botanicals
06/05/2018
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By RJ Jhonson
Tomato plants “eavesdrop” on snails to build preemptive defenses
New research could change the way you see the tomato. Findings published in this year’s March edition of Oecologia indicate that this salad favorite can detect an incoming attack from pests and launch a preemptive defense system that deters various herbivorous species. John Orrock, an ecologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that tomatoes can […]
02/22/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Locally grown and brewed: Foraged beer reconnects brewing with the land
What makes a craft beer truly “locally-made”? For small brewers, it’s using natural ingredients harvested from the immediate surroundings to make foraged beer, reported a Civil Eats article. More than 5,000 American breweries offer locally-crafted beer, but they obtain many of their ingredients from industrialized farms in other states or outside the U.S. In response to […]
07/11/2017
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By Jhoanna Robinson
Plant roots grow and spread like neurons in the human brain, shocked scientists discover
A research project that was conducted by a team of researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California that was titled A Statistical Description of Plant Shoot Architecture and was published in the journal Current Biology, concluded that plants grow very similarly like neurons in the human brain. Saket Navlakha, assistant […]
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