{"id":978,"date":"2011-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-379\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:23","slug":"innovation-anthology-379","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2011\/02\/24\/innovation-anthology-379\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #379:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 379.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ratroot is native to boreal wetlands. Its tall slender leaves are similar to cattails and it\u2019s related to iris.  <\/p>\n<p>\nAnn Smreciu is a restoration ecologist who is investigating the propogation of rat root for use in created wetlands in the oil sands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs Ann explains, the ratroot is important to Aboriginal people.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nANN SMRECIU: <\/b><em> They actually dry the rhizome.  The rhizome is like an underground stem and it grows long and produces shoots from that.  And what they do is they dig up the rhizome, they dry it, and chew pieces of it, primarily for things like sore throats, upper respiratory, although I\u2019ve heard that its used for lungs and liver as well. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe elders are somewhat skeptical that Ann\u2019s ratroot plants will be as good as those that come from the wild.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nANN SMRECIU: <\/b><em> The plants that we are growing  in the greenhouse look a little bit different than what they see in the wild.  Once we put them out into the natural settings and the temperature regimes that we have, I think the plants will grow much more similarly to those that are natural.  And I think that those problems will be alleviated.  I think that they\u2019ll be less concerned about it. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnn Smreciu presented her findings at the recent CONRAD conference on oil sands reclamation research.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Syncrude<\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02011-02-24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ratroot<\/b> is native to boreal wetlands. Its tall slender leaves are similar to cattails and it\u2019s related to iris.    Restoration ecologist <b>Ann Smreciu<\/b> talks about the importance of ratroot to Aboriginal people.   <em>(Syncrude Canada Ltd.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,59,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-water","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}