gumweed

Yellow gummy flowers with very aromatic leaves. Tea made from flowers and leaves used for lung and kidney issues like bronchitis, asthma, coughs, tuberculosis, pneumonia, gonorrhea, colds. Also used for stomach and spleen cancer, gonorrhea, tuberculosis. Relaxing sedative and anti-spasmodic

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Lin is trying to mimic the natural process for biomass deconstruction when converting the gumweed into biomatter for jet fuel.

Miller and his colleagues to develop new generation biofuels from gumweed and other Nevada plant species are well aligned with our efforts to establish CABNR and NAES as world leaders in sustainable dryland agriculture," said Bill Payne, dean of the College of Agriculture, Biochemistry, and Natural Resources.

Weed? Or jet fuel? Roadside gumweed in Nevada could be used as jet fuel for the military

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