Mount Ararat

The host plants suitable for Armenian cochineal grow only in Armenia and Azerbaijan, particularly on the soil of flat valleys, e.g. along the banks of the Araxes river up to the north and east of Mount Ararat (10). 

Josephus, the Koran, Kurdish Jews, Yezidis and Mandaean Sabians all hold that the true resting-place of the Ark was actually on Mount Judi, not Mount Ararat." Mount Judi is probably the 2114-meter high peak, Cudi Dagi, near Simak, one hundred and four kilometers south of Lake Van and one hundred and sixty kilometers west of Harran. 

The utility of this ligation approach has been demonstrated through the convergent syntheses of therapeutic peptides (ovine-corticoliberin and Forteo) and the human erythrocyte acylphosphatase protein ( 11 kDa) [82]. The requisite peptide salicylaldehyde ester precursor is prepared in an epimerization-free manner via Fmoc-solid-phase peptide synthesis. This approach was also used for the synthesis of Daptomycin (Fig. 14), a lipodepsipeptide isolated firom Streptomyces roseoporus which was obtained from a soil sample from Mount Ararat (Turkey) [83]. 

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