Sentences with phrase «as plant stems»

This allows cellulosic materials such as plant stems, wood chips and cardboard waste, as well as other tricky polysaccharides such as insect / crustacean shells, to be broken down.

Not exact matches

As Bravais showed in constituting the science of phyllotaxy, this series really represents the rhythm of the vital growing of plant stems.

Herbalism is the use of plants (such as leaves, flowers, fruit, seed, stems, wood, bark, roots, rhizomes or other plant parts) to heal and...

Although the chiltepín plant's average height is about four feet, there are reports of individual bushes growing ten feet tall, living twenty - five to thirty years, and having stems as big around as a man's wrist.

The reference is ambiguous since you can't eat every root and there's more to the plant above the ground than just the stem (ahem ¨ the flower) but that's not the point The idea is to eat as much of the plant as possible.

Garlic Scapes are the flower stems that the garlic plants produce as they are maturing.

The dairy plants have high fixed costs and significant economies of scale, exacerbating Murray Goulburn's challenges as it tries to stem the loss of milk supply following a disastrous decision two years ago to retrospectively cut milk prices to farmers.

I read a book saying to pinch back the growing tip at two feet, but my plants already have many growing tips, as they have started to branch off from the main stem with quite a lot of flowers.

Turmeric as a powder is extracted from its plant stem.

ZO ® OSSENTIAL ® GROWTH FACTOR SERUM PLUS is an anti-aging serum with ingredients such as synthetic snake venom neuropeptide, retinol, proteins, antioxidants, plant stem cells, and herbal extracts.

Many solitary bees, such as this long - horned bee, can be found clinging to plant stems during the night and early morning as they sleep.

Also, the stems of DNQX - treated plants grew twice as fast as those of untreated plants — like seedlings pushing through the soil.

Decades ago, it wiped out thousands of cotton acres annually, showing up first as brown spots on leaves, stems and even bolls then spreading until a plant — indeed entire fields of plants — dropped leaves and stopped growing.

In Arabidopsis, as in most plants, there is a specific zone near the tip of the root where stem cells transition from a stage of proliferation to one where they differentiate into specific tissue types.

Professor Davies said: «To begin fermenting materials such as wood chips or plant stems, there needs to be a way of breaking into it.

Those shifts most likely stem from the copious quantities of carbon dioxide spewed by fossil fuel — fired power plants that are changing the climate and, thus, the tiny plants known as phytoplankton that serve as the base of the oceanic food chain.

However, seeing as cases of invasion have stemmed from the plant's presence in public and private botanic gardens, the team has also included a list of these gardens.

Plant and animal tissues start off as immature cells called stem cells.

Early flowering plants are thought to have been woody — meaning they maintain a prominent stem above ground across years and changing weather conditions, such as a maple tree — and restricted to warm, wet, tropical environments.

Plants either dropped their leaves seasonally, shutting down the pathways that would normally carry water between roots and leaves; developed thinner water - conducting pathways, allowing them to keep their leaves while reducing the risk of air bubbles developing during freezing and thawing; or avoided the cold seasons altogether as herbs, losing aboveground stems and leaves and retreating as seeds, or storing organs underground, such as tulips or potatoes.

It also has applications in plant breeding by increasing the precision of markers for traits such as malting quality or stem rust.

In 1944 Borlaug, trained as a plant pathologist, left the U.S. for Mexico to fight stem rust, a fungus that infects wheat, at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.

As expected, the DFR - B enzyme was successfully inactivated, resulting in approximately 75 % of the transgenic plants with green stems and white flowers.

«Longer term, our goal is to make [the plastic] from plant waste,» such as the lignin or cellulose in the sugarcane's leaves and stems.

(Methane forms as a by - product of anaerobic bacterial decomposition of organic matter in the soil and reaches the atmosphere through the roots and stems of the rice plants.)

He's loosely describing what we now refer to as the process of transpiration, in which the energy of sunlight causes water to evaporate from a plant's surface, thereby drawing water up through the stem.

As many plants take up a cylinder - like shape, the most important axis becomes the apical - basal (shoot - root) axis, i.e. the apical (top part) develops into shoots, containing flowers, stems and leaves, and the basal (bottom part) grows into roots.

The authors believe their findings can be used by land managers to predict likely outcomes related to forthcoming disturbances occurring as a result of grid development, and that protecting unaltered landscapes from fragmentation by transmission lines, roads, crested wheatgrass plantings and the invasion of other non-native vegetation is integral to stemming range expansion by ravens.

The fastest - growing plant on earth, bamboo can shoot up as much as three feet in a single day, and moso stems can reach 75 feet high and seven inches across — making Chinese bamboo farms feel more like forests than fields.

As night fell, astronomer Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan watched a plant's leaves, symmetrically arranged side - by - side on a stem, clamp shut.

Fourteen teachers arrived from schools as close as Ithaca and as far as Anaheim, Calif. to attend the BTI Plant Biology Curriculum Development Projects (CDP) teacher institute July 13 - 17, to begin their year - long journey to translate plant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the couPlant Biology Curriculum Development Projects (CDP) teacher institute July 13 - 17, to begin their year - long journey to translate plant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the couplant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the country.

For example, increased planting of winter wheat will be accompanied by increased crop pests, such as wheat stem sawfly, and the natural regulation of this pest by native parasitoids will likely decline.

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At the growing tip of plants sits a reservoir for stem cells, called the meristem, from which new organs, such as leaves, arise.

Combining their evolutionary tree with freezing exposure records and leaf and stem data for thousands of species, the researchers were able to reconstruct how plants evolved to cope with cold as they spread across the globe.

Even though you won't need to tend to your plants as much in the winter months, Marino recommends a quick monthly maintenance check in which you dust their leaves and remove damaged leaves and stems.

They grow in bunches of 20 to 40 on the stem of a plant that grows as high as three feet tall.

However, the pictograph for the soybean, which dates from earlier times, indicates that it was not first used as a food; for whereas the pictographs for the other four grains show the seed and stem structure of the plant, the pictograph for the soybean emphasizes the root structure.

It is a flowering plant with oval shaped leaves, tiny flowers and a sturdy stem which can grow as high as 24 feet!

Tomato plants can grow up to six feet (2 m) tall and half as wide, producing a vine - like stem with lobed, hairy leaves that wrap around other plants to support the weight of its fleshy fruit.

As well as the edible fruit, the plant also produces attractive yellow flowers and lobed leaves, which grow on its twining stemAs well as the edible fruit, the plant also produces attractive yellow flowers and lobed leaves, which grow on its twining stemas the edible fruit, the plant also produces attractive yellow flowers and lobed leaves, which grow on its twining stems.

Fennel may now be a familiar sight on coastlines and plains across the world, but the abundant plant should not be misconstrued as common: behind it is a history of human use that spans from stem to seed to flower, with a flavorful aroma that has lent itself to culinary feats for centuries and a list of medicinal benefits that is lengthy, to say the least.

High grade products that use only grade A and B plants and separate out as much of the stems, roots, and leaf veins as possible will have a much better, sweeter taste, without the bitter aftertaste that many stevia products have.

Vegetables, for their part, refer to any of the edible portions of an herbaceous plant crop, such as its leaves, stems, flowers, bulbs, and roots; for example, spinach is considered a leafy vegetable, while broccoli florets (flowers) and celery stalks are both examples of edible plant parts as well.

The Zingiberaceae family includes flowering plants, mostly aromatic perennial herbs, such as turmeric, ginger, and cardamom, which have tuberous rhizomes (underground stems with roots and nodes) that are often used to color condiments, used as a spice in South Asian and Middle Eastern cooking, used in textile dyes, used in religious ceremonies, or used medicinally.

To conduct the study, which was published in December in Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, researchers prepared red cabbage and pakchoi (also known as bok choy) by cutting off the stems and chopping the leaves into 1 to 2 centimeter strips.

Recently it has become quite popular sold as powder or capsules — this is the stem / root part of the maca plant dried and ground up.

Now, an exciting new study published in the journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy provides additional support for the concept that curcumin alone is not enough to explain the healing power of turmeric as a whole plant.

The Difference: We Use Only the Most Nutrient - Dense, All - Natural Ingredients, Such as Freshwater Pearl Powder and Plant - based Stem Cells.

The stem of the plant is used in the textile industry, particularly in Russia, where castor oil is known as «Kastorka.»