OBJECTIVE To determine the metal contents of date palm (Pheonix dactylifera) samples in dry season from Denizli-Turkey for investigation of heavy metal-polluted traffic. METHOD The levels of iron, copper, zinc, lead, cadmium, nickel, chromium, and manganese ions in the leaves of thirty five date palm (Pheonix dactylifera) samples collected from various levels of traffic in the streets of Deni...

Palm leaves were one of the earliest forms of writing media and their use as writing material in South and Southeast Asia has been recorded from as early as the fifth century B.C. until as recently as the late 19th century. Palm leaf manuscripts relating to art and architecture, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, and medicine dating back several hundreds of years are still available for referen...

This research used knowledge of the indigenous practice of timing nontimber forest product harvest with the full moon to demonstrate that chemicals controlling the decomposition rate of foliage fluctuate with the lunar cycle and may have developed as a result of plant-herbivore interactions. Indigenous knowledge suggests that leaves harvested during the full moon are more durable. Palm leaves h...

We have analysed the mycobiota of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera, L.) leaves using several techniques. Profusely sporulating fungi (Penicillium spp. and Cladosporium spp.) developed when plating leaf fragments and leaf washings. Fusarium oxysporum, was particularly abundant in leaves infested with the red scale insect Phoenicococcus marlatti Cockerell, 1899, but an undescribed Lecanicillium cf....

Oil palm propagation techniques are juvenile pot plants derived from germinated seeds and tissue culture, because it doesn’t produce sucker. In the nursery stage, monitoring the conditions of irrigation and nutrition are important to ensure phenotypic quality. During the nursery stage, optimal fertilization in development of more vigorous and productive plants. This research was carried out to ...

Palm leaves were one of the earliest forms of writing media and their use as writing material in South and Southeast Asia has been recorded from as early as the fifth century B.C. until as recently as the late 19th century. Palm leaf manuscripts relating to art and architecture, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, and medicine dating back several hundreds of years are still available for referen...

palm date leaves were processed with lime in a processing reactor in a factorial arrangement of treatments (3 × 3) with 3 levels of temperatures (40, 80 and 100°c) and time periods (80, 160, and 240 minutes) in a completely randomized design. fermentation parameters measured using gas production technique. with increasing pretreatment time and temperature lignin content reduced from 13.0 percen...

Date palm tissue culture technique aimed to production of huge numbers of plants to farmers in order to increasing dates which have high nutritional value. Date palm plantlets from pre-acclimatization stage in vitro were transferred to acclimatize in the greenhouse cultured in peat moss + perlite 2:1 and kept in the plastic covered inside 100% humidity and 28 C0 till new leave or root was grown...

Butia purpurascens is an endemic and threatened palm tree species that occurs in open areas of the Brazilian Cerrado, predominantly in southwestern Goiás. The leaves of this palm tree are harvested by local people to fabricate brooms. This study evaluated changes in vegetative and reproductive phenology in two different natural populations of this palm tree: one population with leaf harvesting ...

J Verdú, M T Ruiz Public Health Department, University of Alicante, Spain (A) A Guarani house. The deteriorated Guarani housing conditions can be observed. These houses are built with materials obtained from the region, such as logs, mud, straw, or palm leaves. These materials are an appropriate habitat for vinchucas. They infest with Tripanosoma cruzi—which live on human blood or blood of warm...