but advances in the last century have made it a high-tech industry.1Farmers raise animals and harvest fruits and vegetables with the help of sophisticated harvesting techniques, including using GPS to manage their
it breaks down towards the end of the leaf's life, and most of the pigment's nitrogen (one of the building blocks of chlorophyll) is resorbed back into the plant, When leaves lose their chlorophyll in the fall, other leaf pigments such as carotenoids and anthocyanins begin to show. While...
Fertilizer does indeed contain enough nutrition for a plant to survive until harvesting, but not enough nutrients to support your body's nutrient needs. As discussed in the excellent book “Not On The Label: What Really Goes Into The Food On Your Plate“, this results in plants that up to ...
Except that Mati extended it even further by harvesting locally grown lavender and teaching the kids to sew their fabrics into scented, weighted eye pillows for sore muscles and relaxation before sleeping. Many thanks to Krystin for boots on the ground (boots in the garden?) for pulling this o...
The days when farm foreclosures top the headlines again may not be far off. But there is no question that something is deeply askew in rural America, as evidenced by a different set of stats. Part of what garnered public attention about the plight of farmers in the 1980s was a wave of...
Haploid and diploid cells both contain nucleic DNA, but only diploid cells have a full set of chromosomes. For sexual reproduction and gene shuffling to occur, the number of chromosomes in a diploid cell is reduced in half via meiosis to produce a haploi