Sentences with phrase «onto plant leaves»

MIT engineers have created sensors that can be printed onto plant leaves and reveal when the plants are experiencing a water shortage.

Not exact matches

The device comes with a stake that gets driven into the soil next to a plant, as well as a clip that's placed onto a leaf.

The giant squash leaves spread out and shade the roots of the other plants, retaining moisture in the soil, and the spiny stems help prevent pests from climbing onto the other plants.

Stories from long ago suggest that the leaves of the milk thistle plant came to have white veins running through them when the milk from the breast of Mary, The Virgin Mother splashed onto the plant.

The next day, the worms had crawled onto the leaves, and the team was able to detect the heavy nitrogen isotope from the worm in the plant's tissues.

They took leaves from a closely related wild that plant was healthy and contained a typical mix of endophytes, blended them into a smoothie and sprayed the mixture onto the leaves of P. kaalaensis to see if beneficial microbes could be transplanted from one species to another.

When they mapped their collected leaf and stem data onto their evolutionary tree for flowering plants, they found that many plants were well equipped for icy climates even before cold conditions hit.

Using the humble spinach leaf, the team successfully cultured beating human heart cells onto a leaf that's been stripped of its own plant cells.

Most of these lessons promptly disappeared down the memory hole, so that the picture left to us in The China Study — where consuming animal protein is the leading cause of cancer while plant protein is benign — is radically different from the one Campbell had sketched onto the canvas of his many scientific papers.

To use the aloe from an aloe vera plant, break off a leaf and rub the gel - like contents onto the skin.

You'll want to use it as new plants and leaves develop, but as mentioned, be careful to avoid spraying directly onto your vegetables or fruits lest they retain the peppermint and garlic flavors of the mixture.

Step the right foot back to plank and then lower onto your right forearm (keep your left hand planted right where it is, bending into that left elbow so that you can lower).

Meanwhile, in Kandis Williams's new «Fetish Plants» sculptures, pornographic images are printed directly onto the leaves of fake greenery.

Thornton Dial layers black paper onto canvas, while Stacy Lynn Waddell burns gold leaf onto canvas, as The Secret Life of Plants.

After drawing various plants, flowers and leaves onto acetate sheets, children delicately place real vegetal elements onto the transparent surface that will then be pressed to compose a magic...

Schulnik, for example, used her own garden as a character in one of her short films; Stills & Strokes projected colors and geometric shapes onto the leaves of plants in botanical gardens; and DiMattio filled the sculptures in her exhibition with dramatic and unruly flowers.

He talks about how, at home, his mob burns the leaves of the cherry ballart, whose roots attach themselves to those of other plants, «representing kids holding onto mothers».

• Toss any trash or flyers that have found their way onto your porch steps • Sweep dirt, dust or leaves from the porch • Replace light bulbs as needed • Clean smudges from hardware or glass • Water and deadhead plants in porch planters or urns • Straighten doormat