Sentences with phrase «controlling plant growth»

Being able to control the cell division in plant cells may be effective in controlling plant growth.

However, Dr Pullen and his team present evidence that plant growth is actually «sink - limited,» meaning that genetic regulation and cell division rates have a much bigger role in controlling plant growth than previously thought: «We are proposing that plant growth is not physically limited by Net Primary Productivity (NPP) or the environment, but instead is limited genetically in response to these signals to ensure they do not become limiting.»

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.

Compounds such as the EPFL2 peptide and auxin, which control plant growth, act as «keys» to activate specific physiological processes.

The experimental results revealed that the effect of substrate volumetric water content threshold on dry weight, plant height, and compactness shows the potential for commercial nurseries to utilize sensor - controlled irrigation systems to control plant growth, and potentially to reduce the need for pruning.

In this way, her team has been able to describe the function of multiple pathways that control plant growth.

Not exact matches

Of course, there's also the growth systems, irrigation controls, lights and piping, fertilizers, hydroponics, hothouse supplies, all the things involved in farming and harvesting, and even oil extraction — everything except the seeds and plants.

God controls all kings as the seed directs the future growth of a plant: «And what is the seed of all contingent beings, that too am I. No being is there, whether moving or unmoving, that exists or could exist apart from me» (X. 39; cf. VIII.

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.

Beneficial insects to control pests and stimulate healthy plant growth, instead of harmful chemicals

Additionally, significant effort must be made on mechanistic modelling of plant growth to reach a more thorough understanding of the intricate physical, biochemical and morphological phenomena involved if we are to accurately control and predict plant growth and development in a space environment.»

Sorting out sex - free embryogenesis might help scientists understand the cellular switches that plants use to stay flexible while still keeping growth under control.

Auxin controls a range of responses in plants, including cell and tissue growth and normal development.

«Gaining a clearer understanding of how the plant controls its own growth and development makes it possible for the breeder and, later, the grower to supply a healthier and better crop.»

Nitrogen helps plants produce proteins, including the key molecules that control photosynthesis, the process by which the sun's energy is captured and converted into the carbon compounds that are the raw material for growth.

Purified single - walled carbon nanotubes dispersed in water promoted greater plant growth (center) than the nanomaterial - free control (left) after eight days of an experiment at Rice University.

Glaum and Kessler developed a computer model showing that decreased growth of individual plants can benefit overall populations and community resilience by indirectly controlling herbivore population growth.

Although the importance of stem cells in fuelling plant growth and development still many questions on their tight molecular control remain unanswered.

«Three rings stop cell division in plants: Development of a triarylmethane compound for possible control of plant growth.»

Thus, it has been considered that if there is a way to control cell division in plants, this will lead to the control of plant growth in a range of plant species.

Other research in Europe has shown that plants can shift another mechanism that controls their response to climate: vernalization, or the length of the cold snap required before a plant will respond to a warm spell as a growth signal.

The plants grown in torrefied biomass also took up more potassium than controls and less manganese, an element known to inhibit plant growth.

«By controlling the geometry and growth rates of groups of cells, you could then scale this up to control the size and shape of an organ such as a leaf, which is crucial for plant productivity.»

Scientists built the model to investigate how variations in light, day length, temperature and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere influence the biological pathways that control growth and flowering in plants.

P. fluorescens strains also exhibit different mechanisms, either direct or indirect, that promote plant growth and / or biological control against fungi and other pathogens (5).

Siderophores are very important for a plant growth - promoting bacteria (PGPB), since they fulfill relevant activities in the rhizosphere to promote plant growth and control phytopathogens (20,21).

The phytochemicals (plant chemicals) in potatoes and sweet potatoes may also keep us healthy by regulating the immune system, fighting viruses and other pathogens, controlling inflammation, and inhibiting tumour growth.

Plant - based diets may prove to be a useful nutrition strategy in both cancer growth control as well as lifespan extension, because these diets are naturally lower in methionine.

Matthew Gilliham, senior author and associate professor at the University of Adelaide, says plants seem to use gamma - aminobutyric acid (GABA) to regulate electrical signals that can then control their growth.

Hank — Growers of a wide range of plant types [veg and horticulture] commonly use shade cloth on greenhouses, filtering up to 70 % of UV — normally to control heat in the house, but the reduction / diffusing of the sunlight doesn't affect growth.

The metabolic processes that are responsible for plant growth and maintenance and the microbial turnover, which is associated with dead organic matter decomposition, control the cycle of carbon, nutrients, and water through plants and soil on both rapid and intermediate time - scales.

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While it's true that in a controlled setting like a greenhouse, increased CO2 levels will generally improve plant growth, the global climate is not so simple.

Fakhri Bazzaz, a plant physiologist at Harvard, has found that carbon dioxide - enriched air accelerates short - term plant growth, but his studies were carried out under controlled greenhouse conditions and are difficult to translate to a larger scale.

The hydroponic units are cloud - connected, so farmers can remotely track the growth of their crops, as well as control irrigation, humidity, and plant nutrition.

Optimizing the total biosphere plant growth potential, is the goal we should be working toward as stewards of the planet, not the growth of wasteful government controls, or the manipulation of stocks and prices of commodities, or creating scare stories to lay the ground work for elitist control, resulting in the detriment of all life forms.

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

Enhanced CO2 contributes to plant growth in greenhouses as does the control of fertilizer, watering, humidity, and temperature, which operators try to keep at optimum levels.

In the field, where growing conditions are not well controlled, more CO2 alone should still contribute to plant growth, although the extent of its contribution is not well known.

Having been raised in a family which once owned America's largest independent dairy, I'd like to think I know something about plants and trees, so I am always puzzled when someone says temperature exerts the primary control, because different factors are all major contributors to plant / tree growth, water availability arguably being the most important factor facilitating nutrient uptake for a given non-extreme area.

In 2014, Margaret wrote about the launch of the actual product itself, and then just last year, I covered the company's crowdfunding campaign for its Incube accessory, which is an app - controlled tree incubator designed to cradle the Bios Urn and enable optimal growth of the tree planted in it.

Plant growth is a fundamental biological process that is strongly controlled by climate variables [1 — 6].

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We decided to give ourselves a year to weed it all out and get the over growth under control before taking on any planting projects.