{"id":13407,"date":"2023-07-25T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13407"},"modified":"2025-04-02T04:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:37:23","slug":"what-is-silver-cockscomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-silver-cockscomb\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Silver cockscomb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Silver cockscomb:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a short-lived 50-60 cm-tall plant <strong>considered as a weed<\/strong>, that bears simple, spirally arranged leaves around the stem with pinkish or silky white flowers.<\/li>\n<li>In Karnataka\u2019s Chamarajanagara district the silver cockscomb is referred to as anne soppu.<\/li>\n<li>Also known as <strong>lagos spinach <\/strong>which belongs to the <strong>Amaranthaceae family<\/strong>, which includes economically important plants like spinach (Spinacia oleracea), beetroot and quinoa.<\/li>\n<li>The plant is known as <strong>Celosia argentea<\/strong>, kurdu in Marathi and pannai keerai in Tamil.<\/li>\n<li>It grows well even on <strong>fallow land and in drought-like conditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its leaves have lower levels of oxalic acid and phytic acid.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Soligas use it as a nutritious leafy green vegetable, as it is <strong>high in nutrients<\/strong> such as beta-carotene and folic acids, and have vitamin E, calcium and iron.<\/li>\n<li>It is frequently used in traditional Chinese and Indian <strong>medicine for treating eye diseases and ulcers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Who are Soligas?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They are an <strong>indigenous tribe of Karnataka,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They reside in the peripheral forest areas near <strong>Biligiri Rangana Hills<\/strong> and Male Mahadeshwara in the Chamarajnagar district of Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li>They are the first tribal community living inside the core area of a tiger reserve in India to get their forest rights officially recognised by a court of law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Micronutrients?<\/h3>\n<p>Micronutrients are essential nutrients required by living organisms, including humans, in small quantities for proper growth, development, and various physiological functions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/food\/green-promise-silver-cockscomb-isn-t-a-troublesome-weed-for-karnataka-s-soliga-tribe-90593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Green promise: Silver cockscomb isn\u2019t a troublesome weed for Karnataka\u2019s Soliga tribe<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver cockscomb is a short-lived 50-60 cm-tall plant considered as a weed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}