Sentences with phrase «of normal plants»

(For example, nuclear plants that are half the size of normal plants require far more than half as many employees.)

Seven of the 19 ears and 6.2 % of the kernels overall showed spotting; this occurs in less than a fraction of a percent of normal plants.

Inhibition of transcription (blockade of water) on tumor suppressor genes, such as p21, leads to cell transformation (growth of the cactus - like eremophytes instead of normal plants from the drought).

Not exact matches

Yet putting the automation into the plant seems to involve an apparent capital cost that's $ 4,000 higher per unit of capacity than for a normal plant.

Alternatively, males produce no flower and females that have been fertilized by pollen will produce 50 % or less of the normal cannabinoid value achieved in a female flower - only plant.

If a storm negatively impacts human life it is «part of a fallen world,» but if it is just a rain storm that brings water to some thirsty plants it is just normal or a «blessing»?

Tests conducted on water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have found levels of radioactivity millions of times more than is normal in water.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

People who have 57 cats, talk to their plants, run down the street naked daily, refuse to eat with utensils because they're evil, shower 20 times a day to get rid of the «bugs», and sleep with the lights on = normal

«One night I decided to change up my routine and I walked into the plant at midnight instead of my normal daytime check up.

Where seasonally inspired, whole foods eating meets comforting bowls and dishes comprised mostly of plants and embraced as the new normal.

As if to underscore that point our very old yet vigorous rhubarb plant in the backyard is doing its normal late - January thing, bursting through its own mulch with hot pink nubs of new life.

While mucus is constantly being produced and degraded in a normal gut, the change in bacteria activity under the lowest - fiber conditions meant that the pace of eating was faster than the pace of production — almost like an overzealous harvesting of trees outpacing the planting of new ones.

I'm actually a little behind my normal planting schedule because of this crazy weather that can't seem to make up it's mind.

My extreme fatigue might have something to do with the fact that instead of planting the corn patch in rows like a normal person I decided to make a million giant mounds and plant a few seeds in each mound.

For the time being, I am going to enjoy all plant based foods and try to get back to some semblance of «normal» eating.

Flavanols are a plant - based antioxidant that help maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, contributing to normal blood flow & supporting:

Flavanols are a type of plant - based antioxidant, which help maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, supporting normal:

But the real thrill came when Stark would grab plants that I had never even heard of before: pineapple weed, chickweed, mugwort, purple - flowered erodium (also called stork's bill), vetch (from the wild pea family), mallow (a plant that, according to Stark, is high in calcium), and the highlight of the day: wild onions, purple - flowered and pleasantly sweeter than your normal green onion.

Hydroponics is the science of growing plants without soil using an inert medium (sand or gravel) and a water and nutrient solution containing all the elements required by the plant for normal growth.

Leaf drop is perfectly normal and is a plants natural way of conserving energy during the dormancy process.

Now researchers at the Food Technology Plant Special Research Centre (CeRPTA), attached to the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, claim to have created a type of bread with a similar taste and consistency to that derived from wheat flour - with a spongy texture and normal volume.

The things that were once planted deeply in the ground are no longer there; the sturdy structures that were a part of normal life may have been destroyed.

You've planted the seed at least, and one day after she's processed the labour portion of your birth she'll know what normal is!

Mr. Obagmey justified the decision by Jubilee partners to demand an audit of the plant, describing it as normal and safe.

Some 71 percent of the plant cells and 84 percent of the fungal cells showed signs of life afterward, and about half the cells were able to restart normal photosynthesis after rehydration.

Compared to the plants grown in normal soil, the Chernobyl soya produced significantly different amounts of several dozen proteins, the team found.

Seed production in these plants — a measure of their ability to survive — crashed in early generations, before returning almost to normal.

Such plants have two mutant copies of a gene called hothead, which differ from the normal gene by a single base pair.

Tienush Rassaf, MD (University Hospital Essen, Germany) and his colleagues tested the potential of cocoa flavanols, a subgroup of plant - derived polyphenols that are present in cocoa and have been shown to have beneficial effects on blood vessel function in individuals with normal kidney function.

The pump could not have serviced both of the plant's reactors if they lost normal water supply simultaneously, the NRC staff said.

Auxin controls a range of responses in plants, including cell and tissue growth and normal development.

If we can replace some foods that normal consumers eat using plant proteins then we can relieve some of those issues,» says Lee Chae, Hampton Creek's director of bioinformatics.

Recent work has also shown that over - or underexpression of certain genes in Arabidopsis plants can prompt embryogenesis in otherwise normal - looking leaf cells.

Part of the time, the women ate a normal Western diet low in plant oestrogens.

Levels detected in a short duration pulse at the plant itself have reached as high as 8,217 microSieverts per hour, or eight times the dose endured in a typical CT scan and four times the normal dose of background radiation in a year.

Benfey notes that these bigger, faster - growing plants are not the result of the insertion of a novel gene, but rather a decrease in UPB1's normal activity.

In addition to showing growers and processors which hybrids could be planted at higher populations than normal, results of the study also challenge seed companies to improve CST.

In another experiment, in lab - dish conditions, the researchers colonized roots of sterile - grown normal Arabidopsis plants with a set of 35 bacterial species isolated from roots of plants grown previously in the same native soil.

«Restoring normal operations at the National Nuclear Security Administration can take more than a week and labs and plants are likely to have lost at least three weeks of mission work, or about 6 percent of the year's productivity, due to the shutdown.»

To test whether a partial loss of plant - derived dietary fiber would result in a partial loss of native gut microbes, the authors also collected fecal samples from a semi-captive population of red - shanked doucs who lived in a sanctuary and received about half of the normal variety of plants eaten by wild doucs.

«So the plants didn't have to pay the physiological cost of making these leaves, and they resorted back to normal - looking leaves,» Burns says.

Mander, a chemist from the Australian National University in Canberra, has developed a version of a plant growth hormone which keeps grass lush and green but slows its growth to about a third of its normal rate.

In normal coal - fired plants, nearly all the pollutants go up the smokestack, where some of them are captured from the exhaust by scrubbers.

They can induce plant malformations such as galls and disturb the normal growth of plants by piercing their cells with saliva.

They inoculated transgenic Katahdin plants and normal varieties with six isolates of P. infestans in the greenhouse.

Because these leaves were unable to proceed through the normal aging process before being dislodged from the trees, nutritional status of the plants temporarily decreases and forest floor nutritional deposits temporarily increase.

Consequently, this research reports the third plant cell fusion event that was identified during normal developmental processes of flowering plants.

Plants exposed to oVOCs increased their normal uptake of the compounds, absorbing 40 % more than expected.

Farmers are also trying to thwart resistance by growing plants that lack the Bt toxins near their fields, cultivating populations of normal insects that could swamp the resistance genes, says Randy Deaton, a Bt researcher at Monsanto, which developed some Bt crops.