Sentences with phrase «of the plant hormone phytosulfokine»

Dry soil encourages the production of the plant hormone abscisic acid in vine roots, which is correlated with earlier maturity of wine grapes.

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.

Work spearheaded by professor Vicent Arbona is progressing in the understanding of the signaling pathway of a plant hormone that will make plants more resistant to stress by flooding.

«What was specially relevant from a basic research standpoint was that, for the first time, the descent in levels of a plant hormone compared to control values as an answer to environmental stress could be a physiologically significant response — and data points in this direction,» adds Arbona.

ERF115 then stimulates the production of the plant hormone phytosulfokine which in turn activates the division of the organizing cells.

«Biologists uncovers a genetic mechanism that could enhance yield in cereal crops: Precise regulation of plant hormones in early reproductive development as a target for yield increases.»

Yesterday would have been the 94th birthday of Frits Went, a Dutch - born American botanist who discovered the role of the plant hormone auxin and paved the way for the development of weed killers, fertilizers, and genetically engineered crops.

The scientists could demonstrate the potential of the protein arrays in the context of plant hormone signaling pathways, which, for example, mediate responses to drought stress or against pathogens.

The answer is by controlling the distribution of a plant hormone called auxin, which determines the rate at which plant cells divide and lengthen.

So the next time you're using a rooting powder to give your plant cuttings a jumpstart, think of Zimmerman and Hitchcock, whose trials and errors yielded insights into the effects of plant hormones, as well as a highly useful garden product.

However, many of these plant hormones have not been characterized.

By developing a synthetic version of the plant hormone auxin and an engineered receptor to recognize it, Howard Hughes Medical...

Many studies have shown that the intake of these plant hormones can be very helpful in minimizing the negative side effects of menopause8 Phytoestrogens are common in a range of plants, including the Schisandra berry, green tea, the goji berry, flax seed and hops.

However, the concentrations of these plant hormones are typically low and taken in their natural form will not be effective enough to remedy some of the negative side effects of menopause.

Evening primrose oil contains high concentrations of plant hormones and other compounds that enhance the production of natural hormones in your body.

Not exact matches

And because the food is made directly from plants, they have no cholesterol, hormones, antibiotics and no chance of being contaminated by bacteria from a slaughterhouse.

These high - tech, plant - based meats are not your usual mock meat: they boast not only similar taste and texture to meat, but also comparable nutritional value — minus the cholesterol, growth hormones, antibiotics, and other unsavory bits of industrial meat production.

Studies have shown that one of the main Maca root powder benefits is that the plant can work to balance hormones by directly working with the body's endocrine system.

And because I promote selecting organically grown foods whenever possible you will also be avoiding the pesticides and herbicides used in the conventional growing of plant foods and the hormones and antibiotics found in non-organic meat and poultry.

Plant - based protein, fiber, more omega - 3 fatty acids than 2 servings of salmon, raw super fruits (acai, maqui, goji), raw greens, and the superfood maca for energy and hormone balance.

Natural sleep aid: through the presence of melatonin, a human sleep regulating hormone also found in certain plants.

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Fueled by changing consumer perception of dairy's nutritional value for bone development, concerns around hormones and antibiotics, increase in milk allergies, rising milk prices, and the popularity of plant - based milks, U.S. milk consumption has been steadily declining by 25 percent per capita since the mid-1970s.

To the drink I added Anima Mundi's Happiness Tonic which again doesn't have a flavour but is a concoction of herbs and plants that are soothing and hormone balancing.

A plant - based diet often reduces the intake of saturated fat, animal hormones, and cholesterol while increasing the intake of fresh fruits and veggies.

Plant based fats like those found in nuts, seeds and coconut oil, contain fatty acids that make up our cell membranes, help with brain function, are necessary for the absorption of fat soluble vitamins (including A, C, E, D & K) and for the production of energy and hormones.

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Finally, it contains omega - 3's, 20 grams of plant - based protein with 7 grams of fiber and contains no weird gums, sugar alcohols, additives, or sugars that can upset digestion and hormones.

Essential oils are pure extractions from plants and can assist with relaxation, hormone balance, cleansing, and treatment of anxiety or depression.

Previously, however, this aspect was examined more against the background of the hormone's gene regulation impact according to the Würzburg plant scientists.

Professor Taylor, who co-ordinated the research, says: «Our findings provide the very first insight into how biochar stimulates plant growth — we now know that cell expansion is stimulated in roots and leaves alike and this appears to be the consequence of a complex signalling network that is focussed around two plant growth hormones.

One mechanism involved seems to be that the fungi increase the plant's levels of several hormones in both its roots and shoots.

His efforts to introduce the desirable attributes of wild, perennial Glycine species into soybean plants began at the U. of I. in 1983 and followed a path that involved thousands of experiments, the development of a hormone treatment that «rescued» immature hybrid seeds from sterility, and multiple back - crosses of hybrid plants with their «recurrent parent,» Dwight.

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.

Because of a quirk of evolution, these plant chemicals are close enough to the natural hormone's shape to bind to the oestrogen receptors on cells in the human body.

In their quest for the origin of the universal auxin hormone in plants, Wageningen - based biochemists and bioinformaticists took on the mantle of archaeologists.

He exhaustively tagged and recorded the activity of auxin, a hormone that plays a role in the differentiation of a plant's vascular system.

Together with scientists from Columbia (USA), Olomouc (Czech Republic), Warsaw (Poland), Osaka (Japan) and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, the researchers at the University of Bonn have used Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to discover that the beet cyst nematode itself produces the plant hormone cytokinin.

«The nematode has been able to employ a breakdown product of its own metabolism as a plant hormone to control the development of plant cells,» said lead author and research group leader Dr Shahid Siddique.

A team at the University of Missouri Bond Life Sciences Center collaborated with scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany to discover genetic evidence that the parasite uses its own version of a key plant hormone and that of the plants to make root cells vulnerable to feeding.

«One of the great things about using Arabidopsis as our host plant is the vast genetic resources of cytokinin and hormone mutants that are available through the scientific community,» De La Torre said.

Scientists at the University of Bonn together with an international team discovered that nematodes produce a plant hormone to stimulate the growth of specific feeding cells in the roots.

«For a long time it was speculated that plant hormones play a role in the formation of a nurse cell system in roots,» says Prof. Dr. Florian Grundler from the Molecular Phytomedicine, University of Bonn.

The production of these compounds in the plant is tidily regulated by small hormones, like salicylic and jasmonic acid.

These plants also showed strong immune responses in the form of an increased concentration of salicylic acid, a plant hormone which regulates defense against pathogens.

James Reid and his colleagues at the University of Tasmania in Hobart will report in the August issue of The Plant Cell that the tallness gene codes for an enzyme involved in the manufacture of the growth hormone gibberellin.

Sweeney measured auxin, a key plant growth hormone, and found more of this gene expressed in neighboring plants when an injured plant was around.

Experiments by the Division of Plant Industry in Canberra, part of Australia's national research organisation, CSIRO, showed that the hormone reduced the number of times grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass and rye - grass needed mowing by as much as 75 per cent.

Mander, a chemist from the Australian National University in Canberra, has developed a version of a plant growth hormone which keeps grass lush and green but slows its growth to about a third of its normal rate.