Sentences with phrase «as plant hormones»

«The nematode has been able to employ a breakdown product of its own metabolism as a plant hormone to control the development of plant cells,» said lead author and research group leader Dr Shahid Siddique.

Although ethylene (or ethene) is best known as a plant hormone, humans also produce it as consequence of oxidative stress, caused for example by the UV radiation from the sun.

Not exact matches

If there is a plant - based substitute available that is just as tasty, isn't laden with hormones, blood and who - knows - what binders... why wouldn't you eat that?

The researchers identified several reasons for this: The new gene constructs interfere with the plant's own gene for producing growth hormones, and the additional gene constructs were not, as intended, active solely in the kernels, but also in the leaves.

«What was specially relevant from a basic research standpoint was that, for the first time, the descent in levels of a plant hormone compared to control values as an answer to environmental stress could be a physiologically significant response — and data points in this direction,» adds Arbona.

Together with scientists from Columbia (USA), Olomouc (Czech Republic), Warsaw (Poland), Osaka (Japan) and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, the researchers at the University of Bonn have used Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to discover that the beet cyst nematode itself produces the plant hormone cytokinin.

«One of the great things about using Arabidopsis as our host plant is the vast genetic resources of cytokinin and hormone mutants that are available through the scientific community,» De La Torre said.

Researchers have proven that this mutant has more gibberellin - the hormone that promotes plant growth -, which means the seed coat is reinforced as well.

Experiments by the Division of Plant Industry in Canberra, part of Australia's national research organisation, CSIRO, showed that the hormone reduced the number of times grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass and rye - grass needed mowing by as much as 75 per cent.

«Biologists uncovers a genetic mechanism that could enhance yield in cereal crops: Precise regulation of plant hormones in early reproductive development as a target for yield increases.»

Brown University ecologist Marc Tatar says the current study, published in this week's Science, provides «really profound evidence» that longevity is controlled not by actual resources but rather by hormones that are cued to resources (such as the way plants sense winter by sunlight changes).

So the next time you're using a rooting powder to give your plant cuttings a jumpstart, think of Zimmerman and Hitchcock, whose trials and errors yielded insights into the effects of plant hormones, as well as a highly useful garden product.

The samples ranged from a simple alcohol to a complex plant hormone, and the new method, dubbed «CAL» for covalent alignment (the molecules form a type of chemical bond known as a covalent bond in the MOFs), enables researchers to determine the complete structure of a molecule from a single MOF crystal that contains the sample molecules in its pores.

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Enter bioidenticals During the period when traditional hormone replacement was persona non grata, many women began wondering about bioidentical hormones, which are made from plants — soy and yams — and after processing have the same molecular structure as the bodys own hormones.

Not to be confused with matcha, maca is a native Peruvian plant that's touted as an excellent source of antioxidants, iron, and calcium — and as a powerful hormone regulator, improving everything from PMS and menopause symptoms to your sex drive.

As such, this alkalizing herb is probably the single most effective plant used for balancing of the hormones needed for conception to take place.

Start your Natural Bio-Identical Plant based hormones creme or pill as directed.

Bioidentical hormones are taken from plant sources such as wild yam and soybeans, then altered in a lab until they are molecularly identical to the hormones that women naturally produce.

But as far as hormones in dairy, MAJORLY different from that of plants as animals and plants are majorly different form one another.

A waxy plant steroid (often lumped in with the fats), our body uses it as a form of waterproofing, and as a building block for a number of key hormones.

Hormones are made out of fat and protein components and for this reason, we need to ensure that we get enough amount of protein in our body - animal or plant sources, protein is important as long as it is doing its work properly.

They provide the building blocks for your cell membranes and a variety of hormones and hormone like substances that are essential to your health, and saturated fats from animal and vegetable sources (such as meat, dairy, certain oils, and tropical plants like coconut) provide a concentrated source of energy in your diet — a source of energy that is far more ideal than carbohydrates, and that's why I chose these two specific «keys» in combination, because when you cut down on carbs, you generally need to increase your fat consumption.

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.

She specializes in hormone balancing, detoxification and women's fatigue issues, using a fresh plant based diet, supportive lifestyle habits and food - based and herbal supplementation as needed.

So instead of always being harmful, particularly in men, plant - based phytoestrogens may serve the functional purpose of blocking harmful estrogens from feeding hormone - related cancers, as illustrated in several studies, including a 2005 study published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.

The big reason for that is that they can contain compounds known as phytoestrogens — plant - based versions of the very hormones that are running wild in a menopausal woman's body.

The weight loss pill contains vitamins, minerals, and plant extracts, and is promoted as a diet pill that helps you lose weight by reducing levels of cortisol, a stress hormone.

Particular actives are removed from certain plants that mimic the hormone receptors.This is leaning a little towards the pharmaceutical approach, which uses only the most potent actives and not the plant as a whole.

A couple quick points that you raise as concerns: it is my understanding that while plants have hormones, they have plant hormones, not generally mammal hormones.

One compound known as diindolylmethane, or DIM, a compound derived from the plant indole I3C (indole -3-carbinol) found in cruciferous vegetables, has been found to have benefits through hormone balancing.

There are also natural ways to replace lost hormones such as plant pseudo-estrogens and herbal remedies that are available over the counter, in addition to bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT — not to be confused with HRT which involves the use of synthetic hormones).

Often though, the processes used to grow plants and rear animals is made faster to produce greater quantities, by using artificial chemicals such as pesticides, fertilisers, hormones and in worst cases, genetic modification («GMO»).

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.

Plant - based diets can also mimic other benefits of caloric restriction, such as improving levels of the «fountain of youth» hormone, DHEA.

Plant estrogens (phytoestrogens) present in ginseng, act as replacement for estrogen hormone.

Mesotherapy is a technique that uses injections of vitamins, enzymes, hormones, and plant extracts to rejuvenate and tighten skin, as well as remove excess fat.

A friend who is an M.D. told me, Thyroid hormone is essential for life and you can not get it by eating plants, as it is a mammalian hormone.

One type of phytonutrient especially abundant in whole grains including millet 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.

I upped my water intake a few weeks ago after a particularly bad breakout (ugh, hormones), and I love how watching my plants grow as I drink everyday!

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

Most of these are second order effects unrelated to plant hormone chemistry; while plants become brittler, less well - nourished and more nitrogen - depleting, less capable of maintaining thermal homeostasis, faster aging and weedier as CO2 plant hormone changes affect them, they generally just shift their mix in the wild and drop their productivity as soil microbes change toward more adverse colonies, but aren't yet wholesale dying out for the most part.

Between 160 - 310 ppmv, you'd expect no extinctions caused by CO2 level, as the vast majority of the past millions of years have had CO2 levels in the 180 - 280 ppmv range, almost never above or below it, with only relatively mild plant hormone modification due ambient CO2.

After a year - long investigation of China's giant textile industry, Greenpeace has found that hormone - disrupting chemicals and other toxins are being discharged into the country's major water systems from major plants that supply big sports brands like Nike, Adidas and Puma, as well as international fashion brands like Lacoste, H&M;, Calvin Klein and Converse.