Anaerobic benzene-degrading enrichment cultures performing methanogenesis were obtained from non-contaminated lotus field soil.
The landscape of emerald-green paddy fields interspersed with lotus-filled ponds slowly gives way to jungle while the sun sets behind some immense storm clouds.
One September morning, I drove out with my friend A Dai into the Zhejiang countryside, through a lush greenness of paddy fields, bamboo groves and lotus ponds, into the teabushed hills.
The site is now a green swathe of national park, set amid the paddy fields, stilt houses and lotus-filled lakes of central Thailand.
To be used in this paper, the LOTUS corpus was divided into two sets: LOTUS-TRN and LOTUS-DEV.
In addition, new perspectives on lotus leaf-inspired functional platforms in various engineering fields are discussed.
The findings provide a novel theoretical basis for controllable polymer "bionic lotus" surface and will further promote practical application in many engineering fields such as drag-reduction and anti-icing.
A threshold rug represented in a stone carving (now in the Louvre) from the 8th-century-bc Assyrian palace of Khorsabad (in modern Iraq) has an allover field pattern of quatrefoils (four-leafed motifs), framed by a lotus border.
Microstructures of the bionic lotus polymer coating surfaces were observed by a scanning electron microscopy JSM-5600LVV and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), JEOL, Akishima, Japan).
Salix tetrasperma, Aesculus indica, Diospyros lotus, Morus alba/nigra, Celtis australis/caucasica, Grewia oppositifolia, Anisomeles indica and Debregeasia salicifolia are primarily available on the cropping field boundaries.
* * * Consider the lotus flower.
