Sentences with phrase «for wild plants»

Unwittingly, we have been stripping phytonutrients from our diet since we stopped foraging for wild plants some 10,000 years ago and became farmers.

Biodiversity has a number of important benefits, for wild plants, animals, and farms.

For most of our history we supported ourselves by hunting and gathering: we hunted wild animals and foraged for wild plants.

Decisions to deregulate any wild GM plant like the eucalyptus must take into account this lack of research, said Hong Luo, a molecular biologist at Clemson University who has developed a gene containment system for another wild plant, turfgrass.

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The life story of the northern Russian wilderness - dweller Nikodim Kozheozersky tells of how this saint, as is customary for hermits, ate only wild plants, an assertion that is not hindered even when the hagiographer announces in the next sentence that he also cultivated turnips for his diet.

It also provides a basis for the value of the wild plants and animals expressed by many contemporary ecologists.

He digged it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

(Jeremiah 2:21) The prophets wonder why after all the trouble God took to bring the vine out of Egypt and carefully plant it and care for it, that God's choice vine could become bitter and produce only wild grapes.

People who know edible wild plants still garden for efficiency's sake, and similarly a lot of us could benefit from a discussion of growing our own bugs.

Amaranth (Chinese Spinach) Artichokes Asparagus Asparagus Pea Beans Beets Bitter Melons and Wax Gourds Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Burdock (Gobo) Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Chinese (Napa) Cabbage Citron Melon (For candied citron, pies, etc.) Cantaloupes and Melons Cardoon Celery Chervil Chicory Chives Collards Corn and Ornamental Corn Cover Crops Cowpeas Cucumbers Eggplant Endive Fava Beans Finocchio Garland Chrysanthemum Gourds and Decorative Squash Jicama (Mexican Yam) Kale Kohlrabi Leeks Lettuce and Mesclun Loofah (Luffa) Sponges Malabar Spinach Mache (Corn Salad) Micro Greens (Baby Greens) Minutina (Buckshorn Plaintain) Mustard and Other Greens Oats (Hulless Oats for cereal) Okra Onions / Scallions Orach (Mountain Spinach) Ornamental Corn and Grain Pak Choi / Bak Choi Parsley Peas: Early Spring Peanuts Peppers Super Hot Peppers Popcorn Pumpkins Quinoa (Cereal, Superfood) Radicchio Radish Ramps (Wild Leeks) Rhubarb Rice (Can be grown in garden soil) Rutabaga Salsify (Oyster Plant) Saltwort Scorzonea Shallots (From Seed) Sorghum Soybeans Spinach Squash Summer Type and Zucchini Squash Winter Type Squash Japanese Kabocha Type Squash (Fall and Winter Decorations) Strawberry Sugar Beets Swiss Chard Tomatoes Turnip WatermeFor candied citron, pies, etc.) Cantaloupes and Melons Cardoon Celery Chervil Chicory Chives Collards Corn and Ornamental Corn Cover Crops Cowpeas Cucumbers Eggplant Endive Fava Beans Finocchio Garland Chrysanthemum Gourds and Decorative Squash Jicama (Mexican Yam) Kale Kohlrabi Leeks Lettuce and Mesclun Loofah (Luffa) Sponges Malabar Spinach Mache (Corn Salad) Micro Greens (Baby Greens) Minutina (Buckshorn Plaintain) Mustard and Other Greens Oats (Hulless Oats for cereal) Okra Onions / Scallions Orach (Mountain Spinach) Ornamental Corn and Grain Pak Choi / Bak Choi Parsley Peas: Early Spring Peanuts Peppers Super Hot Peppers Popcorn Pumpkins Quinoa (Cereal, Superfood) Radicchio Radish Ramps (Wild Leeks) Rhubarb Rice (Can be grown in garden soil) Rutabaga Salsify (Oyster Plant) Saltwort Scorzonea Shallots (From Seed) Sorghum Soybeans Spinach Squash Summer Type and Zucchini Squash Winter Type Squash Japanese Kabocha Type Squash (Fall and Winter Decorations) Strawberry Sugar Beets Swiss Chard Tomatoes Turnip Watermefor cereal) Okra Onions / Scallions Orach (Mountain Spinach) Ornamental Corn and Grain Pak Choi / Bak Choi Parsley Peas: Early Spring Peanuts Peppers Super Hot Peppers Popcorn Pumpkins Quinoa (Cereal, Superfood) Radicchio Radish Ramps (Wild Leeks) Rhubarb Rice (Can be grown in garden soil) Rutabaga Salsify (Oyster Plant) Saltwort Scorzonea Shallots (From Seed) Sorghum Soybeans Spinach Squash Summer Type and Zucchini Squash Winter Type Squash Japanese Kabocha Type Squash (Fall and Winter Decorations) Strawberry Sugar Beets Swiss Chard Tomatoes Turnip Watermelon

Wild rice is actually not a grain but the seed of an aquatic plant that has been harvested for hundreds of years by Native Americans in the Northwest and upper Midwest.

I live in rural South Texas, where I have access to many wild chiltepin plants for harvesting.

Stark is especially interested in drought - resistant, low - carbon - footprint wild edible plants that could serve as a source of fresh, affordable, and nutritious food for people living in urban food deserts.

I was surprised by how straightforward it was to identify these wild edible plants (and find them in such sizable quantities) once I knew what I was looking for.

When foraging for wild fennel don't collect from the roadside or other locations where the plants are exposed to car exhaust or dogs.

The limited availability and input of nitrogen, the application of mechanical and thermal weed control and more diverse crop rotations and a higher crop diversity lead to more favourable conditions for many wild plant species.

The tree, being a legume like peanuts, is nitrogen - fixing, so it serves as a host tree for other wild plants such as chiltepins.

Q: Dave, I live in rural South Texas, where I have access to many wild chiltepin plants for harvesting.

I like to offer something back to the wild when I harvest from it, such as coffee grinds or a healing crystal, as a way to thank the plant for its offering to me.

Turning the soil, planting some seeds, weeding out buttercups and wild sweetpeas, grasses and thistles, trying to make way for the tiny buds I expect to pop out of the earth within a week or two.

A wild plant seed grows wherever it falls without being cared for.

Build a house for a mouse, plant flowers for a butterfly garden, and meet one of our captive wild animals up close!

When foraging out in the wild and in unfamiliar areas, be sure to keep a lookout for poisonous and irritating plants and animals.

We're looking for shots of wild, non-invasive flowers, plants, and fungi found in Massachusetts (or Wildwood Camp in Rindge, New Hampshire).

The destructive European cherry fruit fly was found for the first time in the United States last year on wild honeysuckle plants and cherry trees along the Niagara River.

These waterways help supply drinking water and serve as habitat for aquatic, plant and wild life.

«Many food security problems revolve around maintaining pollinator diversity to provide services to crops or wild plants and designing landscapes to provide living conditions for pollinators,» Biesmeijer says.

Only in recent years have advances in genomics — and understanding how genetics play out in whole organisms — made it realistic for crop breeders to be able to identify traits in wild plants and selectively breed them into domestic stock.

In 2013, von Wettberg, and colleagues from Turkey and other countries, spent two months surveying parts of Turkey and Kurdistan, near the border of Syria, searching for the two wild plant species most closely related to domestic chickpeas.

Using AMP grazing, land managers can allow cattle to graze an area with relatively high density, like wild migrating herds, but then allow for adequate plant recovery.

«Not only are these insects vital as pollinators of crops and wild plants, but they also provide food for many birds and mammals,» said joint lead researcher Dr Ros Shaw, also of the University of Exeter.

«For the past fifteen years a few Nature - lovers have been carrying on in this country an earnest campaign on behalf of the preservation of our native wildflowers and other wild plants.

Singh eventually settled on a Glycine tomentella plant known as PI 441001 for these experiments because the wild plant was immune to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode.

Biologist Edward O. Wilson argues that humans are hardwired for biophilia, or a love of wild plants and animals, and that putting them back in touch with the environment could resurrect that feeling.

It is apparently not easy to quantify the part played by British wild plants in our gardens, according to Ray Woods of the Countryside Council for Wales.

In their paper, they highlighted the need for more monitoring and enforcement, as well as research to better understand the impact of trade on wild plant populations and the actors involved in illegal trade.

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 1:20 pm: Colin Khoury, of CIAT and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, will discuss a recently completed inventory of CWR in the United States, as well as plans for protecting these plants both in gene banks and in the wild.

At the same time, says Berry, the plants in the wild, which are rare to begin with, are becoming endangered as people dig the hefty tubers for collectors or for food.

Meanwhile, botanists like Stuppy put a new spin on the tradition of seed collecting at the Kew gardens» Millennium Seed Bank, an international repository for plant species threatened with extinction in the wild.

The size of the phytoliths is an indicator of their source plant's history: wild Cucurbita plants (which include squash and gourds), for example, have significantly smaller inclusions than their farmed counterparts have.

«It's a big drag,» said Susan McCouch, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University who specializes in finding wild varieties of rice for breeding.

For example, wild varieties could help control plant pollination to adapt to rising temperatures.

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.

Isotope ratios (the ratio of carbon - 13 to carbon - 12, for example) are different in human foods than in the wild plants and animals that black bears naturally eat in Yosemite, partly due to the large amounts of meat and corn - based foods in our diets.

It focuses on securing the wild relatives of 29 of 64 crops that are listed in an annex to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Our findings have important implications for society and the economy as pollinating insects are vital to support agriculture and wild plant biodiversity.»

In the 19th century, evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin pointed out that breeding led to striking differences between farm animals and plants and their wild counterparts, an observation that helped lay the foundation for his theory of evolution.

Bees and other insects pollinate many of the world's important food crops and wild plants, raising serious concerns about the impacts of reported global pollinator declines for food security and biodiversity.

Most plant species grown for food have an associated bank that stores thousands of samples: seeds of landraces, wild relatives, and varieties that are rare, old, or adapted to very specific environments.