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Castilla y Leon, and Castilla la Mancha. This part is also the most significant for industrial plants such as biomass crops and oilseed rape. In the southernmost regions of Castilla La Mancha and Catalunya, dry fruit trees and vineyards increase in significance, while the Ebro River delta supports a well-developed rice farming activity. Diffuse pollution originated by pesticides application in the basin has been widely studied [1-3]. A historical pollution from chemical plants manufacturing solvents and chlorinated pesticides in the southern part of the river basin is also well known [4]. Automobile, textile, food, and wood industry as well as mining activities are important in the northern part. [Pg.334]

Growing of different types of tree species (fruit, timber and fuel wood, medicinal, and aesthetic species) over time has been changing gradually. The fruit trees dominated much more over timber trees a few decades ago but the gap between them has diminished over time remarkably. A recent study conducted across the country showed that about 50 years ago, proportions of fruit and timber trees were 86% and 7%, respectively, which are now closer to 60% and 34%, respectively (Basak 2002). [Pg.447]

Bees, especially orchard mason bees, which are useful fruit tree pollinators, will colonize holes drilled in blocks of wood or paper drinking-straws stacked in a waterproof box, or you can buy special bee boxes. Mason bees emerge early, so the boxes need to be erected in early spring before the apple buds burst. [Pg.113]

Lindane is used predominately as a seed dressing and soil insecticide, for the control of ectoparasites of humans and domestic animals, for the control of locusts and grasshoppers, and as a residual spray to control the Anopheles vectors of malaria. Because of its relatively high volatility it is useful to control wood-boring insects of timber, fruit trees, and ornamental plants. The mode of action is not well understood but is thought to be competitive blocking of the y-aminobutyric acid (GABA) transmitter of synaptic nerve transmission. [Pg.277]

Some bentwood projects are done over a period of time, as materials become available, and some objects may include more than one type of wood. Trees commonly used as sources for bentwood include ash, aspen, bald cypress, birch, cottonwood, box elder, dogwood, red cedar, maple, hickory, and different species of fruit trees. Some vines, such as honeysuckle, wisteria, and rattan vine (.Berchemia scandens) are also used. [Pg.81]

The triorganotin species have been used as industrial biocides for over 30 years [117, 118]. Examples are triphenyltin hydroxide (structure 5) for fungal diseases on celery, rice, sugar beets, and coffee tricyclohexylstannyl-1,2,4-triazole (structure 6) as an acaricide for apple, pear, and citrus fruit trees bistributyltin oxide (structure 7) as a wood preservative and tributyltin-methylacrylate monomers (structure 8) polymerized with other acrylates to yield a marine antifoulant polymer that prevents the build of up barnacles, algae, and other marine animals on ships. [Pg.330]

Fruit with ants inside. Cause Insect feeding. Ants enter the fruit eye to feed on ripe fruit. To thwart ants, band stems with plastic or heavy paper coated with sticky material. Or place ant bait stations containing boric acid around trees. Wood ashes around the base of trees also helps prevent ants from climbing up to fruit. [Pg.97]

In fruit trees, prune infested wood to control flatheaded borers. [Pg.432]

Dwellings in sparsely populated areas often have out buildings, wood piles, fruit trees, w ells, fences with gates, walks, and other locations easily rigged to wound or destroy careless soldiers. [Pg.252]

OTHER COMMENTS used in the manufacture of fire retardant compositions for flame-proofing textiles and paper products used in flameproofing wood used to treat cigarette paper so as to reduce the hazard of tumor formation from tobacco smoke used as soil treat-ment/for weed control/on apples, pears, fruit trees and ornamental trees. [Pg.407]

Swihart, R.K. 1991. Modifying scent-marking behavior to reduce wood-chuck damage to fruit trees. Ecol Appl, 7,98-103. [Pg.454]

Fibers are collected from the fruit of the plant, e.g. coconut (coir) fiber. Fibers are actually the stalks of the plant. For example, straws of wheat, rice, barley, and other crops including bamboo and grass. Tree wood is also such a fiber... [Pg.381]

Polyterpenes. Polyterpenes is one of the first classes of non-polar tack-ifiers to be developed. Terpene monomers are a by-product in the extraction of rosin from wood stumps or tree sap, and from the extraction of oils from citrus fruits. The latter is the dominant source. As such, polyterpene prices generally mirror those of citrus fruits, which fluctuate substantially from one growing season to the next. Terpenes like rosin are cyclic, see Fig. 6, which is partly responsible for their excellent solvent properties. [Pg.720]

Our study on Panellus luminescence was started when the fruiting bodies of this species were found in the backyard of my residence in the early 1980s. This fungus commonly grows on dead oak trees, and we observed a rich growth of this fungus on the fallen trees in the Beebe Wood, Falmouth, MA, over a period of 3-4 years after Hurricane Bob struck the area in 1991. [Pg.276]

The cacao tree is a "cauliflorous" plant in that the flowers grow on the old wood of the trunk and main branches. Trees may produce 10,000 or more flowers in a year however, only 10 to 50 eventually develop into ripe pods 4 to 6 months later. Two standard crops are harvested each year although fruits in various stages of development may be continually on the tree. Cacao trees begin to bear significant amounts of fruit when they are 4 to 8 years old, and continue to do so for 50 years or more. [Pg.174]

Many tribes used the berries as a food supply and included it in their pemmican, a mixture of nuts, meat and dried fruit which served as a suitable food when travelling and hunting. The Iroquois cooked elderberries and served them with com bread. They would sun-dry the berries and store them for winter food supplies. The Meskwaki prepared the berries as a conserve. The wood of the tree was useful in bow making. Straigth stems would be selected and dried, and from this arrows were made. The Iroquois would soak their... [Pg.15]

A tree, Scorodocarpus borneensis, native to Borneo and the Malay peninsula, has a garlic-like smell and is known as wood garlic . The fruit is used locally for seasoning. The major volatile flavor compounds from wood garlic are similar to those of garlic itself. Some of these materials are polysulfur compounds and have antimicrobial activity against some bacteria and fungi. These materials contain four sulfur atoms.75 They are either 2,4,6-trithiaheptane-5-thione-2,2-dioxide (CH3-SO2-CH2-S-CS-S-CH3) or derivatives of tetrathia-octane (CH3-S-CH2-S-S-CH2-S-CH 3, CH3-SO2-CH2-S-S-CH2-S-CH3, CH3-S-CH2-SO2-S-CH2-S-CH3). [Pg.691]

Without doubt the greatest contribution to a successful harvest comes from the sun. Sunshine provides energy for plants to grow, ripens wood, and Improves the flavor and color of fruits. If your garden receives sun for only part of the day, you will be limited In what tree fruits you can successfully grow—... [Pg.289]

Raw materials are isolated from various parts of plants, e.g., blossoms, buds, fruit, peel, seeds, leaves, bark, wood, roots, or from resinous exudates. Different parts of the same plant may yield products with different compositions. For instance, steam distillation of the bark of the cinnamon tree gives cinnamon bark oil, which contains mainly cinnamaldehyde, whereas cinnamon leaf oil obtained from the leaves of the tree contains eugenol as its major constituent. [Pg.167]


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