Sentences with phrase «of plant walls»

It is found in wheat, rye, brown rice, legumes, and nuts as well as in the cells of plant walls.
In the case of the seeds, on the other hand, the diffusion of phenols decreases as the grape ripens because lignification occurs (sealing of the plant walls through the deposit of lignin) in much of the material, impeding the diffusion of phenols.
Voit researches what controls the production of a plant wall — toughening compound called lignin.

Not exact matches

Laura's first move when I stepped into the serene shop (it boasts, among other things, a living wall of plants) was to hand me a wee paper cup of peppermint - lemon tea with a smile.
Switch out your basic white walls for bamboo and loads of living plants.
He hired an urban gardener to cover every square inch of wall space in a living room with plants.
When they open in early 2018, the spheres will be packed with a plant collection worthy of top - notch conservatories, allowing Amazon employees to amble through tree canopies three stories off the ground, meet with colleagues in rooms with walls made from vines and eat kale Caesar salads next to an indoor creek.
** JPMorgan Chase & Co's commodity trading arm is looking to sell more of the electricity deals it has with U.S. power plants and wind farms, a source familiar with the business said on Wednesday, at a time when Wall Street's involvement in physical commodity markets is under heightened scrutiny.
Slow cooking breaks the cell walls in the plant and animal ingredients, allowing a significant uptake of vitamins and minerals into your body.
You get a sense EcoLogic Solutions Inc. is a different type of chemical company the moment you walk into its Brooklyn Navy Yard headquarters and see walls made out of plants and furniture fashioned from old doors and reclaimed materials.
Cell fusion technology is used to hybridize plants by removing cell walls from two cells of different species, usually those that would not normally breed under natural conditions, and then merging their contents.
Jo asked what pectin was so here is a brief explanation from the online Encyclopaedia Brittanica «Pectin is a water - soluble carbohydrate substance found in the cell walls and intercellular tissues of certain plants.
The cheery atmosphere, with brick walls (sporting an artfully patchy paint job), hanging plants, and turquoise school chairs, invites you and a big group of friends to settle in and over-order off a menu that can't go wrong.
David Janow, CEO of Axiom Foods, a former Wall Street food commodities broker said, «This FDA approval is the one thing that the majors such as PepsiCo, Nestle / General Mills and Kraft have been asking of the industry to support their plant protein initiatives.
A handmade grid system suspends lush plants and herbs along the walls and on the ceiling, highlighting the authenticity of the menu and ingredients.
Meant to evoke a living greenhouse, the entrance features a living wall of plants and a grand staircase that takes customers down to the beer garden.
Thus, the rate of freezing for plant tissues is extremely important due to the effect of freezing rate on the size of ice crystals, cell hydration, and damage to cell walls (Rahman, 1999).
Bold Book Shelving Branches Naturally Along Interior Walls Want to bring a bit of nature inside, but not have to worry about watering the plants or picking up after the leaves?
There was a lot to process in the immediate aftermath of Game 2 in Washington — the Blue Jackets» run at franchise history, the Capitals» crisis of confidence and the offside review that held up the full celebration — but both the national and local announcers caught the skill that it took Matt Calvert to make his one - handed game - winner possible, walling off a defender with his free hand and using his plant leg for stick leverage to lift the puck into the top corner.
If they planned to get anything out of City, then they all - Kean and Venky's - need to be relieved of their duties on medical grounds, then pensioned off to a large walled compound to tend plants and live happily in institutionalised calm.
Among the project's first priorities are: the reconstruction of a wall that abuts a water - purification plant near 79th Street and the creation of anchored walls with steel sheet pilings along Solidarity Drive — from the John G. Shedd Aquarium to south of the Adler Planetarium — and along Burnham Park between 26th Street to 55th Street.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Rogin Wall Kimmerer — Book discussion.
Bandshell at Forest Park in Woodhaven • $ 300,000 to improve lighting along the shorefront facing Queens in Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island • $ 1.5 million to renovate the baseball fields at Glen Oaks Playground in Glen Oaks • $ 1 million to renovate Hallets Cove Playground in Astoria • $ 975,000 to improve the asphalt field at Hoffman Park in Elmhurst • $ 1.3 million to construct a meditation garden and upgrade Rachel Carson Playground in Kissena Corridor Park in Flushing • $ 322,000 to construct a skate park at Laurelton Playground in Laurelton • $ 850,000 to upgrade Lannett Playground in Far Rockaway • $ 600,000 to renovate Maple Playground in Flushing • $ 1.5 million to install new play equipment and to upgrade the sprinklers and surface at Mauro Playground in Kew Gardens Hills • $ 350,000 for landscape improvements along the Merrick Boulevard Mall in Springfield Gardens • $ 700,000 to enhance the lawn area, install new walkways, decorate pavers, install new benches and plantings, create a new entry and repair the retaining wall at Newtown Playground in Elmhurst • $ 2 million to upgrade to existing benches and equipment in Norelli Hargreaves Park in Jamaica • $ 300,000 for a mall enhancement and tree plantings along the Northern Boulevard Mall between 62nd Street and 102nd Street in Woodside / Jackson Heights • $ 400,000 to renovate Kingsland Homestead in Flushing • $ 3 million for the preservation of the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 480,000 to replace the aviary mesh and marsh bridge at the Queens Zoo in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 2 million to renovate the asphalt field at the World's Fair Playground in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 800,000 to formalize the picnic grove, add gravel pads and grills, install new fences and benches and upgrade the basketball courts in Rainey Park in Astoria • $ 1.5 million for turf and track upgrades at Roy Wilkins Park in Jamaica • $ 1.4 million to renovate Sandpiper Playground in Rockaway Beach • $ 600,000 to renovate the museum building at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City • $ 500,000 construct a dog run at Triborough Bridge Playground B in Astoria • $ 375,000 for pavers and accent lighting at Tribute Park in the Rockaways • $ 250,000 for site acquisition to add to Udalls Cove in Little Neck • $ 175,000 to improve sidewalk and perimeter of Veterans Grove in Elmhurst • $ 1.6 million to resurface the baseball field and upgrade the play equipment at Vleigh Playground in Flushing • $ 300,000 to support the borough's Tree Stump Removal Program.
«It was a tough project, but it came up beautiful,» said Daniel Mercado, Northern Manhattan Parks Manager, who explained that construction had been challenging from the beginning given the elevated slope of 150 feet.The new 1100 - foot - long, switch - back ramp includes new lighting, railings and retaining walls, pavement markings and signage, and numerous trees and plantings.
Upstate electricity prices will go «materially higher» by the summer of 2017 if both the FitzPatrick and Ginna nuclear plants shut down as expected, a Wall Street analyst predicts.
Among the top contributors in Curran's most recent filing was Haughland Energy Group, a Plainview company that has a contract with the county's Department of Public Works to build a wall and flood protection berm around the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant.
SCRIBA, N.Y. - At a meeting with Wall Street analysts today, the owners of FitzPatrick nuclear plant reiterated their plan to shut down the power plant by early 2017 and made no mention of any potential to reverse the decision.
The Tribute Garden was designed by landscape architect Joy Kuebler and includes two walls of bricks and stones honoring or memorializing loved ones, an earth - berm amphitheater, bench settings and plantings.
Trump also told the Wall Street Journal that Apple is planning «three big plants — big, big, big» in the U.S., a shocking statement since Apple generally outsources all of its manufacturing, including its microchips.
«We compared F. hygrometrica data with those from land plants and seaweeds,» explains Itouga, «and found that the presence of polygalacturonic acid in the cell wall is one of the characteristics that separated this type of moss from other plants
This means that there is something special about the cell walls of this species of moss that allows them to thrive in environments that are toxic to other plants.
The changes shown through 2050 could lead to lost habitat, the isolation of some species and the rise of «dispersal barriers» — like a wall of new development that prevents plants and animals from migrating.
«It binds highly affine and very specific to sugar molecules that sit in the cell wall of the fungi and which are normally recognized as «foreign» by the plant,» explains Professor of Molecular Biology Alga Zuccaro from the University of Cologne.
The problem is that the sugar is accessible only after it is chemically converted from the tough molecules that make up the walls of plant cells: fibrous cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin.
Conventional paper is made from cellulose, a crystalline polymer of glucose that's the primary component of plant cell walls.
The compound, called gavinone in honor of its codiscoverer, is produced when cellulose, the sugar that makes up the cell walls of all plants, burns.
«Together these studies tell a story about how mushroom - forming fungi evolved a complex mechanism for breakdown of plant cell walls in «white rot» and then cast it aside following the evolution of mycorrhizal associations, as well as the alternative decay mechanism of «brown rot,»» Hibbett said.
To understand the genetic shifts underlying the repeated origins of mycorrhizal lifestyles, the researchers focused on enzymes that degrade plant cell walls from 16 gene families associated with plant cell wall degradation.
A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium deposits on pipe walls.
Cellulosic ethanol — fuel derived from woody plants and waste biomass — has the potential to become an affordable, renewable transportation fuel that rivals gasoline, but lignin, one of the most ubiquitous components of the plant cell wall, gets in the way.
Unraveling the tightly wound network of molecules — cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin — that make up the cell wall of plants for easier biofuel processing.
A week after submission I realised that a potted plant in the background appeared to be sprouting out of my head, but it did the trick — I was offered a half share of a large and empty concrete - walled room on the ground floor of the research building, with the promise of benches and sinks.
In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.
«We'd like to push that science further and hopefully we can accomplish that here,» says Clements, who plans to test whether certain environmental interventions, such as changing flooring and surface materials or installing a «green wall» of living plants, can alter the office's microbes — or the health of its human occupants.
After eight days, the plantings showed that purified single - walled nanotubes in water enhanced the germination rate and shoot growth of wheatgrass, which grew an average of 13 percent larger than plants in plain water.
Purified single - walled carbon nanotubes dispersed in water promoted greater plant growth (center) than the nanomaterial - free control (left) after eight days of an experiment at Rice University.
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The final sugar yield was closely related to the removal of xylan, a common component of plant cell walls.
Cellulose, the structural component of cell walls that enables plants to stay upright, is the most abundant biopolymer on earth.
For magnetic fusion energy to fuel future power plants, scientists must find ways to control the interactions that take place between the volatile edge of the plasma and the walls that surround it in fusion facilities.
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