Sentences with phrase «of plant composition»

In particular, if focuses on the following areas: reducing methane emissions from ruminant animals by modification of plant composition; reducing nitrous oxide emissions by making the use of nitrogen more efficient both in terms of going from soil to plant and in the animal; enhancing carbon sequestration through plant breeding; reducing emissions from fertiliser production.

Anti-inflammatory effect of plant compositions of Tibetan medicine in vitro on early rheumatoid arthritis

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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.

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Whey protein is commonly thought of as a superior protein source for women looking to improve body composition (lose fat, increase muscle) compared to plant - based protein powders.

By selecting the best performing rice plants and using them to breed new rice varieties, rice farmers, and more recently rice breeders, have been changing the genetic composition of rice to generate new and improved rice varieties for thousands of years.

Such a low level can decrease the likelihood of unintended changes in plant metabolism and composition.

When considering the protein source, for example, one must not only consider whether an animal - or plant - based protein will be used, but the specific organism from which it is derived (e.g., animal: chicken, beef, lamb, pork, etc.; fish: salmon, menhaden, etc.; plant: corn gluten meal, soybean meal, etc.), what part (s) of that organism will be included (e.g., plant: whole wheat vs. wheat germ vs. wheat bran; animal: entire animal vs. skeletal muscle vs. organ meats), and the form in which it will be added (animals: frozen, fresh, meal), all of which affect the diet in terms of cost, nutrient composition and stability, manufacturing requirements, and ingredient handling, transport, and storage.

Amino acids from rice protein appear slower into the bloodstream over time than whey, providing bodybuilders and other athletes with a plant - based alternative to animal - based whey protein to enhance their performance and body composition over a longer period of time.

Plants, animals, and especially humans add their own distinctive chemical imprints on top of that bulk composition.

Moreover, earthworms eat small seeds of certain plant species and thus directly influence the composition of the forest understory.

«If we know the chemical composition of the nuclear waste coming out from those plants, we can definitely work on it.»

By contrast, in transpiration, plants simply suck water out of the soil and push it into the air without changing its isotopic composition.

To find out what eats what in this ecosystem, fisheries ecologists Jason Turner and Jay Rooker of Texas A&M University in Galveston first analyzed the composition of fatty acids in Sargassum, a green algae that grows on seaweed fronds, and phytoplankton — microscopic organisms that photosynthesize like plants.

According to the authors, this is changing the composition of the forest — mixing formerly low - altitude grasses with high - altitude trees — which could potentially affect the entire ecosystem, particularly the animals that rely on specific plants to survive.

«Each of these 10 genomes encodes for a unique composition of CAZymes — and the wider assortment helps formulate enzyme cocktails better suited for different types of plant biomass to efficiently convert them into biofuels,» Grigoriev said.

Within the soil, the fungal species communities were found to be highly structured and correlated with abiotic variables such as pH and soil horizon, and with the species composition of the understory plant community.

«We found the composition of the vegetation, and in particular the heather, had a greater effect on how fast plant litter decomposes than the 1 °C warming.

In another finding that is consistent with the practice of crop rotation, Fitzpatrick evaluated plant soil feedback and demonstrated that the more similar the composition of a plant's root microbiome to that of the previous generation of plant grown in that soil, the more the second - generation plant suffered.

Burghardt said the goal of the research was to understand how the composition of the plants that homeowners plant in their yards affects herbivore communities.

Although the complete transformation of soil ingredients into true terra preta may take several years, soil scientists have shown that the mixture can have immediate benefits when added to nutrient - poor soils.Experiments outside of Manaus have shown that the yield in plots treated with charcoal and fertilizer (which contains plant nutrients), a mix similar in composition to terra preta, was double the yield of plots treated with fertilizer alone.

The finding is «a massive advance in our understanding of tomato fruit development and ripening,» says Alisdair Fernie, who studies the chemical composition of tomatoes at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany.

Some pioneer plants will quickly take hold, gradually changing the landscape — how much the ground is shaded and the soil composition — such that a new set of plants will thrive there.

The authors also monitored the isotopic 13C composition of CO2, which serves as a fingerprint of emissions from coal - fired power plants and matched it to that of the local coal.

The team examined 258 publications, most of which were written in Mandarin, to determine the current tree composition within forests planted by the program.

Every plant and animal has a unique genetic composition, which makes a lake like a bowl of DNA soup — every spoonful contains the combined DNA of the lake's inhabitants.

The abundance of two dominant plant species (western wheat grass and blue grama grass) decreased with elevated CO2, which led to the increased presence of subdominant species and hence greater evenness in community composition.

Learning how to control the composition of secondary cell walls is an area of intense interest among advanced biofuel researchers because the structures make up the bulk of the plant matter that is broken down into biofuels.

Rhesus macaques could potentially impact the native plant and animal species in the park in several ways; for example, eating plants needed by other animals, changing the plant composition in the park, or pushing other animals out of the habitat by being aggressive, Anderson said.

«During photosynthesis plants bind atmospheric carbon, whose isotopic composition is preserved in resins over millions of years, and from this, we can infer atmospheric oxygen concentrations,» explains Ralf Tappert.

An international team of researchers led by Ralf Tappert, University of Innsbruck, reconstructed the composition of Earth's atmosphere of the last 220 million years by analyzing modern and fossil plant resins.

«As an animal eats and drinks, the local strontium isotope composition of the water, plants and animals consumed is recorded in its skeletal tissues.»

We detect such currents in muscles, nerves, secretory glands, and electric organs of fish as well as in plant tissue -LRB-...) It seems likely that all these currents have a similar, if not the same basis, and that their strength and potency depends on the structural conditions and chemical composition of the cells making up each organ.»

The land also includes buckthorn, a non-native plant species, which is known to change the chemical composition of the soil and remove light from the canopy trees.

Scientists have long known that plants impact the composition of the soil microbiome in the area surrounding their roots by sending out chemicals (metabolites).

I enjoyed so much to start thinking in the capability of small things to make a notable difference in biological systems, such as how the properties of the cell membranes are influenced by its chemical composition, and how the food chain is mainly supported by the photosynthesis reaction of plants and algae, which ultimately lead us to survive.

Chows diets contain plant - derived ingredients which are subject to changes in the growing season and will vary in composition at the time of harvest.

Because plants alter the chemical composition of the wax on their leaves depending on how dry or wet the climate is, the leaf wax from the sediment core's layers provides a record of past fluctuations in rainfall.

Through a painstaking analysis of sediment size and composition, pollen and plant material and even industrial contaminants, the research team was able to identify changes in sediment layers over time in the core.

Due to the composition of plant cell walls, plant material is not efficiently broken down or deconstructed to the basic sugars that are converted to biofuels.

For my post-doctoral project, I decided to focus on the question, «to what extent can atmospheric pollutants, such as CO2 and ozone, exert a selective effect on woody plant species, and how are the resulting changes in the genetic composition of the plant community likely to affect the animals that feed on them?»

We want to understand the mechanism of RNA editing in chloroplasts and mitochondria of plants, which results in modification of specifics Cs to Us in transcripts, altering the amino acid composition of proteins encoded by organelle genomes.

Discusses the need to assess normal range of variation in plant composition when deciding whether genetic engineering causes changes.

By studying the carbon isotope compositions of barley plants and their relationship with water - use efficiency, the researchers developed tools that plant breeders can use to improve selection efficiency for more water - efficient varieties.

It is possible to reconstruct past precipitation changes by measuring the stable hydrogen isotopic composition in terrestrial plant waxes because rainfall is the primary source of hydrogen stored in plant material.

One of these differences is in the isotopic composition of the plant materials.

The biological activity of the plant is in close correlation to the amount of active saponins and their composition.

The chemical composition of the plant is reportedly what gives it the stress - busting effects, and those chemicals depend on the environment in which it is grown.

Furthermore, the types of plant and animal foods that together comprise the macronutrient composition of hunter - gatherer diets are substantially different from those commonly consumed by Westernized societies.

People who eat diets high in plant fiber show a more beneficial composition of gut bacteria compared to those who eat a typical western diet.