{"id":5553,"date":"2022-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/19-11-2022\/melocanna-baccifera\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T00:00:00","slug":"melocanna-baccifera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/19-11-2022\/melocanna-baccifera","title":{"rendered":"Melocanna Baccifera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Recently, a <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">study spanning 13 years<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> has given information about <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">flowering in Melocanna baccifera.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Melocanna baccifera flowers almost fully synchronically <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">every 48 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>Outcomes of the recent study<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Bamboo death and Rat floods\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It has long fascinated researchers for its association with the occurrence of bamboo death, rat floods and <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>famines in northeast India<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It is called \u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Muli\u2019 in northeast India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Population boom in rats\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Researchers detected a correlation between the sugar content in the fruit of Melocanna baccifera and the frenzied feeding and population boom in rats during \u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Mautam\u2019, the cyclical, mass bamboo flowering<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> that occurs once in 48 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>About Melocanna Baccifera<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"C:UsersvishaDesktopmelocanna-baccifera-4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/Enx92_ksM52GHhksWQVW8Z7Gwb3w9oqEi4FCSHTKeyYwZFdT7AacaLE7Om9W3A0nvCKkDgIY4bvqGSQCvzz9nLR55rZ5Rveeu5JgLGh_3d23VZWpzvG4gOsXYQqCN5eHWGC1qs4Q4rsv5ILw3XI3ei2XmPjRePgTZmiUhokhviUx8yAUjo_1SLOL9wKZEw\" style=\"height:325.0; width:244.0\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>It is one of two bamboo species<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> belonging to the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Melocanna genus.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It is the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>largest fruit-producing bamboo<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>grows up to 10\u201325 m tall.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It is <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>native to Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, and Thailand.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It is <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>an invasive species<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> that can occupy large areas due to its long and vigorous rhizomes and, in flowering, for its fruits that are easy to germinate.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">Source: <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/sweet-not-protein-in-bamboo-fruits-triggers-rat-boom-study\/article66153100.ece\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\">TH<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News Recently, a study spanning 13 years has given information about flowering in Melocanna baccifera. Melocanna baccifera flowers almost fully synchronically every 48 years. Outcomes of the recent study Bamboo death and Rat floods\u00a0 It has long fascinated researchers for its association with the occurrence of bamboo death, rat floods and famines in northeast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,32],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-gs-3","tag-species-in-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8281492962218D1C2BEA-B42D-44CA-AC90-12BFBC61D8CC.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}