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Synopsis: Plants: Genus: Monocot genus:

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

of Raphia which took place around 217 B c. in what is now the Gaza strip as part of the Syrian Wars.

And even now games such as Age of empires that recreate the Battle of Raphia depict the Ptolemaic elephants as smaller.

The infamous device was used apparently by Phalaris ruler of Sicily with abandon during his reign (c. 570 to 554 B c)

..When Phalaris was met overthrown he his end inside the same brazen bull that came to symbolize his tyranny.

the corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea), has evolved resistance to Bt toxin in situations where GM-crop coverage is 100%.

The plant in question is Spartina alterniflora, or cordgrass, a fiercely invasive salt-marsh grass that is native to eastern North america.

For example, without the ebb and flow of tides, the sea bulrush (Scirpus mariqueter), a native intertidal grass bearing fruit and stalks that are key food sources for many birds

Palms belonging to the Genus phoenix including the economically-important date palm Phoenix dactylifera i e. the main fruit crop in North africa and the Middle east are amongst the groups of flowering plants characterized by difficulties in species discrimination based on their look.

By screening over 130 palm individuals from 13 out of the 14 species of the Genus phoenix they found enough variation in the composition of the DNA to be able to identify correctly eight species out of 13 and more than 82%of the individuals.

Sorghum is in the same family as rice (Oryza sativa) wheat (Triticum aestivumlinn) and maize (Zea mays) and it is expected to play an increasingly important role in feeding the world's growing population.

which was bred from its wild progenitor Oryza rufipogon in southern Asia within the past 10000 years.

They collected more than 9000 seeds from 22 different Euterpe edulis palm populations and used a combination of statistics genetics

Now Kansas State university researcher Bikram Gill and an international team of researchers have developed a physical map of wheat's wild ancestor Aegilops tauschii commonly called goatgrass as they take the first huge step

Many years ago we discovered that a particular wheat ancestor--Aegilops tauschii commonly called goatgrass--is a gold mine for wheat improvement Gill said.

used a hybridised species of grass called perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) with a closely related species called meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis.

and a hugely important advance resulting from decades of fundamental BBSRC-supported work on the hybridisation of Lolium and Festuca (Fescue) species

For their experiments the group collected cotton bollworm--also known as corn earworm or Helicoverpa zea-a species of moth that is a major agricultural pest and selected it for resistance against one of the Bt toxins Cry1ac.

and analyzed two ancestral wheat genomes of Triticum urartu and Aegilops tauschii respectively throwing light on the biology of the world's primary staple crop

and providing valuable new resource for the genetic improvement of wheat. Wheat is a globally important crop due to its enhanced adaptability to a wide range of climates and improved grain quality for the production of baker's flour.

#Whole genome sequencing of wild rice reveals the mechanisms underlying oryza genome evolutionin a collaborative study published online March 13 in Nature Communications researchers from Institute of Genetics

and Developmental Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences BGI-Shenzhen and University of Arizona have completed the genome sequencing of wild rice Oryza brachyantha.

This work provides new insights for researchers to understand the function and evolution of Oryza genomes.

The Genus oryza is an idea model system for studying plant comparative genomics evolutionary biology and functional biology.

It was also proved to have the most compact genome in the Genus oryza suggesting the genome may not experience many changes after the divergence of Oryza species. In this study researchers generated a high-quality reference genome sequence of O. brachyantha (261mb)

and tandem duplications further expanded by transposable element insertions contributed to transition from euchromatin to heterochromatin in the rice genome reflecting the dynamic nature of the Oryza genomes.

Quanfei Huang Project Manager from BGI said This work revealed many important genomic mechanisms underlying Oryza genome such as the genome size variation gene movement and transition of euchromatin

In the near future I believe there will be more genomes of Oryza species to be cracked enabling the Genus oryza be unparalleled an system for functional and evolutionary studies in plants.

and dines almost exclusively on the tall and fast-growing low marsh cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) that lines the marsh edges.

but squattier Spartina patens) and other high marsh plants dominate The old WPA mosquito ditches also fulfill the crabs'habitat requirements.

This bird makes its nest in the marsh's shallow slush forming its home with strands of the California cordgrass Spartina foliosa.

Cultivation with a tine weeder and hand weeding are the primary tools currently used for weed control in organic sweet onion (Allium ceps) explained scientist W. Carroll Johnson III.

Phragmites australis or the common reed is a rapid colonizer that has overrun many coastal wetlands from New england to the Southeast.

Land managers traditionally have used chemical herbicides to slow phragmites'spread but with only limited and temporary success. Now field experiments by researchers at Duke

or other livestock in severely affected marshes can reduce the stem density of phragmites cover by about half in around three weeks said Brian R. Silliman lead author of the new study and Rachel Carson associate professor of marine conservation

and his colleagues found that a pair of the hungry herbivores could reduce phragmites cover from 94 percent to 21 percent on average by the end of the study.

if managers combine grazing with the selective use of herbicides to eradicate any remaining phragmites

and recently has been tested successfully on small patches of heavily phragmites-invaded marshes in New york he notes.

In particular they have tracked the fate of the grass Spartina alterniflora which their research has found to be the victim of herbivorous Sesarma purple marsh crabs run amok.

A new study of the populations in northern Iran however has revealed a new host--Sagittaria trifolia commonly known as arrowhead.

Oryza rufipogon a wild relative of rice utilised to confer tolerance to drought and aluminium toxicity;

For example the crop wild relative of the wheat crop Aegilops tauschii is resistant to Hessian fly

Saccharum arundinaceum is a relative of sugar cane and can survive very low temperatures and Prunus ferganensis the crop wild relative of peach is tolerant to drought conditions.

or additives within similarly shaped wine jars including honey storax resin terebinth resin cedar oil cyperus juniper and possibly mint myrtle and cinnamon.

and Latin america a fact that led him in 2012 to create the company Bambusa located in Cholula Puebla in center Mexico.

and Pennisetum purpurem (napier grass) despite public criticism added U of I professor of agricultural law A. Bryan Endres who co-authored the research to define legislative language for potentially invasive bioenergy feedstocks.

The paper The genome sequence of African rice (Oryza glaberrima) and evidence for independent domestication was published online in Nature Genetics on Sunday.

Sequencing of the African rice genome was made possible by National Science Foundation grants#0321678#0638541#0822284 and#1026200 to the Oryza Map Alignment and Oryza Genome Evolution Projects.

In another experiment the researchers cultivated the forage plant Panicum maximum at a temperature 2â°C above normal at a carbon concentration of 600 parts per million (ppm) equivalent to twice the amount there is today an amount

'Juncus effuses'Frenzy'Helianthus angustifolius (swamp sunflower) Helianthus angustfolius'First Light 'and Eupatorium purpureum subsp. maculatum (Joe pye weed) performed well in the experiments

Now the genome of Greater Duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) has given this miniscule plant's potential as a biofuel source a big boost.

or biochemistry of photosynthesis. The placement of the Spirodela genome as a basal monocot species will serve as a new reference for all flowering plants.

and hearsay surrounding the ancient Battle of Raphia the only known battle between Asian and African elephants.

In the Battle of Raphia Ptolemy had 73 African war elephants and Antiochus had 102 Asian war elephants according to Polybius a Greek historian who described the battle at least 70 years later.

Did Ptolemy employ African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) or African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) in the Battle or Raphia?

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