Sentences with phrase «domesticate wild plants»

Not exact matches

All wild foods are far more nutrient dense than the domesticated plants we eat most often.

In 2008, Tscharntke selected nine major strawberry varieties and planted them in an experimental field with plenty of wild bees and domesticated honey bees living nearby.

Before people could domesticate plants and animals, they had first to «domesticate the wild within,» to tame «the wild dangers associated with death, reproduction, and female sexuality.»

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

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, two speakers will describe the latest efforts to identify and protect the wild relatives of domesticated crop plants around the globe.

Legacy from our ancestors — limited diversity «In the domestication process for agriculture, our Neolithic ancestors domesticated a rather small portion of wild plants that had around them,» said Fowler.

Even though they were also eating wild and domesticated plants including maize, palm fruits, soursop and squash, wild rice was an important food, and people began to grow it at lake or river edges.

Human actions could also have created conditions that favoured domesticated plants over their wild brethren, says Mark Bush, an ecologist at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne.

domesticate (n.) A wild plant or animal species that has been bred into a tame version, usually over many generations.

Using CRISPR, plant biologists could turn off the same genes in wild plants that have mutated naturally over millennia to produce our favorite domesticated varieties.

The meat of game animals living on wild plants and grass also contains much higher amounts of omega - 3 fatty acids than does the meat of modern domesticated animals.

Does the pattern of «wholesomeness» for most plants follow the pattern of Wild form < — Least domesticated < — More domesticated < — most domesticated < — Least processed < — Most processed?

Wild plant foods known to be consumed by hunter - gatherers generally maintain higher micronutrient concentrations than do their domesticated counterparts (4,145), as does the muscle meat of wild animals (Wild plant foods known to be consumed by hunter - gatherers generally maintain higher micronutrient concentrations than do their domesticated counterparts (4,145), as does the muscle meat of wild animals (wild animals (64).

2.5 by 2020 maintain genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants, farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at national, regional and international levels, and ensure access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge as internationally agreed

It suggested that exposure to the natural environment could lower the effects of various mental health issues that can make it difficult for students to pay attention in the classroom and found that childhood participation in «wild» and «domesticated» nature, such as picking flowers or produce, planting trees or seeds, and caring for plants in childhood, have a positive relationship to adult environmental attitudes.

Though we think of wild wolves as subsisting entirely on the flesh of the prey animals they manage to catch, in reality, both wild wolves and domesticated dogs are omnivores — they are capable of eating both animal and plant foods.

Still today, wild dogs will eat vegetation such as fruiting plants, vegetation and grass, but for domesticated dogs the most convenient of these items to satisfy a natural drive is grass.

In borrowing Magritte's title, Demand alludes to the earlier artist's revolutionary approach to the meaning of representation, connecting Magritte's Surrealism to what Demand describes as «domesticated nature... potted plants, gardens, theme parks and models of wild growth» — the symbolic representations of nature that can be found in cities around the world.