Sentences with phrase «at plant roots»

Inoculations with EA106 improved the uptake of iron at the plant roots, while reducing the accumulation of toxic arsenic in the plant shoots.

The chemicals disperse poorly into soil, while the parasites feed at plant roots well below the surface.

The beet cyst nematode (Heterodera schachtii) sucks at a plant root.

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We're a pretty small agency with a pretty broad jurisdiction so we try to be most efficient in how we use our resources and that seems to be getting at the roots of the individuals plants.

For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

After earning her Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2000, Crystal went on to become the Senior Pastor at Shema Congregation, a Messianic Church of the Nazarene congregational plant that strives to understand and embrace the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith.

Theologically conservative *, Crystal is Senior Pastor at Shema Congregation, a Messianic Church of the Nazarene congregational plant that strives to understand and embrace the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith.

Sarah Britton, the plant - based cook and blogger at My New Roots, gives us an insight into some of her quirky health habits.

He put its age at 125 — supporting the company's contention that the oak was a landscape tree planted by previous owners — and said the tree's days were numbered because of root fungus and heart rot.

Family Roots December 9, 2014 A woman finds an unexpected new family when she adopts a son, a bad soldier learns to write from personal loss, and a man is working at a nuclear power plant when disaster strikes.

Plant a tree yourself and if you birth at home, burry your placenta beneath it to feed the roots.

At that point, plant it, roots facing down, in a roomy pot with moist soil.

In a summit already overloaded with symbolism, Kim Jong - un and President Moon Jae - in opted for a time - old favourite ahead of a second round of talks by jointly «planting» a tree, or at least throwing fresh soil at the roots of an existing pine, and freshening it with some water.

«The general guess is that most plants have it in a low concentration in the roots,» says John Tjepkema, a plant physiologist at the University of Maine.

Christine Watson of SAC explained how scientists are using the minirhizotron camera, originally developed to look at cracks in pipelines, to study the longevity of plant roots.

The newfound role of the soil microbiome — the collection of microscopic bacteria, fungi and archaea that interact with plant roots — represents a turning point for research aimed at understanding and predicting where important tree species will reside in the future.

At the same time, if too much saltcollects in the soil around the plant, a pressure differential arises, and water is sucked from the roots by osmosis.

And in Plants: From roots to riches and a 25 - part BBC Radio 4 series, Kathy Willis, director of science at the UK's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and writer Carolyn Fry flag up its contributions, taking us on a stroll through Kew, pausing in its magnificent glasshouses to experience other climes and times.

Jonathan Lynch, a plant physiologist at The Pennsylvania State University and another founder of the crops in silico movement, looks at root behavior under a range of soil nutrient conditions.

Future research for Hallett's team will include looking at exudate production along plants» roots.

A new climate change modeling tool developed by scientists at Indiana University, Princeton University and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration finds that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere owing to greater plant growth from rising CO2 levels will be partially offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes that derive their energy from plant root growth.

A team led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the type of plant inputs (that is, root or needle litter) affected total carbon and nitrogen retention over 10 years, but that soil horizon (essentially, the layer of soil, such as the topsoil organic or deeper mineral layers) affected how the litter - derived soil organic material is stabilized in the long term.

Drip irrigation for vegetable crops, in which small amounts of water are emitted right at a plant's roots, is estimated to be as much as 95 percent efficient.

A plant grows fastest at the top, makes lateral shoots and roots, leaves that turn to the light, flowers and fruits in all their forms.

Published Dec. 18, 2017 in Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have exploited a catalog of bacterial genomes to identify and characterize candidate genes that aid bacteria in adapting to plant environments, specifically genes involved in bacterial root colonization.

Published December 18, 2017 issue in Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have exploited a catalog of bacterial genomes to identify and characterize candidate genes that aid bacteria in adapting to plant environments, specifically genes involved in bacterial root colonization.

Most of the interaction between microbes and plants occurs at the interface between the roots and soil.

A team at the University of Missouri Bond Life Sciences Center collaborated with scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany to discover genetic evidence that the parasite uses its own version of a key plant hormone and that of the plants to make root cells vulnerable to feeding.

Scientists at the University of Bonn together with an international team discovered that nematodes produce a plant hormone to stimulate the growth of specific feeding cells in the roots.

With funding from Wine Australia, a team of scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Adelaide and CSIRO Agriculture and Food identified genes expressed in grapevine roots that limit the amount of sodium — a key component of salt — that reaches berries and leaves.

At a research farm owned by U.C. Davis, a giant bed of knee - high plants, some already budding and flowering, has taken root between neatly organized crop rows that run to the horizon.

Examining roots is important as they serve as the major interface between a plant and its soil environment, and are responsible for water and nutrient uptake — both resources which are critical for a plant's survival,» said Asst Prof Xu, who is also from the Centre for BioImaging Sciences at NUS.

Integrating perennial plants with longer root systems among crops is an agricultural strategy that can simultaneously produce more food, and improve soil quality, said Jerry Glover, a senior sustainable systems advisor at USAID.

Schaal's interest in agricultural species was spurred when Rob Bertram, a staff member at the U.S. Agency for International Development, asked if her research on plant DNA sequences could help trace the origin of cassava, a starchy root crop that is a large source of food carbohydrates in the tropics.

Only some of the plant's 30,000 genes are active in a given root cell at a given time, thanks to proteins called transcription factors that turn genes on and off as needed.

As a growing plant extends its roots into the soil, the new cells that form at their tips assume different roles, from transporting water and nutrients to sensing gravity.

«At plant level, probes can be positioned at continuous levels of depth to determine the salt concentration to which roots are exposed and whether this concentration changes with the depth of the soil or in different weather conditionAt plant level, probes can be positioned at continuous levels of depth to determine the salt concentration to which roots are exposed and whether this concentration changes with the depth of the soil or in different weather conditionat continuous levels of depth to determine the salt concentration to which roots are exposed and whether this concentration changes with the depth of the soil or in different weather conditions.

It is extremely difficult to eradicate the miconia tree once it has invaded a new territory,» indicates Noelia González - Muñoz, a researcher at the University of Alcalá, adding that its roots and all parts of the root system must be completely eliminated from the soil in order to exterminate the plant given its great ability to grow back.

Nicholas Brereton, a research fellow at Université de Montréal's Plant Biology Research Institute and senior author of the study, adds that «our initial mind - set was that bioinformatics and biology could be more profoundly integrated to see the diversity of function within a challenged root system.

Scientists at Aarhus University have discovered that fungi associated with plant roots may improve growth and yield of drought - stressed wheat.

They found that people at this time also likely relied on bananas, acorns and freshwater roots and tubers as important plant foods prior to the cultivation of rice.

Solving a puzzle of plant manipulation Rather than try to isolate single genes related to secondary cell wall production, the researchers looked at the function of hundreds of transcription factors working within the root xylem's regulatory network.

At the end of the study the results show that the plants produce the poison themselves, but they only do this in the root nodules populated by the bacteria.

At 112 days after treatment, the shoots and roots of treated plants had weights that were 58 % and 32 % of those of control plants, respectively.

However, at a low temperature, the plant does not absorb through the roots and incorporate silica as much.

Some bacteria do this within certain plant roots, but we'd like to look at nitrogen - fixing bacterial that live in other parts of many plants.

One of these happened to be IBA, which they found to be effective at triggering root growth in all kinds of plants.

UVALDE — A study by researchers at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Uvalde shows the use of externally introduced plant growth regulators can have a positive effect on onion germination and root structure.

Prior work by Mary Firestone, Berkeley Lab faculty scientist and a professor of microbiology at UC Berkeley, had shown that plants were consistently selecting or suppressing the same types of microbes over time in the root zone, suggesting some form of synchronization between plant and microbiome development.

The original proposal of a 15 inch cap of borrow soil, with agricultural limestone and a bactericide below and revegetation by shallow - rooting plants was determined to be «inadequate,... at the least, an additional layer must be added that will act as a barrier for water, plant roots systems and burrowing animals».20 In response Cyprus - Amax proposed, in January 1995, a typical cap section which added a 30 - mil PVC liner overlaid by a geoweb drainage mat with a fabric cover below the 15 inch soil cap.