Once hailed as a solution to Ethiopia's creeping desertification, a foreign tree is now spreading uncontrollably across the East African nation, threatening fragile ecosystems and the very survival of ...
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Farmers sound alarm as once-promising plant threatens local community: 'We can't tackle it alone'
The plant has been around in the affected country since the 1970s. Farmers sound alarm as once-promising plant threatens ...
Prosopis flexuosa trees dominate woodlands in the Central Monte Desert (Mendoza, Argentina), with <200 mm rainfall, exploiting the water table recharged by Andean rivers, and also growing in dunes ...
Plantlet regeneration in Prosopis laevigata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Johnston (Fabaceae), a multipurpose tree, has been achieved from cotyledonary nodes excised from in vitro grown seedlings. The ...
Chennai, Apr 28 (PTI) The Madras High Court today asked authorities not to remove ‘Seemai Karuvalam’ (Prosopis Juliflorais) trees till further orders, as the matter has been referred to a larger bench ...
Each tree can draw up to seven litres of water a day through its deep roots, drying out the soil and crippling agriculture. The prosopis also harms livestock, local pastoralists say. "The plant has ...
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