Sentences with phrase «of plant samples»

Different plant species accumulate heavy metals in unique ways, which makes it challenging to take a broad swathe of plant samples for a simple side - by - side comparison.

While the number of plant samples has gone up in 66 % of countries, budgets for gene banks have increased in only 33 %, and a quarter have seen their budgets fall.

Disguised as a man, she helped Commerson collect a good deal of his plant samples.

Not exact matches

The official archives of The Coca - Cola Company that includes exhibits such as the original stock certificates of forbearer Pemberton Chemical Company, an opportunity to sample 100 drinks from the beverage giant's portfolio of brands from around the world, a retail store, an advertising archive, a miniature bottling plant that allows you to see the process of turning the syrup into the finished product, an advertising theater with commercials from the past century in multiple languages around the world, and more.

«Having a fit - for - purpose, certified test plant suited to ascertaining the head grade of larger - sized samples whilst also providing gold deportment information is key to gaining a better understanding of the Karratha gold project.»

It follows that, if the discrepancy between the number of possible states and the number of possible samples is large enough, we can assert without fear of contradiction that no two members of a class, e.g., no two members of an animal or plant species, not even two bacteria, can ever be in the same internal state.

A recent incomplete data sample from a compilation of plant closures in California showed that the numbers of minority people laid off exceeded whites laid off — a figure far out of proportion to racial percentages in the general population.

Tour caravans with rolling kitchens will deliver innovative new recipes, product samples, a do - it - yourself smoothie bar, free giveaways for the whole family and other activities specifically created to showcase the fun, flavor and preparation possibilities of fresh fruit and vegetables and a plant - based diet.

This was just a small sampling of my plant based meals — some simple, some complex, some home - made, and some from dining out.

Lopez is referring to the study released by Test Biotech which states that the samples of Golden Rice were found to have lower yields due to the «substantial reduction» of chlorophyll in the rice plants.

We provide an extensive range of chemical analyses on plant, soil and water samples for inorganic nutrients, trace elements and heavy metals.

«With the successful start - up of the pilot plant, Luminy PLA from the pilot plant is now available for customer sampling.»

The vine samples (assumed to be Nebbiolo) submitted by Pete Anderson of Eusinus Vineyards to the Plant Identification Lab at University of California, Davis Foundation Plant Services for DNA analysis matched the Lambrusca di Alessandria reference profile of the NCGR collection.

The results of chemical analysis of soils samples collected before planting and harvest of the strawberries indicates that the organic matter content in the soil of the organic system was higher than that of the non-organic system (see table below).

To be included, a study had to compare organic and conventional planting across similarly - sized areas, had to report on the sample size and error margins, and had to use organic methods that complied with the guidelines of certification organisations (such as the UK's Soil Association).

Samples of soil cores are used to make connections between soil types and plant communities.

School officials say they have planted an organic garden with exotic fruits and vegetables, provided students samples of healthy food items from around the world and asked parents to forgo cupcakes and other sweets for in - school celebrations.

Or that most of the class of 5 - year - olds who were brought in to see the plants didn't much like the samples of radish and mustard greens they tasted.

The EPA has asked nine City of Lockport residential property owners for permission to take soil samples at their homes, because it is trying to determine whether there was off - site contamination from the former Flintkote plant on Mill Street, which the agency tore down last year in a Superfund cleanup project.

Westchester County Geographic Information Systems Mapper Westchester County's mapper lets users search by location within a specific theme (such as sewer district), or zoom in on an area of interest and display map layers such as watershed boundaries, locations of septic tanks and wastewater treatment plants, citizen science sampling locations, and fish and wildlife habitats.

Raw, untreated water runs from a pipe at the city of Auburn's water treatment plant, where the Cayuga County Health Department collects its samples

She told members of the Cayuga County Water Quality Management Agency Thursday morning that the health department has been sampling the treatment plants» water once per week and so far no toxins have been detected.

Environmental approval for a 10 tonne per hour Dense Media Separation Plant is expected soon from the Madhya Pradesh government, which allows processing of bulk samples at the project site.

A report issued in April by the New York Attorney General's office found that microbeads were present in 74 percent of water samples taken from 34 municipal and private treatment plants across the state.

The tap water in the city of Auburn's water treatment plant lab is where the Cayuga County Health Department collects its treated water samples.

«DECs evaluation of this data has led to the conclusion that it will be necessary to sample additional wells located between the Bethpage Water District wells and the highest sample location near... the former plant site,» DEC acting Commissioner Basil Seggos said in a letter to Northrop Grumman.

A study released by the office of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman found microbeads in three - quarters of the samples collected from wastewater treatment plants statewide.

Jose E. Garcia - Arraras, a biology professor at the university's biology research center on the Río Piedras campus, said a power plant designed to keep scientific samples refrigerated broke down and the roof of a critical building gave way to flooding, rendering «samples, libraries, cell lines, etc. lost.»

Previously, scientists had relied on these sorts of soil sample measurements primarily to study plant types and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

They analyzed the samples for colored dissolved organic matter, which contains light - absorbing molecules from the breakdown of plant polymers such as lignin.

After analyzing the data, researchers found radiocesium from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in the sediment samples along with a high fraction of clay material, which is characteristic of shelf and slope sediments suggesting a near shore source.

This has become a widespread weed present in 88 per cent of 24,824 of quadrats — small areas of habitat selected at random as samples for assessing the local distribution of plants and animals — monitored by researchers.

An international research team reports results of a three - year study of sediment samples collected offshore from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in a new paper published August 18, 2015, in the American Chemical Society's journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

«It's almost as if we had traveled back in time and sampled the same plant that gave rise to cultivated peanuts from the gardens of these ancient people,» said David Bertioli, an International Peanut Genome Initiative, or IPGI, plant geneticist of the Universidade de Brasília, who is working at UGA.

By painstakingly looking at the plant DNA found in permafrost samples dug out of 200 locations across the Arctic, Eske Willerslev at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and his colleagues were able to paint a picture of the landscape between 50,000 years ago and today.

By capturing bees as they visit plants and then sampling the pollen they carry, she has confirmed in unpublished work that they get much of their food from introduced plants.

Back at the UW, he used newly developed techniques to scan the samples for some 100 compounds, covering 95 percent of all plant - based lignin.

He and his team tested hundreds of volunteers and found about 50 different kinds of plant microRNAs in their blood samples.

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.

Collectors gathered plant samples to use and to re-create the snapshot back in New York; others killed the now - iconic animals that would be the centerpieces of these scenes.

Plant biotechnologist Dr Paul Hills and botanist Dr Gary Stafford have already collected leaf samples and seed from the existing paintbrush lily population in the Duthie Reserve, as well as from seven individuals from a now extinct population from Newton Commanage, Wellington, currently under the care of the Botanical Garden.

When their samples returned to France, another famous French scientist of the time, Jean - Baptiste Lamarck, come across them and attempted to classify the tiny plant, mistaking it for a member of a family of flowering plants.

In 2007, researchers were collecting long - frozen plant samples from the receding edges of the glacier when they noticed some bryophytes — plants which include mosses and mosslike liverworts — sprouting new parts (as seen in the main image).

Environmental engineer Rolf Halden and co-authors at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, gathered samples from an urban sewage treatment facility in the eastern United States, measuring the amount of TCC entering and exiting the treatment plant.

The researchers conducted 26 face - to - face interviews with a representative sample of German - speaking scientists working on plant invasions, or more generally on environmental change, in Europe.

In fact, in order for a carnivore to have shown similar values it would have needed to prey almost entirely on species that fed on a type of plant that did not evolve until approximately 14 million years after the sampled individuals lived.

The sludge in the study came from two Arizona treatment plants and from a mixture of samples from around the country stored at ASU's U.S. National Biosolids Repository.

The Millennium Seed Bank aims to have samples from 10 % of the world's quarter - million - plus plant species by 2010.

The revealed fungus: plant ratio of 17:1, if reflected globally, would extrapolate to at least 6 million fungal species, suggesting in turn that 98 % of fungi have yet to be described — a figure that remains to be corroborated by similarly detailed sampling across a range of other soil ecosystems.

She and DiNicola hauled collectors» gear on a backpacking trip in Oregon to sample some of the plants.