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11/22/2008
Fair advertises Afghan pomegranates (Moldova.org)
Afghan farmers brought their harvest to the first international pomegranate fair, held in a showground outside Kabul.Officials in the country and international aid groups hope the recent popularity and rising price of pomegranate juice will encourage farmers to give up growing opium poppies, The Telegraph reported.Some botanists believe the pomegranate was first cultivated in Afghanistan, ...
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11/21/2008
Guidebook to Va. plants in the works (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Finding out what's growing in and beyond the borders of your backyard is a $2.2 million, 10-year-long venture. But when it's finished, the Flora of Virginia Project will provide state botanists, educators, government land planners, foresters and gardeners something they have lacked since Jamestown was settled -- a comprehensive guidebook that describes and illustrates the state's approximately ...
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11/23/2008
Exhibit reunites reknown botanical prints (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
The works of Pancrace Bessa, a regular exhibitor at the Paris Salons between 1806 and 1831, are on display at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University.
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11/22/2008
Fair advertises Afghan pomegranates (UPI)
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Afghan farmers brought their harvest to the first international pomegranate fair, held in a showground outside Kabul.
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11/21/2008
Gadget Gives Anyone a Green Thumb (NBC Bay Area)
Anyone can have a green thumb with this gadget, which pairs traditional gardening with high-tech "diagnosis."
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11/20/2008
What a tonic (BBC News)
Rejuvenation of juniper is a boon for gin lovers
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11/20/2008
Conservation tonic for gin lovers (BBC News)
A scheme to try and halt the decline of juniper berries could be good news for gin lovers.
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11/21/2008
We say ... Smoke means life (Bluffton Today)
If you see smoke billowing from Pinckney Island in the next few months, don’t panic. The deer are OK. The ibis could care less. The trees are fine. We’re not California. Everything will grow back. Frankly, everything needs fire to grow back. Before we started developing everything in sight, fire was nature’s way of, well, keeping nature under control.
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11/20/2008
Homestead lecture series to honor Florida woman pioneer (Miami Herald)
Strong and intelligent women changed Florida -- even if they couldn't vote until 1920. May Mann Jennings, a former governor's wife, was such a woman who even lobbied the state Legislature.
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11/18/2008
Foreign invaders threaten native Swiss species (Swissinfo)
From mountain meadows to riverbanks, scientists say a silent war between foreign species and native Swiss plants and animals is unfolding all around us.
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  • Abdullah I. A. Alebidi - Lecturer at King Saud University. Postharvest of fruit. Provides C.V., research interests and publications. English and Arabic.
  • Alex Boonman - Doctoral candidate Alex Boonman is researching the role of cytokinins in the response of plants to vertical light gradients at Utrecht University.
  • Alvin W. Chapman - About his visits to Floyd County in Northwest Georgia, and his botanical collections.
  • Andrzej Urbisz - Research in the Department of Plant Systematics, Silesian University, Poland.
  • Axel Dalberg Poulsen - Axel Dalberg Poulsen is a Danish botanist who works on tropical plants, particularly Etlingera (Ginger) species from Borneo.
  • Christy Carter - A Ph.D. student in plant ecology at Ohio University, studies halophytes (plants that grow in saline areas).
  • Deepak Acharya - Botanist from Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, India.
  • Donoghue Lab - Michael Donoghue's phylogenetic biology lab. Provides information on the people, projects and publications.
  • Everard Edwards - Plant ecophysiologist working on global change effects on plants. Information on research, publications, and links.
  • Folkard Asch - Plant physiologist; professor for crop water stress management in the tropics and subtropics at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. CV, research information, abstracts of papers, posters.
  • Hajiev, Vahid Jalal oglu - Professor of biology at the Institute of Botany of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. Results of research activities have presented.
  • Harvard University Herbaria Index of Botanists - Searchable database of names and information on collectors of the herbaria.
  • James Bidlack - An associate professor of biology at the University of Central Oklahoma. Webpage shows classes taught and a link to the Metabolism Foundation, of which he is the director.
  • Jennifer Forman - Personal site of a PhD student with information on invasive plants (Japanese knotweed and more), images of wild plants in Italy and Massachusetts, and microscopic images of Lamiacaeae trichomes.
  • Julie F. Barcelona - Personal website showcasing research on Philippine ferns and Rafflesia.
  • Leonow, Michael - Personal site contains mega taxonomy releases and other researches.
  • Marc Gibernau - Researcher at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, studying aroid pollination by bees, beetles, and flies and the roles played by thermogenesis and floral odors. [French and English]
  • Martin Hodson - Environmental Biology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Main research interests are plant mineral relations, particularly aluminium toxicity and silica deposition.
  • MJ Iqbal - Research at the University of Guelph in plant physiology, computer automation, growth regulation, chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis, DL-gene study in soybeans, and carbon partitioning.
  • Peter Török's website - Péter Török is a plant ecologist working at the University of Debrecen in Hungary. His research interests are secondary succession and seed bank ecology of grasslands.
  • Pieter B. Pelser - Postdoctoral researcher in plant systematics, studying the phylogeny of Senecioneae.
  • Plant Explorers - Biographies of famous, and not so famous, explorers and plant explorers, with information from botanical gardens and plant clubs around the world.
  • Rajiv Dutta - An electrophysiologist based at Purdue University in the US.
  • Ranjit K Mitra - CV with academic qualifications and publications.
  • S. Senthil Kumar - Ph.D., Lecturer in Botany at St. Joseph's College (Autonomous) in South India. Research interest is the association of orchid roots with fungi and bacteria.
  • Sascha Reth - German PhD student modelling canopy leaf area index in a mixed oak-beech forest and studying CO2 and N2O emission in soils under varying land use.
  • Stanislaw Weidner - Plant physiologist and biochemist at the University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland.
  • Thomas Croat - Missouri Botanical Garden curator and researcher, an expert collector and describer of neotropical araceae or aroids.
  • Venceslas Goudiaby - Has research interests in the ecophysiology of arid, semiarid and boreal forest.
  • Will Cook - Research Associate at Duke University. Includes listings and a key, with photographs, of trees in North Carolina.
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