Sentences with phrase «early plants»

Even early plants likely had sophisticated pores to regulate water and swap gases with their environment.

A probing portrait of early plant - breeding technologies unearths surprising roots of genetic engineering efforts

So early plant breeders took one yellowish orange variety and stuck with it, breeding better - tasting, faster - growing, nicer - looking, and higher - yielding crops generation after generation.

Other studies have looked at the interaction of planting date by year of release and have shown new varieties can utilize earlier planting dates better than old varieties,» Diers said.

Early plants made Earth muddier.

«Climate change's frost harms early plant reproduction.»

They suggest complex stomata evolved to help early plants control moisture in their spore capsules and that other plants later exploited these pores to breathe in carbon dioxide and exhale water vapor.

Research led by Eric Post, a professor of biology at Penn State University, has linked an increasingly earlier plant growing season to the melting of arctic sea ice, a relationship that has consequences for offspring production by caribou in the area.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

A new study has re-discovered fossil collections from a 19th century hermit that validate these «phantom» prints and show that dicynodonts coexisted with early plant - eating dinosaurs.

Snow has left (with a weatherman's hint of more on the weekend) The spring early plants are doing their best to get started by poking those first leaves through.

In many parts of Europe, March was record - warm, which spurred early plant growth.

Programs like Journey North, which traces Monarch butterfly migrations, and Project Budburst, which notes how early plants and trees flower each year, provide a way for students to directly contribute to the ongoing body of climate change research.

After a downward trend from the very early plants built in California in the 1980s, capital costs for PTC without storage started to increase as projects shifted to Spain.

Remove spent plants, like early planted beans, cucumbers or lettuce, since they're pretty much done for the season and can harbor pests.

The more recent researchers state that «the earliest plants and animals had simple and quite different bodies, but natural selection has acted on the two groups so the geometries of modern trees and animals are, remarkably, displaying equivalent energy efficiencies.

JG: The early plant breeders were farmers who were mostly focused on the first - year benefits of crops.

It's when some of the earliest plants emerged, initially with no leaves or roots.

The earliest plantings of stringy barks, Yunnan and Lombardy poplars and pin oaks now form a canopy over the site and are populated with rosellas, currajongs, gang gangs, cockatoos and kookaburras.

Kelly's 1949 «Teasel,» one of his early plant drawings, underscores his interest in nature.

The earlier you plant bulbs, the better as the soil is still warm, and getting the roots established before the weather turns will help them fight the wet.