Sentences with phrase «into plant roots»

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Heme also exists in the roots of plants like legumes that turn nitrogen into fertilizer.

As we entered into the 21st century, roots were planted that have created a shift towards customer centricity centered around initiatives such as customer experience, customer focus, voice of the customer, and numerous other phrases that describe customer centricity.

All of these are fruits that have withered and died and fallen to the ground, split open and spilled into the earth to nourish the roots, but also to plant new seeds for further growth and more varieties of fruit.

The only reason the last few weeks were as manageable as they were was because God had instilled in me a deep, abiding need to be a tree planted by the water, my roots spreading out into the stream that is His strength and love.

Also as for the glory of those who have now been justified in my law, who have had understanding in their life, and who have planted in their heart the root of wisdom, then their splendour shall be glorified in changes, and the form of their face shall be turned into the light of their beauty, that they may be able to acquire and receive the world which does not die, which is then promised to them.23

I like the idea of being planted in the house of God, of putting one's roots down into a community and remaining there.

These could be the first steps into taking up an active life of evangelisation, and in this way the book itself is a work of evangelisation: tilling the hearts that read it and then planting little seeds that ultimately stand a greater chance of taking root.

Marshmallow probably came first into being as a medicinal substance, since the mucilaginous extracts comes from the root of the marshmallow plant, Althaea officinalis, which were used as a remedy for sore throats.

When this soil isn't treated with chemicals, it becomes a nutrient - dense base for plants to thrive into robust root systems that require less water.

Now that the survivors have lived for nine weeks in the rooting medium, can I safely assume that they actually have roots and can now be planted into soil?

Sarah Britton, the plant - based cook and blogger at My New Roots, gives us an insight into some of her quirky health habits.

I love the attention to detail she extends into using plants to their full capacity — from root to green.

Perennial plants have roots that reach deep down into the soil and create their own ecosystem over time; they give back to the soil they inhabit.

Tray - grown greens rely on grow lights and fertilizers, whereas the roots of our field - grown greens push deep into the soil of our farm during cold winters, infusing our plants with the richest organic nutrients.

This tissue becomes the food that the young plant will consume until the roots have developed after germination, or it develops into a hard seed coat.

A series of squash plants hung from the ceiling on a moving conveyor, their roots dangling into a chamber that sprayed them with a nutrient mix sufficient for growth.

The key is the plant's shallow, but extensive root system that quickly soaks up rainfall, which seldom penetrates more than just a few inches into the soil.

It penetrates into the roots, but does not damage the plants.

The chemicals disperse poorly into soil, while the parasites feed at plant roots well below the surface.

The fungi live in plant roots where they elongate their tendrils (called hypha) into the surrounding soil, like an extension of the root system, to better access and transfer nutrients to the plant.

Professor Taylor, who co-ordinated the research, says: «Our findings provide the very first insight into how biochar stimulates plant growth — we now know that cell expansion is stimulated in roots and leaves alike and this appears to be the consequence of a complex signalling network that is focussed around two plant growth hormones.

Plant life, for example, can root its way through rock, breaking rocks into sediment.

Three options are on the table: tweak cereals so that they form symbiotic partnerships with rhizobia as legumes do; colonise cereal roots with other types of nitrogen - fixing bacteria; or transfer the bacterial genes that make fertiliser directly into the crop plants.

Microscopic roundworms (nematodes) live like maggots in bacon: They penetrate into the roots of beets, potatoes or soybeans and feed on plant cells, which are full of energy.

In Arabidopsis, as in most plants, there is a specific zone near the tip of the root where stem cells transition from a stage of proliferation to one where they differentiate into specific tissue types.

This happened despite the fact that both groups of plants took in the same amount of nitrogen through their roots, suggesting that the plants fertilized with nitrate were having trouble converting the nitrogen in nitrate into a more useful, organic form.

«I would have expected the injured plant to put more resources into growing roots.

But the fungi that live on the plant roots might undo some of that extra work by releasing CO2 back into the atmosphere again.

Perennials plants have much longer root systems than annuals, allowing them to reach deeper into the soil, and tap more nutrients.

As a growing plant extends its roots into the soil, the new cells that form at their tips assume different roles, from transporting water and nutrients to sensing gravity.

Named HCR1, this gene reduces water entry into the roots when there's a lack of oxygen, but only when the soil is also rich in potassium, a mineral salt essential for plant growth.

The green glowing center of this Arabidopsis root contains a protein that helps transform immature precursor cells into some of the specialized cells that make up the plant's root tip.

Saltwater creeped in Canal systems leading to the Gulf allowed saltwater into the heart of freshwater marshes and swamps, killing plants and trees whose roots held the soils together.

A new technology invented to automate the laborious process of preparing plant roots for phenotyping has morphed into a powerful tool for exploring the three - dimensional structure of small objects.

When prompted by peptide signals, stem cells in the meristem develop into any of the plant's organs — roots, leaves, or flowers, for example.

«No pesticide sprays are required and the plants» rhizomatous root system has proved to absorb fertilisers efficiently, so helping prevent seepage of nitrate into ground water.»

Between 80 % and 90 % of methane emitted from rice fields is produced by microbes living on plant roots; some of the gas dissolves into the water and bubbles up, but most is absorbed along with water by plant roots, travels up to the stems and leaves, and escapes into the atmosphere.

«An iron plaque forms on the surface of the roots that does not allow arsenic to go up into the rice plant.»

To tap into scarce water supplies, most desert plants have extensive root systems that burrow deep or spread wide.

In addition, as plants spread into unpredictable environments such as arid deserts they grew less dependent on the symbiotic fungi — or mycorrhiza — that colonize roots and help host plants obtain the essential plant nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus.

«Live cell imaging of asymmetric cell division in fertilized plant cells: Insight into why leaves grow up and roots grow down in flowering plants.»

As many plants take up a cylinder - like shape, the most important axis becomes the apical - basal (shoot - root) axis, i.e. the apical (top part) develops into shoots, containing flowers, stems and leaves, and the basal (bottom part) grows into roots.

The calluses can then be stimulated with the appropriate plant hormones to grow into new plants that are identical to the original plant from which the root pieces were taken.

The worms» passageways introduce air into the soil by allowing oxygen and water to percolate down to growing plant roots and letting carbon dioxide produced from the plants flow back out into the atmosphere.

So the next time you're using a rooting powder to give your plant cuttings a jumpstart, think of Zimmerman and Hitchcock, whose trials and errors yielded insights into the effects of plant hormones, as well as a highly useful garden product.

More recently, scientists have been able to clone plants by taking pieces of specialized roots, breaking them up into root cells and growing the root cells in a nutrient - rich culture.

While more herbaceous plants die back, drawing any energy from softer tissues above ground into their roots, only to re-sprout in the spring (such as bulbs and tuberous plants).

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

«For more than a century, it's been known that plants influence the makeup of their soil microbiome, in part through the release of metabolites into the soil surrounding their roots,» said Berkeley Lab postdoctoral researcher Kateryna Zhalnina, the study's lead author.

This work is part of a newly funded U.S. Department of Energy / Department of Agriculture project led by the University of Missouri, Columbia to explore the biology of a single plant cell type, while gaining novel insight into the impacts of temperature and water availability on a crucial root cell necessary for nutrient uptake.