Maple

Acer saccharum (Marsh.) is a member of the Aceraceae family and is commonly known as the sugar maple. The sugar maple leaf is the main symbol depicted on the Canadian flag which further emphasizes its importance to Canadian culture and history. Along with it’s cultural significance, it is also extremely important economically in Canada due to the various products that are produced from it’s sap and wood. Due to it’s widespread canopy capable of blocking large amount of sunlight and its gorgeous leaf structure and colourations in the fall, this tree is highly valued as an ornamental and for shade (Sugar Maple, Arbor Day Foundation, 2016). There are nine other Acer species that are native to Canada, of which six major examples include A. glabrum…

Allegory of the Maple Syrup April 12, 2010 at 6:53am Throughout His ministry, Christ used stories and metaphor to teach the people the gospel. On the surface, the stories are just that-- stories. Some were allegories. An allegory is a Greek word. It means a figurative story full of meaning and metaphor, where each thing in the story represents something else. If you look deeper into the meanings and symbols, bright truths can be learned. No matter what level a person is on, we can all gain light…

Suger maple(Acer saccharum) Aceraceae/ Maple family sometimes called rock maple or hard maple, it is one of the largest hardwoods that is wide spreaded in western Canada. Sugar maple is common associtated with those common types: Acer negundo,manitoba maple Acer ginnala,amur maple Acer sacharrinum,silver maple Tree with overall up to 35 m tall, long straight trunk, usually branch-free for 2/3rds of its height. Leaves: Simple leaves, oppositely arranged and they’re flat, with three or five…

Away from Tradition Maple sap is harvested from trees in the northeastern United States - specifically northern New York, New England, and the Great Lake states - as well as Canada, particularly Quebec. The main producer in the United States is Vermont, but Canada produces about eighty percent of all maple syrup in the world (“Food Production: Maple Syrup”). The average temperature range of maple-producing areas is zero to fifty degrees Fahrenheit, in January, while the average yearly inches of…

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Cayuta, N.Y. (WENY) -- This winter's unseasonably warm weather is creating a change for maple syrup producers. The shift in temperatures has many farmers unsure of when or how long their tapping season will last. Even though many syrup producers begin to tap their trees in mid-February to mid-March, this season's unpredictable weather have put maple producers in a sticky situation. "The weather this year has us kind of scrambling. With some of the recent storms, and a lot of wind, we've…

Madhavi Ramnath Genetics and Genomics Maple Syrup Urine Disease Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), first characterized by John Menkes in 1954, is an inborn error of metabolism involving the catabolic pathway of the branched‐chain amino acids, where there is difficulty in breaking down certain parts of the protein (leucine, isoleucine, and valine). This leads to a buildup of chemicals in the blood and the build up of ketoacids, which give rise to the ‘maple syrup’ or burnt sugar smell in the…

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Maple syrup urine disease is a rare disorder in which the body fails to properly process certain amino acids, such as leucine, isoleucine and valine. which are present in foods such as milk, eggs, meat. Therefore, results in a buildup of these in the blood. It is called maple syrup due to its distinctive sweet odor of affected infant’s urine. MSUD can damage the brain when in physical stress, such as fever, infection, starving. MSUD affects approximately 1 in 180,000 infants worldwide. A higher…

metabolism are a group of rare disorders characterized by metabolic pathway abnormalities. One such disorder is Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD) otherwise known as Branched-chain Ketoaciduria, a dangerous condition in which over saturation of amino acids in the blood can lead to toxicity progressing to encephalopathy, neurodegeneration, coma or respiratory failure (Haldeman-Englert, 2015). MSUD results from a malfunction of the branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex (BCKD) (Kniffin,…