Biodiesel produced from non-edible plant sources is cost-effective, biodegradable, environment friendly, and compatible with petro-diesel, but new extraction processes still need to be discovered. Here, we explored the fuel properties of seeds six sources, including Sapindus mukorossi (Soapnut, SP), Vernicia fordii (Tung, TO), Ricinus communis (Castor, CA), Toona sinensis (Juss. TS), Ailanthus ...

Pine-oak forests are of high ecological importance worldwide, but many are threatened by uncharacteristically severe wildfire. Forest restoration treatments, including the reintroduction of a surface fire regime, are intended to decrease fire hazard and emulate historic ecosystem structure and function. Restoration has recently received much management attention and short-term study, but little...

Peach tree mortality was 75% five years after planting on a site associated with peach tree short life and receiving no nematicide treatment, no lime, and with cultivation for weed control. Mortality was reduced to 29% by preplanting plus postplanting applications of DBCP (1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane) and with herbicidal weed control. Preplanting applications of nematicides alone did not effect...

We report Aculops ailanthi Lin, Jin, and Kuang, 1997 (Acariformes: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) from Pennsylvania West Virginia, USA; present the first scanning electron micrographs of species in North America discuss morphological observations that clarify features observed slide-mounted specimens, such as number ridges on female genital flaps; briefly symptoms control an A. infes...

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YANG YANG,* DAVID BURGHOFF, DARREN J. HAYTON, JIAN-RONG GAO, JOHN L. RENO, AND QING HU Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, 9747 AD, Groningen, The Netherlands Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Delft University of Techn...