Announcements

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Announcements Urban Forestry data and photos
due THIS week. Submit to Cici and we'll trade
the data. Your lab this week is then to
identify the trees from the photos provided by
your classmates. Reading. Writing assignment
due Oct 18. Choose one of the characteristics
out of Table 1, find an interesting citation.
Find that citation on the Web of Science and
discuss 3 other papers that have cited the
citation you chose.
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Summing up evolution and evolutionary
research Levels of selection Natural selection
and fitness Instability of climates and
communities The mysterious speciation
process Systematics and taxonomy
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October 28, 2011 7 PM Allen Theatre
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Teocinte
Corn
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Teocinte
Corn
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Teocinte
Corn
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Teocinte
Corn
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Corn smut
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Barbara McClintock discovered jumping genes or
transposons in the 50s
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Grafting is necessary for fruit trees to get
productive crops
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One tree two types of fruit
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Doane, a senior executive at Monsanto, cited a
number of statistics A world population of
more than 9 billion is on the horizon, compared
with todays figure of 6.7 billion. Standards
of living are rising in many developing
countries, a trend that continues to mean greater
demand for more and better quality food. As one
example, annual demand for corn is expected to be
1.6 billion metric tons by 2050, compared with
the current level of some 800 million metric
tons. Only a comparatively small amount of
additional land is available for "responsible"
cultivation to achieve higher production.
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Doane, a senior executive at Monsanto, cited a
number of statistics Agriculture, already a
large user of water, faces increased competition
from urban areas for available supplies. U.S.
agriculture accounts for about 19 percent of the
nations consumption of fossil fuels at a time
when concerns are increasing about the impact of
those fuels on climate change.
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Doane, a senior executive at Monsanto, cited a
number of statistics Helping corn, soybean
and cotton farmers attain yields by 2030 double
those achieved in 2000. Reducing the use of
key resources by 1/3 per unit of output over the
same period. Improving the lives of farmers by
making agriculture more productive.
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Monsanto Monsanto terminator technology http//w
ww.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/terminator-seeds.a
spx
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Synthetic biology http//www.nature.com/nature/co
mics/syntheticbiologycomic/index.html http//www
.syntheticgenomics.com/index.html
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