Quality maintenance Tropical Plants

Protein from Tropical Plants

s of Workshop Papers Abstracts of Workshop Paperss of Workshop Papers TOBACCO LEAF PROTEIN Pilot-scale technology that extracts high-quality protein from young tobacco leaves has been developed. Soluble proteins extracted from tobacco plants might be added to foods as nutritional supplements or for functional properties (e.g., gelling, thickening). Although not fully tested, they might have a s...

Potential Antioxidants from Tropical Plants

Maintenance of tropical tropopause layer cirrus

5 [1] A two-dimensional cloud resolving model with explicit bin microphysics is used to 6 study the maintenance of tropical tropopause layer (TTL) cirrus. Numerical simulations 7 using this model show that a TTL cirrus with a maximum radiative heating rate of 3 K/day 8 is able to self-maintain for as long as 2 days if it contains ice crystals whose initial 9 mean radius is smaller than about 5 ...

On the Maintenance of High Tropical Cirrus

Thin tropical cirrus layers sometimes extend hundreds of kilometers horizontally and often persist for time periods of several hours to more than a day before dissipating. Due to their ubiquity and location in the very cold tropical upper troposphere and above the very warm tropical ocean, tropical cirrus clouds play a major role in the earth’s radiation budget (Liou 1986). Despite their impact...

Origins and Maintenance of Tropical Biodiversity

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Tropics: description, climate and ecosystems 3. Earth's biodiversity 4. Why are there so many different kinds of organisms in the Tropics? 5. Latitudinal gradients in species richness and their hypothesis 5.