|
 News+ |
Best screen: 1024x768
|
|
|
|
|
|
Major
updates of my pages:
 Update
titles are also posted on my Ginkgo-blog.
You can only get these updates as a feed via my blog. |
Last
updates:
*
New
topic: Study: Leaves show looped networks may be better than branched.
* New photo photospecial
page: Ginkgo grove at Blandy Experimental Farm, University of
Virginia.
January - June
2010 (new on top)
*
Section Videos - Photos on this Specials-page
moved to my blog.
*
Added to my
Art-page (picture gallery) Art Nouveau
Ginkgo designs by Else Strauss.
*
Added to Tree-page video "Ginkgo in fall impressions".
July - December
2009 (new on top)
*
New
topic: Study: Ginkgo and cognitive decline in older adults.
*
New photo photospecial page: Old Ginkgo
tree with chichi at Maldegem with 3 videos of this tree.
*
Added a photo of "Ginkgo leaves fall before
the seeds".
*
Added Ginkgo Messenger
project on my Art-page. Interactive: write your wish or dream on a
Ginkgo leaf.
*
Added to my Tree-page a special page about
the sudden falling of Ginkgo leaves.
*
New
video: Ginkgo in fall impressions.
*
New photo photospecial page: Ginkgo
trees in Amsterdam, Vespuccistraat + video of these trees.
*
New
videos: Ginkgo rain: leaves fall all at the same time.
*
Added
video
on Tree-page: Playlist of my videos on YouTube of the Ginkgo as a street
tree.
*
New
video: Music "Ginkgo - Ityo"by Yusuke.
*
New
topic: UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon plants Ginkgo tree.
*
New
video: HD video of old Ginkgo at Hachiman Mito shrine, Japan.
*
New
topics: Ginkgo and loss of smell + Ginkgo and radiation damage.
*
Added
video on Propagation-page: Ginkgo seeds in September.
*
New photo photospecial page: Ginkgo bonsai trees, Bambouseraie Prafrance,
Anduze, France.
*
Added Google translate gadget on index-page.
*
Added many new videos on my
YouTube channel.
*
New photo photospecial page: Huge old female tree, c. 1840, Houssen
(France) + 3 videos of this tree.
*
Added
video on Propagation-page: Ginkgo ovules in June.
*
Added some photos of Ginkgo seeds gathering
in Japan.
*
Added many photos of Ginkgo pollen/seeds/ovule
development .
*
Added photos of Ginkgo trees in Japan
(Kawara) and Germany (Schwerin).
*
New photopage: Japan - Yamanashi prefecture:
Minobusan - Temple Hongoku-Ji "OHATSUKI" tree (seed attached to leaf)
*
New photo of
Ohatsuki leaf: ovule (seed) grows
on the leaf.
*
Added 3 new videos on my
YouTube channel: Old
Ginkgo tree in Japanese garden + Old
Ginkgo tree in Anduze + Ginkgo
ovules (seeds) in June - France.
*
Added photo + videos of Ginkgo tree(s) in Japanese garden in Anduze,
France.
*
New book by Arthur Sze on my Literature-page.
*
Added
photos in photo/videos section: Ginkgo trees at new Rooftop Sculpture
Garden San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
*
New photo photospecial page: Bartholdi
with Statue of Liberty and Ginkgo tree.
*
Added
video in videos section: Sculpture and Ginkgos at Kröller-Müller
Museum, the Netherlands.
*
Added
2 videos in videos section: "Ginkgo biloba: a tree that conquers
time" made by two Harvard students + a poem "Ginkgo leaves in fall" by
Ed Hiestand.
*
New
topic: 4,000 year-old ginkgo tree found in Guizhou, China + video.
*
New
topic: Queen plants Ginkgo tree at Kew, London, UK.
I
don't mention minor updates here. Not all changes are updated on the German/French/Dutch
summaries.
My
Where/Ginkgo
photos-videos/Links/FAQ/Photo
special pages and this page are regularly updated, so if you don't
want to miss a thing check them out each month!
    |
|
|
Leaves
show looped networks may be better than branched
The curvy, connected
leaf veins found in some plants are an efficient way to circumvent damaged
areas and channel nutrients, report researchers of the Rockefeller University
in New York City. The researchers compared how efficiently different branching
patterns could do the job of leaf veins, which move water and nutrients
around. In the simulations, the looped network performed better than non-looped
ones.
Loop networks aren’t
found just in tree leaves. Blood vessels in the retina, structural veins
in insect wings and the architecture of certain corals are all based on
loops. Understanding the benefits of such networks might lead to more efficient
man-made network designs. Simulation
videos: Looped
vein network grows around a damaged spot + Ginkgo leaf: straight veins
are stopped by a damaged spot.
More info: Jan.
29 Physical Review Letters
Study:
Ginkgo and cognitive decline in older adults
Research at the
University of Pittsburgh analyzed outcomes from the Ginkgo Evaluation of
Memory (GEM) study to determine if Ginkgo biloba slowed the rate of cognitive
decline in older adults who had normal cognition or mild cognitive impairment
at the beginning of the study. The researchers found no evidence that Ginkgo
biloba slows the rate of cognitive decline in older adults.
Article JAMA
and Archives Journals (JAMA. 2009;302(24):2663-2670).
Schwabe (German
manufacturer of Ginkgo extract) Statement on JAMA article here.
Ginkgo
and loss of smell
At Seoul National
University, South Korea, the efficacy of a treatment with glucocorticoids,
Ginkgo biloba, and mometasone furoate nasal spray was investigated in order
to restore the sense of smell lost by upper respiratory infections. 71
patients were treated. The researchers concluded that adding Ginkgo biloba
might be helpful in improving odor identification. Read more
here(Archives
of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery - October 2009; 135(10):1000-1004.)DOI:
10.1001/archoto.2009.141.
Ginkgo
and radiation damage
The leaves of the
Gingko biloba tree may protect cells from radiation damage, according to
a study published in the International Journal of Low Radiation.
Researchers in Korea found Ginkgo biloba helps through its free-radical
scavenging and antioxidant properties to reduce the side effects in cancer
patients undergoing radiotherapy. Read more here(International
Journal of Low Radiation 2009 - Vol. 6, No.3 pp. 209 - 218) DOI:
10.1504/IJLR.2009.028889.
UN
Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon plants Ginkgo tree
October
25: To celebrate Seattle’s contributions to protecting the global environment
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right, with shovel) participates in the
commemorative planting of a Ginkgo tree in Seattle, Washington.
Read more here.
Ban Ki-moon’s said
to the World Affairs Council in Seattle on October 26:
"We have led a
campaignthat’s
planted more than 7 billion trees around the world -– including, I might
add, a Ginkgo Biloba I was honoured to plant yesterday at the Seattle Center."
Read more here.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider
Ginkgo bicycle-rack in Memphis, Tennessee
Artist Yvonne Bobo
recently finished installing a green rack in a ginkgo-leaf motif.
Eventually, there
are to be a dozen of the fine-art bike racks around the neighborhood 'Cooper-Young'
in Midtown Memphis.
Cooper street is
lined with Ginkgo trees, so planners decided to use the fan-shaped leaf
pattern.
The installation
of bike racks is part of a broader campaign to further bicycling in Memphis,
for aesthetic, health and environmental reasons.
Read more here.
Old
Ginkgo saved in South Korea
Two apartment buildings
in Seoul, the crowded capital, will be torn down to save an 840-year-old
ginkgo, the newspaper JoongAng Ilbo reported. The 82-foot tree is the oldest
tree in Seoul and is venerated by residents in the Dobong district who
bring fruit and other offerings once a year and pray for their safety.
It also attracts pregnant women who believe it will help them have a boy.
With approval from the residents, the district government will spend $4.3
million to demolish the apartment buildings, whose foundations are interfering
with the tree’s roots, the newspaper said. A park will be built around
the ginkgo. More...
|
|
Moved to my blog.
 You
can visit my Blog - Forum: many posts about the Ginkgo,
photos, videos and reactions to questions by readers (or ask a question yourself):
|
|
If
you have news/info/photo(s)/videos etc. for my pages then
please send me an email:  |
© Cor Kwant
Copyright information.
