Sentences with phrase «inhibiting plant enzymes»

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Glyphosate inhibits a key enzyme that plants use to make amino acids.

In noncarnivorous plants, jasmonic acid triggers the synthesis of self - defense toxins and molecules that inhibit hydrolases, enzymes that herbivores secrete to break down the plant's proteins.

Based on a plant - based class of molecules known as indoline alkaloids, the compound inhibits an enzyme called polymerase, which enables a virus to make thousands of copies of itself and cause disease, explains Claire Marie Filone, the study's lead author.

Pesticides not only block a plant's absorption of nutrients needed for enzyme production, but inhibit the body's enzyme systems as well.15

This is a berry - producing plant native to the Americas, and one which is believed to inhibit the enzyme 5 - alpha - reductase.

Nomads who kept cattle in Nigeria fed them a certain plant that was found to inhibit an enzyme vital to the spread of clostridium, neuraminidase, thus preventing the disease.