Sentences with phrase «called kudzu»

A study carried out for the US Congress shows that the unwelcome immigrants — such as the zebra mussel, gipsy moth and an ornamental Chinese vine called kudzu — are likely to wreak even more havoc in coming decades.

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'' In 2009, researchers found that compounds called isoflavones in the kudzu root could help control diabetes by helping to regulate blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

For botanical invaders, such as kudzu and another ornamental plant from Asia called Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), and insect invaders, as well the diseases they may carry, climate warming associated with increases in atmospheric carbon will likely allow these species to gain footholds in habitats formerly off - limits to them.

In the US, kudzu is sometime called «the plant that ate the South», i.e., a good example of a really bad idea of an introduced species brought on purpose.

He calls the continuing legal saga of Facebook and ConnectU «truly astounding» and likens the many lawsuits that have branched out from it to the kudzu vine.