Sentences with phrase «of weedy»

The authors warn against expanding agriculture in saiga territory, noting that plowing or herbicide use would simply lead to mass growth of the weedy toxic species in the cleared area.

The spot in front of the building had become something of a weedy eyesore before Chaney took over.

Instead of a weedy Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, it has a laptop - grade 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 processor.

There's usually a nasty bark of a weedy motor accompanied by a lurch as the two power sources unwillingly work together to maintain momentum.

Barbara Madeloni, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association — which opposes PARCC, as does the American Federation of Teachers — said that the hours spent talking about testing «in all kinds of weedy, intricate detail» have come at the cost of discussions on creativity, imagination and citizenship.

S. cordicitum and the varieties that are newly elevated to species belong to section Androceras, which is a group of weedy Solanum plants native to the central and southwestern U.S. and Mexico.

At the genetic level the history of the weedy forms turns out to be messier than that of the crop forms.

Along the banks, the roots of weedy tamarisk shrubs guzzle even more water, and sedges grow in depressions — a sign of moisture pooling where it isn't needed.

The number of monarch butterflies reaching sanctuaries in Mexico has been declining thanks to climate change and loss of its weedy food

For example, the amount of weedy non-native plants across all research sites increased, suggesting that the plant community responded more strongly to environmental changes caused by high - intensity wildfire than disturbances from logging.

ALBANY — Taking a scythe to one of the weedier corners of the state's administrative garden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed,» according to the governor's release.

Not exact matches

A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.

This video provides recommendations on how to control weedy rice, from results of collaborative research studies among IRRI, the Rice Research and Development Institute in Sri Lanka, University of Ruhuna, and the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

The former are direct goods and services of hedges, botanically diverse field margins, intercropping or weedy undergrowth, the latter do better when released in botanically and ecologically enriched habitats.

This poser and weedy fraud would have been out the door in a year at any of our top rivals, though they would all not be so stupid to have bought this weed and layabout in the first place.

Many would be glad to see the back of him and be replaced by someone who CAN defend, mark, jump, position himself correctly, cross a ball accurately and less weedy (though his ludicrous hairstyle is his own affair).

But I FOUND HIM FAR TOO TIMID, WEEDY, FRAIL, INJURY PRONE AND JUST PLAIN INEFFECTIVE FOR MOST OF HIS GROSSLY PAID CAREER HERE TO EVER MOURN HIM GOING.

With sargassum fantastically garlanded in their hair, two delighted girls model weedy, disorderly wigs of algae in a temperate pool at Horseshoe Bay.

All I know is, there are a lot of good old games lying around streets, alleys and weedy lots going to waste.

If the Weed Walcott actually imagines he has even a prayer of making the England squad, then he is as stupid as he is cowardly, weedy,, frail and lazy.

We have a bunch of pansies, weedy, clueless, the blind leading the blind types in our laughably so called «defence».

However, though most other teams have their share of snowflakes too, we at Arsenal seem to have cornered the market in the weediest ones around.

There's a large, weedy, overgrown, rooty spot in which we think our garden plot would best be come spring, and I had hoped that these two pigs might do the job for us this winter of cleaning it up and turning it all over, fertilizing it all the while.

If you can spare a couple of hours per week or more, we'd love your help tending this weedy but beautiful space.

Researchers did not find a difference in the abundance of native versus weedy non-native plants between logged and unlogged sites.

«A Wild Weedy Scourge,» page 24 «Resource Heterogeneity, Soil Fertility and Species Diversity: Effects of Clonal Species on Plant Communities,» by J. Alexander Eilts and colleagues in May issue of The American Naturalist describes how plants like cogon grass, which spread through expansive underground networks, reduce biodiversity even in soils that are thought to boost it.

For both biomes, the weedy areas also had higher levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and carbon, which Stohlgren believes is part of the good conditions that favors the invading weeds» success.

The work complements other recent studies showing that greenhouse gas warming will shift plant ecosystems toward weedy plants, says Robert Jackson of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who has done similar work with natural grasslands.

Yet that is what seems to occur in the weedy cress Arabidopsis thaliana, the workhorse of plant biologists.

A funny thing happened on Hameroff's trip through the weedy fields of scientific derision: Data appeared.

In response to these pressures, weedy forms that evolved from the crop forms are taking on traits more like those of wild ancestors.

One weedy strain resembles an Asian rice variety grown only in a small part of the Indian subcontient and the other strain resembles a rice grown in the tropics.

This means the weedy forms can draw on both ancestral genes and crop genes as they respond to the selection pressures of modern agriculture.

Because both cultivated rice and weedy rice tend to self - fertilize, there hasn't been a lot of gene flow going on in rice in general, Olsen says.

Like domestication, de-domestication, or evolution from the crop species of unpalatable weedy species that have many wild - like traits, also seems to have happened twice.

With the help of modern genetic technology and the resources of the International Rice GeneBank, which contains more than 112,000 different types of rice, evolutionary biologist Kenneth Olsen, PhD, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been able to look back in time and ask whether the same mutations underlay the emergence of the same traits in both cultivated and weedy rice.

Camelina grower Sustainable Oils — which provided the camelina oil to make the 1,000 gallons of jet fuel needed for the KLM flight — plans to cover more than 20,000 hectares in Montana with the weedy relative of canola, enough to deliver some 9.5 million liters of raw oil.

Different corals — fast - growing but short - lived «weedy» species — then took over the reefs, outcompeting most of the remaining tree - like corals.

Plant evolutionary biologist Steven Franks of the University of California, Irvine, and his colleagues tested the weedy field mustard, introduced to California from the deserts of Mesopotamia by way of Mediterranean climes roughly 300 years ago.

In Australia, photographer Warwick Sloss captured the shot shown here: a portrait of the considerably slower Weedy Sea Dragon.

Over the course of the last two decades, pantropical weedy species declined, while West - African forest species increased in numbers.

Looking for weedy candidates The research represents just one of several ways scientists are altering plants to maximize their ability to produce cellulose and hemicellulose for biofuels, said Laura Bartley, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology at the University of Oklahoma.

Then, just as your girl is laying her eggs in the snug little nursery you've prepared, some weedy little cheat slips in ahead of you and fertilises the lot.

To determine how recently the swamp hibiscus and more than 50 other weedy plants arrived in the Galápagos, Jacqueline van Leeuwen of the University of Bern, Switzerland, and her colleagues dug into the fossil record.

The mass deployment of scuba rice is the culmination of more than a decade of research for Mackill, who long ago identified a gene in rice's DNA, known as Sub1A, that seemed to strongly influence how a weedy but flood - resistant rice variety in India — rejected because it had a low yield and poor taste — could survive so much longer than normal varieties.

DNA from wheat species that are little more than weedy grasses is bred into wheat using various tricks of the trade.

«There will probably be a few weedy species that can handle these nasty conditions, but we'll lose a lot of the biodiversity.»

After this discovery in a weedy creeper, the planet would rotate tens of thousands more times before scientists studying the daily habits of a household insect exposed the mechanics of the biological clock.

Barbara Radisavljevic recently posted... The Weedy Tree of Heaven in October

The titular character, voiced with a nod to great movie villains of the 30s and 40s by Will Ferrell, is a weedy, blue - skinned humanoid with pronunciation issues from another planet sent to Earth as a baby with only a fish, Minion (David Cross), and a binky for company.