Sentences with phrase «on wild plant»

Students learn how to identify and create quality herbal products through hands - on wild plant identification, harvesting, and making medicinal food and herbal preparations.

In their paper, they highlighted the need for more monitoring and enforcement, as well as research to better understand the impact of trade on wild plant populations and the actors involved in illegal trade.

The meat of game animals living on wild plants and grass also contains much higher amounts of omega - 3 fatty acids than does the meat of modern domesticated animals.

It is a nutritional plan based on the assumed ancient diet on wild plants and animals.

Not exact matches

The work is part of an effort to bring dying reefs back to life by growing tiny coral fragments in labs or nurseries — between four and 25 times as fast as they'd grow in the wild — and planting those fragments on reefs.

From an uncertain authority it is said to grow wild from Southern Texas to Arizona, but it is not catalogued in the report on the plants of the «United States and Mexican Boundary Survey,» 1858, unless it be synonymous with C. microphyllum Dun.

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Thus a new generation of Terminator research is focused on biological containment to prevent engineered genetic traits (transgenes) from spreading to non-GM food plants and wild relatives.

Based on the labeling, I could picture native peoples creating their own agave nectar from the wild agave plants.

They pick the wild edibles that grow on the periphery of our property, excitedly identifying the plants to me before popping miner's lettuce, mint and cleavers into each other's mouths.

We believe this is accomplished by actually spending time outdoors, with our hands in the dirt and feet on the ground, planting trees, clearing brush, finding frogs in a creek, making a meal out of wild plants, learning how to turn a piece of wood into an instrument, or creating natural dyes with berries.

The destructive European cherry fruit fly was found for the first time in the United States last year on wild honeysuckle plants and cherry trees along the Niagara River.

Adam Mick (left), of Dix Hills, Executive Director and Co-founder of The Wild Republic, plants vegetables along with, Susan Salem, of Bellmore, and Jim Adams, of West Babylon and Co-founder of The Wild Republic, in West Babylon on May 4, 2018.

They're counting on the genes of the peanut's wild ancestors to unlock the plant's next evolutionary stage.

Some 11,000 years ago, humans living in the ancient Middle East region called the Fertile Crescent shifted from a nomadic existence, based on hunting game and gathering wild plants, to a more sedentary lifestyle that would later give rise to permanent settlements.

«For the past fifteen years a few Nature - lovers have been carrying on in this country an earnest campaign on behalf of the preservation of our native wildflowers and other wild plants.

The reason Palaeolithic humans were thought to have lived solely on wild meat, says Revedin, is that previous plant evidence was washed away by overzealous archaeologists as they cleaned the tools at dig 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.

Moreover, some Indigenous people rely on harvesting wild plants and animals, and irrigating crops threatens that (Biological Conservation, doi.org/tj2).

Singh eventually settled on a Glycine tomentella plant known as PI 441001 for these experiments because the wild plant was immune to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode.

In the 1800s, a primitive aquaculture industry was born when harvesters started actively growing oysters on submerged plots, planting oyster larvae from remaining wild reefs.

With the loss of so many of our wild places and their wild flora, garden - worthy forms of wild plants are even thinner on the ground.

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 1:20 pm: Colin Khoury, of CIAT and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, will discuss a recently completed inventory of CWR in the United States, as well as plans for protecting these plants both in gene banks and in the wild.

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, two speakers will describe the latest efforts to identify and protect the wild relatives of domesticated crop plants around the globe.

Meanwhile, botanists like Stuppy put a new spin on the tradition of seed collecting at the Kew gardens» Millennium Seed Bank, an international repository for plant species threatened with extinction in the wild.

While farmers concentrate on high - carbohydrate crops like rice and potatoes, the mix of wild plants and animals in the diets of surviving hunter - gatherers provides more protein and a bettter balance of other nutrients.

Interviews with traders at the markets revealed that most of them sourced the majority of their plants from neighbouring countries, despite domestic protections and restrictions on international orchid trade associated with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Finally, they also discussed how satellite data on plant growth indicate that the concentration of wild reindeer herds in the far north of Russia has not led to overgrazing of their environment, as previously thought.

The two on the left correspond to wild - type plants, more resistant to infection than those on the right, corresponding to plants deficient in protein SUMOylation.

It focuses on securing the wild relatives of 29 of 64 crops that are listed in an annex to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Growers on organic farms surrounded by wild plants, it turned out, did not even bother hiring hives.

Others ventured further north, where they continued to rely on the wild animals they killed and the plants and berries they collected from the landscape.

When a hornworm feeds on a wild tobacco plant, a touch of the plant's nicotine is diverted into the insect equivalent of a bloodstream.

The fear is that many species vital for pollinating crops and wild plants on which entire ecosystems depend may be pushed to extinction.

The threat comes, on the one hand, from too - hot temperatures in coffee - growing countries, which may make wild Arabica plants extinct by 2080.

But residue analyses on pots found there may explain the mystery, as Peyronel and his colleagues described in a paper last year: The researchers found traces of wild plants often used for medicine, such as poppy for opium to dull pain, heliotrope to fight viral infections, and chamomile to reduce inflammation.

Due to lingering radiation from the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, humans aren't allowed to live there — but the region has become an accidental ecological testing ground for scientists interested in studying the effects of radiation on wild animals.

Declines in the pollination of wild plants may lead to increases in the population of plants that do not rely on pollinators, and pollinator declines would lead to decreases in crop yields, Fuentes noted.

Until a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, spreading the equivalent of 400 Hiroshima bombs of fallout across the entire Northern Hemisphere, scientists knew next to nothing about the effects of radiation on vegetation and wild animals.

That's because it is received wisdom in anthropology that prehistoric hunter - gatherers, subsisting on meat and wild plants, rarely had cavities.

Wichita State University microbiology professor Mark Schneegurt and ornithology professor Chris Rogers have discovered that one of North America's most common migratory birds — the Dark - eyed Junco — carries on its feathers a remarkable diversity of plant bacteria, the greatest ever found on wild birds.

The experimental evidence matches what researchers find in the wild: red and green morphs coexisting on the same plant shoots attended by ants.

Herbicide - resistance genes from GM canola have turned up in wild, weedy mustard plants on roadsides in the United States, Canada and elsewhere.

The bottom line for Palmgren is this: the plants we eat and depend on are not the same as those originally found in the wild, whether they've been genetically modified or not.

Wild type plants were Col - 0 or qrt, depending on the mutant background.

For example, the resistance of wild parsnip to webworm attack depends on when the parsnip blooms and on concentrations of certain chemical compounds with insecticidal properties found in the plant.

This means keeping snacks on hand that can quickly satisfy their tastes; Colleen and Jason eat largely plant - based, and when they eat meat and seafood, they are very conscious about eating wild fish, grass - fed meat, and humanely raised chicken and eggs.

Creating a committed practice of mediation and mindful eating (eating more plants) combined with slow controlled movements (that don't create stress on the body), will give you results beyond your wildest dreams.

The Paleolithic and Paleo Diet Recipes (also popularly referred to as the caveman diet) is a nutritional plan based on the ancient diet of paleolithic man that consisted namely of wild plants and animals.

A 2004 study analysing plants of the Upper Palaeolithic age found in the Middle East proves that grains, wild wheat and barley featured heavily on our ancestors» dining tables.