Sentences with phrase «of plant stress»

That would strengthen their understanding of plant stress, and even provide direct observations for more robust near - future outlooks.
By providing an indicator of plant stress, VPD can help alert land managers to high - fire - risk conditions.
Shane Sieckenius, a research assistant with AgriLife Research, provided the students with a tour of the Plant Stress and Physiology lab and told them how lab equipment was used to benefit agronomy.
Newly published research by Indiana University scientists finds that low relative humidity in the atmosphere is a significant, growing and often under - appreciated cause of plant stress in hot, dry weather conditions.
«Biologists develop nanosensors to visualize movements and distribution of plant stress hormone.»
They're especially lovely when they have white striations on them — thin stripes so narrow they look like scratches and are signs of plant stress.

Not exact matches

That See's would try to appeal to new customers by stressing old values matches up nicely with its plants, which run on a balance of automation and live labor.
Corn closed higher as traders worried about planting progress and reacted to news of increasing crop stress to the Winter Corn crop in Brazil.
National Bank also highlighted that major maintenance initiatives are planned at Syncrude Canada Ltd., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.'s Athabasca oil sands project and Suncor Energy Inc.'s base plant — which cumulatively could reduce industry oil output by 650,000 barrels per day in the coming months, easing some of the stress on full pipeline networks.
This is probably a healthier situation for plant growth in that an oversupply of a nutrient such as nitrogen can lead to lush, succulent tissue growth which is more vulnerable to fungal and bacterial entry, more appealing to some insects, and more prone to stress injury from heat, cold, or drought.
In particular, he stressed that meanings are produced not so much by simple definition as by network of contrasts (e.g., a tree is a woody plant that is not a bush or a shrub).
The reality is, there are many people who are called to plant churches, but feel hamstrung by the stress of success.
In this interview, Lauren tells us about self - care as a form of self - respect, kindness as a form of beauty, her favorite plants for stress, beauty, and colds (and more!)
Cauliflower is also jam - packed with phytonutrients (those are the super-charged healthy compounds found exclusively in plants), such as the familiar beta - carotene, as well as the lesser - known beta - cryptoxanthin, caffeic acid, cinnamic acid, ferulic acid, quercetin, rutin, and kaempferol (there will be a quiz at the end of this post;) This broad spectrum antioxidant support helps lower the risk of oxidative stress in our cells.
Reduce stress levels with ample amounts of vitamin C, mood - boosting ingredients, plant - based protein, and probiotics
A plant - based smoothie that's designed to lower inflammation, reduce stress, improve your skin, and take care of your heart too!
Finally, Garden of Life's RAW Fit Vanilla flavor features real vanilla bean and natural, plant - based adaptogens that fight stress and boost energy such as ashwagandha and raw green coffee bean which is packed with antioxidants and factors that help you focus without the adrenal crash of regular coffee.
This gluten - free grain contains beneficial plant compounds that act as antioxidants to reduce oxidative stress and lower the risk of chronic disease (4).
In this interview, Jessica tells us about how much changed for her when she switched to a plant - based diet, from her health to her mindset, as well as about using alone time as a way of dealing with stress, a really fun form of exercise that she does five times a week, the importance of simplicity in skincare, her dream morning routine, and much more.
Key Concept: Regardless of the natural surroundings or the day - to - day conditions in any given place, plants and animals rely on their environment to provide them with the raw materials they need for life and the conditions to live safely and without stress.
Coca - Cola stresses that the only difference between a traditional PET bottle and a PlantBottle is that up to 30 percent of the material is made from plants.
Fusion Tech can take process control of your plant expansion — and eliminate the stress of multiple contractors, deadlines, and stacks of paperwork.
Don't stress about getting enough — just focus on including some plant - based form of protein with every meal.
It was a perfect storm of the right combination of capsaicin genes colliding with some stress on those particular plants that produced an abnormally high amount of capsaicin.
I propped up the plant with two «splints» so it stands up straight, it is about 4 inches tall and has not wilted or shown outward signs of being stressed.
Any type of stress on the plant, such as withholding water, will tend to make the pods hotter.
Stefanie Covino, Coordinator of the Shaping the Future of Your Community program notes, «Our water resources are increasingly stressed, but conserving and restoring the natural landscape with native plants can offer social, environmental, and economic benefits such as improved air quality, property values, energy savings, and habitat — both locally and downstream.»
He criticised government's resort to «expensive» thermal plants to solve the energy problem, stressing «we will increase the proportion of renewable energy, solar [and] biogas».
The proposal comes as state energy officials continue crafting a Cuomo - backed clean energy plan (Clean Energy Standard) that would include unspecified subsidies to financially stressed nuclear plants, which currently provide about 30 percent of the state's total electricity.
On Jan. 21, 2011, he visited the General Electric plant in Schenectady to stress the importance of new technology, particularly renewable energy sources that can be manufactured in America and exported globally.
The Minister and the Minister of State, Hon. Abubakar Bawa Bwari, who are on the second leg of a nation - wide tour of mining sites and host communities, stressed that government's economic diversification drives would be realised if mining operators focus more on setting up processing plants to process minerals before exporting them.
That plan includes subsidies for financially stressed nuclear plants, which is why most of the audience at the hearing spoke in favor of the effort.
A synthetic drug — modeled after the alkaloid cytisine from the small flowering Laburnum trees of Europe chemically combined with a compound from the poppy plant — it also curbed drinking in seven rats with continuous access to alcohol and 30 rats trained to self - administer liquor when stressed.
Benefits and harms of plant - based cannabis for posttraumatic stress disorder.
Built by Precision Hawk of Indianapolis, the craft's thermal camera is meant to find outbreaks of insects and crop disease, which show up as hotspots when stressed plants lose their ability to regulate heat.
As global climate change continues, scientists expect more droughts, heat stress and insect pests — creating need for new varieties of agricultural plants with diverse qualities that will let them cope and adapt to quickly changing conditions.
But Bell also hopes that cooperation will be on the agenda and stresses that the U.S., having already planted its flag on the moon, should not rush to get back at the expense of other priorities.
I did my research in the lab of Bud Stamen, on the effect of endophytes on plant stress.
For his Ph.D., at the University of California, San Diego, he studied the genetics of plant development, then moved to studying plants under environmental stress.
Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.
From a background in basic plant development, he moved to questions of environmental stress.
Researchers found that people living near Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island exhibited higher levels of stress more than a year after the nuclear plant's 1979 incident compared with individuals outside the area.
According to Bueckert, a plant scientist at the University of Saskatchewan, «tolerance to heat stress in peas seems to be dependent on quite a few traits.»
«Identifying traits that make pea plants more resistant to heat stress is one piece of the puzzle,» says Bueckert.
«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.
«Innovative system images photosynthesis to provide picture of plant health: Crop imager could enable agricultural machinery that automatically responds to stressed plants
Yin said scientists have long observed the tendency of plants to slow their growth in times of drought to conserve energy and fight stress, but the genetic mechanisms that guide those interactions were poorly understood.
The tiny plant can produce «60 percent of its weight as oil under stress,» according to Wyman.
Ecologists have long known that drought can stimulate this type of attack on plants, he said, but they mostly discounted it as a secondary stress and not a main cause of ecosystem collapse.
He earned his PhD in the lab of Nestor Carrillo studying environmental stress factors in plants.
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