Sentences with phrase «concentrations of plant hormones»

Evening primrose oil contains high concentrations of plant hormones and other compounds that enhance the production of natural hormones in your body.

However, the concentrations of these plant hormones are typically low and taken in their natural form will not be effective enough to remedy some of the negative side effects of menopause.

Not exact matches

These plants also showed strong immune responses in the form of an increased concentration of salicylic acid, a plant hormone which regulates defense against pathogens.

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

The literature is rife with references to CO2 interactions with plant hormones in the same concentrations and with many of the same types of outcomes.