Sentences with phrase «of plant responses»

There are a number of plant responses to desiccation.

Not exact matches

Dror said Brainard's response planted the inkling of possibility in his mind that he could raise a fund.

The PR response wasn't enough, leading to the shuttering of three of its four plants.

In response to my question about what, if anything, the city or state could have done to keep Madison's Oscar Mayer plant open, Kraft Heinz spokesman Michael Mullen said «the closing of the Madison factory was based entirely on the need to reduce operational redundancies and eliminate excess capacity within our North American network.»

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Quercetin is a natural plant chemical that may reduce «histamine reactions» which are part of the allergic response.

Our thanks to Stephen Walsh PhD, Vegan Society Nutrition and Health Adviser, author of Plant Based Nutrition and Health and formulator of VEG 1 when it was introduced in 2005, for compiling these responses.

Even though I still can't claim to eat 100 % plant - based myself and have had a whole variety of comical emotional responses to this reality since I joined the Healthy Eating team and Rip / Engine 2 — I now confidently wear the PlantStrong badge.

We will also monitor plants, birds, and other animals to gauge the response of the forest.

For instance, long - term monitoring of plants and selected animals by Mass Audubon scientists on our wildlife sanctuaries and across the state will allow us to track their response to climate change.

OSWEGO, N.Y. - In response to the planned shutdown of FitzPatrick nuclear plant, Central New York politicians, labor leaders and others today called upon Gov. Andrew Cuomo to «do whatever it takes» to protect Upstate energy jobs.

The Cuomo administration has defended its response to the water contamination crisis in the village, the result of PFOA from a plant owned by Saint Gobain seeping into the village's water supply.

The New York Independent System Operator released a report analyzing the retirement of the Indian Point nuclear plant, concluding that system reliability criteria can be met with one or more types of solutions including generation, transmission, energy efficiency, and demand response measures.

A 14 - year - old Lockport boy has been sentenced to a year probation and psychiatric care, in response of his guilty plea of arson and burglary in connection to a massive tire recycling plant fire last August.

In his welcome address, the Okuokpellagbe of Okpella Kingdom, Dr. Andrew Dirisu, lauded the doggedness of Dangote Cement and its prompt response to the call for the establishment of the cement plant, and commended the state governor for his support in acceding to the desire of the people to have Dangote Cement in the community given the abundance of the raw materials in the community.

June 2007, in response to the energy crisis, a total of 200 megawatts of generation capacity had already been installed through the Emergency Power as well the Mines Reserve Plants of 126 mw and 80 mw capacities respectively

While this questionnaire focuses on the communities of Hoosick Falls, NY, Petersburgh, NY, and North Bennington, VT, we would welcome responses from former workers in the plants, regardless of where they live, as well as responses from residents with PFOA contaminated private wells in the surrounding communities (including Eagle Bridge and White Creek in New York, and Bennington, Pownal, and Shaftsbury in Vermont).

The Japanese government's most controversial misstep in response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis may have been the release of guidelines on allowable radiological contamination in schoolyards.

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In the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers found that these indirect effects explain, on average, 28 per cent of the total plant productivity response, and are almost equal to the size of direct effects on evapotranspiration (ET)-- the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the land to the atmosphere..

The researchers found another subtlety in the Amazon's response to rainfall, which has led to new insights on a question under debate: Are seasonal changes in plant growth more limited by lack of sunlight or lack of water?

Understanding a plant's response to climate conditions requires the integration of diverse sciences to examine how changing conditions influence the plant through its life history and that of its offspring.

How does the protein lame the immune response of the plant?

Dr Paschalis added: «Understanding the responses of plants to elevated concentrations of CO2 is of major importance with potential implications on the global economy and water and food security under a changing climate.»

The study, «Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high - severity wildfire,» reports a modest difference between logged and unlogged areas for some shrubs, but researchers with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research Station conclude the diversity of plant species and their abundance, as a whole, differed little between logged and unlogged sites.

The researchers believe the greening is a response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide inducing decreases in plant stomatal conductance — the measure of the rate of passage of carbon dioxide entering, or water vapor exiting, through the stomata of a leaf — and increases in soil water, thus enhancing vegetation growth.

However, the evolution of ornithopod dinosaur jaws and teeth did not show any response to these changes in availability of plants.

«This was the proof that the root hair response to auxin is complex and possibly the result of a signal chain,» the plant scientist explains.

This questions was quickly answered after consulting with the auxin geneticists Professor Klaus Palme from Freiburg and Professor Malcolm Bennett from Nottingham: «From a collection of mutants of the model plant Arabidopsis with an atypical response to the administration of auxin, one special mutant did not exhibit any IAA - mediated root hair depolarization,» Hedrich recalls.

The Colorado potato beetle suppresses the plants chewing response only when the beetles feed on tomatoes or potatoes, not when they feed on other members of the nightshade family like eggplants or peppers.

In response, herbivores limit the amount of toxins they eat, often by eating a wide range of plants.

And in response to the wave of press coverage about and activist condemnation of the conditions at those plants, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook took offense at any suggestion that the company is indifferent to the workers in its supply chain.

Many responses to our environment, from the kinds of gardens we plant to the foods we enjoy, are an homage to the evolutionary forces that shaped humanity over time.

Global simulations conducted by the team found that microbial responses to enhanced root activity under rising CO2, while depending on plant species, climate and soil mineralogy, led to a loss of global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the world.

«Zhiyong's new work reveals a potential energy - saving strategy in plants where heat - stress response genes are prevented from being turned on at night when there is less chance of heat stress.

Yanhai Yin, a professor of genetics, development and cell biology and a Plant Sciences Institute Faculty Scholar, said the biological processes that oversee plant growth and drought response often clash with one anoPlant Sciences Institute Faculty Scholar, said the biological processes that oversee plant growth and drought response often clash with one anoplant growth and drought response often clash with one another.

«By tying the heat response to the circadian clock, plants maximize their chances of survival during heat waves.»

They have since collected chloroplast sequence data from six different plant species that spread their seeds in a variety of ways, and will use CallHap to investigate how their seed dispersal methods might perform in response to climate change.

The two remaining chapters cover root development and their response to light, gravity and touch, and the reaction of plants to attack by bacterial, fungal and nematode invaders.

The herbicide is a synthetic analog of the plant hormones called auxins, which control everything from the plant's response to light and gravity to the ripening of fruit.

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

«CRSP plays a pivotal role in allowing the plant to produce the right amount of stomata in response to the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

3 The adaptation of trapping and digesting prey has arisen at least nine times in different plant families in response to soil lacking the nutrients nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

There was also a trend of increased number of plants flowering in response to elevated CO2 further increasing pollen production up to 200 percent.

Biologists at UC San Diego have solved a long - standing mystery concerning the way plants reduce the numbers of their breathing pores in response to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

The next step in this line of investigation, already in development, is to learn how cellular responses vary, on a molecular level, among roots of flooded plants when the hormone is not present, which would make it possible to create a response model where this signaling path would play a key role.

On the other hand, on a molecular level, researchers find that there is a specific response tied to the hormone levels within the tissue, meaning that the plant could tell which type of stress it is being subjected to, and therefore induce the most suitable physiological responses to fight it.

These results suggest that first flowering date, the most commonly collected phenological metric in plants, is not necessarily an accurate estimator of total responses to a changing climate.

Drought is the most important cause of reduced plant growth and crop yield, which makes insights into a plant's drought response highly valuable to agriculture.

«The only way we can accurately project future climate is to understand the responses of both plants and microbes to a warming climate.