These traditional healers were from the Sidama, Oromo, and Gedeo ethnic groups, and their communication languages were Sidamu affo, Afaan Oromo, and Gedeoffa, which is a native language to the respective research location. Following an approach of Alexiades [32] before the interviews, discussions...
In the most species-rich forests, most species are rare and the common species are likely to dominate ecosystem functions. For example, a remarkably few, common, large tree species (1.5% of the total tree flora in both the Amazon Basin and Central Africa) contribute disproportionately to ...
The placement of the power plant may have long-term effects on the habitats of native plants and animals. Some solar power plant-s may require water for cleaning solar collectors and concentrators or for cooling turbine generators. Using large volumes of ground water or surface water in some ...
(3000 BC to the fourteenth century) was not as rare an occurrence as one might suspect, becoming steadily more common during each succeeding century. Ancient animal collections developed initially from the convergence of two trends: the keeping of native wild animals for economic purposes (...
and the remaining viruses were found for the first time to occur in Japan. Reports of virus infection in woody fruit trees, flowers, and medicinal plants are especially increasing. The PPS has exercised vigilance against all non-native viruses/viroids unlisted in the table athttps://www.ppsj....
The Anthropocene epoch encapsulates the profound effects of human activities on the land surface, oceans, atmosphere, and the evolution of life on Earth, with the implications that these changes have no geological analog10. Biotic homogenization is primarily driven by native species’ extirpation and ...
The tobacco plant is native to the Americas and contains the psychoactive addictive substance nicotine (尼古丁). Tobacco was widely cultivated and spread around the world following the arrival of Europeans in the Americas at the end of the 15th century.“The tobacco seeds were the big surprise. ...
Overexpressing a receptor–ligand pair specifically in their native tissue domains dramatically promotes wood formation and biomass production in trees. Jing Zhang Juan Antonio Alonso Serra Ykä Helariutta News & Views05 May 2015Nature Plants
(1) to derive a dataset of species mean values covering all six traits with the aim of being representative of vascular plant species worldwide; (2) to detect erroneous trait records (due to errors in sampling, measurement, unit conversion, etc.); and (3) to ensure that correctly measured...
coronopifolia, a native South African Brassicaceae species currently unexplored for novel antimicrobial peptides. Four plant defensin peptide encoding genes, termed Hc-AFP1 to 4 (Figure 1) were obtained and analysis of the deduced amino acid sequences revealed that the newly isolated peptide ...