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On Teaching Botany - Careers in Botany, Science Education and Outreach
... those stimuli. I never imagined that I would return, several years later, to the rapid leaf movements of the sensitive plant as an experimental model in my own research. When I decided ... a faculty position at Cornell University, where my research focused on the cellular mechanism of leaf movements. It was not until I was a member of Comell's Section of Plant Biology ...
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Recent CPN Issues
... Esperance, Western Australia Tax Deductions and the ICPS Forget anything? Board Member Elections Leaf Pullings: A "New" Way to Propagate Sarracenia Vegetatively Index of Contributors Contents of ... Ecology of Phytotelmata Rare Sarracenia Poaching and the ICPS Seedbank New Observation of Leaf Movements in Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae) Looking Back: CPN 25 years ago Literature Reviews News & Views ...
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Pithecellobium saman (Jacq
... ants (Myrmelachista ramulorum) bore into branchlets, resulting in defoliation and leaf deformation (14). The defoliators can be controlled with ... a favorite of plant physiologists for studies of nyctinastic leaf movements (9). Although the tree is commonly used as a ... effects of blue and far red light on rhythmic leaflet movements in Samanea (saman) and Albizzia (julibrissin). Plant Physiology 67( ...
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EXTOXNET PIP - AZINOPHOS-METHYL
... one plant part to another. It is used primarily as a foliar application against leaf feeding insects. It works as both a contact insecticide and a stomach poison. Azinphos- ... fish exhibit central nervous system impairment, including erratic swimming accompanied by uncontrolled convulsions. Rapid gill movements, paralysis, and death follow in rapid succession [8]. Azinphos-methyl is highly toxic to ...
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Leaves that Trick
... movements' of plants). Simple leaves may have a pulvinus at the base of their leaf stalks. Compound leaves may have a pulvinus not only at the base of the leaf ... to the tantalizingly simple... Pinnate leaf In this type of compound leaf the simple leaf has been 'once divided' ... and 3b: Compound leaf types: Pinnate (left) and Bipinnate (right) Tripinnate leaf Figure 3c: Compound leaf types: Tripinnate Up ...
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MY CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
... constructed from 5 to 10 leaf stalks. On the end of every leaf is a “spring trap” shaped leaf blade that has a bright red ... same time the leaves will close with lightening speed. The resisting movements of the prey stimutale the plant to narrow its leaves crushing ... that part of the leaf should be removed. Fleshy leaf bases from the ‘bulb’ may also be used to make leaf cuttings using the same method. ...
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The Ferns
... indusium sporangium indusium The sorus may simply be tucked protectively under the leaf edge (below). . V.S. Leaf of Adiantum (maidenhair fern) Biodisc photomicrograph Some ferns, rather than having spores ... sporangia. In many ferns, a crest of dead cells termed the annulus undergoes hygroscopic movements causing the sporangium to break open exposing the spores to air currents.The sporangium ...
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Treehouses on the Tree of Life
... The information found on treehouses complements the scientific core content presented on ToL branch pages, leaf pages, other articles and notes. Our treehouse collection is growing and our goal is ... , and features pictures of a bobcat in the author's backyard. Burrowing Owl Dispersal Movements in Tucson, Arizona Widely distributed throughout most of the western United States, Western Burrowing ...
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Why tuber-grown potatoes degenerate - DIVERSITY
... found that the Peach Aphis, Myzus persicae, was the one chiefly responsible for spreading the Leaf Roll disease. The number of peach trees in England, however, was insufficient to account for ... experiments it was established that the spread of aphids was favoured only by very gentle movements of air, and that where the windspeed often exceeded five to six mph very few ...
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Botany online: Turgor Movements - Cross-section through the Leaf of a Graminea
... Botany online: Turgor Movements - Cross-section through the Leaf of a Graminea Cross-section through the Leaf of a Graminea (Dactylis glomerata) The depicted leaf is folded. A lot of sclerenchyma cells are in ...
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