«At these elevations on Mount Rainier, snow is the major driver
of plant behavior, because the annual cycle of flowering and reproducing can not begin until the snow melts,» said Hille Ris Lambers.
«This research also opens the window
of plant behavior a little wider, showing that plants have many of the same responses to outside influences that animals do, even though the responses look different.»
«A few years ago you couldn't use the term plant behavior in accepted journals, but now the concept
of plant behavior is not controversial anymore,» says Baluska.
Not exact matches
-- especially when, as most
of you would know, the law prohibiting homosexual
behavior is imbedded in a context in Leviticus in the holiness code, the purity code, as it's sometimes called, which also prohibits the
planting of two kinds
of seed in the same field, or the wearing
of garments made
of two kinds
of cloth.
Spatio - temporal - causal properties — the shapes, motions, bodily
behavior and interactions
of animals,
plants, and other things — are not ignored.
If instead
of dropping to the lowest common denominator in our
behavior, we each personally raise the bar to where Jesus set it, imagine how many trees
of life would be
planted, watered by streams
of living water, providing shade and Heavenly fruit for the whole world to enjoy.
FDA has recognized that comprehensive training is imperative if companies hope to make employees aware
of the potential safety and health consequences
of negative
behaviors on the
plant floor.
It introduces a protein scorecard ranking foods from lowest (
plant - based foods) to highest impact (beef), as well as the Shift Wheel, which harnesses proven marketing and
behavior change strategies to help move billions
of people to more sustainable diets.
It's the selection
of seeds, the way
of cultivating grains, the sense and awareness
of the environment, understanding
of the
plants»
behavior, the choice
of cleaning and storing grain berries, the milling process, and the bread making process.
Chamber rules
of engagement discourage rude
behavior, though the occasional hostile question from
plants in the audience can throw candidates off message.
He previously taught and conducted research on water conservation in irrigated urban landscapes and the water use
behaviors of woody and herbaceous
plants.
It is a rule that lies at the core
of studying animal and
plant behavior, and human society should be looked at no differently, as even technologically complex societies are still governed by EROI.
Jonathan Lynch, a
plant physiologist at The Pennsylvania State University and another founder
of the crops in silico movement, looks at root
behavior under a range
of soil nutrient conditions.
The rapid expansion
of the North Slope's snow - free season has had consequences for water resources, wildlife
behavior, the
plant growing season and more, the research team reported in the new paper.
The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules
of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and
behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering
plants for food — no longer work as well.
From field studies
of plants and animals, researchers have learned that habitat can influence morphology and
behavior — particularly sexual selection — in ways that hasten or slow down speciation.
The odor
of death may be what initially attracts the flies, but once they enter the flowers another scent may cue particular
behaviors the
plants want.
Just as the microorganisms in our gut are increasingly recognized as important players in human health and
behavior, new research from the University
of Toronto Mississauga demonstrates that microorganisms are equally critical to the growth and health
of plants.
During her PhD, Karen Kloth studied aphid feeding
behavior on different varieties
of the model
plant Arabidopsis thaliana, collected from 350 different locations on the northern hemisphere.
Returning investigation samples will demonstrate how life in microgravity affects the growth
of plant seedlings, changes to the human body, the
behavior of semiconductors and detergents, and more.
This
behavior is essential to the well - being
of plants, as the journey through the gut seems to be a rite
of passage necessary for some seeds to germinate, says Kevin Burns, an ecologist at Victoria University
of Wellington, New Zealand.
LIFE focuses on up - close encounters with the astonishing, quirky, and endearing
behaviors of animals and
plants dwelling on every continent and in every habitat.
But evolutionary principals dictate that the
behaviors and actions
of any organism (whether
plants, animals or tumor cells) come with advantages and disadvantages.
He calls the ongoing project «a phenomenal detective story,» with regular discoveries
of new wasp species, ant hosts,
plant hosts and
behaviors associated with both getting into the ant nest and then getting out again after they finish development.
A single beehive can collect pollen from dozens
of different
plant species, and this pollen is useful evidence
of the hive's foraging
behavior and nutrition preferences.
For six summers from 2010 to 2015, Theobald tracked environmental conditions and
plant behavior for 48 species at 70 field plots, each one square meter, along the southern slope
of Mount Rainier.
Wertz and Wynn hypothesized that, instead
of imitating an adult's
behavior outright, children tend to go for specific types
of entities — in this case,
plants — but only when an adult does so first.
Here, it has few, if any, insect predators.This freedom from herbivores may explain one striking aspect
of the
plant's
behavior in North America: It grows triple the size it reaches on home ground.
Perturbations to
plant behavior by transgene insertions are unlikely to be ignored by agricultural biotechnologists because appropriate recognition
of them determines the success or failure
of new varieties
of crops in the field.
They have been shown to have potent biological activities in the
plant and animal kingdoms, but much
of what is known about them pertains to their regulation
of animal physiology and
behavior.
To achieve this goal via optimization
of their Darwinian fitness,
plants use their own
plant - specific intelligence, cognition and
behavior.
While biologists have tracked how global warming has altered the developmental, migration, timing and other
behavior in
plants and animals, what makes this study unusual is the physical changes in the bees, said study co-author Candace Galen at the University
of Missouri.
Zafeirios Fountas, Murray Shanahan Embodied
Behavior of Plant Roots in Obstacle Avoidance.
To confirm, evaluate, and quantify the extent
of such exponential
behavior in individual
plant roots, we analyzed root epidermal (trichoblast, to be able to recognize root hair) and cortex cell files
of wild ‐ type Col ‐ 0 ecotype, from day 1 to 10 postgermination (Materials and Methods, Dataset EV1).
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.
Botanists from Ohio Weslyan University leverage the microgravity environment
of the International Space Station to study root growth
behaviors and sensory systems in an investigation known as Gravity Perception Systems (
Plant Gravity Perception).
The goal
of the research in the Pawlowski lab is to understand the basis
of inheritance in
plants by studying the mechanisms governing chromosome
behavior and genetic recombination in meiosis.
Major current projects include 1) Evaluating pesticide exposure and risk to wild bees and managed honey bees in different landscapes, 2) Combining empirical data with network modeling to understand pathogen transmission in complex
plant - pollinator networks, and 3) Understanding how pesticide and pathogen stress influence bee
behavior and delivery
of pollination services to agriculturally important crops.
Pheromones are considered to be airborne chemical signaling molecules that are released by humans, animals, and
plants into the environment and they can affect the physiology and or
behavior of other members
of the same species.
What's more, synthetic marijuana — referred to by a number
of names including Spice, K - 2, Moon Rocks, and more — relies on a mixture
of manmade chemicals sprayed onto miscellaneous dried
plants and herbs and often incites erratic
behavior in users.
Dean Ornish and colleagues found that the progression
of prostate cancer could be reversed with a
plant - based diet and other healthy lifestyle
behaviors — and no wonder.
In contrast, those with higher
plant protein intake demonstrated a clustering
of positive health
behaviors and had a substantially healthier diet than those with lower
plant protein consumption.
Second, our results suggest that the adverse effects
of high animal protein intake and beneficial effects
of plant protein may be enhanced by other unhealthy lifestyle choices and become evident among the subgroup
of individuals with these
behaviors who may already have had some underlying inflammatory or metabolic disorders.
Interestingly, in this study, we found that the association
of animal and
plant protein with mortality varied by lifestyle factors, and any statistically significant protein - mortality associations were restricted to participants with at least 1
of the unhealthy
behaviors, including smoking, heavy alcohol intake, overweight or obesity, and physical inactivity.
Marshall, who works in Suncoast's
behavior intervention program,
planted the idea
of recording a CD with some students by saying that he thought music could be a good way to spread the anti-violence message.
Compare and contrast the
behaviors of hunters and gatherers with those
of people who cultivated
plants and raised domesticated animals for food, in order to demonstrate the influence
of the Neolithic revolution on the daily lives
of people.
American Society for Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals — Contains useful information including lists
of poisonous
plants, disaster preparedness plans, and an animal
behavior section.
Many ideas have been proposed for the cause
of the
plant - eating
behavior but none have been proven.
But there are a host
of reasons, from
behavior to nutrition to safety, to talk about
plant life with respect to your cat.
Mistletoe «American»: The berries
of this
plant cause vomiting and diarrhea, difficulty breathing, collapse, erratic
behavior, hallucinations and death)