Quality of Fruits in the Changing Climate

2015 ◽  
pp. 287-296
Keyword(s):  
Changing Climate

scholarly journals Use of functional traits to identify Australian forage grasses, legumes and shrubs for domestication and use in pastoral areas under a changing climate

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Mitchell ◽  
H. C. Norman ◽  
R. D. B. Whalley
Keyword(s):  
Functional Traits ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Yield And Quality ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Cultivated Plant ◽  
Co2 Level

Considerable uncertainty exists about future climatic predictions but there is little doubt among experts that the future will be warmer. Climate change and the associated elevation in atmospheric CO2 level and temperatures will provide novel challenges and potential opportunities for cultivated plant species. Plant breeding and domestication can contribute to improvements in both yield and quality of native grasses, legumes and forage shrubs. This review explores the use of functional traits to identify native Australian grasses, legumes and forage shrubs suitable for domestication, to meet the challenges and opportunities under a changing climate in pastoral areas in Australia. The potential of these species in terms of life history, regenerative traits, forage quality and quantity, drought tolerance and invasiveness is examined. The paper focuses on three Australian pastoral regions (high-rainfall temperate south, tropical and subtropical grasslands, low-rainfall semi-arid shrublands), in terms of future climate predictions and potential of selected native species to meet these requirements. Selection for adaptation to new climatic environments is challenging but many native species already possess the traits required to cope with the environment under future climate scenarios.

scholarly journals History's Changing Climate: Climate Science, Genomics, and the Emerging Consilient Approach to Interdisciplinary History

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Climate Science ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
The One

Consilience refers to the quality of investigations that draw conclusions from forms of evidence that are epistemologically distinct. The term seems particularly apt for conclusions produced by natural-scientific investigations on the one hand and by historical and archaeological studies on the other. Consilience points to areas of underlying unity of humanistic and scientific investigation— a unity arising from that of reality itself; it represents a convergence in parallel but independent investigations that results in deductions that are much more robust than any investigation would be able to produce on its own.

A Review on Impact of Changing Climate on Sustainable Food Consumption

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-76
Author(s):  
Tosin Kolajo Gbadegesin
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Growth Economic

Food security is of great importance in the politics of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) because of its implication on environment and people. The changing climate is adding to world resource problems such as food security, water scarcity, pollution, soil degradation, etc. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use demand by agriculture has continued to influence what people quantity and quality of available food. This review used resources from all relevant literatures to examine impact of changing climate on sustainable food consumption by identifying effect of changing climate on nutrition, food production, and food consumption, and provides recommendations on sustainable food consumption measures. The review is of the opinion that food consumption patterns are changing in the face of population growth, economic development, and environmental challenges. Such shifts place increased pressure on already depleted natural resources due to the resource-intensive production and transportation requirements of these products.

scholarly journals Preserving the nutritional quality of crop plants under a changing climate: importance and strategies

2019 ◽  
Vol 443 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
José C. Soares ◽  
Carla S. Santos ◽  
Susana M. P. Carvalho ◽  
Manuela M. Pintado ◽  
Marta W. Vasconcelos
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Quality ◽  
Crop Plants ◽  
Changing Climate

A Review on Impact of Changing Climate on Sustainable Food Consumption

2021 ◽  
pp. 993-1010
Author(s):  
Tosin Kolajo Gbadegesin
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Growth Economic

Food security is of great importance in the politics of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) because of its implication on environment and people. The changing climate is adding to world resource problems such as food security, water scarcity, pollution, soil degradation, etc. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use demand by agriculture has continued to influence what people quantity and quality of available food. This review used resources from all relevant literatures to examine impact of changing climate on sustainable food consumption by identifying effect of changing climate on nutrition, food production, and food consumption, and provides recommendations on sustainable food consumption measures. The review is of the opinion that food consumption patterns are changing in the face of population growth, economic development, and environmental challenges. Such shifts place increased pressure on already depleted natural resources due to the resource-intensive production and transportation requirements of these products.

scholarly journals Current Scenario of Environmental Pollution & Its Solution by Plantation In Changing Climate

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Kabir ◽  
Um e Habiba ◽  
Zia-Ur Rehman Farooqi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Living Organisms

Life’s quality is depending on quality of environment. As environment creates favorable surroundings for survival, growth and development of existing organisms. All living organisms are affected indirectly or directly due to environmental pollution. It is due to rapid increases in human being. Environmental pollution especially by anthropogenic activities is a main problem facing the world today and there is a need for increasing attentiveness that a clean and green environment is essential for better growth of living organisms in this changing climate of World. It is our top most priority to keep our country clean and green as cleanness is a part of our faith. Thus environmental pollution is causing great threat to plants, animals and to human all over the world. As each and every problem has a solution, because problem is always artificial, man desires to find the solution. In recent innovations there is a need to develop clean and green spaces within and around the polluted areas for existence of better environment. As some plants can act as pollution sink working as natural lungs. So,“the green revolution (Plantation) is the best solution to arrest the pollution”. If haphazard population growth goes on increasing without realizing the importance of trees especially those which act as pollution sink then there would be more critical changes for living organisms in near coming future

Immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in positively stained frozen sections

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrathin Frozen Sections ◽  
Definition Of

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).

Lithography below 100 nm

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 96-99
Author(s):  
L. D. Jackel
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Electron Beam ◽  
Electron Scattering ◽  
Electron Beam Lithography ◽  
Substrate Material ◽  
Local Electron ◽  
Electron Dose ◽  
Positive Resist ◽  
Exposure Process

Most production electron beam lithography systems can pattern minimum features a few tenths of a micron across. Linewidth in these systems is usually limited by the quality of the exposing beam and by electron scattering in the resist and substrate. By using a smaller spot along with exposure techniques that minimize scattering and its effects, laboratory e-beam lithography systems can now make features hundredths of a micron wide on standard substrate material. This talk will outline sane of these high- resolution e-beam lithography techniques.We first consider parameters of the exposure process that limit resolution in organic resists. For concreteness suppose that we have a “positive” resist in which exposing electrons break bonds in the resist molecules thus increasing the exposed resist's solubility in a developer. Ihe attainable resolution is obviously limited by the overall width of the exposing beam, but the spatial distribution of the beam intensity, the beam “profile” , also contributes to the resolution. Depending on the local electron dose, more or less resist bonds are broken resulting in slower or faster dissolution in the developer.

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