says that more thought needs to be given to variables such as where jatropha is planted
Jatropha was the hallelujah crop he says, but in reality it is just another crop with its own characteristics.
The split between D1 Oils and BP has hurt jatropha's reputation as a good business investment,
In the meantime, D1 Oils has shifted from planting jatropha to focusing on basic research including starting a breeding programme to develop seeds with high oil yields
It has collected samples from jatropha plants growing wild in different environments and is creating a library of genetic material from
Eventually, jatropha might prove more useful on a local scale. For instance, Diligent Energy Systems, a company based in Eindhoven,
where it provides jatropha seeds for farmers to plant among other crops or on spare land that is unsuitable for food crops.
500 hectares of jatropha planted between them. The idea is to grow to 10,000 by the end of this year,
In other countries, jatropha has yet to capture local support. In the Lao People's Democratic Republic, farmers have been bombarded with seeds
the jatropha they planted reached harvest at the same time as the rice crops. Farmers neglect their jatropha seeds
because they have to harvest their rice, he says. In India, where much of the jatropha hype originated,
success will come only if a conservative, realistic approach is adopted at the beginning, says Pushpito Ghosh, director of the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute in Bhavnagar.
Biodiesel from his institute's jatropha project (see Nature 449,652-655; 2007) has been used in test cars belonging to the project
and in collaboration with General motors. Ghosh's team has been working to improve the genetic stock of their jatropha,
and is about to embark on a life-cycle analysis of how much biodiesel jatropha can generate from a 50-hectare plot.
Even so, it would be premature to call jatropha a success in India, says Ghosh. It is still in the take-off stage.
and subsequent disappointment surrounding jatropha as a weeding-out process, leaving behind smaller, more professional players.
The deal is expected to give Jatoil between 1, 000 and 2, 000 hectares of established jatropha-bearing land in Java.
And China, one of the world's leading biofuel manufacturers, is also taking an interest in jatropha,
and developed a high-resolution map to show where jatropha might grow best; Madagascar, Tanzania and Ethiopia are likely candidates.
Meanwhile, Bailis is conducting jatropha life-cycle analyses to account for land-use change in India and Brazil.
So although jatropha may not be a saviour plant, transforming vast quantities of desert land into biofuel-producing moneymakers,
And jatropha can play a big part in that. Â NEXT WEEK:
Obama proposes greenhouse-gas standards for vehicles: Nature Newsthe Obama administration released new automobile standards on Tuesday, proposing regulations that would curb greenhouse-gas emissions and ratchet up fuel-efficiency standards beginning in 2012.
says Gareth Morgan of London legal firm DLA Piper. He thinks that diagnostic firms and other agribusiness companies might be affected
and in places populated by trees that are not fire tolerant, such as birch (Betula). They are also reaching gardens
potentially making it a good candidate for further study in the lab. This could open the way to studies on flavour and disease resistance in the cultivated strawberry Fragaria x ananassa,
And he calls for more research on orphan crops, such as quinoa (Chenopodium), a grain-like crop originating in South america.
and contribute to around 7%of deaths and 10%of the disease burden in low-income countries, according to Juan Pablo Pena-Rosas, coordinator of the Micronutrients Unit at the World health organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
and increase its nutritional yield, explains Pena-Rosas. The firm Harvestplus in WASHINGTON DC, which released orange sweet potato containing 50%of the daily Vitamin a requirement in Uganda and Mozambique in 2007,
and have turned to different feedstocks including switchgrass, the succulent plant jatropha, cyanobacteria and green algae. However, producing biofuels from sugar cane
including a poisonous herb called Ephedra and the woody vine Aristolochia. Sometimes known as birthwort, Aristolochia  contains aristolochic acid,
which can cause kidney and liver damage and bladder cancer. Medicinal use of the herb probably explains high rates of bladder cancer in Taiwan,
At least one of the four medicines that contained Aristolochia DNA also contained aristolochic acid. Other medicines contained DNA from plants in the same family as ginseng the root of which is illegal to trade internationally as well as soya and nut-bearing plants,
The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an increasingly popular fruit, with 145.8 million tonnes produced globally in 2010.
and a lead researcher on the project, explains that the group started out using traditional tools to sequence the genomes of the domesticated tomato cultivar Heinz 1706 (the one used to make the famous ketchup) and its closest wild relative, Solanum pimpinellifolium.
the plant known as pigweed or palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) isn t much to look at. But to farmers in the southeastern United states, it is a formidable foe.
The virus gained two new mutations in its trip between the cages one from aspartic acid to glycine in the haemagglutinin protein (HA225G),
Short poisonous and hardy the Jatropha curcas tree can survive severe heat poor and alkaline soil and very low rainfall.
The paper suggests planting Jatropha curcas in the desert along the coast of the Arabian peninsula setting up a desalination plant to provide the water needed for irrigation
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Here this zone is characterized by the expansion of Quercus (Oak) Corylus (Hazel) Taxus Ulmus (Elm) Fraxinus (Ash) Carpinus (Hornbeam) and Picea (Spruce.
The safety tests included inoculating plants of species related to the Salsola tragus tumbleweed that C. salsolae and U. salsolae target.
and there are no plants native to the U s. that share tumbleweeds'Genus salsola. Now it's a question of waiting
M. ulmi the synonym of M. mali was described first in Italy on the Elm tree species Ulmus Chenmoui.
Camelina seeds have very high oil content leading researchers at the Danforth Center to focus on Camelina to develop biodiesel and other industrial products.
When oil is extracted from the camelina seeds using either solvent extraction or expeller pressing the oil is used then in fuel production.
but there is very little knowledge about the nutritional value of camelina meal when fed to pigs said Hans Stein a U of I professor of animal sciences.
Camelina seeds and expellers have been evaluated for use in poultry and dairy cattle diets but to our knowledge the nutritional values of these ingredients have not been studied in pigs he said.
This lack of knowledge limits the use of camelina products in diets fed to pigs
and his team fed growing pigs diets containing one of five different camelina products. They tested camelina seeds from two different sources as well as camelina expellers from three different sources.
The camelina products were compared with each other and with canola meal. The digestibility of crude protein and most amino acids in two sources of camelina expellers did not differ from that of canola meal
whereas the third source had lower digestibility values. Digestibility values in both sources of camelina seeds were less than in canola meal.
Stein said that the variation in digestibility among the sources of camelina expellers might be due to genetic differences between the seeds or differences in the oil extraction procedures.
However amino acid digestibility in two of the sources of camelina expellers was comparable to that of canola meal
which indicates that camelina expellers may be included in diets fed to pigs he explained. The camelina expellers studied were pressed cold
and contained greater levels of trypsin inhibitors than canola meal. Amino acid digestibility in camelina products might be improved by heat treatment provided that heat damage is avoided.
These findings will help producers and feed companies evaluate camelina expellers for possible inclusion in pig diets.
Stein said that the next steps for research would be to determine the digestible and metabolizable energy content of camelina expellers and to conduct growth performance studies.
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#Tuberculosis in Zambia: spread, control of infectionin Zambia the incidence of all forms of human tuberculosis is estimated to be 444 per 100000.
There is also a high incidence of HIV and AIDS in the country. In the Kafue area a high incidence of Mycobacterium bovis in both cattle and the Kafue lechwe antilope has been detected.
The team around Christine Lane (Oxford university) and Achim Brauer from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences reports in the latest volume of Geology that within the younger Dryas the last about 1100-year
Researchers Jerry Tuskan of Oak ridge National Laboratory and Francis Martin of INRA recommended that the assembly of Populus-associated fungi
and other institutes have succeeded in unraveling the whole genome sequence of desert poplar Populus euphratica and the genetic bases underlying poplar to against salt stress.
and using a compatible vegetable oil supplement (rape sunflower and camelina). The changes in ruminal lipid metabolism are based on the differences between plant species in terms of digestion kinetics and microbial flora in the rumen.
when given as camelina press cake. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by MTT Agrifood Research Finland.
which we eat are reduced related to cardiovascular diseases Rosa Marã a Lamuela researcher at the UB and the person responsible for the project told SINC.
and reproduces better in southeastern habitats than Asarum arifolium yet A. arifolium is thriving while A. Americana is patchier and at risk of extirpation.
Miombo is the Swahili word for the Brachystegia genus of trees which are an important tree species within miombo woodlands.
Ceanothus americanus Corylus cornuta Lonicera canadensis and Viburnum acerifolium. They said that these shrubs have the potential to become revenue generators for the nursery industry
They found that timing had no significant effect on rooting percentage root count or root length of Corylus cornuta or Viburnum acerifolium.
in addition to Viburnum acerifolium has the potential to be a new nursery crop Lubell said. The study recommends that rooted cuttings of both Corylus cornuta
and Viburnum acerifolium should be left in rooting containers for a period of cold dormancy before transplanting
although Corylus cornuta and Viburnum acerifolium showed the most promise as commercially viable nursery crops further propagation research could validate all four of the native species in the study as recommended crops for general wholesale
of California Cooperative Extension in Salinas studied nitrogen (N) fertilization and irrigation management practices in fall-planted annual strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.
and hybrids both native and exotic to Britain with particular focus on 13 varieties of lavender (Lavandula spp.)
Another success has been in Colombia where a mixed planting of the shrub Leucaena with a common pasture grass resulted in a 27%increase in dry matter for food and 64%increase of protein production.
The tulip tree Liriodendron tulipfera has been considered part of the magnolia family. But David Dilcher of Indiana University Bloomington and Mikhail S. Romanov of the N. V. Tsitsin Main Botanical garden in Moscow show that it is closely related to fossil plant specimens from the Lower Cretaceous period.
Surprisingly gemsbok diet also consisted of up to 25%of Damara milk-bush (Euphorbia damarana) an endemic large succulent plant
In addition to Graven and Ralph Keeling Science paper co-authors include Stephen Piper Lisa Welp and Jonathan Bent of SIO;
In this case the tree Khaya senegalensis commonly known as African mahogany is found in many habitats in Western Africa from forests to savanna woodland
When it comes to sequestering carbon from the atmosphere the team shows that Jatropha curcas does it better.
and using data from Jatropha curcas plantations in Egypt India and Madagascar says Wulfmeyer. The new Earth System Dynamics study shows that one hectare of Jatropha curcas could capture up to 25 tonnes of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year over a 20 year period.
A plantation taking up only about 3%of the Arabian desert for example could absorb in a couple of decades all the CO2. produced by motor vehicles in Germany over the same period.
which has declined significantly the Orangetip (Anthocharis cardamines) which seems to be stable since 1990 and the Lulworth Skipper (Thymelicus acteon)
The new species was collected in a narrow river valley dominated by mountain sainfoin (Onobrychis cornuta) wild almond (Prunus amygdalus) scoparia) and downy brome (Bromus tectorum.
The article is titled Nitrogen deprivation promotes Populus root growth through global transcriptome reprogramming and activation of hierarchical genetic networks.
Maloof and colleagues studied the domestic tomato Solanum lycopersicum and wild relatives S. pennellii S. habrochaites and S. pimpinellifolium.
Some of these sites (including Piper City Ill. are hot spots of rotation-resistance and others (in Nebraska and northwest Missouri for example) lack evidence of rotation-resistant rootworms.
and Rice alumna Rosa Dominguez-Faus found no scientific consensus on the climate-friendly nature of U s.-produced corn-based ethanol
Attracting the enemies of the herbivoresthe hawkmoth Manduca sexta lays its eggs on various plants including tobacco and Sacred Datura plants (Datura wrightii.
Just like Geocoris bugs adult female M. sexta moths are able to detect the changes in the green volatile profile emitted by Sacred Datura plants that have been damaged by M. sexta caterpillars.
An international research team headed up by evolutionary biologists at the University of Zurich has identified now two genes responsible for the flowering of a tropical deciduous tree species Shorea beccariana.
Kentaro Shimizu and their Malaysian Taiwanese and Japanese colleagues collected multiple buds from a single Shorea beccariana tree shortly before the start of flowering.
Given the fact that Shorea is a giant tree having its crown at 40 meters ofheight this sample collection was not easy at all says Shimizu.
Kobayashi concludes that Flowering in Shorea beccariana is triggered by a four-week drought in combination with elevated sucrose levels.
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