Sentences with phrase «against plant diseases»

Originally, the resin has served these trees as a type of antibiotic to protect against plant diseases.

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Crop insurance provides growers with protection against crop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly applied).

Additionally, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire have also agreed to intensify collaboration, in the field of scientific research for the production of cocoa plants, the improvement of plant varieties, and also to adopt and implement a regional programme to fight against the swollen shoot disease.

Researchers found that NAD +, a natural molecule found in living cells, plants and food protects against autoimmune diseases by altering the immune response and turning «destructive» cells into «protective» cells.

A new understanding as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help scientists breed new, more successful disease - resistant agricultural crops.

Merlin and his VA and Georgia State University coauthors elaborated on the idea in a report earlier this year titled «Plant - derived edible nanoparticles as a new therapeutic approach against diseases.»

In nature, the resilient lignin polymer helps provide the scaffolding for plants, reinforcing slender cellulosic fibers — the primary raw ingredient of cellulosic ethanol — and serving as a protective barrier against disease and predators.

The resulting data clearly showed that the microbial cocktail could bolster plant defenses against both arsenic and rice blast disease.

Colored pigments attract pollinating insects, they protect plants against disease, and they confer health benefits and are used in the food and drug industries.

Over time, in all three species, plant protein families that originally assisted in self - defense against disease and other stresses developed into the digestive enzymes we see today, genetic clues suggest.

«Plant breeders, growers should pay attention to flush in fight against citrus greening disease.»

The winners of the prize are Maged Al - Sherbiny from Egypt, for his research on vaccines and diagnostics against hepatitis C and schistosomiasis; plant scientist Felix Dapare Dakora from Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, in South Africa for his work on legumes and soil bacteria; and Rossana Arroyo of the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of Mexico's National Polytechnic Institute, who studies trichomoniasis, a parasitic disease.

For the study, MAbs were rapidly produced in tobacco plants in as little as ten days, giving promise to change the image of scourged product that causes lung cancer into a manufacturing system for societal benefits against infectious diseases.

From natural ecosystems to farmers» fields, plants face a dilemma of energy use: outgrow and outcompete their neighbors for light, or defend themselves against insects and disease.

It makes a toxin that deters insects and other animals from eating the plant and also protects its host against disease and drought.

Bioengineering plants that have greater resistance to pests and diseases has also been proposed because, although not new, the arms race against evolving pests and diseases continues.

Plants are known to communicate with each other via shade, aromatic chemicals, and physical touch, promoting processes such as growth and defense against disease, as well as attraction of bees and other pollinators.

This fresh evidence could help scientists and breeders especially in arming crop plants against a swathe of emerging diseases.

«Self - pollination leads to reduction of genetic variability in the population, and this can be a problem for the plants, because they have a reduced ability to evolve resistance against diseases.»

BABA has long been known for its protective effects against devastating plant diseases, such as potato blight, but has so far not been used widely in crop protection because of undesirable side effects.

A team of international researchers has uncovered a mechanism by which plants are able to better defend themselves against disease - causing pathogens.

Through enhancing plants» resilience against drought and disease and through breeding crops with higher yields, CRISPR - Cas technology may be a critical tool in fighting the world's food shortage crisis.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Crop scientists at Washington State University have explained how genes in the barley plant turn on defenses against aging and stressors like drought, heat and disease.

Regardless of artemisinin's effectiveness against malaria and other diseases caused by parasites and despite its anti-tumour potential, its usage faces a problem: the low content produced by the plant and the high cost of its chemical synthesis result in a scarce and expensive drug.

A healthy, plant based diet, filled with a variety of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices, and with reduced added sugar is the basis of defense against chronic disease.

A study published in the August 26, 2001 issue of the journal Nutrition makes a strong case against plant - based diets for prevention of heart disease.

That's sad, for it provides an important missing piece in our knowledge of heart disease development, a strong argument against the plant - based fad, and a bright new chapter in what the New York Times has called «The Fall and Rise of Kilmer McCully.»

A study out August 26 in the journal Nutrition makes a strong case against plant - based diets for prevention of heart disease.

Its insoluble fiber may help fight cancer, and beta - glucan, a type of fiber found in some plant foods like oatmeal, may help lower cholesterol levels, thus protecting against heart disease.

Plant - based diets may help protect against oral cancer and periodontal (gum) disease, a leading cause of tooth loss.

Additionally, dark chocolate is a powerful source of antioxidants, a group of beneficial plant compounds that help protect against various diseases (71).

A plant - based diet is free of cholesterol and saturated animal fats; a convergence of evidence suggests that a plant - based diet may protect against and help manage and even reverse heart disease.

There are certain plant foods which appear to be especially protective against heart disease, especially those high in nitrates, antioxidants, fiber, and potassium.

Plant proteins also contain immunity - boosting phytonutrients, like flavonoids and isoflavones, that protect against disease.

But plant - based diets not only appear to guard against getting diabetes in the first place, they may successfully treat the disease better than the diabetic diets patients are typically placed on, controlling weight and cholesterol.

Almost all plant foods contain antinutrients as natural defenses against pests, diseases, and environmental threats.

What Campbell and Chen imply in this movie clip is that all those correlations are, serendipitously, singing the same tune: That plant foods offer protection against diseases, while animal foods tend to promote them.

One type of phytonutrient especially abundant in whole grains including brown rice are plant lignans, which are converted by friendly flora in our intestines into mammalian lignans, including one called enterolactone that is thought to protect against breast and other hormone - dependent cancers as well as heart disease.

One type of phytonutrient especially abundant in whole grains such as buckwheat are plant lignans, which are converted by friendly flora in our intestines into mammalian lignans, including one called enterolactone that is thought to protect against breast and other hormone - dependent cancers as well as heart disease.

In fact the science backs a plant based diet, the very one he speaks out against, to combat and / or reverse heart disease, cancer, obesity etc and on and on.

Onions are one of the healthiest plants and can protect you against heart - and cardiovascular diseases, cancer and asthma.

So, the foods to emphasize in one's diet are unprocessed, unrefined, plant - derived foods, which in general lack the disease - promoting components, and, as the Dietary Guidelines Committee put it, these foods contain not only the essential vitamins and minerals, but also hundreds of naturally - occurring phytonutrients that may protect against cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and other chronic health conditions.

Prepared according to the doshas (p. 47, Food As Medicine), eating a varied, mostly plant - based diet is the best protection against chronic disease.

Grapefruits are high in fiber and low in calories, and they contain bioflavonoids and other plant chemicals that protect against serious diseases like cancer, heart disease, and the formation of tumors.

Phytochemicals are found in plants and may help to protect against cancer, cardiovascular disease and type - 2 diabetes.

... cocoa flavanols (plant chemicals protecting against oxidative stress) have a host of benefits, including the potential to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease.

The study is part of a growing body of evidence that suggests the bioactive plant compounds found in cocoa beans, called polyphenols, may help protect against heart disease.

One type of phytonutrient especially abundant in whole grains such as barley are plant lignans, which are converted by friendly flora in our intestines into mammalian lignans, including one called enterolactone that is thought to protect against breast and other hormone - dependent cancers as well as heart disease.

It eliminates the ability of the plant to defend against disease then it kills the beneficial organisms in the soil whose job it is to do two things.

Polyphenols, a type of plant - based chemical found in foods ranging from vegetables to chocolate, help neutralize the harmful substances known as free radicals and are thought to protect against heart disease and other health problems.