Sentences with phrase «boosting plant growth»

By boosting plant growth, compost helps to increase soil carbon storage.

Battisti and Naylor, however, assumed greenhouse gas emissions lower than the present output and the fact that more carbon dioxide (CO2), the most common greenhouse gas, will boost plant growth may not help.

These extra nutrients would have boosted plant growth on land, but a considerable fraction would have flowed to the seas and fueled algal blooms in shallow waters surrounding the continents.

For instance, while higher temperatures will boost plant growth in cooler regions, in the tropics they may actually impede growth.

Increased levels of carbon dioxide could boost plant growth and make plants more resistant to droughts, he said.

A pioneering program in California aims to sequester carbon, improve water resources and boost plant growth, by treating the soil beneath farmers» and ranchers» feet as part of a living system.10 months ago

Discussing fossil fuels, Christy repeats the common denier argument that more CO2 will boost plant growth:

Commercial greenhouses run at up to about four times the outside level of CO2 to boost plant growth.

«Elevated carbon dioxide concentrations boosted plant growth; more plant food meant more small invertebrates, and more small invertebrates, in turn, allowed the fish to grow faster,» says Silvan Goldenberg, one of the Adelaide authors.

If the extra CO2 boosts plant growth so dramatically doesn't that mean entire ecosystems will be radically altered?

Not exact matches

Expedia is «planting seeds for faster growth,» snapping up international hotels in Europe and Asia as a way to boost profits, according to one Wall Street firm.

An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report a few years ago concluded that «a key cause of the underlying fall in manufacturing employment everywhere is rapid productivity growth, whether by restructuring inefficient plants or deploying skills, knowledge, technology and new processes to boost efficiency.»

Fat cushions our organs and helps control growth, immune function, reproduction and metabolism; fat transports vitamins A, D, E, and K, the so - called fat - soluble vitamins, throughout our bloodstream; and it also boosts the body's ability to absorb potentially health - enhancing carotenoids, natural pigments found in plants.

They provide a range of highly effective plant nutrition products, based on the renowned growth boosting qualities of kelp (a type of seaweed).

Matched with $ 150,000 from the State of Kentucky, WaveTech received a $ 150,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a light filter that can boost productivity in agriculture and control plant growth.

The extraordinary growth in fracking — the hydraulic fracturing of deeply buried shale rock to extract natural gas — has transformed the United States over the past 15 years, boosting energy stocks, cutting pollution from conventional coal - power plants, and creating new jobs.

«Wheat gets boost from purified nanotubes: Toxicity study shows plant growth enhanced by — but only by — purified nanotubes.»

First author Onur Oztas, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sancar lab, said, «DNA damage accumulating in a plant will impair its growth and development, so boosting the excision repair system could be a good strategy for improving crop yields.»

«Scientists discover C4 photosynthesis boosts growth by altering size, structure of plant leaves, roots.»

The FRO2 gene is common to all plants, so boosting its expression in food crops or finding variants that thrive in poor soils could be important for increasing crop yields in the face of population growth and global warming's threats to arable land.

Ramesh Raliya, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher, and Pratim Biswas, PhD, the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor and chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, both at the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, are addressing this issue by using nanoparticles to boost the nutrient content and growth of tomato plants.

However, some plants already have mechanisms for concentrating CO2 in their tissues, known as C4 photosynthesis, so higher CO2 will not boost the growth of C4 plants.

fertilizer Nitrogen, phosphorus and other plant nutrients added to soil, water or foliage to boost crop growth or to replenish nutrients that were lost earlier as they were used by plant roots or leaves.

fertilizer Nitrogen, phosphorusand other plant nutrients added to soil, water, or foliage to boost crop growth or to replenish nutrients that are removed earlier by plant roots or erosion.

Farmer's and gardeners fertilize their plants by feeding them extra growth - boosting nitrogen and phosphorus.

fertilizer Nitrogen and other plant nutrients added to soil, water or foliage to boost crop growth or to replenish nutrients that removed earlier by plant roots or leaves.

Bean plants that suppress secondary root growth in favor of boosting primary root growth forage greater soil volume to acquire phosphorus, according to Penn...

The many health - protective plant compounds in cauliflower and other cruciferous veggies include indoles, isoflavones and isothiocyanates, which seem to block cancer cell growth, repair DNA, inhibit inflammation (linked to cancer growth) and boost immune function.

A new study suggests the benefits of a boost to marine plant growth from increased carbon dioxide will be cancelled out by the increased stress to fish species.

Schmitt and Happer say our current CO2 levels are «low by the standards of geological and plant evolutionary history,» they pine for the days when «Levels were 3,000 ppm, or more,» and note that commercial greenhouse operators boost CO2 levels to» 1,000 ppm or more to improve the growth and quality of their plants.»

Along with a boosted catch, a second hoped - for payoff was the sale of carbon credits on international markets aimed at offsetting greenhouse gas pollution by financing projects that absorb heat - trapping carbon dioxide — typically by planting trees but in this case through spurring plankton growth.

With a backdrop of green farmland and solar - clad barns, the plant is also a stone's throw from the Gebrüder Maier fruit and vegetable company, which uses the captured CO2 to boost the growth of cucumbers, tomatoes and aubergines in its large greenhouses.

The only greenhouse effect on earth is the beneficial boost to plant growth from increasing CO2 which is why greenhouse growers pump extra CO2 into greenhouses (until the climate gestapo soon will stop them from doing this due to it's inconvenient symbolism).

Plant leaf growth is boosted by carbon dioxide, but can, in turn, slow global warming, shows research.

Altogether, therefore, common sense suggests that with the plant productivity gains that result from the aerial fertilization effect of the ongoing rise in atmospheric CO2, plus its transpiration - reducing effect that boosts plant water use efficiency, along with its stress - alleviating effect that lessens the negative growth impacts of resource limitations and environmental constraints, the world's vegetation possesses an ideal set of abilities to reap a tremendous benefit from what the President inaccurately terms «carbon pollution» in the years and decades to come.

Companion planting, or grouping complementary plants together in the garden to benefit each other, can be done for a variety of reasons, such as to provide shade or a wind barrier to other plants, or to cover the surface of the soil with edible plants to crowd out weeds, or even to help boost the growth, flavor, or yields of food crops.

It turns out, hunting fires can actually help boost kangaroo populations by increasing ecosystem diversity and creating a landscape with plants at varying stages of growth.