Sentences with phrase «higher plant growth»

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Altech Chemicals have locked in their design for an expanded capacity high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Malaysia that will be capable of supplying product to a wide range of high - growth industries.
These high - tech, plant - based meats are not your usual mock meat: they boast not only similar taste and texture to meat, but also comparable nutritional value — minus the cholesterol, growth hormones, antibiotics, and other unsavory bits of industrial meat production.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
Seedlings can be fertilized with fairly high levels of nitrogen to encourage strong vegetative growth, but after the plants have adjusted to the garden, fertilizers should not be applied unless the plants have low nitrogen symptoms, such as leaf yellowing and stunted growth.
Production: The growth rate was considerable because of the potential for producing high value organic products with a world - wide demand, such as Saffron, Pistachio, Pomegranate, Medical plants, etc..
The new plant will enable Valio to sustain its growth and provide new and innovative products to the markets that are witnessing high demand.
It is understood the company pitched a four - legged growth strategy which included pushing further into export markets, expanding its higher margin branded pork products range sold in supermarkets and redeveloping a key plant that is already operating at full capacity.
At the time, Rivalea pitched a four - legged growth strategy which included pushing further into export markets, expanding its higher margin branded pork products range sold in supermarkets and redeveloping a key plant that is already operating at full capacity.
SugarCreek named Food Engineering's «Plant of the Year» 2016 April 15, 2016: Our newest, high - tech plant is poised for growth as consumers demand more sophisticated RTE food prodPlant of the Year» 2016 April 15, 2016: Our newest, high - tech plant is poised for growth as consumers demand more sophisticated RTE food prodplant is poised for growth as consumers demand more sophisticated RTE food products.
Also a problem is that some transplants are «forced» with high levels of nitrogen, resulting in tall plants with insufficient root growth.
Tree Planted By the Stream in Duluth, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.
Letting your baby eat a variety of foods from different food sources (animal and plant) enables them to better meet their high nutrient needs for growth and development while priming their taste buds to accept a variety of nutritious foods.
The region with the highest growth rate in coal use in the IEA outlook period is in Southeast Asia, where Indonesia, Viet Nam, Malaysia and Philippines among others plan to underpin their power generation with new coal power plants.
According to her, it was the reason why government has incorporated the goals into Ghana's 40 - year development plan as well as programmes and policies such as «Planting for Food and Jobs», «One - District, One - Factory» and «Free Senior High School Education», which was all geared towards positioning Ghana on the path of fiscal consolidation, debt sustainability, growth and development.
Part of the problem is that the benefits of better plant growth, thanks to higher carbon dioxide concentrations (plants use CO2 for photosynthesis) are more than offset by the impact of higher temperatures and differing precipitation.
The researchers believe the greening is a response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide inducing decreases in plant stomatal conductance — the measure of the rate of passage of carbon dioxide entering, or water vapor exiting, through the stomata of a leaf — and increases in soil water, thus enhancing vegetation growth.
In the northern edges of the plant's geographic range — central Oregon — survival and growth rates from one year to the next were higher than in the south, but plants didn't flower every year.
In the five - year study period, plant survival and growth rates were low in the southern edges of the plant's geographic range — in California near the Mexican border — but flowering rates were high.
«A higher concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere would aid photosynthesis, which in turn contributes to increased plant growth,» Rep. Lamar Smith (R — Texas) wrote in an op - ed last year.
«Studying the genome of water - efficient plants may also provide insights into a plant's ability to use slightly saline water and maintain growth under higher temperature and lower clean water availability,» said Jerry Tuskan, coauthor and chief executive officer of the Center for Bioenergy Innovation led by ORNL.
The main problem is high CO2 promoting plant growth.
Because they are high, they can also be inaccessible to species that can't fly, in particular soil organisms which are crucial for nutrient cycling and sustainable plant growth.
Though familiar to humans as an antiseptic, high levels of H2O2 can inhibit the growth of phytoplankton, tiny plants that are the base of many ocean food chains.
Although plants grown in high levels of carbon dioxide — say, double the current atmospheric concentrations — initially grow rapidly, the growth tapers off within weeks and the plants wind up with a low protein content.
«C4 plants capture carbon faster and have higher growth rates, particularly in subtropical and tropical environments,» he said.
«We observed that fumigation with high levels of nitric oxide was not toxic, but rather actually improved plant growth,» said Dr. Christian Lindermayr of the Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology at Helmholtz Zentrum Münplant growth,» said Dr. Christian Lindermayr of the Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology at Helmholtz Zentrum MünPlant Pathology at Helmholtz Zentrum München.
To find out if how the nitrogen is delivered makes a difference, Arnold Bloom, a crop physiologist at the University of California, Davis, and his team monitored the growth of wheat plants raised in high levels of carbon dioxide.
With the current human population growth, these plants can not sustain such high levels of collection and habitat loss.»
If the concentration of the CDF4 protein would be too high in the stem cells, then the stem cells would also be forced to differentiate and the plant would have to stop root growth.
Plant roots in soil are often regions of high microbial activity, known as rhizospheres, where symbiosis between plants and microbes promote plant grPlant roots in soil are often regions of high microbial activity, known as rhizospheres, where symbiosis between plants and microbes promote plant grplant growth.
Because wheat's polyploidy enables it to tolerate many mutations without impairing growth, the researchers were able to develop lines with a high density of genetic mutations — thousands were detected in every plant.
«In general, large - leafed species and species with greater height - to - width ratios tended to have higher CFs than plant species with smaller leaves and more spreading growth
Any accidental release of fluorine could also be an issue: Fluorine is a toxic and corrosive gas and, at high concentrations, can retard plant growth and damage teeth and bones.
In particular, consumption of whole plant foods slows digestion and provides higher amounts and a more favourable balance of essential and vital nutrients per unit of energy; resulting in better management of cell growth, maintenance, and mitosis (cell division) as well as regulation of blood glucose and appetite.
This would enable lighting to be used much more efficiently, resulting in better plant growth and a higher quality product.
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now revealed that the concentration of nitrogen in plants» tissue is lower in air with high levels of carbon dioxide, regardless of whether or not the plants» growth is stimulated.
«For all types of ecosystem the results show that high carbon dioxide levels can impede plants» ability to absorb nitrogen, and that this negative effect is partly why raised carbon dioxide has a marginal or non-existent effect on growth in many ecosystems,» says Johan Uddling.
The regional climate changes that higher CO2 will bring, and their effect on these limiting factors on plant growth, such as water, also have to be taken into account.
For instance, while higher temperatures will boost plant growth in cooler regions, in the tropics they may actually impede growth.
What's more, even if plant growth does rise overall, the direct and indirect effects of higher CO2 levels will be disastrous for biodiversity.
However, some plants already have mechanisms for concentrating CO2 in their tissues, known as C4 photosynthesis, so higher CO2 will not boost the growth of C4 plants.
Plants used for scanning electron microscopy, RNA - seq, in situ hybridization, metabolic profiling, and PCZ treatment were grown in a high - light growth chamber under short - day conditions (31 °C / 22 °C [day / night], 12 h light / 12 h dark, 50 % relative humidity, chamber outfitted with 6 T8 fluorescent 5 - foot bulbs per 10 - square - foot canopy, light intensity at 200 µmol m − 2 s − 1 PAR) at the Danforth Center's growth facility.
For example, an open Northwest Passage, enhanced growth for some plants and improved agriculture at high latitudes (though this will require use of more fertilizers), etc..
Associate Professor Mechthild Tegeder is interested in how pea, soybean and other plants acquire, distribute and use nitrogen, which is an essential nutrient to plant growth and survival but also for production of seeds with high amounts of nutritional proteins.
Higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere generally increase plant growth and productivity.
Plants and animals have adapted to the normal seasonal cycle of total ozone and UV and are not used to high UV - exposure during the part of their lifecycle that takes place in spring (e.g. germination, growths of buds, algea blooms in the Arctic ocean,...).
To find out, his team used high - precision 3D scanning technology to measure the architecture of young plants over time and quantify their growth in ways that could be analyzed mathematically.
There are two general types of resistance genes found in wheat: Race - specific genes confer a high - level of resistance to specific strains of leaf rust but can be easily overcome by genetic mutation in pathogen populations, while slow rusting (APR) resistance provides partial resistance to a broad spectrum of races, but is typically effective only at the adult stage of plant growth.
On the point about extremely high aflatoxin to promote cancer, is it not a greater testament to the plant based diet that it was able to stop the cancer growth?
One of the purposes of Price's expedition to the South Seas was to find, if possible «plants or fruits which together, without the use of animal products, were capable of providing all of the requirements of the body for growth and for maintenance of good health and a high state of physical efficiency.»
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