Temperature sensitivity of food legumes: a physiological insight

Food Security in Bangladesh: Insight from Available Literature

Background: Bangladesh is a developing country; so, it is faced with the great challenge of food insecurity. In spite of achieving self-sufficiency in food production, a huge number of people experience the food insecure situation in this country. Since long time ago, scientists are striving to feed the growing population of Bangladesh. However, this study was conducted to assess the present si...

Soil Fertility Map for Food Legumes Production Areas in China

Given the limited resources of fossil energy, and the environmental risks of excess fertilizer on crops, it is time to reappraise the potential role of food legume biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) as sources of nitrogen for cropping systems in China. 150 soil samples across 17 provinces and 2 municipalities of China were collected and analyzed. A distribution map of the soil fertilities and t...

Nature’s pulse power: legumes, food security and climate change

Measurement of myofilament calcium sensitivity at physiological temperature in intact cardiac trabeculae.

Cardiac contraction-relaxation coupling is determined by both the free intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) and myofilament properties. We set out to develop a technique where we could assess these parameters (twitch and steady-state force [Ca2+]i) under near physiological conditions. Bis-fura-2 was iontophorically introduced into ultrathin rat trabeculae preparations to monitor the [C...

Temperature Sensitivity of a Basic Climate Model

We use a simple climate model to assess climate sensitivity as temperature response to heat forcing. How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. (Nils Bohr) Some aspects of climate have not been observed to change. (IPCC Summary for Policymakers 2007) 1 IPCC Climate Sensitivity and Global Warming Climate science as presented by IPCC [2] is based on a...