Some Iowa Plants

Plants as Phyto-Phactories: Connecting the Iowa Value Chain

The technology-driven evolution of crop plants from producers of basic food and fiber materials to producers of a broader range of specific molecules involved in human health and well-being is well under way. It will mark the beginning of a fundamental change in agricultural practices and the farm economy. The relentless discovery of naturally produced molecules in plants and their direct invol...

Some Common Poisonous Plants

Exotic Aquatic Plants-some Good; Some Bad

Some studies on microbacteria from Iowa dairy products.

Microbacteria have attracted attention because they are among the most heat-resistant, non-sporeforming types of bacteria found in dairy products. As they grow poorly, if at all, at 37 C, they usually were overlooked when the standard plate count procedure called for incubation of the plates for 48 hr at that temperature. However, they form small colonies when incubation temperatures of 32 to 3...

[Floristics of some medicine plants].

Las plantas medicinales han acompañado al ser humano desde la más remota antigüedad, no hay cultura que no haya desarrollado su propia flora medicinal, la cual es generalmente transmitida por tradición oral. Hasta hace unas cuantas décadas todavía el reconocimiento de estas plantas era parte del estudio médico y también de amplio conocimiento popular. La creciente urbanización y consiguiente al...