Although indigo plants' natural habitat is tropical regions, they can also be successfully cultivated in other parts of the ...

Although indigo plants' natural habitat is tropical regions, they can also be successfully cultivated in other parts of the ...

From the false olive to pompon tree and more, South Africa has many beautiful indigenous trees that are ideal for small gardens, attracting insect and bird ...

Although the ancient Briton's woad, from Isatis tinctorio L., has been differentiated from the indigo dye indoxyl-β-D-glucoside, from the tropical legume genus Indigofera, it has never been ...

Indigo factories were sited on river valleys for the water supply, and because indigo plants (several species of Indigofera) grow best in rich soils. Harsh working conditions in indigo fields and ...

02:06 On this day, he's out with his team in their lush indigo field, harvesting leaves from plants they've cultivated themselves. Japanese indigo dyeing is unique in its use of a base material ...

The method used by them was entirely independent of the indigo plants. The yield was extremely small and there seemed to be no promise in the method of future commercial success. A quarter of a ...

The plants that grow here have been used in papermaking ... and materials. Japanese indigo makes a deep blue dye, and flax gets turned into yarn for linen fabric. Hibiscus manihot roots and ...

Plants help people and animals to live. Plants provide food for people and animals to eat. They also make oxygen. All people and animals need oxygen to breathe. Plants are a very important part of ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...

She followed it into a thicket of pines, where she discovered a patch of wild blue indigo hidden among the trees.

The finishing technology acts as a thermal source that eliminates the indigo dye of denim fabrics by sublimation, which means ...