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  2. Coca - Wikipedia

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    Before the criminalization of cocaine, however, the extract was not decocainized, and hence Coca-Cola's original formula did indeed include cocaine. [ 9 ] [ 11 ] [ 59 ] Coca tea is produced industrially from coca leaves in South America by a number of companies, including Enaco S.A. (National Company of the Coca), a government enterprise in Peru.

  3. Erythroxylum novogranatense - Wikipedia

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    In controlled environment studies, the optimum average daily temperature for leaf growth for E. novogranatense var. novogranatense was found to be around 27 °C (81 °F), whereas leaf growth was generally higher at photosynthetic photon flux densities (PPFD) of 250 or 400 micromol per meter square per second than at 155 micromol per meter ...

  4. Biosynthesis of cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Chemical structure of cocaine. The biosynthesis of cocaine has long attracted the attention of biochemists and organic chemists. This interest is partly motivated by the strong physiological effects of cocaine, but a further incentive was the unusual bicyclic structure of the molecule. The biosynthesis can be viewed as occurring in two phases ...

  5. Scientists Uncovered a Blow From the Past: 17th Century ... - AOL

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    By the 17th century, when those buried in the crypt would have lived, Milan (then a possession of Spain) was a major importer of exotic plants, especially from the Americas, so cocaine could’ve ...

  6. BBCH-scale - Wikipedia

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    Similar growth stages of each plant species are given the same BBCH code. Each code has a description and important growth stages have additional drawings included. The first digit of the scale refers to the principal growth stage. The second digit refers to the secondary growth stage which corresponds to an ordinal number or percentage value.

  7. Plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    Growth from any such meristem at the tip of a root or shoot is termed primary growth and results in the lengthening of that root or shoot. Secondary growth results in widening of a root or shoot from divisions of cells in a cambium. [8] In addition to growth by cell division, a plant may grow through cell elongation. This occurs when individual ...

  8. A brew of ancient coca is Bolivia's buzzy new beer. But it's ...

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    In a statement responding to questions from The Associated Press, the agency cited U.S. government figures showing that as coca cultivation in Bolivia doubled from 2006 to 2021, illicit cocaine ...

  9. Cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Cocaine (from French cocaïne, from Spanish coca, ultimately from Quechua kúka) [13] is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant.As an extract, it is mainly used recreationally and often illegally for its euphoric and rewarding effects.