Papaya- Perennial Fruits

At the beginning, in Chicago 1891, the father of Wrigley’s company, William Wrigley Jr. was selling soap. With every sold soap, he was giving to his clients some baking soda. When he detected more interest in his baking soda rather than in his soap, he decided to change his merchandise. To incite people to buy baking soda, he was giving out free gum.

Eavan Boland’s poem “The Pomegranate” utilizes the intricacies of the Greek myth of Persephone and elegantly intertwines the story to detail the bond of daughter and mother and the cyclical journey from daughter to mother. The myth of Persephone deeply resonates within Boland due to the versatility and impactful meaning of the story. Which in turn gives the poem a ambivalent and bittersweet emotional narrative with a reflective tone. Boland immediately manipulates the cyclical essence of the poem through juxtaposing the little girl in the myth, Persephone, to the little girl reading the poem, the narrator. The author does this by seemingly mixing the two together as displayed in the following lines, “I can enter it anywhere and have. As a

The book “Fresh Fruits, broken bodies, Migrant Farmers in the United States By Seth Holms, is about Triqui migrants, who migrated up and down the west coast of the United States and Mexico, traveling between rural hometowns in Oaxaca and ideas of industrialized agricultural production in California and Washington. From reading this, he came to an understanding that the ethnography of how they made a living, the sorts of problems and harassment they faced, and the dreadful realities of a food system made on the backs of poor migrant workers.  He experienced how the poor suffered taking a hint from his informers, who warned Holmes that crossing the border is a particular kind of suffering, that he needed to hold in order to understand their lives.

cattleianum, is a highly invasive species that damages native Hawaiian forests, ecosystems, and the watershed, which can be managed through mechanical, chemical, and biological controls. In its native homeland of southeastern Brazil, the strawberry guava is limited, unlike Hawaii, where it forms monotypic stands that displace native Hawaiian flora and fauna and drive these indigenous, endemic, and endangered species towards extinction. Strawberry guava contributes further to the displacement of native Hawaiian forests by providing nourishment to feral pigs and mice that feed on native Hawaiian flora and fauna. Besides displacement of native Hawaiian species, strawberry guava puts humans at risk through increased erosion and soil runoff as well as hosting fruit flies that cause large scale damage to crops. Mechanical and chemical controls were used to manage P. cattleianum, however they require a lot of time, labor, and money, yet the strawberry guava prevails majority of the time. The State has recently introduced a biocontrol, T. ovatus, which is host specific to P. cattleianum and not its commercially significant cousin, P. guajava, nor any native Hawaiian plants. Although the T. ovatus will not kill the strawberry guava, the T. ovatus will inhibit the growth of new foliage and fruit formation. With the introduction of T. ovatus and increased public awareness of the effects of strawberry guava, P. cattleianum can be controlled and eliminated to

This chapter novel begins in a small ranch named, Rancho de las Rosas in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The novel begins by introducing a 12-year-old girl named Esperanza, she is vibrant and enthusiastic she is trying to see the world with open eyes. Until one day when her father tragically dies from the cause of bandits. Esperanza her Mama, and Abuelita are left with difficult decisions that they must make in order to make their life normal again. They must all make sacrifices that change the course of their life leading to new adventures that these three women never dreamed they would do.

Earth has experienced an outbreak of a new, genetically modified virus. The virus began from a rogue GMO; this virus is known as “Sunset Phage”. The virus has no effect on humans, however, it travels through the air and can infect plants. The virus causes plants to stop photosynthesizing. It is estimated that the Earth’s entire ecosystem will be infected within two years by Sunset Phage, causing Earth to be no longer habitable by humans. Photosynthesis in plants produces oxygen for humans and animals to breathe. With no more oxygen being produced, the Earth will not be able to sustain life.

I was first interested in this value system because of the Papago people in The Desert Smells Like Rain. This value system actually mesmerized me because it was so impressive that an entire people group were able to live off of what was basically a desolate desert with very little water. This in itself is impressive enough but the Papago’s diet also only really consisted of crops they grew in flood fields and other wild foods. This really struck me because it is such an impressive feat that many generations of the Papago have been living off of this strict diet of what basically amounts to plants. This ability to not just survive but thrive on a barren desert land definitely played a role in inspiring me to want to adopt a no meat diet for

In the novel, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel, the underlying complexity of a banana is shown. There are many factors that contributed to the various forms of bananas that exist today. The novel lays out the history and production of bananas, as well as some interesting aspects about the banana that make it different from other fruits. The history of the banana has greatly evolved. Due to diseases, the bananas that used to exist no longer exist. “That’s what happened to the Gros Michel.” Just 50 years after the disease hit, the Gros Michel was extinct and the Cavendish took its place (Koeppel 16). The extinction of the Gros Michel was not only a threat to companies, such as

Labels were first made for Intraspecific and Interspecific for each plastic pot measuring 6cm by 6cm by 8.5cm. There was 10 pots filled ¾ of the way full, with Sta-Green™-moisture mixture plus wood fertilizer, for each of the twenty groups. For intraspecific a control was set with one Brassica rapa seed directly in the center of the pot. Then 2 Brassica rapa seeds were placed together equal distances apart into two pots. In another two pots, four Brassica rapa seeds were placed together equally apart. The last two pots had 8 Brassica rapa seeds equally apart. The Brassica rapa seeds used in this experiment are Wisconsin Fast Plant™. For the interspecific groups,the plastic pots were the same as above and each filled ¾ full of the same potting

Tolerance is one of the most valuable attributes a person can have. Some people have and abundance of it, and others not so much. In our world today, acts of tolerance are few and far in-between, as the sources show. Though tolerance is so rare, through diversity and a strong ethical sense it is possible to learn to tolerate and accept, even if not all of our experiences are the same.

The Southern bean mosaic virus is a virus transmitting to original host via a saliva of Mexican bean beetle vector. Not only the Mexican bean beetle carry the viruses, however, it is one of impotent insects cause massive economic injury level due to it can eat the leaves, flowers, and pods, which leads to huge damage in the various bean plants1. The main host of this insect is bean plants and it feeds on various species of the soybean, for instance, haseolus vulgaris L. and Phaseolus lunatus L1.

V2, a unique protein of monopartite begomoviruses has been shown to suppress PTGS in transient assays (Zrachya et al., 2007). It was demonstrated that ability of V2 to interact with SISG3, the tomato homologue of Arabidopsis SGS3 leads to suppression of PTGS (Glick et al., 2008). Furthermore, it was shown that the Rep proteins encoded by two alphasatellites, Gossypium darwinii symptomless alphasatellite and Gossypium mustelinium symptomless alphasatellite possess suppressor activity (Nawaz-ul-Rehman et

Papago Park Pediment is the result of erosion. Because it was cut by many small faults, it was uplifted by the fault block. It has a considerably gentle sloping area because the erosion caused the reduction of the upland caused by the smaller faults. The bedrock may be deposited first since it is covered by six meters of callichified colluvium-alluvium. The aggrading valley-fill alluvium created the accumulation of this type of deposit.

Apricots and Pomegranates are national Symbols in Armenia. Apricots in particular are very special, so much so, that the orange color in the flag exemplifies the Apricot. Pomegranates on the other hand, symbolize fertility.

Plant viruses can have many negative impacts on agricultural crops that often is difficult to quantify into an estimated economic loss due to the inconspicuous nature of viruses. Damage imposed by viruses can include a reduction in plant growth directly reducing yield or a reduction in vigor which can leave a plant more susceptible to other environmental or pest related damage (Hull, 2002b). In addition, viral symptoms can reduce the quality and marketability of the crop which can either be in its appearance, composition, ability to keep, or be used as propagation material. Other mentionable impacts are the costs associated with maintaining crop health due to viruses such as vector control, cultural hygiene, producing and purchasing virus free material, quarantine programs, breeding programs, and funding research programs (Hull, 2002b).