transported westward

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Citrus
... in Asia citrus must have been mused for a long time before the species were transported westward to become part of ancient cultures in Mesopotamia (4000 B.C.), Egypt, and Greece. One ... , the plant had to be grown locally wherever Jews lived, so it had to be transported westward as they emigrated from the Middle East. Moreover, the citron was carried by the Moslem ...
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The Threat of Dutch Elm Disease
... . After having decimated the elms of Europe, the fungus responsible for the disease was accidentally transported to North America in the early 1930's, when diseased elm logs were imported to ... Eastern North America was begun. Since that time, the disease has proceeded along a steady westward course across the North American continent wherever elm trees grow naturally, or in cultivation. In ...
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Bananas and plantains
... , sometimes attached to a long pole, lowered gently onto the shoulders of a worker, and transported quickly to the processing area, to avoid heating and bruising. Bananas are harvested unripe and ... the routes of Polynesian colonization by studying the banana forms in the Pacific Basin. The westward spread of Musa in central Africa is credited by some workers with the population expansion ...
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Pinus edulis Engelm
... northwestern New Mexico. At higher, more mesic elevations in southern and western New Mexico and westward into central Arizona, alligator juniper commonly forms a component of stands. Although pinyon-juniper woodlands ... expandable esophagus. Scrub jays lack this adaption, and the amount of seed that can be transported at one time is limited to 5 or fewer seeds held in the mouth and ...
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Joseph Dalton Hooker - PlantExplorers.com™
... set out to join him, driving to Hoogly and then following the Grand Trunk Road westward to the coal basin of the Damooda Valley. Returning to his original mission, Hooker engaged ... continued his journey travelling inland to Purnea by dawk, a system where groups of men transported the heavy supplies by relays, an arduous and slow method of travel. He noted the ...
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