Sentences with phrase «large number of plants»

Though one of the old shadehouses is still being used this year due to the large number of plants the nursery is growing, this new structure replaces two wooden shadehouses that are more than 15 years old.

In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.

The development of a new tool, CallHap, published in Applications in Plant Sciences, has made it cheaper and easier to sequence the chloroplast genomes of large numbers of plants and accurately track seed dispersal across landscapes.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Most of those are insects, with bees pollinating the largest number of plant species.

How a large number of plant species can successfully coexist while competing for space and limiting resources has puzzled ecologists for decades.

The team of researchers selected a large number of plant species from a very high diversity shrubland in south - western Australia, and exposed plants from each of these species to soil biota collected either from either the rooting zone of plants of its own species or from that of other species.

Protein can be found a a large number of plant foods including nuts, beans, quinoa, oats, rice and as long as you are consuming a good amount of these foods you should have no issue in building muscle.

The third level has some strong visuals also, with a large number of plant and insect themed enemies that will require some tight maneuvering and good use of those deadly jaws to get through.

Yes, they were planning on growing, no they were not growing large numbers of plants.

Not exact matches

She said that there had been a shortage of white grapes in the past two years, but a large number of white grapes were now being planted.

In Southern California, a number of water utilities have begun to install large batteries alongside their pumping plants and water treatment facilities.

Lynas's Malaysian plant is the largest one outside China, and while it could have started production as early as May of this year, safety concerns by local activist groups have set the launch back a number of times.

Prior to this, Hugo held a number of senior roles at Tati Nickel in Botswana, one of LionOre Mining's major mining operations, including Head of Engineering, Project Manager of the DMS plant, one of the world's largest and acted as General Manager of Tati for two years.

The country has a large number of geothermal and hydroelectric power plants, which provide a massive electricity surplus to the island nation.

The coal industry is booming driven by growth in export demand for coal world wide and the large number of coal - fired power plants currently scheduled to come online.

In addition to the increasing use of coal internationally, there is a large number of coal - fired power plants coming online in the next few years.

Large numbers of Chinese citizens work in assembly plants for Apple products or in Starbucks stores across the country.

In 2013, the city had more than 95,000 residents and is known as the «Druid City» for the large number of water oak trees plants along the downtown streets in the 19th century.

If successful, the two companies that have launched under GFI's influence in the past year are expected to produce commercial plant - based products that will compete with existing animal products within one year.41 If those products reduce the demand for animal products, this could affect a large number of animals.

It follows that, if the discrepancy between the number of possible states and the number of possible samples is large enough, we can assert without fear of contradiction that no two members of a class, e.g., no two members of an animal or plant species, not even two bacteria, can ever be in the same internal state.

Within recent years, a large number of naturally occurring health - enhancing substances of plant origin have been recognized» to have beneficial effects on cancers, known as phytochemicals.

Some plants accrue large numbers of safety infractions simply because they process more food, for example.

It's estimated that over one million trees were planted that day across the Cornhusker State, with prizes offered to the counties and individuals who properly planted the largest number of trees that day.

The number of degraded bolts at the Indian Point unit 2 reactor was the largest seen to date at a reactor in the United States, so the NRC is closely monitoring the plant to return it to service in the near future, officials said.

The study's findings are likely to apply to a large number of other flowering plant species, says Jeffrey Karron of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

«Orchids, almost alone among flowering plants, have a large number of species that lure pollinators by mimicking a mate, or a nesting site or food resources — «lies all for the sake of love» — but such deceit seems to have played no role in accelerating the formation of new orchid species.»

This larger number of deer then eats more plant material than they would have before.

In Suwa in Nagano Prefecture, a treatment plant near a large number of precision equipment manufacturers reportedly collected nearly 2 kilograms of gold in every metric ton of ash left from burning sludge, making it more gold - rich than the ore in many mines.

He was stopped short by a mile - wide swath of bedrock containing ankylosaur prints that were closely spaced, indicating that the armored plant - eating dinosaurs once congregated there in large numbers.

• Previous research by Zak and his colleagues suggests that because estrogen increases the number of oxytocin receptors, in countries where people consume larger amounts of plant - based estrogens (found in foods such as nuts, soy products, and legumes), average trust levels are higher.

Chloroplast DNA is separate from the genome DNA in the plant nucleus, and the large numbers of these tiny organelles in the cell allow huge volumes of the coagulation protein to accumulate in each tobacco leaf.

Many live freely in the soil or water, but there are also a large number of species that live as parasites on plants or animals and even some that feed on mold.

The researchers counted the largest numbers of vultures in late afternoon, but location mattered: Power plants near areas where the vultures tended to roost had more visitors in the early morning and late afternoon, whereas power plants near feeding sites had more at midday.

The IU scientists discovered the unprecedented lack of Complex I in a multicellular organism during a larger project to expand the number of parasitic plants that have undergone mitochondrial genome sequencing.

«After aquatic plants were mowed in the basins, we saw a large increase in the number of Culex pipiens mosquito larvae in the basins, which had relatively few before mowing,» Mackay said.

Although the program included a large number of species across China as a whole, they found that the majority of individual forests were planted with only one tree species, such as bamboo, eucalyptus or Japanese cedar.

The EPSRC Energy Programme will build on the large amount of research already being conducted through a number of consortia and research programs at various institutions working in areas such as biomass and bioenergy, marine energy, and extending the lifetime of conventional power plants through the Supergen programme.

MDs, PharmDs, and even fewer PhDs occupy only a small number of scientific positions in these large production plants.

«Moreover, species - rich ecosystems contain a higher number of slow - growing, larger plants.»

In a large test field, getting exact numbers means hours or even days of labor for a plant breeder.

But while a number of cichlid species, feeding largely on crustaceans or plants, managed to adapt and recover, of the 100 or so species which, like the Nile perch, live on larger fish, more than 80 became extinct.

Don Davis, professor of plant pathology, Penn State, said that in 2003, he noticed a large number of tree - of - heaven deaths in a southwestern Pennsylvania forest.

The Campus will house Holtec's corporate engineering center, two large manufacturing plants, a reactor test loop and a number of ancillary facilities.

Our plant technology allows us to provide a cost - effective production solution for drugs needed in large quantities due to the number of people affected by disease and / or high dosage requirements.

What's Next: The genomes of most living organisms including all animals, plants and bacteria encode a large number of RNA - binding proteins with increasing evidence pointing to their extensive involvement in post-transcriptional regulatory events.

It allowed the team to explore a much wider range of what - ifs by tweaking a large number of inputs, including the energy efficiency of electrical appliances, the depreciation time of coal - fired power plants, and shifts in consumer behavior.

The Agrobacterium tumefaciens - based system is a robust platform to either rapidly produce up to mg - amounts of recombinant proteins or to compare larger numbers of different vaccine constructs in a screening approach preferentially by transient expression in N. benthamiana plants.

A number of people have identified veganism as one of the biggest trends of 2018; the reality is that the number of persons identifying their diet as plant - based or vegan is growing larger and larger.

Since ancient times, a large number of medicines have been derived from the sticky resin in the leaves and blossoms of the hemp plant.