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North Ayrshire, Scotland. Flax fiber is extracted from the bast beneath the surface of the stem of the flax plant. Flax fiber is soft, lustrous, and flexible; bundles of fiber have the appearance of blonde hair, hence the description "flaxen" hair. It is stronger than cotton fiber, but less elastic. A flax field in bloom in North Dakota
It is a slender herbaceous plant growing to 80 centimetres (31 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) tall, with spirally arranged narrow lanceolate leaves 1–3 cm (1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long. The flowers are pale blue or lavender to white, often veined in darker blue, with five petals 1–1.5 cm long and in varying length styles.
Leaf protein concentrate (LPC) refers to the proteinaceous mass extracted from leaves. It can be a lucrative source of low-cost and sustainable protein for food as well as feed applications. It can be a lucrative source of low-cost and sustainable protein for food as well as feed applications.
Doses for chewing vastly exceed doses used for smoking. By calculating the concentrations per leaf ("an average concentration of 2.45 mg per gram" of leaf), [69] the average weight per leaf ("about 50 g" per 20 leaves, or 2.5 g/leaf), [70] and the standard dose for chewing (about 8–28 leaves), [66] the doses can range from about 50 mg to 172 mg.
Pyemotes herfsi, also known as the oak leaf gall mite or itch mite, is an ectoparasitic mite identified in Europe and subsequently found in India, Asia, and the United States. The mite parasitizes a variety of insect hosts and bites humans, causing red, itchy, and painful wheals (welts).
Turcicum leaf blight: Soybean: Heterodera glycines: soybean cyst nematode disease: Phakopsora pachyrhizi: Asian soybean rust: Sugar beet: Cercospora beticola: Cercospora leaf spot: beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV) rhizomania: Sugarcane: Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli: Ratoon stunting: Colletotrichum falcatum: red rot Sweet potato: sweet ...
Swatzell opened his alternative medicine store, Five Leaf Clover, in Colome in July, offering a variety of cannabidiol products, including CBD and Delta 8 products, that are used to treat a ...
Epoxiconazole is used against, amongst others, cereal diseases, two of which, namely leaf blotch (Septoria tritici) and rust (Puccinia triticina), are responsible for up to 30% yield losses. [2] Although not used commercially for insect control, epoxiconazole exhibits a strong anti-feeding effect on the keratin-digesting common clothes moth ...