Enriched Food An enriched food is a product to which nutrients have been added. Typically, the added nutrients were present in the food in its original form, but were removed at some point during processing. White bread is an example of […]
Sacred Groves The word sacred means holy place and groves means an area of land, so sacred groves means small area of land with particular type of trees grown on it and dedicated to local deities or ancestral spirit, which are protected by local communities and add in ecological and religious values. Patches of vegetation
Health benefits of Burans: Rhododendron arboreum Himalaya is abode to various plants with medicinal use. Rhododendron arboreum tree from the valley of Himalayas known for its bright scarlet red bell shaped flowers filled with sweet nectar, is one such tree with medicinal uses. Flowers and leaves of this tree have been long for medicinal purposes.
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Benefits Of Curry Leaves Curry leaves are natural flavouring agents with a number of important health benefits, which makes our food both healthy and tasty along with pleasing aroma. They contain various antioxidant properties and have the ability to control diarrhoea, gastrointestinal problems such as indigestion, excessive acid secretion, peptic ulcers, dysentery, diabetes and an
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Vegetative Propagation Through Layering Layering Stems still attached to their parent plants may form roots where they touch a rooting medium. Severed from the parent plant, the rooted stem becomes a new plant. This method of vegetative propagation, called layering, promotes a high success rate
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Importance Of small cardamom Elaichi or cardamom is one of the most common spices seen in an Indian household. Not only does it add sweet taste and unique flavour to your dishes, it is also widely used as a natural mouth freshener. But
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High Temperature Stress in Plants In both natural and Agricultural conditions, plants are frequently exposed to environmental stresses. High temperature is an important environmental stress factor in plants productivity that typically accompanies drought conditions. Higher plants are able to maintain their cell and tissues at a constant optimum temperature. Their growth and metabolism are therefore
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Proteolytic Enzyme Act As A Regulator And Modulator Proteolytic enzymes digest protein by aiding in the digestion process, breaking it down into amino acids. They can be taken as a supplement, but better yet, they can be found naturally in certain foods. A great example is papaya, which contains the proteolytic enzyme papain, a popular
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MUSIC AND PLANTS: Do Plants like Music? Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. The plants are living organisms and they can feel and sense, as the ‘touch me not’ plant recoils and folds its leaves at a slight touch. Some plants jolt in pain on plucking the leaf, while some tremble
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Mechanism of Oxidative Stress Tolerance in Plants Generally the use of light energy by most photosynthesizing organisms is saturated at 25-50% of sunlight. In other words, they are commonly exposed to more light energy than they required for normal photosynthesis. When leaves are irradiated by excess light energy, the chloroplasts that carry out photosynthesis can
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