Sentences with phrase «by wild plants»

Growers on organic farms surrounded by wild plants, it turned out, did not even bother hiring hives.

Not exact matches

The work is part of an effort to bring dying reefs back to life by growing tiny coral fragments in labs or nurseries — between four and 25 times as fast as they'd grow in the wild — and planting those fragments on reefs.

The researchers have figured out how to cultivate new coral much faster than it would naturally grow in the wild, by planting small fragments in specialized tanks and underwater nurseries.

Nevertheless we still leave it to grow as best it can, hardly tending it at all, like those wild plants whose fruits are plucked by primitive peoples in their forests.

Take it step by step to include, first, the ones we love, our family, our friends, our pets, the animals and plants in the wild that we appreciate and a sense of the wholeness of the universe.

It also provides a basis for the value of the wild plants and animals expressed by many contemporary ecologists.

The wild plants, when cultivated, were susceptible to chile wilt, the fungal disease aggravated by too much water.

Or you can collect your own seeds by finding unsprayed plants in the wild and bringing home some of the tiny black seeds in your pocket.

Wild rice is actually not a grain but the seed of an aquatic plant that has been harvested for hundreds of years by Native Americans in the Northwest and upper Midwest.

He recommended a few guidebooks: Samuel Thayer's Nature's Garden, John Kallas» Edible Wild Plants, and Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places by Steve Brill.

The food plants eaten by the Native Americans are divided into two categories: those harvested in the wild and those cultivated plants that had managed to adapt to the dry desert climate or were irrigated.

I was surprised by how straightforward it was to identify these wild edible plants (and find them in such sizable quantities) once I knew what I was looking for.

By late June, the organic fields had 50 to 70 percent more species of wild plants than the conventional fields, with significantly more weeds and biomass.

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We believe this is accomplished by actually spending time outdoors, with our hands in the dirt and feet on the ground, planting trees, clearing brush, finding frogs in a creek, making a meal out of wild plants, learning how to turn a piece of wood into an instrument, or creating natural dyes with berries.

Where I grew up in Tennessee, a coal - fired power plant perches by the river, just down from the bridge that my wild brothers and their friends would jump off in the summer.

However, last August a team headed by plant ecologist Allison Snow at Ohio State University demonstrated that this same gene might produce some very tough weeds: She found that wild sunflowers crossed with Bt sunflowers produced offspring that suffered significantly less insect - related damage and produced 50 percent more seeds than control plants without the gene.

The reason Palaeolithic humans were thought to have lived solely on wild meat, says Revedin, is that previous plant evidence was washed away by overzealous archaeologists as they cleaned the tools at dig sites.

«A Wild Weedy Scourge,» page 24 «Resource Heterogeneity, Soil Fertility and Species Diversity: Effects of Clonal Species on Plant Communities,» by J. Alexander Eilts and colleagues in May issue of The American Naturalist describes how plants like cogon grass, which spread through expansive underground networks, reduce biodiversity even in soils that are thought to boost it.

It is apparently not easy to quantify the part played by British wild plants in our gardens, according to Ray Woods of the Countryside Council for Wales.

By putting dirt from the house floors and rubbish heaps in her flotation tank, Near has found that the residents of Çatalhöyük were energetic collectors of wild plants as well.

By inserting a cloned version of the wild gene into conventional wheat plants they boosted the amount of protein, zinc and iron in the grain by 10 to 15 percenBy inserting a cloned version of the wild gene into conventional wheat plants they boosted the amount of protein, zinc and iron in the grain by 10 to 15 percenby 10 to 15 percent.

Archaeologists can date that switch by distinguishing remains of wild plants and animals from those of domesticated ones in prehistoric garbage dumps.

For most of our history we supported ourselves by hunting and gathering: we hunted wild animals and foraged for wild plants.

The arrival of tree bumblebees could be hugely beneficial to us by absorbing parasite pressure from our native species, as well as helping to pollinate wild plants and crops.»

Dr Phelps said, «We first visited some of these wild plant markets in Thailand almost 10 years ago, and were amazed by the volume and number of species being traded then.

This plant is subject to attacks by a diverse set of herbivorous insects and is pollinated by wild bees.

In the wild, they could perhaps acquire the compound by eating plants that release it to fight aphid infestations.

To test whether a partial loss of plant - derived dietary fiber would result in a partial loss of native gut microbes, the authors also collected fecal samples from a semi-captive population of red - shanked doucs who lived in a sanctuary and received about half of the normal variety of plants eaten by wild doucs.

By comparing DNA sequenced from primate stool samples to plant genomes the authors were able to actually measure the amount and diversity of plants being consumed by the captive and wild primates, and the difference was starBy comparing DNA sequenced from primate stool samples to plant genomes the authors were able to actually measure the amount and diversity of plants being consumed by the captive and wild primates, and the difference was starby the captive and wild primates, and the difference was stark.

But by the 1990s, white - tailed deer populations in parks had swelled to such size that many species of native wildflowers such as trillium and lilies largely disappeared, replaced by wild ginger and exotic species such as garlic mustard and Japanese stiltgrass, plants not favored by deer.

By comparing DNA from 1083 varieties of modern rice with 446 samples of wild rice taken from all over southern Asia, they have traced the plant's history back to three distinct types of rice.

«The wild ancestors of C4 crops are thought to have grown as individuals in open habitats where the number of leaves that they produced would have been limited by water and nitrogen and most leaves would be exposed to full sunlight» said principal investigator Steve Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

The threat comes, on the one hand, from too - hot temperatures in coffee - growing countries, which may make wild Arabica plants extinct by 2080.

A booming trade in herbal remedies is threatening the survival of many medicinal plants found only in the wild, according to a study by TRAFFIC International, the organisation that monitors trade in wildlife.

The researchers set out to understand how this drought tolerance came about by comparing the set of expressed genes (the transcriptome) in the mutants to that in normal (so - called wild - type) plants.

The experimental evidence matches what researchers find in the wild: red and green morphs coexisting on the same plant shoots attended by ants.

(C) to (E) Scanning electron microscopy analysis of inflorescences from PCZ - treated wild - type plants showed that by 17 DAS (C), there was no sign of bristle differentiation, but spikelets (white arrows) developed normally.

Domestication (Doh - MES - ti - kay - shun) is the long and slow process by which people have adapted wild animals or plants to be tame and useful.

Rather than mix the DNA of different species, gene - editing tech could be used to speed the domestication of wild foods by simply editing a plant's existing genetic material.

Many wild populations of animals and plants are profoundly threatened by exotic diseases — chytrid fungus in frogs, sylvatic plague in black - footed ferrets, Rapid Ohi'a Death in the keystone ohi'a trees of Hawaii, avian malaria in the forest birds of Hawaii.

The best evidence available suggests that most of our Paleolithic ancestors ate high - meat diets, supplemented by locally - available wild plants.

Miyaki recommends: «Cut out processed, man - made foods, and return to your evolutionary, ancestral, or cultural past by eating more real, natural foods like wild animals and plants.»

Book Review by Hannah John Kallas's Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate is one of my favorite wild edible field guiWild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate is one of my favorite wild edible field guiWild Foods from Dirt to Plate is one of my favorite wild edible field guiwild edible field guides.

They are made by infusion of wild plants and flowers from a certain area in England.

Like kale, cauliflower, modern cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, and broccoli, collards are considered by many plant historians to be descendents of wild cabbage that was found in many parts of Europe over 2,000 years ago.

by Stanka Vukelić Edible leaves from the linden tree Edible wild plants have a special part in our diet.

Cooking the vegetables slightly will help to break them down, which makes sense, considering that most plant matter cats would consume in the wild would have been partially digested by their prey already.

The village where I live is literally full to the brim with wild blackberry plants, they grow by the roads, there's hundreds of them in the woods.

I hand - craft pure botanical skincare using only organically cultivated or ethically wild - harvest plant material and their by - products (oils, butters, etc.).