Sentences with phrase «of plant metabolites»

Implementation of the algorithmic approach to provide functional approximation of plant metabolites will provide highly informative material for policy makers (Furze et al., 2013d).

One well - known group of plant metabolites are the isoquinoline alkaloids.

The active chemical in an aphid's alarm pheromone is (E)- beta - farnesene — one of a group of a plant metabolites, known as terpenoids.

To address the challenge of identifying the majority of such «specialized metabolites» in any given plant, Dr. Nir Shahaf and other members of a team headed by Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmann's Plant and Environmental Sciences Department created a database of plant metabolites, called WeizMass.

WeizMass and MatchWeiz are not limited to the study of plant metabolites but may also be used to investigate the biology of other living systems, including animal and human metabolism.

Not exact matches

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Scientists have long speculated that plants produce secondary metabolites, chemicals that are not required for the primary life support of the plant.

The most important dandelion metabolites are bitter substances which are especially found in a milky sap called latex, a substance found in almost ten percent of all flowering plants.

The two scientists will probe changes in plant proteins and metabolites under a variety of growth conditions.

Shahaf then developed a computer tool, MatchWeiz, which makes it possible to identify the metabolites by checking experimental results from the metabolic analysis of a particular plant against the database.

Water retention and structural integrity, along with metabolites, the microbiome, ion absorption, and plant growth were all improved with the addition of torrefied biomass.

«We were surprised that the difference between the insect metabolite and the original plant compound was simply the stereochemical configuration of one atom.

«For more than a century, it's been known that plants influence the makeup of their soil microbiome, in part through the release of metabolites into the soil surrounding their roots,» said Berkeley Lab postdoctoral researcher Kateryna Zhalnina, the study's lead author.

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

This indicates to Brodie that as they establish the microbial community within the rhizosphere, plants could be exuding metabolites like phenolic acids to help them control the types of microbes thriving around their roots.

«As the plant matures, it releases a more diverse mixture of metabolites, including phenolic acids.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have discovered that as plants develop they craft their root microbiome, favoring microbes that consume very specific metabolites.

The main mechanisms attributed for biocontrol include: synthesis of secondary metabolites, such as 2,4 - diacetylphloroglucinol (2,4 - DAPG), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), pyoluteorin, pyrrolnitrin, phenazines, cyclic lipopeptides (CLP) and siderophores (6); production of phytohormones, such as auxins, cytokinins and gibberellins; as well as nutrient solubilization traits (nitrogen, phosphorous, iron), which directly favors plant growth and health (7).

Chemistry, Ecological Function and Biological Activity of Acyclic Diterpenoid Glycosides and Related Secondary Metabolites in Different Plants of the Family Solanaceae

Orrock and colleagues activated tomato plants» defenses by spraying them with increasing concentrations of methyl jasmonate — a version of a chemical that plants release when they are being attacked that triggers downstream responses such as increased production of toxic metabolites.

However, although it is known that any plant leaf contains several thousand different metabolites, most of these remain unidentified.

Metabolic pathways in plants are quite dynamic, resulting in production of over a million metabolites across ~ 300,000 estimated plant species.

It's at this point where many of the antioxidant vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients found in plants are helpful in stabilizing these intermediary metabolites until they can undergo phase II liver detoxification and ultimately be converted into water soluble substance that can be excreted from the body via the stool or urine.

Such plants are usually more nutrient - dense since they contain higher amounts of vitamins, minerals, and secondary plant metabolites than conventionally grown plants.

The plant also requires a longer time to produce the secondary bioactive metabolites and their biological activities may be derived from more than one of the constituents.»

The secondary metabolites of maca include macaridine, macaene, macamides, and maca alkaloids, which are only found in the Maca plant.

5 - HTP, the intermediate metabolite between the amino acid tryptophan and serotonin, is extracted from the seed of an African plant (Griffonia simplicifolia).

Flavonoids are plant secondary metabolites, this means that they are not directly involved in the growth, development, or reproduction of a plant.

Curcumin is not essential for the growth and survival of turmeric, rather it is a natural phenol which defends the plant against herbivores, a feature it shares with other secondary metabolites, which are often used in medicine or as food additives.

Sun, J., Z. Feng, & D. R. Ort (2014) Impacts of rising tropospheric ozone on photosynthesis and metabolite levels on field grown soybean, Plant Science 226:147 - 161.

Respiration («breathing») is inherently net - neutral with respect to CO2, and if one considered the pre-industrial age, the planet could support a large fauna (including pre - industrial / pre-agricultural humankind) whose breathing merely returned CO2 into the atmosphere, previously ingested (as metabolites of carbohydrate) from plants which pulled this CO2 out of the atmosphere in the first place.