Environment

This may seem patently obvious, but grass seed needs water to grow. I know, I know, I'm not exactly challenging your intellectual thinking skills. I often wonder if the general populace really gets this stuff, and I'm only privy to the small sampling of people to whom logic cannot stick. I engage in the following question and answer series more times in a year than you can imagine. Q: I have lots of bare patches in my lawn, what can I do to fill them in? A: Seed them, or have a company seed them for you. Make sure to water daily until they fill in. Q: Okay, but I can't really water. The…

Improving Biomass Use Efficiency for Semi-Arid Regions Anupam Tewari* and Ashwani Kumar Kautilya Institute of Technology Engineering* Energy Plantation Demonstration Project CentreDepartment of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 302004, India. Tel 00 91 141 2654100 Fax 00 91 141 2565905 E-mail: msku31@yahoo.com. ABSTRACT: Biomass refers to all the matter that can be obtained from photosynthesis. Most vegetable species use solar energy to create sugars from carbon dioxide and water. They store this energy in the form of glucose or starch molecules, oleaginous, cellulose, and…

An environmental factor that limits crop productivity or destroys biomass is referred to as a stress or disturbance (Grime, 1979). Salinity in soil or water is one of the major stresses and, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, can severely limit crop production (Shannon,1998). Over 800 million ha of land throughout the world is salt affected either by salinity 397 million ha or associated conditions of sodicity 434 million ha (FAO, 2005). Munns ( 2005) reviewed growth response due to salinty. The deleterious effects of salinity on plant growth are associated with (1) low osmotic…

The relative presence of microbiota may determine the use of partly digested food and regulate the food uptake and utilization in fatty and lean person ? Doctors know it better. Distal gut microbiota which constitutes the Firmicutes ( the largest bacterial phylum) containing more than 250 genera, including Lactobacillus, Mycoplasma, Bacillus and Clostridium and Bacteroidetes which include about 20 genera and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is one of the most abundant organisms. The process of mutalism allows digestion of polysaccharides ( fiber) . Fermentation of dietary fiber in accomplished…

Vrindavan famous religious place near Mathura is named as Vrindavan Vrinda is name for Tulsi ( Ocimum ) and van is forest. It had thick forests of Tulsi Ocimum interspersed with Salvadora oleodes and Salvadora persica . Now its difficult to see such forests of Vrinda. Hope we shall be able to inculcate the love for plants in the young tiny tots so that we restore the old glory of religious place . Plants keep environments clean.

One survey listed 8 cities of India where green cover has increased Alas Jaipur was not in the list. Jaipur a city basically surrounded by the hills on three sides having a mansager lake in the city a amber mavtha in original Jaipur was once filled with water . Jaipur was one city where trees were seen in Chaura Rasta and Johari Bazar ( some remnants are still there) I always wonder how the buisness interests attracting tourists to Jaipur also start caring for its green cover. How the hills could be preveted from getting barren and lake drying alltogether. Probably its the love for trees…

Neolamarckia cadamaba (Roxb.) Bosser (=Anthocephaus cadamba (Roxb.) Miq. The name given in Disc is (=A. chinensis (Lam.) A. Rich. ex Walp. syn. A. cadamba (Roxb.) Miq., A. indicus A. Rich. Family Rubiaceae Used Part Inflorescence. Kadamb tree was supposed to be widely distributed in Mathura district the land of Lord Krishna Howerver its disappearing fast from the wild of that region but can be seen in some temples and conserved areas near river Yamuna in Vrindavan and adjoining area. The plant is reported to have medicinal value. Distribution Area Found…

The First Green Revolution was an effort to create dwarf wheat and rice plants that could prosper with more fertilizer. It was highly successful in India. While this approach worked in Asia and other places where rice and wheat are the staple crops, it did not affect Africa. Root systems are the basis of the second Green Revolution, and the focus on beans and corn that thrive in poor growing conditions will help some of the world's poorest farmers, according to a Penn State plant scientist. "Africans missed the Green Revolution of the '60s because they typically do not eat wheat and rice,…

Medicinal plants constitute a vast, undocumented and overexploited economic resource and they are the principle health care resource for the majority of the tribes. Among these Asparagus racemosus Willd is a critically endangered medicinal creeper plant belonging to family Asparagaceae. The genus Asparagus has over 300 species, which are widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions. Asparagus racemosus Willd is found in India throughout tropical and sub-tropical parts including the Andaman, ascending in the Himalayas up to an altitude of 1,500 meter, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and…

Is there a pill that might inoculate us from smog? Is there a gene we can target that would make us resistant to resurgent infectious diseases? And is there a way to use genetic data to insulate new immigrants from some of the metabolic challenges of living in a new land of plenty? Welcome to the slowly emerging world of environmental medicine and its inevitable outgrowth, environmental pharmaceuticals: compounds specifically suited for mitigating the physiological challenges of mega-city life in the 21st century. The inchoate drive for such pills — disparate, proceeding in entrepreneurial…