Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is a commonly allergenic food especially in Asia where buckwheat is more commonly consumed. Wild buckwheat (Polygonum convolvulus, recently changed to Fallopia convolvulus) is an annual weed prevalent in grain-growing areas of the United States. Wild buckwheat is not closely related to edible buckwheat although the seeds do have some physical resemblance. A larg...

Successful climbing by vines not only prevents shading by neighbouring vegetation, but also may place the vines beyond ground herbivores. Here we tested the hypothesis that herbivory might enhance climbing in a vine species, and that such induced climbing should be greater in the shade. We assessed field herbivory in climbing and prostrate ramets of the twining vine Convolvulus arvensis. We eva...

it has been reported that several members of convolvulaceae family such as convolvulus arvensis possess cytotoxic activity on some tumor cell lines. proteoglycan mixture, the water extract of c. arvensis with high molecular weight, has potent anti-angiogenesis and stimulating effects. in this study, arial parts of c. arvensis were collected and identified, and the cytotoxic effects of chlorofor...

Shou-Shu Gong,1 D. N. Sheng,1 Olexei I. Motrunich,2 and Matthew P. A. Fisher3 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, California 91330, USA 2Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 3Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9530, USA (Received 3 July 2013; published 2...

Congjun Wu,1 Kai Sun,2 Eduardo Fradkin,2 and Shou-Cheng Zhang3 1Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4030, USA 2Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA 3Department of Physics, McCullough Building, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4045, USA Received 12 October ...

Fat talk, dialogues among women involving negative body-focused discussions, was studied as a function of conformity and social likeability through the use of four vignettes depicting young women in conversation. Using a 2 (body presentation style of the group: negative or positive)x2 (body presentation style of the target, Jenny: negative or positive) factorial design, 215 college women (92.1%...