… a global biodiversity hotspot. Nyree Zerega, Ph.D., and Jeremie Fant, Ph.D. received a grant from the National Science Foundation to convene a meeting of U.S. and Indonesian biodiversity scientists spanning expertise in organisms from coral reefs, fungi, microbes, insects, bats, and plants. Approximately 50 international … hope to find solutions to the global crisis of biodiversity loss,” says Zerega. A 2019 report from the UN-affiliated Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem …
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… box are thought-provoking items, including pieces of a tulip poplar and honey locust trees from the beloved garden of eighteenth-century explorer and botanist John Bartram (1699-1777). … Artist Claire Owen and poet Beth Feldman Brandt, who collaborated on the boxes, are traveling from Philadelphia to give a free talk October 6 at the Chicago Botanic Garden. An exhibition … Bartram’s Boxes Remix, features the work of artists who created works that included wood from the felled trees. Each piece is meant to celebrate Bartram’s desire to share his passion for …
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… in. The climate began to change. While many may have thrown up their hands and walked away from this complex puzzle, Steffen saw a treasure. Taking Flight At age 15, he began to explore … His management activities and detailed inventory work has grown the number of species there from 223 to 405. Of those species, 345 are native to the region. Invasive buckthorn plants are … native grasses, sedges, and wildflowers. The rewards of his work? Less carbon being released from the soil, improved water retention and nutrient cycling, and a place to bolster native …
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… it. To make things worse, in 1892, a little pest called the boll weevil moved northward from Mexico and began invading and destroying cotton crops. The boll weevil population spread and … Legumes (like peanuts and soybeans) and sweet potatoes have the ability to convert nitrogen from the air to a form that plants can absorb from the soil. Planting what is called a "cover crop" of peanuts instead of cotton for a year …
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… We were in search of seeds of unusual bulbs in the Vashlovani Nature Reserve with Peter Zale from Longwood Gardens (the trip organizer), Panyoti Kelaidis from the Denver Botanic Gardens, and Manana Khutsishvili from the Institute of Botany, Ilia State University. It was one of those breathtakingly beautiful …
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… every seed that is planted grows. This truth extends to restored prairies that are grown from seed mixes, according to Rebecca Barak, Ph.D., who completed research examining the success … to Barak, who conducted fieldwork at dozens of sites within an hour or two of Chicago. From a small playfield behind a nature center to the grounds of a temple to a large swath of … diversity outcomes for restored prairies,” explained Barak, who earned her doctoral degree from the Chicago Botanic Garden and Northwestern University and is a post-doctoral researcher in …
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… x A. mariannensis). Accessions are of mixed ploidy and regional origin, but predominantly from Oceania. Microsatellite loci distinguished 197 unique genotypes sorted into 129 different … genotype or lineage group in the collection. Putative hybrids all had genetic contributions from A. mariannensis but ranged in the level of genetic contribution from A. altilis. Microsatellite markers were found to be more informative than isozyme markers, …
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… followed up this observation by examining hundreds of dried plant specimens of related species from Southeast Asia to see if they could find a match. Throughout the process, they stumbled upon yet another unknown specimen from Vietnam. Finally, by using molecular techniques to examine genetic relationships among these … and published this summer in the peer-reviewed science journal, Phytotaxa: https://www.mapress.com/j/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.453.3.8 Keywords: Nyree Zerega, species discovery, jackfruit, …
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… the same time. But it did not take too long to brainstorm some ideas on what we hope to learn from this rare possibility. The plants have been named Java and Sumatra, in recognition of two of … in weight when they were measured several months ago; the young inflorescences emerged from the soil within 24 hours of each other, and until recently, they were within an inch of each … effort to preserve the species.) We do hope to pollinate one of the titan arums with pollen from an individual from another institution that has been stored “on ice” for just such an …
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… on blood pressure, cholesterol, and cancer. Most importantly, they taste great on everything from mashed sweet potatoes to chicken tacos. #2. Purple Potatoes The nutritional reputation of … http://www.agriculturejournals.cz/publicFiles/48446.pdf http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/tc/antioxidants-topic-overview http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f1378 …
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