Pollination

Cultural Control Measures:  Do not plant flowering trees and shrubs immediately nearto building entrances or along the walkways.  Remove sting from individuals with the help of a vacuum or flyswatter.  In exterior surfaces including walls, masonry steps, buildings, bleachers, fences, playground equipment, etc. eliminate harborage by sealing openings.  Clean up and store food and drink spills immediately.  Store food items and drink to be consumed outdoors in sealed containers.[7] Use of…

Memories guide our past and our present, allowing us to reflect on earlier times as well as build up preconceived notions of future events. However, memories are fickle. They can easily become lost and distorted, and the loss of these memories can have adverse effects on generations to come. In The Once and Future World, MacKinnon delves into the implications that “simply forgetting” can have on the world we live in. The evidence that we are destroying the natural world at an unnerving rate is…

Nationwide, it has been normal practice to view environmental health, animal health, and human health as separate entities. Each division conducts its own research and seldom share the findings with other sectors. The emerging concept of “One Health” seeks to break down these silos to benefit all areas of health. As stated by Dr. Buttke, “One Health is the recognition that human, animal, and environmental health are all inter-linked. …One Health encourages physicians, veterinarians, and…

The world has a surplus of food, but still people are starving. Supposedly, this surplus is not enough to fed 795 million people in the world who are undernourished. This is the issue of Malnutrition and World Hunger, which creates social disturbance, and economic instability in the developing countries, resulting poverty inclines. World hunger is a chronic problem in most of the developing countries. Hunger is not only a physical circumstance; it is an exhaust on the economic growth, and a…

In 1994 the company Calgene marketed its Flavr Savr delayed-ripening tomatoes. This would become known as the first commercial sale of a genetically modified food. Since then plants have been engineered for resistance to pathogens, herbicides and for better nutrient profiles. So if the world has been consuming genetically modified organisms for eleven years, how bad can they really be? Genetically modified foods have the potential to change the global food supply for the better in years to come…

detrimental to the honeybee population, there isn’t one single cause for colony collapse disorder. Honeybees play a huge part in food production, and are the main source for pollinating plants. For instance, “in agriculture, nearly a third of pollination is accomplished by honeybees” (“Pollinators and Pesticides”). Without the help of bees, we would not longer have foods like: Almonds, cherries, cucumbers, melons, carrots, pears, apricots, cantaloupe, apples, onions, kiwi, plums, cranberries,…

of fruit development and then no longer produce. Some fresh market varieties are determinate, but indeterminate cultivars are common in smaller scale farms, as they allow for a longer harvest season. Because the tomato is self-pollinated, wind pollination is normally enough to ensure good fruit set. Temperatures between 65 and 80 are ideal for the highest quality and good fruit set. There are many factors to think about when producing tomatoes. You want a friable soil that is well drained and…

The United States have nine genetically modified plants: corn, cotton, soy, sugar beets, Hawaiian papaya, canola, zucchini, yellow squash, and alfalfa for animal’s feedings. The plants are modified for new desirable traits and the recombinant DNA is forced into the DNA of other species to make new organisms. During the process to accelerate the rapid growth, the gene (s) can become unknown and the host plant mutation causes collateral damage that induces toxins, allergy reactions or new…

Farming refers to the activity of someone growing plants or crops from the ground. However, did you know there are different methods of farming? Today, two types of farming practices are used in agriculture, and they are organic and conventional farming. These two farming methods have been under constant debate, says New York Times journalist, Kenneth Chang (2012). For those that support organic farming, they believe that the using of natural fertilizers and no pesticides and genetically…

The orthologs of candidate genes in QTL regions and their annotation in Arabidopsis were obtained from the result of BLASTn based on gene sequence. Some genes related to seed weight from papers and some searched from Arabidopsis database (https://www.arabidopsis.org/index.jsp) using key words “seed weight”, “seed size”, “cell number” and “endosperm growth”. Homologues were clustered and analyzed using the Database for Annotation Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) tool, an online…