Sentences with phrase «more plant nutrients»

Manure generally contains more plant nutrients and is considered more of a fertilizer than compost.

Not exact matches

Food scientists are examining animal products at the molecular level and sourcing plants with matching proteins and nutrients to create delicious plant - based meats, eggs, and dairy products that are healthier and more sustainable than conventional animal products.

This is probably a healthier situation for plant growth in that an oversupply of a nutrient such as nitrogen can lead to lush, succulent tissue growth which is more vulnerable to fungal and bacterial entry, more appealing to some insects, and more prone to stress injury from heat, cold, or drought.

One of the other things is that to make the nutrients more bio-available things like kale and spinach are best steamed for about two minutes to start breaking down the plant fibre.

-LSB-...] * They are hard to digest * They often have nutritional deficiencies due to the refining process * The more grains we consume the more likely it is that other more nutrient dense foods are displaced * They are low in healthy fats * Antinutrients designed to preserve and protect the grains in plant form stop us from absorbing nutrients and can cause allergic reactions and sensitivities.

One of the reasons we hear the advice to eat the rainbow is because plant foods that are really vibrant and colorful really do have more nutrients.

All wild foods are far more nutrient dense than the domesticated plants we eat most often.

More of the anti-oxidant rich, plant based fruits and veggies, whole grains, nuts and seeds and spices that not only help kick the back - sides of the free - radicals, but also add in the nutrients that make our skin look young and fresh - selenium, zinc, silica, vitamin C and of course, the good fats.

Inca inchi seeds are rich in nutrients and essential fatty acids, much more than other oilseed plants known.

Since every plant has a different nutrient profile, the more diverse our diet, the deeper our nutrition.

Are you vegan, plant - based, or thinking about making the transition over to eating a more vegetable rich diet but worry about where you'll get high quality protein and other important nutrients if you give up eating meat or dairy?

It's simple — the more nutrients available in the soil the more the plant can absorb.

The remainder of the wet ingredients are black beans, high in fiber and plant protein, and pure maple syrup which contains more polyphenols and essential nutrients than refined sugar.

I'm trying to eat as much as I can because of its nutritional benefits: — they can help your diet by making you feel full (it's because they absorb 10 times their weight in water, forming a bulky gel)-- they are the richest plant source of Omega - 3 — chia seeds slow down how fast our bodies convert carbohydrates into simple sugars, studies indicate they can control blood sugar — they are an excellent source of fiber, with a whopping 10 grams in only 2 tablespoons — chia seeds are rich in antioxidants that help protect the body from free radicals, aging and cancer — chia seeds contain no gluten or grains — the outer layer of chia seeds swells when mixed with liquids to form a gel (this can used in place of eggs to lower cholesterol and increase the nutrient content of foods and baked goods)(More info here.)

However, using high - quality sources of plant - based protein that are low in saturated fat can help you reach your weight loss goals more easily when you also consume enough fiber, healthy carbs, and nutrient - dense fruits and veggies.

If you keep picking off the pods, the plant will try to produce more assuming it has enough nutrients to do so hence the need for correct fertilising just prior to the fruiting stage.

Even more exotic flavors come from so - called «superfoods,» a trendy crop of nutrient - packed plants like acai and goji berries, aloe vera, and pomegranate.

«The more plants you eat, the more you ensure you get those necessary nutrients,» he says.

Nature must have put a concentrated store of nutrients in the seed, which can grow a new plant with no soil and nothing more than plain water.

Compared with many plant - based «milks,» the milk that comes from a cow typically has more nutrients and fewer unhealthy additives.

MAG production, and whether more fat for the fungus means more nutrient transfer to the plant in return.

At the same time, a purely vegan diet can result in potential health risks, because a plant - based diet makes it more difficult to ensure an adequate supply of some specific nutrients.

These types of plants have been associated with environments that supply high concentrations of essential nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, and warm - wet climatic conditions, both of which help plants photosynthesize more productively.

Corn yields with today's hybrids do have the potential to increase with the application of protection chemicals and by making crop nutrients more plant - available,» she said.

But a plant geneticist at Purdue University aims to raise the corn plant's stature in a more carbon - sensitive world by lowering its height and its need for water and nutrients.

To help improve crop breeding strategies and overcome challenges such as making plants more tolerant of marginal lands, and stresses such as drought and low nutrient availability, researchers are focusing on understanding and promoting beneficial plant - microbe relationships.

The gene works by making the plant mature more rapidly, thus speeding up the transfer of these nutrients from the leaves to the grain.

While farmers concentrate on high - carbohydrate crops like rice and potatoes, the mix of wild plants and animals in the diets of surviving hunter - gatherers provides more protein and a bettter balance of other nutrients.

Those deep, better - established roots also help cycle nutrients in the soil and make them more available to plants.

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

Then Bouis happened to run into Ross Welch, who had been working for the US Department of Agriculture on the problem of trace nutrients, not for dietary reasons, but because plants that could extract more iron and zinc from the soil tended to grow better, especially in nutrient - deficient soil.

Another approach is to make the nutrients in the plant more readily available to the people who eat it.

A plant - only diet also would require individuals to eat more food and more daily calories to meet their nutritional needs from the foods they eat because the available foods from plants are not as nutrient dense as foods from animals.

«When you start to add more and more of the nutrients that the animal would normally be providing, the plant is no longer as dependent on that animal for those nutrients and so it starts to return less of the sugars back to the animal,» explained lead author Shantz, a doctoral candidate in the Burkepile Community Ecology Laboratory.

The team also found evidence that nutrient - cycling microbes are more plentiful and efficient in organic soil, making a greater percentage of nutrients available to plants.

In particular, consumption of whole plant foods slows digestion and provides higher amounts and a more favourable balance of essential and vital nutrients per unit of energy; resulting in better management of cell growth, maintenance, and mitosis (cell division) as well as regulation of blood glucose and appetite.

And it is this sensitivity to drought that maps the various plants» success and distribution, more so than light or nutrients in the soil, even though responses to light have been observed to determine which plants quickly spring back in a clearing on the forest floor or under a gap in the canopy.

In contrast to more developed vascular plants with roots, stems, leaves, and vasculature, which are necessary for the transport of water and nutrients, it remained unclear in the case of mosses, which have no vasculature, which genes are responsible for the development of stomata.

The resulting report calls for more research on GM crops useful in developing countries, such as nutrient - enhanced foods and salt - tolerant plants, and urges that use of GM crops be weighed against the hazards of pesticide use and other current farming methods.

It really gets interesting when plants are mutualized with fungal partners of varying degrees of cooperativeness: a «meaner» one, which supplies fewer phosphates per unit of carbohydrate provided, and a «more generous» one, which «pays» more phosphates for its nutrients.

Plants can gain from more carbon dioxide, but only «if other resources like water and nutrients are not limited», which is rarely the case.

As if that were not enough, the plant can practically «starve» the less cooperative fungal partner by supplying it with fewer nutrients, thus forcing it to supply more of the sought - after phosphates.

As plant species spread from their nutrient - rich tropical origins, however, the root tips of plants such as the desert shrub species Tamarix ramosissima (left of largest cross section) evolved to be thinner so they could more efficiently explore soil for nutrients, and they have less dependence on symbiotic fungi.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).

They found differences in the way some plant varieties distribute nutrients under varying conditions, leading some to develop leaves and fruit that are smaller but more abundant than others.

«In a previous study we measured a lot of crop parameters that indicated that strip - till allowed the plant to be more efficient in taking up nutrients and water and increasing yield.

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.

It also makes the plants more efficient in getting the nutrients they need than we might suppose.

In the soil, researchers have found that microbes are essential for supporting plant life, mediating uptake and entry of nutrients into the food chain, cycling carbon and nitrogen, breaking down pollutants and much more.

By allowing explicit calculations on wood - litter production, these results potentially enable more explicit modelling of woody tissues in ecosystems worldwide, with implications for the build - up of flammable fuel, nutrient cycling, and understanding of plant growth.