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Follow on Google News | Knight Investments LLC review environmental issues posed by USDA over the "Giant Reed" plantEarlier this month the United States Department of Agriculture revealed details about the possible take over of the Giant Reed plant posed by over crowding native habitat plants, and Knight Investments LLC took heed of such remarks
By: James Powell Knight Investments LLC consulted with independent researchers and In research designed to stop arundo's advance, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ecologist David F. Spencer and co-investigators have developed a computerized, science-based animation that shows precisely how a real-world arundo plant grows. The animation—apparently a first for an invasive weed—is intended for researchers, streamkeepers, students and others. Knight Investments LLC Officials stated that information like this would be important for those seeking to assist in the solution. During this brief clip, a reality based "virtual arundo" goes through its first year of growth, emerging from a single, thick, underground stem, or rhizome, to reach its maximum height of about 30 feet. Knight Investments LLC noted that the animation is derived from studies led by Spencer. In some of those studies, thousands of digitized measurements were taken by magnetic sensors of dozens of arundo plants, which KI Officials were key to note. Using commercially available software, the measurements were analyzed to create L-DONAX, a computer-based model of arundo's growth, with optional 3-D animation. There are notations that the work to improve the first (2007) version continues, and KI Board of Advisor Randy Dunn said the continued progress made the company have positive outlooks that the animations would help find a solution. Meanwhile, the animation has been newly posted on the web. Researchers can use L-DONAX and its animations to gauge—and see on-screen—the predicted effects of tactics to control arundo. For example, the model could help scientists determine the best times in the weed's growth to unleash helpful insects that attack arundo's leaves, stems or rhizomes. Spencer, who works at the ARS Exotic and Invasive Weeds Research Unit in Davis, Calif., created L-DONAX with David Thornby, formerly at the University of California-Davis; # # # Knight Investments LLC works as a private equity firm to invest personal funds on the behalf and promotion of a vibrant community, low income housing, humanitarian causes, renewable energies, real estate developments, and project financing. End
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