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  • (Amaranthus retroflexus) and goosefoot (Chenopodium album) which otherwise may have negative effects on garden crops. 19 These

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • For the Tarahumara, quelites, or wild greens that emerge in their maize fields, are an essential food source. 24 The quelites, amaranth (Amaranthus retroflexus), Brassica spp., and goosefoot sprout and grow with the rains in May.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • The main weedy types are A. viridis, A. spinosis, A. retroflexus, and A. hybridus.

    2 The Plants 1984

  • They lack the strong taproot that is seen in A. retroflexus, for example, and are generally much less aggressive in their habits.

    2 The Plants 1984

  • A. retroflexus ( "pigweed") is one of the world's worst weeds.

    2 The Plants 1984

  • Most of its fibers are, however, directed downward and form a bundle, the fasciculus retroflexus of Meynert, which passes medial to the red nucleus, and, after decussating with the corresponding fasciculus of the opposite side, ends in the interpeduncular ganglion.

    IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon 1918

  • The axons of these cells are grouped together in a bundle, the fasciculus retroflexus of Meynert, which passes ventrally medial to the red nucleus and terminates in a small medial ganglion in the substantia perforata posterior, immediately in front of the pons, called the interpeduncular ganglion.

    IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918

  • The fibers of the fasciculus retroflexus of Meynert, which have their origin in the cells of the ganglion habenulæ (page 812), end in it.

    IX. Neurology. 4b. The Mid-brain or Mesencephalon 1918

  • Large dot shows a large labelled cell. dmpNr-dorsomedial part of parvicellular red nucleus, FR-fasciculus retroflexus, mNr-magnocellular red nucleus, NB-nucleus accessorius medialis of Bechterew, ND-nucleus of Darkschewitsch, Nint-interstitial nucleus of Cajal, vlpNr-ventorlateral part of parvicellular red nucleus, III-oculomotor nucleus.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Satoru Onodera et al. 2009

  • Large dot shows a large labelled cell. dmpNr-dorsomedial part of parvicellular red nucleus, FR-fasciculus retroflexus, mNr-magnocellular red nucleus, NB-nucleus accessorius medialis of Bechterew, ND-nucleus of Darkschewitsch, Nint-interstitial nucleus of Cajal, vlpNr-ventorlateral part of parvicellular red nucleus, III-oculomotor nucleus.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Satoru Onodera et al. 2009

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