Sentences with phrase «increase plant productivity»

At the same time, Dr. Grabherr said, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations could theoretically increase plant productivity at high altitudes, leading plants to spread upslope.

As a graduate student working on the mechanisms of photosynthetic enzymes, my Ph.D. advisor and I pondered how to increase plant productivity through genetic engineering.

Two years ago the big scientific news was that increasing CO2 levels were increasing plant productivity around the world.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalGarden/ ««Between 1982 and 1999, 25 percent of the Earth's vegetated area experienced increasing plant productivity — a total increase of about 6 percent,» says Ramakrishna Nemani, the study's lead scientist.

As temperatures continue to rise around the globe, more vegetation will spring up in the frigid region, potentially pulling even more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere due to increased plant productivity.

I look forward to a bright future of increased plant productivity, more biodiversity and less poverty.

Idso said higher CO2 levels increases plant productivity.

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As you consider your home office space, I recommend adding easy - to - grow office plants like Pothos, Peace Lilies, and Parlor Palms which can help to purify the air, add depth and beauty to your workspace, and which may increase productivity by up to 14 % according to this study.

In one 50,000 - sq - foot office building, productivity increased 20 % after plants rehabilitated the air.

Because these systems require no plant cooling water or heavy electrical services, the installation and maintenance costs are low and the ROI is high due to the increased productivity this technology can provide.

Take Faccenda Foods for example, its chicken processing plant has recently benefited from a flexible and space - saving solution — which not only increased productivity and improve throughput, but also reduced giveaway.

Learn how custom supporting equipment from Fusion Tech can increase productivity and decrease operating expenses in your plant.

20 Apr 2018 — The food and beverage industry is embarking on its biggest transformation in decades, leveraging new technology to improve food quality, increase plant efficiency and boost productivity.

SIMBA's Automated Real - Time Solution for the Seafood Processor combines the latest technology with with a flexible solution that resides on your plant floor to increase productivity and eliminate keyed data entry without changing your established processes.

SIMBA's Automated Real - Time Solution for the Meat Packer combines the latest technology with with a flexible solution that resides on your plant floor to increase productivity and eliminate keyed data entry without changing your established processes.

He said the aim of the government is to use the «Planting for Food and Jobs» programme to transform the agricultural sector; and this would be done by increasing productivity of the farm resources centred on small holding activities, to provide job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth and to provide raw materials for the industrial sector.

My work is also directed toward determining why plants exposed to elevated carbon dioxide concentrations often have only a temporary increase in growth rate, and toward determining what plant characteristics might be most beneficial to the productivity and to the nutritional value of crops if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations continue to rise.

The simulations suggested that the indirect effects of increased CO2 on net primary productivity (how much carbon dioxide vegetation takes in during photosynthesis minus how much carbon dioxide the plants release during respiration) are large and variable, ranging from less than 10 per cent to more than 100 per cent of the size of direct effects.

«With increasing average temperatures across the globe being predicted to have negative impacts on agricultural productivity, it is important to understand more about how plants regulate their growth,» said Associate Professor Balasubramanian, School of Biological Sciences, which was also echoed by Dr. Carlos Alonso Blanco, who co-lead the investigation at National Center of Biotechnology (CSIC) from Spain.

As productivity continues to increase, as in boreal forests, plant biomass (the total mass of living matter of a particular type) increases, herbivore biomass increases, and ecosystems become capable of sustaining a third trophic level — the predators — with this level controlling herbivores.

At one project in Nevada, enhanced geothermal methods increased a conventional geothermal plant's productivity by 38 percent.

Hence, increasing nitrogen fixation could improve overall plant productivity for farmers who grow legumes in both industrial and developing countries while diminishing or eliminating the need for nitrogen fertilizers.

«We're trying to determine whether or not there was an increase in plant productivity, or huge algae blooms in the ocean, that died and fell to the sea floor, basically burying CO2.

Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics — where much of global forest productivity occurs — indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change would cause declines in plant growth.

Higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere generally increase plant growth and productivity.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

By increasing the expression of those genes, the scientists saw increases of 14 - 20 percent in the productivity of modified tobacco plants in field experiments.

This decrease results because plant respiration also increases with temperature, and some of the photosynthetic gains (that lead to increased productivity) are lost through a) growth and maintenance respiration (Ryan et al. 1995), or b) seasonal differences between photosynthetic gains in the spring and increased respiration in the fall.

A 2015 study found that people who followed a plant - based eating program for 18 weeks saw an increase in their productivity.

Having plants in the home and workplace reduces blood pressure, raises attentiveness and well - being, reduces anxiety and increases productivity.

The restorative power of plants in the classroom doesn't stop there: study after study has shown that attentiveness increases by as much as 70 % when plants are used in a classroom, while productivity and creativity also improve.

And just as increased algal productivity at sea increases the emission of sulfur gases to the atmosphere, ultimately leading to more and brighter clouds over the world's oceans, so too do CO2 - induced increases in terrestrial plant productivity lead to enhanced emissions of various sulfur gases over land, where they likewise ultimately cool the planet.

Springtime cold air outbreaks (at least two consecutive days during which the daily average surface air temperature is below 95 % of the simulated average wintertime surface air temperature) are projected to continue to occur throughout this century.19 As a result, increased productivity of some crops due to higher temperatures, longer growing seasons, and elevated CO2 concentrations could be offset by increased freeze damage.20 Heat waves during pollination of field crops such as corn and soybean also reduce yields (Figure 18.3).4 Wetter springs may reduce crop yields and profits, 21 especially if growers are forced to switch to late - planted, shorter - season varieties.

Estimates indicate that coal - fired power plants cost our country nearly $ 100 billion every year in increased health expenses, lost work hours, decreased productivity, and premature deaths.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

In addition, Ridley did not make it clear that Myneni had suggested that 42 % of the 14 % increase in annual productivity «can be attributed to relaxation of climatic constraints to plant growth,» with «57 % to other «anthropogenic factors»,» whereas the paper published in the journal «Nature Climate Change» in April 2016 did not present a figure for annual productivity, instead concluding that 25 % to 50 % of the Earth's vegetated area had greened, with about 70 % of this trend attributable to carbon dioxide fertilization.

However, plant productivity has not increased, and future consequences of the longer growing season are uncertain.

With respect to all land plants, for example, satellite - based studies reveal net terrestrial primary productivity has increased by 6 — 13 % since the 1980s.

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Double CO2 climate scenarios increase wildfire events by 40 - 50 % in California (Fried et al., 2004), and double fire risk in Cape Fynbos (Midgley et al., 2005), favouring re-sprouting plants in Fynbos (Bond and Midgley, 2003), fire - tolerant shrub dominance in the Mediterranean Basin (Mouillot et al., 2002), and vegetation structural change in California (needle - leaved to broad - leaved trees, trees to grasses) and reducing productivity and carbon sequestration (Lenihan et al., 2003).

supporting advances in plant and animal biotechnology to increase agricultural productivity and sustainably boost production of food, feed, and fiber.

Nutrients will be released too, having been stored for thousands of years, so plant growth will be electric, with increases in annual biomass production and productivity.

Simulated heat - wave events increased C4 dominance in a mixed C3 / C4 New Zealand grassland within a single growing season, but reduced productivity by over 60 % where C4 plants were absent (White et al., 2000b).

«Once you have increased soil productivity through proper soil management, you can plant a lot of crops,» says Hartono.

However, while the world is learning to worry about increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere, the gas is vital to plants and will, in fact, cause some increases in productivity.

Their projections also indicate an increase in the water - use efficiency of plants, but decreased plant productivity in the southeastern US over the 2071 - 2100 period.

I think the briefest answer to the question would be yes, some positive impacts of increased CO2 on plant productivity are expected, but some negative impacts on vegetation are also expected, and many uncertainties remain concerning vegetation responses to increased CO2 and climate change.

BCDR depends on increasing and / or utilizing plant productivity, and most strategies require land of at least moderate fertility (except degraded land restoration).

Teller has argued that the cost of UV scatterers would be low relative to CO2 reduction measures, that the benefit from reduced UV would be substantial, and that a combination of present temperatures, reduced UV and CO2 fertilisation would yield large increases in plant productivity.

The design concept incorporates broad - ranged regenerative agricultural practices and makes use of every surface of the built environment, from rooftops and walls to gardens and swales, to cultivate plants and increase photosynthetic productivity within our urban landscapes, adjacent lands and remote territories that will benefit from restorative land management practices.