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English or Persian Walnuts. Walnuts are produced in more countries than any of the other tree nuts but production figures are unrehable. The United States is the leading producer of walnuts, at 234,913 t in 1990—1991 (valued at 279,720,000). Production, mostly in Califomia and Oregon, is nearly one-half of the world total. Many countries produce substantial quantities of walnuts. The USDA considers estimates of the commercial crop more rehable than the total yearly production figures, which in 1990—1991 were 152,500 t in China, 66,000 t in Turkey, 17,000 t in India, 13,000 t in Prance, and 12,000 t in Italy. Walnuts, both in-sheU and shelled, may be imported from many countries, eg. Prance, Italy, China, Turkey, and India. Most imported walnuts are smaller than domestic walnuts and are used by the confectionery and baking industries. [Pg.280]

Linked lists—Data items linked by pointers. In the general form, each item, except the first, has one predecessor, and each item, except the last, has one successor, with pointers linking items to their successors. Doubly linked lists have pointers to both the predecessor and the successor of an item and a circular list has a pointer from the final item to the initial item (producing a predecessor to the initial item and a successor to the final item). Restricted lists also exist, such as stacks, where items may only be added (pushed) or deleted (popped) at one end (the top), and queues, where items must be inserted at one end and deleted from the other. Trees are linked lists in which each item (node) except the root node has one predecessor, but all nodes may have any finite number, or zero, successors graphs contain both nodes and edges, which connect the nodes and define their relationships. [Pg.112]

P-acoradiene [295]. These compounds were seen in all other trees but apparently at significantly different quantitative levels. For structures 286-298 see Fig. 3.13. [Pg.168]

Trees. Phreatophyte roots will tend to extend deeper than other tree roots. Phreatophytic tree roots can reach as deep as 24 m (80 ft). Two examples are mesquite tap roots, which range from 12 to 30 m (40 to 100 ft), and river birch tap roots, which go to a depth of 27 to 30 m (90 to 100 ft). [Pg.554]

In many crops where weed killers are used, applications must be made with care or the crop being weeded may suffer. This takes some attention. Coffee showed characteristic injuries (22, 51) from applications of the weed killers 2,4-D, TCA, and CMU [3-(p-chlorophenyl)-l,l-dimethylurea]. On the other hand, as in other tree crops, further work on coffee proved that, if properly handled, weed sprays did not result in important permanent harm to the trees. Some of the most recent work has shown (22) that amine salts and butoxyethanol esters of 2,4-D caused less... [Pg.60]

Newly grafted fruit trees Fruit nurseries graft many hundreds of young trees each year, binding shoots of chosen cultivars onto the roots of other trees that will control height and vigor. The plant tissue fuses naturally at the graft point, or "union."... [Pg.294]

Figure 9-34 illustrates one of these branches. Human Engineering, showing three levels of the tree, designated as basic cause, near-root cause, and root cause. (Note that other trees may use different terminology for these levels, although root cause is a common term.)... [Pg.242]

Table 1 lists some allelopathlc plants of interest to foresters, together with the classes of toxic compounds produced and examples of species they are reported to suppress. The list is not exhaustive many species that may be allelopathlc have not been studied in depth. One easily observed effect—though sometimes difficult to distinguish from effects of competition—is the exclusion of shrubs, herbs, and other trees from beneath the crowns of particular tree species. [Pg.177]

To illustrate I return to the example of deforestation (Fig. XI. 1). There are a number of peasant plots around a lake. I shall tell three stories about different choices the peasants could be facing. In the first story, deforestation has occurred and erosion is underway. It can be stopped, however, if new trees are planted. Specifically, erosion can be stopped on an individual plot such as A if and only if trees are planted on that plot and on both the adjoining plots, B and C There are two equilibria. In one, no trees are planted and the land is lost to the lake. No individual peasant can do anything to stop it. In the other, trees are planted on all plots and erosion is halted. Given that others cooperate in reforestation, it is in the interest of each to go along. This equilibrium, although better for all than the first, may not be realized. The peasants may not know that their... [Pg.111]

Audemars Explosives, patented in 1855 in England, were prepd by nitrating purified barks of mulberry or of some other trees... [Pg.507]

As regards tannin, the parts of the cortex, or true bark, in which it is mostly contained, are the exterior layers of the portion known as the liber, and the interior of the cortical tissue—the inside portions of the former, and the most exterior of the latter, yielding very little of this principlo. The same observation is true of other matters, such as quinine and the like. The various dyCB are seated frequently in the exterior portion of the cortical tissue. The sap always ascends through the cellulose of the real hark and as this fluid is the source from which tannin is socreted, it is evident that thcrO will be more of it in the bark, when the flow is greater than at other periods. Experiments have proved this to bo the caso as regards oak, and the same observation applies to the barks of other trees, such as the willow, elm, pine, birch, bcecli, et cetera, with equal force.. ... [Pg.505]

The match-search algorithm described above works well for similar Feature Trees of equal sizes or if one tree is fully contained in the other tree. However, as the algorithm cannot generate inner-NIL matches, variable linker regions between pharmacophoric groups cannot be modeled (see Fig. 4.5). [Pg.89]

Habitat Parasitic on the Oak, Hawthorn, Apple and many other trees. [Pg.64]

We examine seven feedstocks with respect to supply, seasonality, price, and ethanol yield. In particular, we describe the price/t, the gallons of ethanol produced/t, and the feedstock cost/gal of ethanol. We examine both Midwestern corn and California-grown corn, because either crop might be used for ethanol production. In addition, the analysis for Midwestern corn provides a benchmark for comparison with corn and other feedstocks produced in California. Those alternatives include grapes, raisins, oranges, other tree fruit, almond hulls, and whey. [Pg.97]

Corn is the only feedstock that would be available in sufficient supply to support production of 40 million gal of ethanol, given current production levels. The current production of grain corn in California is 920,000 t, while the estimated requirement is for 449,4381 (Table 1). The proportions of supply that would be available for other feedstocks range from 5% for other tree fruit to 25% for raisins. The production, availability, and prices of feedstocks would change with farm-level and industry responses to public policies and market developments that influence the demand for ethanol production. [Pg.101]

Other tree fruit and grapes are considered to be available only from May through October. [Pg.103]


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