Several other more conveniently sized projects are on the table. Tracking wood-decomposition metabolites with C14 would be a large research effort. Also it needs to be done over a range of climates. It'll keep, I just wanted to blurt a bit. Character flaw perhaps. Because of their size, trees are challenging to enclose in plastic bags to 'label' them. Novel aspect is that it already happened. It would be challenging to 'peel' them, except that's already a mature technology.
There are actually several types of avocados in global production, but not particularly selected for things like disease resistance. Instead, avos have very odd (possibly unique) flowers. Open as girls one day, close, then open again as boys. Having some diversity in your stand of trees can help bees to navigate this confusion.
Almond trees are an interesting crop. California Central valley grows about $5 billions of them. Of which $0.5 billions is paid to beekeepers who truck in hives from all over 48 states. That party is currently underway.
almonds may be the cheapest nut available. whenever i buy mixed nuts, there are way more almonds than anything else.
Almond prices peaked in 2014. Central Valley acreage has increased since. Recent tariff activity between US and China has reduced that US export flow. Your nut mix tells a story about biology and global trade but it may be subtle. I might have guessed peanuts, but you would not be fooled there. As they are beans
strangely, peanuts are not generally included in mixed nuts. that would be false advertising? now i'll have to look at the prices of a pound of peanuts vs almonds.
If you are Planters (TM) I think you could get away with it. Almonds and cashews are drupes, not nuts to hardcore botanists. But 'the market' does not split that finely. And then there's pine nut. No carpel. But darn good eating. Back in precolonial times, there were pine-nut wars in (what became) California and Nevada. Not every year, because they have quite uneven production. Tree wars.
Any time I can make bisco scurry for info, it is a victory for Team Kunming. Beethoven made coffee with exactly ___ beans per day?
Forests burn and 10 to 15% of wood takes this fast road. Forests have always burned, but details are not well known. Come with me to Turkey: ScienceDirect Where 600,000 years of burning was revealed. Over that time, cycles of solar inputs were dominant, and no previous study has shown that better. Your reporter is not shocked. In such times when [CO2] was below 280 ppm, solar flux should be the big dog. Current ~410 ppm and rising is a new world for primates and industrialists and we are not yet good at anticipating our future. Not as good as we ought to be.
