Sentences with phrase «affects plant growth»

These experiments all measured how extra CO2 in the atmosphere affects plant growth, microbial production of carbon dioxide, and the total amount of soil carbon at the end of the experiment.

However, the Pierces report: «Our research indicates that the color spectrum only minimally — if at all — affects plant growth.

The mathematical model developed for the latest work determines how termite mounds affect plant growth by applying various tools from physics and mathematical and numerical analysis to understand a biological phenomenon, said first author Juan Bonachela, a former postdoctoral researcher in the research group of co-author Simon Levin, Princeton's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology.

«Light pollution shown to affect plant growth, food webs.»

North Carolina State University also notes that carbon dioxide is affecting plant growth.

Does the type of mulch used affect plant growth?

Does The Type of Mulch Used Affect Plant Growth?

The large increase is partially due to the current El Niño weather pattern that leads to different patterns of temperature and precipitation over very large areas, affecting plant growth and respiration of ecosystems.

In the context, Fritts is talking about factors affecting plant growth, not tree ring width.

CO2 was well known to affect plant growth.

Koven adds that there are large uncertainties in the model that need to be addressed, such as the role of nitrogen feedbacks, which affect plant growth.

North Carolina State University also notes that carbon dioxide is affecting plant growth.

Idso did not mention how rising temperatures and growing water scarcity might affect plant growth under climate change.

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These signals determine how the plant regulates water use and growth, which affect crop yields.

However, microgravity can reduce cell growth, alter gene expression and change the pattern of root growth — all aspects which critically affect plant cultivation in space.

By conducting a series of experiments on young plants, the researchers have shown that the growth of the lodgepole pine is greatly affected by which organisms live in the soil.

Researchers from Purdue University and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln have discovered a soybean gene whose mutation affects plant stem growth, a finding that could lead to the development of improved soybean cultivars for the northern United States.

Called AmazonFACE (Free - Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment), it's based on a simple idea: For 12 years, researchers will spray pure CO2 into instrumented plots in the rainforest northwest of Manaus, Brazil, raising ambient concentrations to 600 parts per million — a level the world could reach as early as 2050 — all the while taking meticulous measurements to determine how the gas affects the growth of plants.

A key feature of STB is the long symptomless growth of the fungus — called Zymoseptoria tritici — which can affect the host plant's cells before it switches to the visible disease phase that eventually destroys the plant's leaves.

They found that the nematode peptides triggered a growth response in Arabidopsis much in the same way as the plants» own peptides affected development.

«Because big bluestem is currently a dominant grass species of the Great Plains and makes up to 70 percent of the plant biomass in places, how the ecosystem works could be affected by predicted changes in growth of this species,» Johnson said.

Returning investigation samples will demonstrate how life in microgravity affects the growth of plant seedlings, changes to the human body, the behavior of semiconductors and detergents, and more.

The paper is «solid, exciting research,» says ecologist Chris Field of Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, California, who notes that various models have looked at ways different factors might affect future plant growth.

Drought stress leads to water deficits in crops, which affects crop growth and development and a number of metabolic processes in the plants, such as photosynthesis and primary metabolism

«Nonetheless, the differing growth patterns will affect the entire plant and animal world.

The authors of a recent study say that not only do pre - and post-production practices such as time of harvest, use of plant growth regulators, and storage temperature / atmosphere affect tomato aroma, common kitchen practices such as refrigeration and blanching are also detrimental.

Teaching points that are covered in the topic are listed below: Understand that it is important to be able to grow plants well because they provide food and other items for us To know that all food chains begin with a green plant To understand the function of the parts of a plant To understand that plants need leaves in order to grow well To plan an appropriate investigation To make careful observations and measurements of plants growing To use simple apparatus to measure the height of plants in standard measures To use results to draw conclusions and provide explanations To know that water is transported through the stem to other parts of the plant To know that that plants need light for healthy growth To know that plants need water, but not unlimited water, for healthy growth To know that temperature can affect the growth of plants To ask questions about the growth of plants To plan a fair test To write a clear conclusion

I've also lived in both northern New England and the Southwest, and my perception of the limiting factors of plant growth is affected by my failures at growing vegetables in both climates.)

One could imagine a scenario where competitors benefit more, thereby posing a negative growth affect on other plants.

Hank — Growers of a wide range of plant types [veg and horticulture] commonly use shade cloth on greenhouses, filtering up to 70 % of UV — normally to control heat in the house, but the reduction / diffusing of the sunlight doesn't affect growth.

There is NO scientific proof that enhanced atmospheric CO2 has ANY affect apart from enhanced plant growth.

But rising levels of carbon dioxide could also affect the quality of plant growth, according to a new study in Global Change Biology.

«More CO2 promotes more plant growth both on land and throughout the surface waters of the world's oceans, and this vast assemblage of plant life has the ability to affect Earth's climate in several ways, almost all of them tending to counteract the heating effects of CO2's thermal radiative forcing.»

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Their sources include church records, commissions of inquiries into glacier disasters, taxes on farms affected by glaciers, town records, population records, illustrations and lithographs, observations by travellers and scientists, scientific papers, historic articles on glaciers from contemporary sources in English, French, German and Italian, correlation with wine and grain harvest dates, alpine clubs, mountaineers and tree line / plant growth records amongst other sources.

For tree growth and recruitment, our study showed competition negatively affected tree growth and recruitment but no effects of climate change at the stand level were detected although studies from satellite data (40) showed that global warming facilitated plant growth.

Factors affecting N fixation are growth of bacteria and / or host plants, photosynthetic activity of host plants, available mineral N and type of bacteria, Stout (1990).

Ongoing greenhouse gas emissions can alter climate suitability for plant growth, in turn affecting biological and social systems.

Although this is a correlative approach, it provides important relative insights into how plant growth could be affected by alternative future climates.

Ongoing climate change can alter conditions for plant growth, in turn affecting ecological and social systems.

Potential reductions in plant growth associated with fewer plant growing days are particularly worrisome given that the largest impacts are expected to affect the poorest and most agriculturally dependent countries in the world (Fig 5).

Variable milfoil most seriously affects Maine and New Hampshire due to an absence of natural predators and ideal water conditions for plant growth.