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- 1From:Natural History (Vol. 129, Issue 5)Since the 1930s, paleobotanists have recognized that Noeggerathiales--swampy forest plants that lived about 325 to 251 million years ago--constituted a unique plant group. A lack of detailed fossils, however, made it...
- 2From:American History (Vol. 55, Issue 2)Native Americans cultivated many seed plants, squashes, sunflowers, and grasses, but only squashes and sunflowers still are grown. Also missing: the knowledge of how to grow forgotten crops. Natalie Mueller, assistant...
- 3From:Natural History (Vol. 126, Issue 3)Lotus seed plants. Honeycombs. Aerated chocolate. For some people, viewing such objects with clusters of holes turns their stomachs. The condition, trypophobia, is unusual but not uncommon. Its evolutionary origin is...
- 4From:Science News (Vol. 176, Issue 9)Everything eventually comes back in style. A type of amber thought to have been invented by flowering plants may have been en vogue millions of years before those plants evolved, suggests an analysis of newly discovered...
- 5From:Chemical Week (Vol. 164, Issue 7)Dow AgroSciences seed subsidiary Mycogen will dose its Hastings, MN and Prescott WI genetically modified seed plants. The closures, which stem from duplicative operations resulting from Dow AgroSciences purchase last...
- 6From:Beverage Industry (Vol. 94, Issue 10)The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning against star anise tea, saying 40 people, including 15 children, have suffered from problems such as vomiting, seizures and jitters, according to a Reuters report....
- 7From:Prevention (Vol. 57, Issue 2)Byline: Altshul, Sara With Valentine's Day looming, consider a cup of damiana tea. Though science hasn't signed off on its reputation as an aphrodisiac (it works wonders in mice), people have used damiana (Turnera...
- 8From:Earth Island Journal (Vol. 20, Issue 1)Jatropha curcas is a tough, drought-resistant plant that may help meet India's burgeoning energy demands. "India needs to grow jatropha to tackle dry land and generate biodiesel," says India's president Dr. A. P. J....
- 9From:Science News (Vol. 180, Issue 3)endozoochory \EHN-doh-ZOH-eh-KOHR-ee\ n. Dispersal of plant spores or seeds by an animal after passing through the animal's gut. Endozoochory is common for seed plants, but its usefulness for other taxa is largely...
- 10From:Science News (Vol. 188, Issue 13)Conifers grew giant genomes thanks to double doses of genetic material. Ancient ancestors of today's pine, cypress and yew trees had extra copies of their entire genome, the set of genetic instructions for an organism,...
- 11From:Agra Europe (Issue 1442)NEW FRENCH AGRI-FOOD SECTORAL PLANS During the first four months of 1991, France presented the EC Commission with five sector-based plans for the agri-food industry (wine, fresh fruit, vegetables and potatoes,...
- 12From:Technology Review (Vol. 89)Pollen-Alysis Could that motheaten $5 chair purchased at the local flea market be worth $100,000? Armed with a scalpel, a microscope, a few chemicals, and a book on pollen, Frederick Wiseman makes furniture tell the...
- 13From:Mother Earth News (Issue 208)Maritime Canada & New England Do I detect the faintest smell of spring in the air or is it just wishful thinking? January catalog perusals have turned into seed orders arriving in the mailbox, and it's time to get...
- 14From:Feedstuffs (Vol. 80, Issue 14)MINUTES are crucial during planting, and this spring, that looks to be even more critical with ongoing planting delays. A five-year trend of soybean sales indicates that the advances of bulk handling have resulted in...
- 15From:The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History (Vol. 87, Issue 2)WHY SHOULD A HOME GARDENER CONSIDER GROWING A tomato with a one-hundred-year-old pedigree? Because doing so can help preserve our horticultural heritage. Canada has already lost a vast array of once-popular plant...
- 16From:New Internationalist (Issue 435)IN THE BEGINNING In water, green algae reproduced sexually by releasing spores--sperm that swam. It's unclear how, some 450 million years ago, plants were able to move from water to land. The earliest land plants...
- 17From:Agra Europe (Issue 1593)The GATT Uruguay Round is likely to have a further depressing effect on farmers' demand for the major agricultural inputs. It is however probable that it will not have anywhere as dramatic effect as the initial CAP...
- 18From:Wood & Wood Products (Vol. 100, Issue 2)The Kentucky coffeetree is a specialty wood used in cabinetry and architectural installations. A distinctive feature of the coffeetree is its attractive reddish-brown wood which makes it a suitable material for paneling,...
- 19From:BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology (Vol. 17, Issue 1)Background Taxus (yew) is one of the most frequently reported plants causing potentially fatal outcome when taken incidentally or for suicidal reasons. A fast and reliable method of detection of poisonous compounds...
- 20From:Madera Y Bosques (Vol. 14, Issue 1)México es considerado un centro secundario de diversidad del género Pinus. Un análisis de la literatura más reciente indica que los pinos migraron hacia el actual territorio mexicano desde el hemisferio norte a través...