A friend of mine is involved in some research work to see the effect of noise pollution on the metabolism of plants. I thoght noise pollution and music have no effect on the chemistry of plants. Please tell me about the recent findings on this subject.
M. Rehan Siddiqi

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A. The previously-mentioned BioScience editorial by David Pimentel and
Tad Patzek on "Green Plants, Fossil Fuels, and Now Biofuels" is
available online:
http://www.aibs.org/bioscience-editorials/editorial_2006_11.html

B. The DVD of Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth", is about global
warming rather than biofuels but does present many possible ways to
reduce greenhouse gas production. One often-claimed advantage for use
of biofuels is a reduction in greenhouse gas production. The official
website has an educational guide.
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

C. An interesting statistic on fossil fuels:
Bad Mileage: 98 tons of plants per gallon
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/energie_elektrotechnik/bericht-22773...

Dukes, J.S. 2003. Burning buried sunshine: Human consumption of ancient
solar energy. Climatic Change, 61(1-2): 31-44.
http://globalecology.stanford.edu/DGE/Dukes/downloadok.html

D. Rocky Mountain Institute - Offers innovative solutions for energy
and environmental problems.
http://www.rmi.org/

If you happen to live in the NYC area or visit there, I encourage you to see
the evolution garden at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, in the main lobby area
of the Steinhardt Conservatory. They've arranged the plants phylogenetically
along one wall from the entry area to the opposite end of the room, with
explantory plaques and fossils at the appropriate points. Very nice job of
recreating a sequence of the habitats of these plants from mosses, etc.
through flowering plants. I recently took a religious group there as part of a
biblical botany lecture-tour. I explained the major evolutionary innovations
and trends, and then showed how this is compatable with some ancient and
orthodox readings of the biblical account of the origin of species. No one
raised any creationist objections...

The Singapore Evolution Garden seems like an expansion of the popular
Jurassic gardens. A google.com search will turn up many websites about
Jurassic gardens. A Jurassic garden features nonflowering plants, such
as gymnosperms (conifers) and seedless plants such as ferns,
horsetails, lycopodium (ground pine), selaginella, psilotum, mosses and
liverworts. Students are usually not as familiar with seedless plants
and gymnosperms as they are with flowering plants.

There are many cold hardy plants that could be grown including living
fossil gymnosperm trees such as ginkgo and dawn redwood, both nearly
essential for a Jurassic garden. Cycads should be included if they are
cold hardy in your area. The Jurassic Period is often termed the Age of
Cycads. You might also maintain a potted cycad indoors. Cycas revoluta
(sago palm) is often grown as a houseplant. It is only cold hardy to
USDA Hardiness Zone 8.

On the ASPB website (http://www.aspb.org/) is also a downloadable
podcast of the "Plants Mitigating Global Change" symposium at this
year's meeting-there's a lot of biofuels talks in that.

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For a brief statement on ethanol, see the editorial in the most
recent BioScience (2006. 56(11):875) by David Pimentel and Tad
Patzek. Bottom line: "Growing crops to provide fuel squanders
resources; better options to reduce our dependence on oil are
available."

-W2

On Dec 14, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Vinson Doyle wrote:

There is an interesting debate going on in Florida surrounding biofuels.

The Florida Native Plant Society is opposing an initiative to grow Arundo
donax
for biofuels due to its invasiveness. Here is the .pdf of their policy
statement.
http://www.fnps.org/committees/policy/pdfs/policyarundo_policy_statement1.pdf

Vinson

On 12/14/06, plant-ed-request@oat.bio.indiana.edu <
plant-ed-request@oat.bio.indiana.edu> wrote:

The DOE publication that may be most helpful is "Breaking the
Biological Barriers to Cellulosic Ethanol" DOE/SC-0095. It was
published in June 2006 as a result of the Biomass and Biofuels
Workshop. I picked up a copy at the ASPB meeting, but you could get
a copy from the website.
http://genomicsgtl.energy.gov/biofuels/

Good luck!
Leeann

For biofuels, I recommend David Tilman's recent Science paper -
Carbon-negative biofuels from low-input, high diversity grassland biomass.
Science 314: 1598. His group also had an earlier paper this year on the
relative energy inputs into corn-based ethanol and biodiesel.

The Department of Energy has many references on biofuels as this is a
current funding initiative. If you're interested in a corn-based ethanol
case study in progress, my township (Bridgewater Township) in Minnesota
just passed a resolution yesterday to take over our own zoning and planning
instead of using county planning and zoning laws. The impetus behind this
for our small rural township is the strong push by a firm to build the
largest corn-based ethanol plant in the country in our township. The amount
of discussion (from rural aesthetics to the lack of sense from an energetic
perspective) in a township of 2000 has been unbelievable.

Best wishes,
Susan

--On Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:26 AM -0700 Greg Harrington
asu.edu> wrote:

I am following research with heavy metal adsorb plant. I have to extracte Protein, Carbohydrate and Lipid from those plant. I whant to know extraction procedure of those compound from those plant. There verious procedure to extracte those compoundes. But I whant to know very acurate procedure for this.

Please if you can inform your procedure.

Thank you.