Sentences with phrase «of plant chemistry»

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Northern Michigan University is offering a degree that may catch the eye of marijuana enthusiasts: medicinal plant chemistry.

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

ReactIR, Particle Track and Particle Vision enable understanding of reaction progression, mechanisms, kinetics, and particle characterisation in situ and in real - time for batch and flow chemistry in lab and plant environments.

Sustainable Solutions for Wine Waste Ways to recycle the vast amount of plant waste produced by the wine industry are under investigation by chemistry and biotechnology researchers at Swinburne...

Glass composition can be controlled by analyzing each new shipment of raw materials and its respective glass chemistry, requiring an analytical laboratory at each glass plant.

As consumers wake up to the importance of choosing clean ingredients for all parts of their bodies, plant - based formulations, green chemistry practices and mission - based business models are taking center stage.

But plants can speed up the production of clays, for example, by secreting organic acids that change soil chemistry.

But with hundreds of channels you can measure carbon and nitrogen content, and you can tell a lot about plant health, plant disease, or leaf chemistry, all of which affect crop yield.»

The pilot plant allowed us to see the chemistry on a much smaller scale, between that of the lab, which we are used to, and the industrial scale, allowing us to better understand the large plant.

The scientists are now planning further experiments study the co-evolution of dandelions and their root herbivores in order of find out whether the presence of root - feeding insects has shaped the plant defensive chemistry in the course of evolution and whether the insects show adaptations to dandelion defenses.

Inspectors come with a range of expertise, from physics, engineering, and chemistry to computer science and even biology; samples from plants and animals often play a role in detecting unreported nuclear materials.

The chemistry of Guam's volcanic subsoil is inhospitable for root growth of most plants.

This signaling pathway could be used to optimize the photosynthetic efficiency of plants subject to water and nutrient deficiencies, with potential applications in agriculture and reactor - based crop development for green chemistry and algae - based biofuel solutions.

Both are examples of «chemical gardens,» a type of chemical process and the name of an experiment common in chemistry sets that operates along the same principles and forms tubes of crystals that make plant - like shapes, Escribano said.

So Cordatos and UTC's idea is not to use the enzyme itself, but to master its chemistry and «use it in the unnatural environment of power plant flue gas,» Cordatos said.

«Microbes facilitate the persistence, spread of invasive plant species by changing soil chemistry.»

«I think this will definitely help,» says Alisdair Fernie, who was not part of the study but has studied tomato chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany.

By oxidizing iron, these microorganisms likely helped shape the chemistry of Earth over billions of years, ultimately leading to the evolution of more complex life such as plants and animals.

The Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University in Japan is committed to advance the integration of synthetic chemistry, plant / animal biology and theoretical science, all of which are traditionally strong fields in the university.

One quibble, which I suspect is due to the publisher more than the author, is that the style of the introductory pages on the chemistry in the plants leaves much to be desired.

Like all cereals and other members of the grass family, maize plants defend themselves with chemistry.

It's becoming clear and clearer as people look at different stages of the plant's growth and in different habitats growing next to other plants that the stressors in the environment can really change the chemistry; because most of the medicinal compounds in the plants are what are called secondary compounds, so they are not things essential to the metabolism of the plant like sugar and water and ATP for energy and DNA.

While yeast has been engineered previously to produce a variety of plant - based natural products, reconstructing the highly complex chemistry of opioids and their precursors has been a challenge.

«This could lead to the development of new methods to improve the plant fertilization efficiency and open a new avenue for carbohydrate research in plant biology using synthetic chemistry approaches.»

On paper, the method is basic high - school chemistry: The Squamish plant sucks air into a device called a contactor, where it reacts with a chemical solution that absorbs about three - quarters of the air's carbon, by volume.

Possibilities include environmental toxins linked to crops or to plant decay by - products (e.g., bacterial / fungal toxins), as well as a combination of the former with agricultural practices, atmospheric chemistry, and an idiosyncratic immune reaction in genetically susceptible children (28, 29).

I also learned that chemistry is a part of everything, including the development of alternative fuels and how plants obtain food by photosynthesis, which is really another fuel.

A key goal of NP2D is to create collaborative projects between synthetic chemistry, biological sciences and veterinary medicine, which will enable the evaluation of currently unexplored small molecule natural products from plant and marine - based sources.

A 1937 Better Homes and Gardens story said that using «Hormodin isn't any more difficult than playing with the chemistry set you bought Junior» and that the compounds would make nature «hurry up, [and] jump thru hoops» or even to «make a raincoat out of the rubber plant in your living room.»

«This research very nicely demonstrates how collaboration among scientists with diverse areas of expertise, ranging from genomics to small molecule chemistry, can lead to new insights into plant defensive metabolism,» said BTI Professor Georg Jander, a co-author of the paper.

«Nighttime chemical evolution of aerosol and trace gases in a power plant plume: Implications for secondary organic nitrate and organosulfate aerosol formation, NO3 radical chemistry, and N2O5 heterogeneous hydrolysis.»

«There are many things that need to be measured for which there are no sensors, including many chemistry variables such as phosphorus and heavy metals, and all of the biota such as algae, plants, and animals,» describes Relyea.

«The idea that changes in plant chemistry and therefore plant resistance may change the probability of cannibalism is very original,» says Andre Kessler, a chemical ecologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who did not participate in the study.

1936 * Kenneth Vivian Thimann for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry and physiological significance of the growth hormones of plants

The members of the society are experts in the fields of biology, agronomy, forestry, plant pathology, chemistry, pharmacy and other associated disciplines.

Flooding the body and the nervous system with nutrients from plant food in the form of juices and raw food Provide the necessary amino acids, vitamins and minerals to restore brain chemistry and assist in detoxification.

George Burr had conducted his doctoral research in the deserts of Arizona and Utah, studying the effects of soil chemistry and climate on the distribution of plants and the quality of their sap.

Conventional drugs did not help, so he looked for the cause into the chemistry of plants.

This is because of the chemistry involved: many bitter compounds are there to deter insects, or help plants have a strong immune response, and are abundant in wild plants.

The recipient of this skin care set will have friends and family commenting on increased skin suppleness and glow — all thanks to the most advanced plant based chemistry.

A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.

The list of case studies are for use in teaching anatomy, chemistry, environment, evolution, medicine and health, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics, physics and engineering, plant science, psychology, atmospheric science / meteorology, and other sciences.

«One surgery I performed was on a piranha that ate a plastic plant,» says Susan Horton, DVM, of Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital in Skokie, Ill. «Foreign bodies aren't uncommon, but water chemistry tends to be the biggest cause of problems with fish.

The site contains plant images, pictures of affected animals, and presentations concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other natural flora (fungi, etc).

The constituents or chemistry of the essential oil is held in tact during distillation which, in turn, holds the healing properties of the plant.

Her residency and exhibition, «Sycorax's Garden,» explores the intersection between science and mysticism in the evolution of organic chemistry, considering how botanical treatments were historically associated with female social roles of healer, herbalist, and witch, as well as how many of the plant - based materials we use today were introduced to the Western world through global exploration and conquest in the Age of Empire.

Born in 1931, Bontecou's creative outputhas not only been informed by World War II, but by other wars that followed; the exploration of space; and the disastrous effects of «better living through chemistry» upon plant and animal life.

A changing climate could impact the food that we eat, as alterations to the chemistry of the ocean or the world's weather have the potential to make some animals and plants extinct.

--- ignorance about atmospheric chemistry really shows here...... snip --- «Moreover, the CO2 that is supposedly causing «catastrophic» warming represents only 0.00035 of all the gases in the atmosphere (1.25 inches out of a 100 - yard football field), and proposals to control this vital plant nutrient ignore a far more critical greenhouse gas: water vapor.»

Plants and plankton influence the composition of the atmosphere, play a part in the water cycle, and regulate ocean chemistry.