Sentences with phrase «drain plant nutrients»

This «molecular mimicry» helps nematodes produce the feeding sites from which they drain plant nutrients.»

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Also like a weed, cancer can't grow on its own — it needs nourishment, which it drains from the human body, just as weeds take nutrients in the soil away from other plants.

A group of plant scientists, led by University of Missouri researchers, recently found one of the mechanisms cyst nematodes use to invade and drain life - sustaining nutrients from soybean plants.

The plant roots are not always submerged in water, but are flooded with nutrients and then drained for air, automatically in repeating cycles — assuming you are using a media like gravel, and not a raft - based deep water culture.

Sandy loam soils, well - drained, moist, and nutrient - rich, are necessary for proper germination and growth of pygeum plants.