Sentences with phrase «kudzu plant»

And the winding, climbing kudzu plant, native to Japan, chokes other plants in the Southern U.S. «We have enough experience on Earth to know that unexpected things can happen,» Conley says.

Not exact matches

They can be as sinister as kudzu («the plant that ate the South») or innocuous as dandelions.

Pueraria montana Kudzu, a plant from Asia, is despised in southeastern states for its aggressive growth.

Kudzu, known as the mile - a-minute plant for how quickly it grows, is in the pea family and was introduced to the U.S. from Asia by gardeners in the 1930s.

Some of the important ingredients that are used in this supplement are Indian Kudzu, Licorice, Spanish Pellitory, Musk Mallow, and Indian Spider Plant.

Kudzu, one of the worst invasive plants in America, covers at least seven million acres of land in the Southeast United States.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

In contrast, many insect pests, pathogens, and invasive plants like kudzu appear to be highly and positively responsive to recent and projected climate change.89 Their expansion will lead to an overall loss of biodiversity, function, and resilience of some ecosystems.

With this in mind, climate change could be just another unique opportunity for weeds and other hardy plants to fulfill other roles: as potential biofuel candidates (kudzu, swtichgrass and jatropha for example), as a source of natural materials for furniture, or even as food — because weeds are evolving, just as we are.

For botanical invaders, such as kudzu and another ornamental plant from Asia called Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), and insect invaders, as well the diseases they may carry, climate warming associated with increases in atmospheric carbon will likely allow these species to gain footholds in habitats formerly off - limits to them.

Lazy vining plants like poison ivy and kudzu may benefit 18 - 20 times more from increased levels of CO2 than trees, because much more of their energy can go into producing leaves for photosynthesis instead of trunks and branches for support.

In the US, kudzu is sometime called «the plant that ate the South», i.e., a good example of a really bad idea of an introduced species brought on purpose.

Invasive plants such as kudzu in the American south have wreaked havoc in some part of rural America.