Sentences with phrase «by plant nutrients»

The USDA organic regulations recognize the risk of heavy metal contamination at § 205.203 (c): «The producer must manage plant and animal materials to maintain or improve soil organic matter content in a manner that does not contribute to contamination of crops, soil, or water by plant nutrients, pathogenic organisms, heavy metals, or residues of prohibited substances.»

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While Beyond Meat is making its products out of plants, Memphis Meats grows meat in tanks by feeding oxygen, sugar, and other nutrients to living animal cells.

Israeli startup Prospera recently attracted $ 7 million to fund its approach, which is to install cameras along with other sensors in fields and compare crops «leaf by leaf» with its database of thousands of plants to identify problems like pests, parasites and nutrient deficiencies.

There's «gee, I hope when I die I go somewhere special,» and then there's the fact of it: you're in a box, buried in the ground, your body breaks down and gets absorbed by the planet eventually, and your nutrients are used to make a plant grow or something to that effect.

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By commonly consuming all parts of plants from this group, including flowers, leaves, stems, stalks, roots and seeds, we allow this cruciferous vegetable group to integrate together an unusually wide range of nutrients that is broader than any other single food group subdivision in the average U.S. diet.

She then started «growing fertilizer» by planting avocado trees that provide shade for delicate coffee bushes, organic nutrients for the soil (the fallen leaves that now carpet much of the farm), and extra income for the family when the fruits are in season.

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Scientists in Ireland are working on a process to produce duckweed for use in animal feed by capturing essential nutrients in wastewater from dairy processing plants.

And, by consolidating nutrient - rich plants into a convenient, protein - dense package, plant protein powders can be a valuable tool toward helping the herbivorous out there reach their athletic goals.

With twice the flavor and nutrients at half the size, this new squash variety, developed by Cornell plant breeder Michael Mazourek with help from Barber himself, is not only adorable, it's the future of produce.

I point out that all nutrients used by plants in soil or hydroponics are the same organic chemicals regardless of their physical appearance.

Hydroponics is the science of growing plants without soil using an inert medium (sand or gravel) and a water and nutrient solution containing all the elements required by the plant for normal growth.

I'm trying to eat as much as I can because of its nutritional benefits: — they can help your diet by making you feel full (it's because they absorb 10 times their weight in water, forming a bulky gel)-- they are the richest plant source of Omega - 3 — chia seeds slow down how fast our bodies convert carbohydrates into simple sugars, studies indicate they can control blood sugar — they are an excellent source of fiber, with a whopping 10 grams in only 2 tablespoons — chia seeds are rich in antioxidants that help protect the body from free radicals, aging and cancer — chia seeds contain no gluten or grains — the outer layer of chia seeds swells when mixed with liquids to form a gel (this can used in place of eggs to lower cholesterol and increase the nutrient content of foods and baked goods)(More info here.)

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It provides nutrients for plants, energy and nutrients for soil microorganisms that make nutrients available to plants, and promotes a robust soil structure that can better withstand rainfall extremes and hold water for use by plants.

Rules limiting nutrient runoff from farms and wastewater treatment plants helped to decrease nitrogen concentrations in the bay by 23 percent since 1984.

Nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients occur naturally in the environment and are needed by plants and animals to grow, but too much of any of them is harmful.

Phloem tissue is responsible for translocating nutrients and sugars (carbohydrates), which are produced by the leaves, to areas of the plant that are metabolically active (requiring sugars for energy and growth).

And by analysing the amino - acid content of pollen, Harmon - Threatt has shown that bee foraging behaviour can be driven by a craving for nutrients rather than an evolved attachment to a specific plant.

Using computer - generated test crops of dwarf wheat and soybeans, a team led by Federico Maggi at the University of Sydney in Australia simulated how these plants take up nutrients from human...

The new technology could one day save farmers significant money and time by enabling intelligent agricultural equipment that automatically provides plants with water or nutrients at the first signs of distress.

Mycorrhizal fungi live in the roots of host plants, where they exchange sugars that plants produce by photosynthesis for mineral nutrients that fungi absorb from the soil.

This strategy is thought to be employed by longer - living plants in areas where nutrients are scarcer, or where climates are colder or drier.

The decomposition of plant material stored by the ants increases the pH of the soil and increases what soil scientists call the exchange capacity — the ability of the soil to hold onto nutrients so that they are not washed out of reach of plants.

Corn yields with today's hybrids do have the potential to increase with the application of protection chemicals and by making crop nutrients more plant - available,» she said.

Nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium are essential plant nutrients, and fertilizers are graded by the amounts of these elements the fertilizers contain, also called their «NPK rating» (from those elements» abbreviations on the periodic table).

When grains such as barley or hops are fermented by yeast, the grain's sugars, protein and nutrients will be stripped, leaving behind plant fibres known as lignin.

A group of plant scientists, led by University of Missouri researchers, recently found one of the mechanisms cyst nematodes use to invade and drain life - sustaining nutrients from soybean plants.

The Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries have long been suffering from harmful algae blooms caused by excess nutrients running off of the land, due largely to a continually growing population in the Baltimore - Washington corridor and the development of animal and plant agriculture in its watershed.

But a plant geneticist at Purdue University aims to raise the corn plant's stature in a more carbon - sensitive world by lowering its height and its need for water and nutrients.

The gene works by making the plant mature more rapidly, thus speeding up the transfer of these nutrients from the leaves to the grain.

«Unlike most plants that get energy through photosynthesis, dodder siphons off water and nutrients from other plants by connecting itself to the host vascular system using structures called haustoria.

These facilities would harness Mother Nature to remove plant nutrients produced by other potential water polluters: upstream farms, municipalities, and industries that produce nitrogen.

The coal waste contains chemical elements that can be ionised by the biofertiliser, making nutrients which are essential to growth available for uptake by the plants.

Lehmann explains that nutrients from plant and animal remains — like nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium — bind to charcoal or biochar, drastically reducing how much is washed away by the constant rains.

In their upcoming second Ecological Restoration publication titled «Resurgence of Native Plants After Removal of Amur honeysuckle from Bender Mountain Preserve,» Conover and Sisson reveal the lengths to which honeysuckle alters habitats by decreasing light availability and depleting soil moisture and nutrients, as well as by possibly releasing toxic chemicals that prevent other plant species from growing in the vicinity.

«If there is enough space around cropland, excess nutrients would have the chance to be taken up by other plants, reducing the content of the runoff that reaches the ocean,» Shantz said.

Nitrogen, an essential plant nutrient, is most readily absorbed by plants in its ammonium and nitrate forms.

By decomposing organic matter, these pint - size fungi can influence carbon balances and the types of nutrients available to plants and animals.

Plants usually produce their own nutrients by using sun energy, but not all of them!

Microbes improve soil quality by cycling nutrients and breaking plant residues down into soil organic matter.

Compost lacks essential plant nutrients, and is easily dispersed by rain and wind.

New insights into how plants regulate their absorption of an essential nutrient could help avoid pollution caused by excess use of fertilizer.

A new study shows that human waste accounts for a high percentage of nutrients consumed by some animals and plants in suburban ponds.

Whittaker crowned his tree of life with three kingdoms of primarily multicellular eukaryotes sorted in large part by nutritional style: plants (capturing light energy), fungi (absorbing nutrients by contact) and animals (ingesting their food).

The researchers manipulated a nutrient in the drinking water of mice that is used by malaria parasites during an infection — just as a gardener might manipulate nutrients through fertilizers to favor certain plants.