At ARCSA-USA, we take a ton of pride in providing the most affordable rates and looking after all of your tree service demands in Tempe, Arizona. All arborists with our business in Tempe, AZ are certified in the field, and you'll be in awe how genial and well-mannered they are. We will use leading edge machinery and equipment make certain the tree trimming leaves a professional look that coerces others to ask who carried out the job in Tempe. We do the smaller things, for example simply showing up on time so you aren't wasting your entire day just waiting on a specialist in Tempe, Arizona. Phone ARCSA-USA in Tempe at 888-405-6810 now if you have concerns regarding a foreseeable future tree service or intend to plan a tree trimming or tree removal.
If you have smaller trees and shrubs on your Tempe, AZ property, you might be able to do a little tree trimming work yourself. As simple as our technicians may make a tree trimming look, there are actually lots of ways to wind up butchering a tree. In addition, when the tree ages and grows, you need to use power tools to get the job done. Taller trees also mean the need for using these power tools on ladders, which can cause injury. As you are probably beginning to see, allowing a professional team of arborists, such as the ones with ARCSA-USA is a much better option when having stump grinding done. The thing you really have to determine is whether or not it is worth getting hurt instead of spending the smallest amount of money with a tree care firm.
When we are doing tree care in Tempe, AZ, our team heavily relies upon using both hand and electric pruners and shears. Both of these are utilized to make certain that we can work with different aspects of the tree to ensure that it ends up with a thoroughly sculpted appearance. Many people are led to think that a chainsaw is all that we use to perform a tree removal, but this could not be further from the truth. To their credit, they have likely never completed a removal by themselves, so they do not realize that the tree's roots are still buried after we cut the tree down. When left underground, the roots can certainly prevent another tree from growing inside a several-yard area. Chippers, cherrypickers, and various kinds of ladders will also be used during almost all of our tree service processes.
When you do not wish to invest money into expensive tools and end up with a tree that looks as if it was cut in half, our tree trimming business in Tempe, AZ is an excellent option. In addition to ensuring that the tree looks as stunning as possible, we also present the most affordable rates. If you would like to learn more about our tree service or to receive a quote, give ARCSA-USA a call at 888-405-6810.
You can do your own tree service procedure to an extent, but you are placing yourself in danger when utilizing power tools while standing on a ladder. Allowing ARCSA-USA to do tree service will assure your safety.
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Ensuring that the tree's limbs have a flush look is accomplished during tree trimming. Pruning involves working with the limbs to outline the overall shape of the tree. Tree pruning should start soon after the tree has begun to grow.
What is Included in Tree Removal in Tempe?
Sadly, all trees in Tempe will either be destroyed in a storm or die eventually. In the course of our tree removal process, we can also remove the stump and pull the roots out of the ground, which are two procedures most people forget about.
You can think of an arborist as a mechanic for trees since they have experience with using different types of tree service tools. They are like a walking encyclopedia of every type of tree that has ever lived, and they definitely know how to care for all types of trees. Tree trimming Athens, GA is another location which we service therefore don't forget to browse the other leading cities.
A bucket truck or ladder will probably be used in virtually every job ARCSA-USA performs. When we do tree trimming and pruning, we normally use shears and pruners, which allow us to make very precise and even cuts. With tree removal, we cut the tree down using an assortment of power tools, such as chainsaws. We also do stump grinding work by using a stump grinder once the tree is cut down. We also use chippers nearly every time we need to haul a tree away.
Absolutely, we have stump grinding, tree trimming and removal licensing and insurance in Tempe.


A friend's dad is on sabbatical in Manhattan. He's an art professor at a liberal arts college in Ohio. The Ginkgo is one of his favorite trees; I noticed several ginkgo-themed drawings tacked unto to the wall in his office. At a recent dinner, he told me that he had noticed that the Ginkgo is a common street tree in the city. He wanted to know why this was the case. Also, he wanted to know about the tree's reproductive strategy; he had heard that there are separate male and female trees. Here's what I told him.
In my estimation, the most common street trees in NYC - in no particular order - are London planetree, Ginkgo, honeylocust, maple (red or Norway), and oak (red or pin). I missed one; the Callery pear! Learn more about the city's street tree population in the Parks Department's 2005-2006 Street Tree Census.
By the 1900s, ginkgoes had shown urban planters their ability to survive pests, drought, storms, ice, city soils, and some pollution. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite tree, it made its way into city landscapes across North American, as happy in southeastern Canada as in New Orleans.
The fruit of the female ginkgo has a bad reputation. When bruised, the smell is malodorous. The Ginkgo is dioecious; male catkins and female flowers are on separate trees. Monoecious species have both male and female organs on the same plant. Although the fruit's smell leaves something to be desired, the leaves and nut are highly desired. The former for medicinal purposes and the latter for culinary purposes. A web search revealed that the Ginkgo biloba extract or GBE is taken from the leaves. The nuts were featured in an Gourmet.com article titled Gathering ginkgo nuts in New York.
Instead—egged on by the conviction that the elderly Asian ginkgo fruit gatherers who had originally motivated me had to be on to something worthwhile—I started in on four days of ginkgo nut experiments. Based on a recipe from the grill cook at Masa, I boiled them in a tiny bit of salted water and put them on a salad. I roasted them with maple syrup. I roasted them in the shell, and then served them with a little bit of salt. But nothing was working: They had a gummy texture, and their rich, nutty flavor was curbed by a quick bitterness. Then, using my Cajun husband's motto that all things taste good fried, I egg-washed them, rolled them in flour, salt, and pepper, and threw them in hot oil. My husband and I watched them immediately turn a brilliant, beautiful jade-green color under their light layers of fry. I beamed. I felt like I'd just harvested my first backyard zucchini crop or caught my first fish from a nearby river. Even before we popped the little fried pips into our mouths and tasted the perfectly charming balance of nature's nuttiness and searing hot oil, we knew we'd done it—we'd amped up our already ridiculous game of seasonal and local eating. And so, naturally, we stood there chomping away in our tiny urban kitchen and started working the fried ginkgo nuts into our Friday night dinner party menu.
By the way, the Ginkgo's fruits are ready for picking in the fall, but a tree might not flower until it is 20 years old (UConn Plant Database; Wisconsin Master Gardener Program)!
Love the Ginkgo's texture. Good read.
Adam, thank you for reading and for the comment.
Hm, never tried gingko nuts, that I remember anyway! I did know about the stinkiness, though. :) I think another link is in order if I ever get my gingko pics up. You have such a great variety of info and I love that catkin photo too!
One of my favorite trees as well. I was glad to read about someone experimenting with eating them. I guess you know there is a great deal of info about Ginkgos surviving the blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and still growing today.
Les, I was not aware of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki ginkgos. Would like to guest blog about these trees?
Now Ginko really is an amazing tree. If I wasn't committed to trying to plant only native species it would be on my wish list to plant.
Jasmine, yes, the Ginkgo is amazing!
i've always wondered why aging Asians gather the Gingko fruits from an area in Central park where I and many others walk our dogs.... I guess the cleaned, cooked fruit makes it worthwhile. Thanks for explaining!


Mozilla Firefox's flashy features often bogged down its performance—until now. Though it's still not quite as fast overall as rivals Safari 5 ( ) and Chrome, the leaner, meaner Firefox 4 makes a quantum leap forward from its predecessor.
Results in seconds. Shorter bars are better.
Results in milliseconds. Shorter bars are better.
Scores are out a maximum of 400. Longer bars are better.
At 97, Firefox's Acid3 score still trails its rivals' perfect 100s; however, Firefox's 255 points and 9 bonus points out of 400 in HTML5 compliance trails only Chrome's 288/13 points, and solidly tops Safari's 228/7 and Opera's 177/7. And like every browser but Chrome (which scored a 37), Firefox 4 scored a perfect 41 in a CSS3 selector compliance check.
Among Firefox 4's new interface innovations, I really liked App Tabs. They let you add frequently used Web applications (Webmail, Facebook, Twitter stream, or any other page) as space-saving icons that will appear every time you open a new window. App Tabs helpfully glow blue whenever they hold updated content.
A new Add-Ons interface moves management of your extensions and plugins to a well-designed, easy-to-use tab within the browser. I wish Mozilla did likewise for editing bookmarks, a function still banished to its own little window. In fairness, Firefox has moved all its bookmark-related features into a single handy menu on the bookmark bar.
In other minor changes, tabs now top the browser window, a la Chrome; you can jump to a tab by typing its name in the URL bar; and Stop and Reload now alternate as a single button. Miss the old interface? Customization lets you easily banish any of the changes.
Tab groups were the only new interface feature that left me cold. Click the palette button on the right side of the browser bar, and your screen becomes a big gray void engulfing tiny thumbnails of all your open tabs. You can drag and drop each tab into nameable groups, then double-click a group to open its contents en masse. This decent idea feels half-baked in practice. You can't move more than one tab at a time, nor drag groups of tabs in from the Bookmarks Bar. Thankfully, Mozilla made this feature unobtrusive and strictly optional.
A new Sync feature lets you share bookmarks instantly between computers. Firefox also offers a new don't-track-me feature that asks Web servers not to mine your personal information for customized ads. Mozilla and Microsoft have added this capability to their newest browsers, but for now, advertisers haven't widely begun to work with or respect it.
App tabs keep your favorite sites handy without crowding your tab bar, while improved HTML5 support enables amazing-looking sites without plugins.
Behind the scenes, Firefox 4 packs another crop of improvements. Hardware acceleration makes browsing feel notably faster, although a Mozilla demo of 3D transformations on 2D objects still ran like molasses for me. The reliance on hardware may also explain why my laptop's fan occasionally kicked in after long browsing sessions.
WebGL support enables nifty, plugin-free 3D games and graphics within the browser. Improved OpenType support displays fancy fonts in all their glory. Firefox 4 now offers vastly more support for CSS transitions and animations. The browser also now plays HTML5 video encoded in either Ogg Theora or Google's WebM codec, though it doesn't support Apple's preferred H.264.
During this review, I only found one Web page that Firefox 4 rendered wrong, leaving a big white gap beneath the page's header. Your mileage may vary, but for me, it otherwise displayed site after site without a hitch.
A completely revamped Add-Ons pane makes finding, installing, and managing extensions easier than ever.
Firefox 4 isn't the fastest browser, and its interface still leans more toward wonkishness than elegance. But when loading and browsing, it feels far fleeter to me than the increasingly sluggish Safari. Firefox 4 offers fast, fun, full-featured browsing with few compromises, and it's well worth a try.


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Women In Horror Interview: Director/Production Designer Laura Moss
February 28, 2019 March 2, 2019
Abigail Braman
From her shorts ranging from the eerie, coming of age story Fry Day (2017), to her existential comedic tale Allen Anders: Live at the Comedy Castle- Circa 1987, Laura Moss is a director who should be at the top of your film radar. Her impeccable approach to directing and production design demonstrates sheer talent and authenticity and is a creative voice that I'd like to see more of. I had the chance of sitting down with Laura and discussed her directorial beginnings, inspirations and techniques, and future projects.
Hello Laura, thanks for sitting down with us today! I really enjoy your approach to filmmaking, and I think you have a very creative and distinct voice – how did your journey as a filmmaker begin?
Laura Moss: I was doing art department stuff and prosthetic makeup work in my mid-twenties, writing stuff with Brendan O'Brien, my then-husband, now-writing partner, on the side. We wrote this ridiculous zombie 'documentary' together with a DP friend, and I just assumed one of them would want to direct it because they had both been to film school and I hadn't. But Brendan wasn't keen on directing at that time, so I stepped in. When I realized what directing was, I felt like all the random skills I'd picked up in my life finally came together: I had studied music in high school, worked on plays with actors in college, managed hi-stress situations as an EMT, worked in design. On set, all that experience became relevant.
We had to recreate a lot of archival footage in that movie, and that became an obsession of mine going forward. It probably started because of my insecurity around camera, around the language of shooting. I learned a lot about different shooting styles and how they can make the audience feel from faithfully recreating clips from the past.
Laura Moss in RISING UP: THE STORY OF THE ZOMBIE RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Fry Day was my absolute favorite short film of 2017 – could you tell us what lead to the creation of this short, and the inspirations that powered it?
LM: Brendan and I were writing a feature film, set in the era of serial-killer celebrity, really about a man trying to be a good person in a world that wants to turn him into a monster. Bundy was this kind of shadowy 'role mode' figured laced throughout the background, and so we ended up doing a lot of research on him. When we saw the real-life footage of the gathering outside Bundy's execution, it was so chilling to both of us that it immediately felt like a place to set a whole other film.
It was really important for me to explore not Bundy himself, but how the public obsession with him affected me as a woman. You can get stuck analyzing him, we're seeing a renaissance of that right now, and that's not what's interesting to me. In a lot of Bundy coverage, he is almost vaunted, treated as this enigmatic genius. His victims feel like an afterthought; they blend together in our minds. I wanted to explore what it feels like to move through the world looking like one of Bundy's victims in the shadow of Bundy Mania. That's where we started with Fry Day.
Was Fry Day actually filmed in Florida near the prison that Bundy was at? If not, where were some of the filming locations?
LM: We shot a small amount of the daylight stuff in and around Starke Florida, where Raiford prison is, where they still do executions, but most of it we shot in New Milford, Connecticut. We went down to Starke and did a lot of research, interviewed folks who were at the Bundy 'BBQ', made copies of old yearbook photos for visual reference, but we just couldn't afford to bring a crew down there for the whole time, so many of our resources were in New York.
Grace Sloan, our production designer, did an amazing job of faking New England for Northern Florida. She was a master at analyzing a location, removing anything that felt out of place, and then sneaking in a few elements that felt authentic to the space but really tied the 'Florida' back in.
Still from FRY DAY
The cinematography for Fry Day is very haunting and beautiful, which really sets the tone for the upcoming events. How did you approach that process: do you create story or mood boards, or just vocally discuss it with your team ahead of time?
LM: Greta Zozula, my DP and I did camera tests and talked a lot about it beforehand, and we created a communal look book with visual references, lighting, costume, etc. We also came up with a few rules for ourselves. We avoided camera conventions that felt too modern; it was very important to me that the film look like something that could be made in 1989, not just something set in that period.
I also really enjoyed Allen Anders Live at the Comedy Castle- Circa 1987, which I saw during one of the short film blocks for North Bend last year. You tackled some interesting subject matters, and was curious how that protect came to be?
LM: I'm a huge fan of Tony Grayson, who wrote and performed the material in Allen Anders. He's a filmmaker and comedian I met a few years back at SXSW. I came to Chicago and saw him do his Allen Anders routine, this insane existential comedy bit, and I was floored. We decided to try to turn it into a film, which wasn't so simple because the power of the lighting shifts and the sound design that had worked so well for the stage show didn't automatically translate on camera. We ended up playing a lot with repetition of shots and VHS-related effects to try and make the viewer feel as entranced as I did watching it onstage.
The atmosphere of Allen Anders really feels like it was set in the 1980s, which makes me wonder what type of camera and filming equipment was used for this short?
We shot on newscast quality, period-appropriate video cameras, as close as possible to what they would have used for 'An Evening At The Improv' in the 80s and early 90s. Eythan Maidhof, our DP, masterminded this great setup where we could record from a cable signal onto a solid state hard drive, to avoid the complications that come with recording on VHS.
In order to get some of those great glitchy artifacts though, we dubbed the finished short onto VHS and then reimported it into Premiere, then enhanced the glitches with Mark Reynolds, who did our post VFX.
I would love to see you direct a feature – do you have any upcoming projects that you would like to (and are allowed to) discuss with us?
My feature, After Birth, is going to be produced by Mali Elfman and FANGORIA this year. It's a female-centered adaptation of the Frankenstein story, about a woman harvesting materials from her own body in order to further her experiments. It's a lot about my shifting attitudes towards creation and legacy, as a woman of child-bearing age. You could say I'm up to my elbows in it at the moment.
Tony Grayson in ALLEN ANDERS: LIVE AT THE COMEDY CASTLE – CIRCA 1987
Abigail is a macabre and horror artist, primarily working in oil paints and found objects, and does freelance writing for both Nightmarish Conjurings and Pophorror. She loves all-things horror, animation, and art history, and is currently working on her first dark stop-motion animated horror short film, Cadillac Dust. Abigail is also very passionate about music, having used to play the banjo, guitar, and sing in a band called The Killer Pines. When she's not either painting, writing, working, or watching movies while doing all of these things, she's probably sleeping, or cuddling with Claude the cat (or both).
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Abigail is a macabre and horror artist, primarily working in oil paints and found objects, and does freelance writing for both Nightmarish Conjurings and Pophorror. She loves all-things horror, animation, and art history, and is currently working on her first dark stop-motion animated horror short film, Cadillac Dust. Abigail is also very passionate about music, having used to play the banjo, guitar, and sing in a band called The Killer Pines. When she's not either painting, writing, working, or watching movies while doing all of these things, she's probably sleeping, or cuddling with Claude the cat (or both).
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Ryan Gosling And Harrison Ford Think The Blade Runner Sequel Is A Very Big Deal
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Blade Runner is one of the most iconic sci-fi movies in the history of film, and fans of Ridley Scott's 1982 film were thrilled when it was announced that Harrison Ford would not only be reprising his role of Rick Deckard in a forthcoming reboot, but would also be joining Ryan Gosling in the next chapter of the futuristic crime drama.
It turns out that Ford, Gosling, Scott, Jared Leto, and pretty much every crew member of the sequel are on the same page: They know it's a huge challenge to put out a sequel to a benchmark movie 35 years after it initially played in theaters, and they're more than up for it.
"The story, the themes, the stunning visual elements—it was a pleasure getting back to the world of Blade Runner again," Ford told Entertainment Weekly for this sneak peek of Blade Runner 2049. "I think it's fun to play a character 30 years later. I'm used to trying on old clothes. Happily, they still fit."
Both Scott and the director of the sequel, Denis Villeneuve, echo that sentiment as clips from the film—including one of Gosling being serenaded by a Frank Sinatra hologram—give us a longer look beyond the initial trailer. Gosling was just as on board as Ford was from the jump, although his trench coat is a bit newer than Decker's duds.
"When I heard that Ridley was continuing the narrative, I was already invested," he said. "I already wanted to know what happened next."
Same, tbh. Blade Runner 2049 hits theatres October 6. Check out the eye-popping trailer below:
#BladeRunner2049


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Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal has issued the Admission Board for Admission to the MBA (2-year degree) course 2017-2019. The completed application form in all respects with the invoice is not refunded processing (receipt of the collection of the State Bank) must be submitted after the date of the program. The candidates who are interested and check the details can fill out your application form. All details, such as the application form, selection criteria, etc., can be found on this page below.
Candidates seeking admission in MBA course can fill application from offline . All the candidates are request the fill all detail application form completely respect .
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Successfully trading the equity markets is not only possible but probable", says author L.A. Little who has successfully traded the equity markets for more than two decades. In 2008, while others floundered to the tune of 40% or more in losses, L.A. (a registered investment adviser) created positive returns for his clients year-over-year.
"There are no guarantees" says L.A., "but with patience, persistence, and the recognition of the advantages the small trader has in today's trading environment, there is a high probability of success by following a low risk, probability based methodology." With so many individuals dependent on their stock market investments to fund their retirement needs, it has never been more critical to either manage your own investments or find a savvy adviser who can successfully do so for you. For years now, L.A. has been perfecting his craft as a small trader – the proverbial little guy. In this book, L.A. takes a sweeping view of what it takes to be a successful trader by first defining what it means then putting forth concrete steps on how to get there.
As explained in Trade Like the Little Guy, small traders are not like the large one – they have a unique footprint. They are able to dart in and out of stocks easily and find that high levels of cash are safer in times of uncertainty rather than in safe stocks. Small traders have advantages and it is imperative that they use them.
The book starts by defining a successful trader then methodically shows you, the little guy, how to become that trader. From trade preparation to idea generation – from risk management to Active Portfolio Management – all are introduced, explained, and examples provided.


Confirmed keynote speakers: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard), Andrew Stirling (Sussex), Pierre-Benoît Joly (IFRIS/Paris), Arie Rip (Twente).
The SPIRAL Research Centre, from its beginning, located itself as an hybrid space between risk research, science and technology studies and public policy. The importance of doing so can be captured by referring to 'trading zones', Peter Galison's (1997) concept indicating interactions and exchanges across boundaries and between scientific disciplines. We expand his concept to cover interactions in our technological societies, and the "pidgins" that emerge enabling some communication or collaboration in which various perspectives, interests, visions, imaginaries, narratives are combined. This occurs anyway, but the experience of SPIRAL has shown that this perspective allows understanding issues of technological societies and contributes to handling them productively. Hence, it is appropriate for the 20th anniversary conference to take "Trading Zones in Contemporary Technological Societies" as its theme. New developments, such as, for example, new genetic testing, digitized work environments, biobanks, 3D printed tissues or high-level radioactive waste management, create promises and expectations, but also entail great uncertainty with regard to societal and political impacts. There is a need to engage in an imaginative dialogue pursuing multiple dimensions of possible outcomes and to normatively evaluate such outcomes. This requires opening up of existing ways of handling issues (Stirling 2008). Thus, there is a need for spaces (Rip and Joly 2013) favouring interdisciplinary cross-breeding to deal with these issues, and the latter should also be democratically debated. Boundary trading between experts and others (publics, policymakers, patients) is a very good entry point for "inquiry into the relations between science and power to ask how they come about, and what functions they serve in channelling both knowledge and politics" (Jasanoff 2003: 394).
The production and use of genomic information in medical practices introduces issues, also at the level of public health systems and society. These evolutions of genomic technologies and their uptake recast social interactions and power relationships. New norms are produced by scientists, medical practitioners, patients, private firms, consumers or policymakers. Proposals for papers should go beyond the traditional focus on ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI), and bring original contributions to the analysis of biomedical innovation and the normative stakes of genomic medicine by locating them in a biopolitical understanding (bioeconomy, public health systems, and the governmentalities involved). Chair: Sheila Jasanoff.
The development of nuclear energy is accompanied by concerns about major accidents, occupational safety, and waste management, in a very long time scale. Innovative or under-used perspectives – beyond the classical 'risk analysis' framework – are needed to open up the governance of such phenomenon: sociology of organization, STS vulnerability analysis, communication studies, and more broadly socio-technical approaches. Proposals for papers can present insights that delineate original and innovative frameworks, methods or results contributing to open up the way technological societies deal with Safety and Nuclear Energy. Chair: Andrew Stirling.
Stirling, A. (2008). « Opening Up » and « Closing Down » Power, Participation, and Pluralism in the Social Appraisal of Technology.Science, Technology & Human Values, 33, 262-294.
Jasanoff, S. (2003).Breaking the Waves in Science Studies. Comment on H.M. Collins and Robert Evans, `The Third Wave of Science Studies'. Social Studies of Science, 33/3, 389-400.


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Sorghum study illuminates relationship between humans, crops and the environment in domestication
A new study that examines the genetics behind the bitter taste of some sorghum plants and one of Africa's most reviled bird species illustrates how human genetics, crops and the environment influence one another in the process of plant domestication.
The study untangles these factors to create a more complete look at crop domestication than is possible in other major crops, said Xianran Li, an adjunct associate professor in the Iowa State University Department of Agronomy and corresponding author of the paper.
The study, published recently in the scientific journal Nature Plants, looked at how human genetics, and the presence of bird species with a taste for sorghum seeds might have influenced the traits farmers in Africa selected in their crops over thousands of years. The unique geographic distribution in Africa of sorghum plants that contain condensed tannins, or biomolecules that often induce a bitter taste, provided one side of a "domestication triangle" that helped the researchers piece together the domestication puzzle, Li said.
Sorghum panicles with non-tannin grains were devoured by the sparrows, leaving only the dark-colored glumes, while panicles with tannin grains were left alone. Illustration by Xianran Li and Jianming Yu/Iowa State University.
"It's a systematic view that gives us a full picture of domestication," he said. "Looking at just one component only tells us part of the story."
Sorghum is a cereal crop first domesticated in Africa that remains a staple food throughout the continent. The researchers noted that sorghum varieties with high levels of tannins commonly grow in eastern and southern Africa, while western African farmers tend to prefer varieties with low tannin content. In contrast, domestication processes in other continents removed condensed tannins from most other cereal crops, such as wheat, rice and corn, due to the bitter taste they produce.
But farmers in south and east Africa grow many cultivars that retained tannin, which would seem to be a puzzling decision considering the taste and unfavorable nutritional values. Li said the condensed tannins were likely retained as a defense mechanism from the red-billed quelea, a bird species sometimes referred to as a "feathered locust" that can cause up to $50 million in economic losses in Africa every year from eating crops. Li and his co-authors found the distribution of sorghum cultivars with tannin correspond to areas with red-billed quelea populations.
They also consulted publicly accessible genotype information on human populations in Africa and found an associated distribution of the taste receptor TAS2R among Africans in regions that commonly grow sorghum with tannin. Taste receptors are molecules that facilitate the sensation of certain tastes, and the patterns in the distribution of TAS2R could make people living in those regions of Africa less susceptible to the bitter taste caused by tannin.
Li called this unique interaction among sorghum tannin, human taste receptors and herbivorous birds a unique triangle that offers unique insight into crop domestication. And, because condensed tannins were bred out of other cereal crops, this kind of research is possible only with sorghum, he said.
"Our investigation uncovered coevolution among humans, plants and environments linked by condensed tannins, the first example of domestication triangle," Li said. "The concept of a domestication triangle has been proposed previously and generally accepted. Discovering a concrete case, particularly with some molecular evidence, is very exciting. We think this study could help uncover future cases."
To arrive at their conclusions, the research team grew sorghum varieties with and without tannin and analyzed publicly available datasets on human genetics and wild bird populations in Africa to untangle how these factors interact with one another to influence the domestication of sorghum in Africa. The experiments involving sorghum grown in Iowa found sparrows would feed on the seeds of plants without tannin but left alone the cultivars that contained tannin, reinforcing the concept that herbivore threats to sorghum crops prefer non-tannin varieties.
"The whole discovery was driven by curiosity after we observed the unexpected sparrow damage in our sorghum field," said Jianming Yu, professor of agronomy and Pioneer Distinguished Chair in Maize Breeding. "We really had no clue that our gene cloning project to find the pair of interacting genes underlying sorghum tannins would lead to this discovery."
Source: Iowa State University
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