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A tiller is a shoot that arises from the base of a grass plant. The term refers to all shoots that grow after the initial parent shoot grows from a seed. [1] [2] Tillers are segmented, each segment possessing its own two-part leaf. They are involved in vegetative propagation and, in some cases, also seed production.
Like other clam species, A. islandia is a filter feeder.Feeding activity appears regulated by light levels, which can be used as a proxy for food availability. This means that at the northern extreme of the distribution, feeding is concentrated during eight months of the year, while during the rest of the year the clams only feed for a few days a month.
Soon after 1900, the farm tractor was introduced, which made modern large-scale agriculture possible. However, the destruction of the prairie grasses and tillage of the fertile topsoil of the American Midwest caused the Dust Bowl , in which the soil was blown away and stirred up into dust storms that blackened the sky.
Corbicula fluminea is commonly known in the west as the Asian clam, Asiatic clam, or Asian gold clam. In Southeast Asia, C. fluminea is known as the golden clam, prosperity clam, pygmy clam, or good luck clam. In New Zealand, it is commonly referred as the freshwater gold clam. [2] [3]
Geoduck aquaculture or geoduck farming is the practice of cultivating geoducks (specifically the Pacific geoduck, Panopea generosa) for human consumption. The geoduck is a large edible saltwater clam , a marine bivalve mollusk , that is native to the Pacific Northwest .
Tegillarca granosa (also known as Anadara granosa [2]) is a species of ark clam known as the blood cockle or blood clam due to the red haemoglobin liquid inside the soft tissues. It is found throughout the Indo-Pacific region from the eastern coast of South Africa northwards and eastwards to Southeast Asia , Australia , Polynesia , and up to ...
Clam garden in the Broughton Archipelago. A clam garden (k’yuu kudhlk’aat’iija in the Haida language, [1] lux̌ʷxiwēys in the Kwakʼwala language [2]: 2 [3]) is a traditional Indigenous management system used principally by Coast Salish peoples.
It also shares the common name horse clam with Tresus nuttallii a species which is similar in morphology and lifestyle. Both species are somewhat similar to the geoduck ( Panopea generosa , which is in the family Hiatellidae ), though smaller, with shells up to eight inches long (20 cm), weight to 3–4 lb (1.4–1.8 kg).