Sentences with phrase «in wild plants»

This is because of the chemistry involved: many bitter compounds are there to deter insects, or help plants have a strong immune response, and are abundant in wild plants.

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 specter of active transposons «is certainly something to be concerned about, especially in wild plants,» says agronomist Patrick Schnable of Iowa State University in Ames.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The work is part of an effort to bring dying reefs back to life by growing tiny coral fragments in labs or nurseries — between four and 25 times as fast as they'd grow in the wild — and planting those fragments on reefs.

The researchers have figured out how to cultivate new coral much faster than it would naturally grow in the wild, by planting small fragments in specialized tanks and underwater nurseries.

Researchers now have the tools to identify resistance genes in wild bananas or other plant species.

In this way the forest protected the soil, the plants, and the wild animals which, together with fish and shellfish, provided the aborigines with valuable sources of energy and nutrients (Hall, 122 - 124).

Nevertheless we still leave it to grow as best it can, hardly tending it at all, like those wild plants whose fruits are plucked by primitive peoples in their forests.

Take it step by step to include, first, the ones we love, our family, our friends, our pets, the animals and plants in the wild that we appreciate and a sense of the wholeness of the universe.

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.

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.

In the plant world food was chosen first from wild edible grains and fruits of nature, and then was systematically planted, cultivated, and harvested.

In addition to the preservation of wild strains of crop plants there is the possibility of discovering altogether new crops.

Her specialty is bush foods — those native Australian plants that were mostly harvested in the wild until recently.

From an uncertain authority it is said to grow wild from Southern Texas to Arizona, but it is not catalogued in the report on the plants of the «United States and Mexican Boundary Survey,» 1858, unless it be synonymous with C. microphyllum Dun.

Generally speaking, the wild relatives of crops harbor high levels of genetic diversity, which is very advantageous in the wild, where the plants are subject to ever - changing growing conditions.

This year I planted some legion poppies in my garden, and they are so stunning, much bigger than the wild type but still delightful.

Jon and Sarah Lark run Kangaroo Island Spirits in South Australia, and use two local indigenous plants — Myoporum insulare, or native juniper, and Olearia axillaris, coastal daisy bush or wild rosemary — as botanicals in their gin.

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 Watermelon

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Or you can collect your own seeds by finding unsprayed plants in the wild and bringing home some of the tiny black seeds in your pocket.

It may also come from the Kingdom of Kaffa in southeast Ethiopia where Coffea arabica grows wild, but this is considered less likely; in the local Kaffa language, the coffee plant is instead called «bunno».

The rhubarb plants are coming up, bulbs are blooming and the lettuce and kale in my cold frame are going wild.

Carrot seed oil is derived from the seeds of the wild carrot plant and is wonderfully effective in protecting your skin from the sun's harmful rays and bringing out a beautiful natural golden tan.

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.

Attempts at domestication of the wild plants have led to the development of the commercial chile piquín, which grows under cultivation in Mexico and Texas (some wild forms have escaped).

The world of plant - based home cooking used to feel quite lonely when we first started this blog back in 2010 (back when it was considered wild to post about things like chia pudding and green smoothies).

He recommended a few guidebooks: Samuel Thayer's Nature's Garden, John Kallas» Edible Wild Plants, and Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places by Steve Brill.

The food plants eaten by the Native Americans are divided into two categories: those harvested in the wild and those cultivated plants that had managed to adapt to the dry desert climate or were irrigated.

But the real thrill came when Stark would grab plants that I had never even heard of before: pineapple weed, chickweed, mugwort, purple - flowered erodium (also called stork's bill), vetch (from the wild pea family), mallow (a plant that, according to Stark, is high in calcium), and the highlight of the day: wild onions, purple - flowered and pleasantly sweeter than your normal green onion.

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.

Declines in populations of pollinators now threaten both the yields of major food crops and the survival of wild plant species.

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

The garden is nestled in the foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains, and planted with rare and endangered species grown from seed, which was collected from the wild in East Asia.

Providing a wide range of plant and animal life, in wild and cultivated areas — which protect biodiversity and the health of the ecosystem — allows farms to be fully integrated into the natural world.

«It's about the only place in town where you're going to find exotic foliage or wild flowering plants.»

We believe this is accomplished by actually spending time outdoors, with our hands in the dirt and feet on the ground, planting trees, clearing brush, finding frogs in a creek, making a meal out of wild plants, learning how to turn a piece of wood into an instrument, or creating natural dyes with berries.

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.

Adam Mick (left), of Dix Hills, Executive Director and Co-founder of The Wild Republic, plants vegetables along with, Susan Salem, of Bellmore, and Jim Adams, of West Babylon and Co-founder of The Wild Republic, in West Babylon on May 4, 2018.

I planted out as many as I could, distributed some in wild, untended areas of countryside and sent the rest up to the CSV nursery.

Where I grew up in Tennessee, a coal - fired power plant perches by the river, just down from the bridge that my wild brothers and their friends would jump off in the summer.

The Snow Lotus Blue Tansy Oil is harvested from wild plants in Morocco, giving you an exceptional product.

But in the comfort of a laboratory and a greenhouse, a plant breeder can create a wild peanut hybrid capable of breeding with the cultivated peanut.