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Intriguing activity
... Intriguing activity NC State Home From the Dean Features Model Bee-havior Living to Serve Night and ... College Profile Noteworthy News Alumni Giving Items of Interest College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Intriguing activity Faculty, staff and friends of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences gathered Jan 26th ...
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Stinking Flowers
... degrees Celsius above a cool air temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. This may stimulate the activity of pollinator insect visitors and help to vaporize the stench of the flowers. The heat ... mammoth blossom that pushes out through the host stem, making Rafflesia one of the most intriguing and unusual plants on earth. The chances of a seed finding a host vine are ...
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LaMarco/Regulation of Gene Expression
... place in the fat cell. ORPHAN RECEPTORS. The so-called orphan receptors constitute an intriguing and ever-growing class of transcriptinal regulatory proteins. Orphan receptor proteins are similar to ... in transcriptional activation of the aP2 gene via the aP2 enhancer. This aP2 enhancer activity is stimulated by peroxisome proliferators, fatty acids, and certain retinoids. Although the physiological ...
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APSnet Education Center - Introductions to the Major Pathogen Groups - Introduction to Parasitic Flowering Plants
... or compete with the root stimulants. Figure 11. The stem parasitic dodders (Cuscuta) provide intriguing models for host selection because they have nastic movements (in response to a ... , but the greatest diversity occurs in the tropics. In terms of impacting human activity, three families deserve mention: Loranthaceae, Santalaceae, and Viscaceae. Loranthaceae (Showy Mistletoe Family) This large ...
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Bonfante Gardens Redesigned Gardens & Educational Exhibits
... Spend Spring Break enjoying more than 40 rides and attractions that include stunning gardens, the intriguing Circus Trees and educational exhibits. Rides include a restored 1927 Illions Carousel, the Quicksilver ... is a fun and educational festival featuring live musical entertainment, a children’s gardening activity in one of the park’s majestic gardens and a Quinceanera Expo, showcasing the ...
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Denver Botanic Gardens
... site for many uncommon southwestern native plants. Flytrap Feast The world of carnivorous plants is intriguing to both children and adults. Flytrap Feast displays these ingenious plants outdoors in a ... plants in segregated plots. Within their cloistered walls, they jealously guarded their knowledge as an activity for the elite. We continue the practice of growing herbs in this traditional manner ...
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Cycad International : Katherine NT Australia
... countries, but the flow-on effects are felt wherever there are natural occurrences of these intriguing plants. Poaching has reached levels of great significance in Africa, Central America, Hispaniola, Mexico and ... legally collected from the wild and traded internationally each year. When the pressure of this activity is combined with the annual trade in cycad seeds, now amounting to about six million ...
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ECSONG: The Nuttery: 16(1) 1997
... that have been sawed into cross-sections through various angles. Each cut exposes its own intriguing version of the nut's internal architecture. We hope Beulah will see haunting or amusing ... collected. Want to get involved? - call Ted. G Howard Ferguson Nursery update Ted Cormier reports activity on the Nursery's fate. Apparently negotiations are underway between the Ontario government and the ...
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ECSONG: The Nuttery: 17(3) 1998
... from mice during the winter. Kim and Lester McInnes and Sheila Carr carried out similar activity for the rows of oaks situated alongside the river, while Ernie Kerr finished making a ... Norse had paid visits to more southerly areas where such nuts grow. What is particularly intriguing is that their northern limit coincides with that of wild grapes. The northern limit for ...
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Sugaring Off: The Maple Sugar Paintings of Eastmen Johnson
... in the South, and scenes of cranberry harvests on Nantucket Island, one of his most intriguing projects revolved around his efforts to produce a major picture depicting a "sugaring off" in ... paintings might at first appear to be straightforward nostalgic scenes of a traditional New England activity, they were intended to communicate a powerful message about freedom and independence. Given the context ...
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