Environment

Justus Von Liebig&The Law Of The Minimum

  Justus Von Liebig&The Law Of The Minimum "In the 19th century, the German scientist, Justus von Liebig, formulated the “Law of the Minimum,” which states that if one of the essential plant nutrients is deficient, plant growth will be poor even ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 19 2010 - 3:04pm

Tagetes spp (Asteraceae or Compositae) has pesticidal activities.

Tagetes spp have different size flowers and are usaully offered in garlands to Indian Gods. Tagetes spp are also grown by farmers acround their farms for vegetables. It was observed that if they grew this plant on all the sides of their farms the plants we ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 20 2010 - 7:27am

The Chatter Box Friend's Forum- A Discussion Of Economics

The Chatter-Box Friend's Forum- A Discussion Of Economics This is your forum for discussing scientific, economic and political solutions to the problems of climate change and fossil fuel dependency. I have invited Neven to kick off the discussion. I ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 5 2011 - 10:23am

Amaranthus spp (Amaranthaceae) are salt resistant plants have C 4 photosynthesis

As against the common belief out of 16 families showing C 4 type of photosynthesis ( in some of their plant species) mainly found in tropical plants where initial carbon acceptor is Phospho enol pyruvate carboxylase and first stable product is Oxalic acid ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 20 2010 - 7:59am

Sunflower the sign of luck

Sunflower is sign of luck in Germany, at least as my late Professor Dr Karl-Hermann Neumann told me on visit to his home in Hungen near Giessen in state of Hessen of Germany. He was leading a peaceful life in woods of Hungen after retirement . He invited ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 20 2010 - 8:24am

Beaches of Barcelona. are very clean

Beaches are to be kept clean. I witnessed beach of Barcelona. It was first time I visited a beach outside developing world. It was very different experience to see people relaxing as they please. Water was clean. No polythenes floating. No canes swimming. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 20 2010 - 9:36am

Ocimum basilicum an important medicinal plant

Ocimum basilicum is closely related to Ocimum canum and has great medicinal properties in traditional medicine. Each home in India was supposed to have this plant in their courtyard and worship Ocimum spp. They had insect repellent properties. I remember ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 20 2010 - 10:33am

Best views from Eiffel tower

Some of the most scenic views in the world can be had from Eiffel tower.   ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 20 2010 - 8:15pm

Drying hills of Amber fort, Jaigarh fort and Nahargarh fort

A view of Jaigarh fort from the Amber fort of Jaipur tells the untold story written on the hills, barren hills with no vegetation. As a botanist one may cry but how many of are us botanists now Most botanists have become molecular biologist and biotechnolo ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 21 2010 - 7:19am

A view of hills and Jal Mahl Palace from Jaigarh fort road

Janter Manter of Jaipur is now world heritage site but what about hills of Jaipur. Most of plants are cut and taken away as headloads by women for fuel. Termite attack is destroying large number of Anogeissus plants. Once the ground flora is dried up the b ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 21 2010 - 7:32am