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Object Details Description The pignut hickory is a native tree which gained its common name when early settlers to the US saw that pigs happily ate its nuts. While pignuts are edible, they are more ...

Therefore, M. glabra may differ from A. thaliana in terms of which side of the epidermal cells reacts to the light. In conclusion, we have revealed that auxin and cytokinin control the fate ...

Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and corkbark fir (Abies lasiocarpa var. arizonica) species are found in the highest elevations around the Redondo Peak (above 2,700 masl). Mixed conifer forest ...

The emulsifying performance of crude aqueous–ethanolic extracts from liquorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) (LREs) was investigated. Seventy five percent aqueous ethanol extract produced the most stable ...

E376,Causal Agent Beech leaf disease (BLD) is caused by an invasive nematode Litylenchus crenatae subsp. mccannii (Lcm; Figure 1). Nematodes are microscopic roundworms. Most nematodes are free-living, ...

Six hitherto unreported polyoxygenated stigmastane-type steroids, vernoglabrosterols A and B (1 and 2), and vernoglabrosides A–D (3–6), along with two known analogues (7 and 8), were isolated from the ...