Crops and native plants across Missouri could be at risk because of an alien species of weed with a propensity for taking charge.Garlic mustard, formally alliaria petiolata, has European origins and has long been a troublemaker in the East. Now it is cropping up more frequently in Missouri....
The Missouri Botanical Garden has completed a 26-year effort to document the state's native plants. The three-volume Flora of Missouri contains illustrations, plant distribution maps, and a detailed description of each species, including its taxonomy, uses, and conservation status. This encyclopedic ...
Planting Seeds for Collaboration in Plant Sciences - Growing the Missouri-Canada ConnectionBaer, Jim
PLANT ANTICANCER AGENTS .39. TRITERPENES FROM IRIS-MISSOURIENSIS (IRIDACEAE) "Special concern 2010." WONG,SM,OSHIMA,... - 《J Pharm Sci》 被引量: 0发表: 1986年 Attempts to hasten germination of seeds of Iris missouriensis Thesis (M.S.)-University of Idaho. Bibliography: leaves 25-28....
Linear regression was used to correlate the weight of seeds from a single seedhead and number of seeds to estimate the total seed production per seedhead. The number of seedheads per plant varied from 3 to 56. On average, plants growing alone had 64% more seedheads per plant than plants...
The flowers eventually give way to a seed capture, which splits open and disperses tiny seeds. The leaves are oval blue-green and can grow to five inches in length. This plant was used by Native Americans to relieve itching caused by poison ivy, insect bites, and stinging nettle. ...
Native Hawaiians have lived on this land for more than 1,000 years, making this an important cultural site. According to the National Park Service, many of the legends surrounding Haleakala focus on the demigod Maui, and natives consider the summit to be the place where Maui snared the sun...
introduction from its native country of Japan. It is thought that grubs of this pest were introduced in pots of iris plants imported into the US prior to the initiation of federal plant and animal inspections in 1918. In Missouri, infestations of Japanese beetles were first found in the southe...
This is henbit close up. My daughter likes to pick the little flowers off and eat them because they are sweet. Henbit can be eaten fresh or cooked as an herb, used in teas, salads, wraps and smoothies. All parts of the plant above ground are edible and high in iron, vitamins and fi...
One way to combat that lack of knowledge is by working with, and training, scientists in the countries that would benefit greatly from CRISPR-Cas. Another way would be to use CRISPR-Cas to genetically modify a prominent African crop such as teff, an annual grass native to Eritrea and Ethiop...