Sentences with phrase «cultivated plants»

Humans have cultivated plants for centuries, effectively capturing and consuming the sun's energy.

There are animals harmed and killed in the process of cultivating the plants I eat.

Children are curious by nature, and there is no greater joy than that from a child who has cultivated plants from his or her own vegetable garden.

The seeds and fruits of many cultivated plant species contain oils.

The pepper - growing areas around these two centers of paprika production have just the right combination of soil characteristics, temperature, rainfall, and sunshine required to cultivate these plants successfully.

They are one of the oldest known cultivated plants, going back around six thousand years!

Sesame seeds are one of the oldest cultivated plant in the world and one of the most potent medicinal foods commonly consumed today.

They marked the beginning of a transition from the nomadic hunting and gathering lifestyle to a settled existence based on cultivating plants and herding animals.

«Increasing CO2 levels will be a net benefit because cultivated plants grow better and are more resistant to drought at higher CO2 levels»

These include products that are made from recycled post-consumer materials, or industrial or agricultural by - products, as well as those made from an easily renewable source, such as cultivated plants.

Increasing CO2 levels will be a net benefit because cultivated plants grow better and are more resistant to drought at higher CO2 levels, and because warming and other supposedly harmful effects of CO2 have been greatly exaggerated.

Wild plants have evolved to consider the lengthening and shortening of days when deciding the right time to flower, but the domestication process has changed that connection in many crops, as humans began cultivating the plants away from their original locations.

The film is a musical comedy that tells the story of a florist who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood.

Australian scientists claim that people in the islands of the Pacific were cultivating plants almost 20 000 years before the Mesopotamians.

The onion is one of the oldest cultivated plants, and in ancient Greece, it was consumed in large quantities.

The new range of Edwin Jagger Shaving Creams and Soaps is the culmination of a long period of research into creating the best possible shaving products; we place great emphasis on selecting the very best natural ingredients for our range of traditional hard shaving soaps, premium shaving creams and aftershave lotions, many derived from organically cultivated plants.

«Our newly developed strategy will help sequence the genome of other polyploid cultivated plants that have not been able to be determined until now,» Shimizu says.

«Since our orchid cultivation kit is a very simple system, anyone should be able to artificially cultivate the plants anywhere,» said Professor Shinichiro Sawa of Kumamoto University, who directed the kit's development.

Just ask the authors of that 2015 genetic study, who found commercially cultivated plants described as the species C. sativa were sometimes actually C. indica, genetically speaking, or vice versa.

Cultivating the plant Apocynum pictum (a member of the dogbane family) on salinated soils will enable farmers to earn an income from poor soils.

Efforts to cultivate this plant elsewhere have failed, says Ismail Ebrahim, a botanist with the South African National Biodiversity Institute here.

With respect to Paleo weight loss tips that apply to eating plant foods, there is a big difference between eating wild plant foods and eating cultivated plant foods.

Beans and their relatives are the only cultivated plants that actually enrich the soil rather than deplete it.

According to data from FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization), 33 % of human food depends, at some level, of cultivated plants pollinated by bees (KLEIN et al., 2007).

Then, they observe how Neolithic farmers cultivated their plants and reproduced seeds.

The cucumber (scientific name Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant belonging to the same family as -LSB-...]

The cucumber (or Cucumis sativus) is a commonly cultivated plant that belongs to the gourd family.

Introduced cultivated plants occur as well.

The purpose of this body is to conserve and propagate cultivated plants, among them those that have for one reason or another gone out of cultivation.

«According to hundreds of scientific studies, the relatively slight increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has enhanced native and cultivated plant productivity, growth, moisture retention, and resistance to pests.»

The farmers are seeking a declaration that they can not be criminally prosecuted for growing hemp under state regulations, now in effect in North Dakota, which ensure cultivated plants have no potential drug value and are grown solely for the production of legal hemp fiber and seed commodities.

It ain't Farmville; rather, its more like Facebook itself, made up of people committed to expanded landscape of real, live plants, and ideas for cultivating those plants more sustainably.

Several members of the City Council have said the medical marijuana industry should offset the greenhouse - gas emissions generated by the high - wattage growing lamps, fans, ventilators and other equipment required to cultivate the plant indoors.

Secondly, are you insane??? Tropical diseases will have a wider band around the earth with warming, bug infestations that destroy plants and trees are already having a field day, weeds are likely to overwhelm agricultural lands since they respond much better to increased co2 than do cultivated plants, weather patterns will change and everything dependent on weather will have to adjust etc. etc..

The purpose of this get - together of gardeners and botanists was to look at the relationships between wild and cultivated plants in Britain and Ireland, and their role in the landscape.

«A heavy reliance on certain plant foods well before people started to rely on cultivated plants could, in certain circumstances, lead to significant [tooth decay] levels,» says Marijke van der Veen of the University of Leicester, UK.

Only 120 cultivated plant species and 14 mammalian and avian species provide 90 percent of human food supply.

While South Americans have been cultivating the plant for almost 5000 years, quinoa has seen a surge in popularity amongst North American health enthusiasts in the last several years, and it's not very hard to see why.

The great pepper - growing areas around Kalocsa and Szeged have just the right combination of soil characteristics, temperature, rainfall, and sunshine required to cultivate these plants successfully.

Farmers in the Near East — what is today Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, and neighboring countries — began cultivating plants and herding animals about 8000 B.C.E., but there are no signs that they used animal dung for anything other than as fuel for fires.

Compare and contrast the behaviors of hunters and gatherers with those of people who cultivated plants and raised domesticated animals for food, in order to demonstrate the influence of the Neolithic revolution on the daily lives of people.

Like a tiny seed carried by a late summer breeze, the idea of cultivating plants on rooftops has spread from Europe to North America and around the world.

It was mentioned by Louriero (1790 or 1798) as a cultivated plant of Southern China, but has not been noticed by the Chinese writers of the sixteenth century or in others of more recent date, although nowadays much cultivated in China.

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.

The plantings included both native and cultivated plants, and I was pleased to see extensive stands of chillies, including tabasco, paprika, chiltepin, and even New Mex Conquistador.

The ancient Greeks are thought to be the first to have cultivated the plant and even gave the herb its own legend in classic mythology.

«Although used; cultivated plants, wheat, lentils and peas were not fully domesticated and contributed only a small amount to the diet of the Boncuklu community.»

BOTANICAL gardeners and gardening botanists might enjoy the 19 presentations to a conference called «The Common Ground of Wild and Cultivated Plants» held at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, in July 1992.