Sentences with phrase «other plant responses»

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We will also monitor plants, birds, and other animals to gauge the response of the forest.

OSWEGO, N.Y. - In response to the planned shutdown of FitzPatrick nuclear plant, Central New York politicians, labor leaders and others today called upon Gov. Andrew Cuomo to «do whatever it takes» to protect Upstate energy jobs.

The other is turned on when an insect regurgitates stomach contents containing microbes onto the plant triggering a response by the plant to microbial pathogens that uses salicylic acid.

The Colorado potato beetle suppresses the plants chewing response only when the beetles feed on tomatoes or potatoes, not when they feed on other members of the nightshade family like eggplants or peppers.

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.

To figure out how corn and weeds affect each other's gene response, Clay and a team of two research associates and a soils expert, planted plots of velvetleaf alone, corn with velvetleaf and corn kept weed - free.

In addition, specific genes that influenced photosynthesis and other important plant responses differed in expression.

Glk1 is a transcription factor, meaning it binds to specific regions of DNA and activates genes involved in cell death and other plant immune responses.

The scientific literature contains two different mechanisms for a similar pattern — one stems from vegetation self - organizing in response to limited rainfall, and the other results from bustling termite mounds improving the lives of nearby plants.

Other research in Europe has shown that plants can shift another mechanism that controls their response to climate: vernalization, or the length of the cold snap required before a plant will respond to a warm spell as a growth signal.

Nuclear plant operators and regulators in the U.S. and other countries are taking useful actions to upgrade nuclear plant systems, operating procedures, and operator training in response to the Fukushima Daiichi accident.

Appel and Cocroft say future research will focus on how vibrations are sensed by the plants, what features of the complex vibrational signal are important, and how the mechanical vibrations interact with other forms of plant information to generate protective responses to pests.

By studying the responses to lyciumoside IV in Nicotiana attenuata's other specialist and generalist herbivores, they want to shed more light into this particular plant defense and the insects» counter-adaptations.

«If this proposed mechanism is true, we should be seeing this in other plants,» Donoghue says, because many plants share close quarters with mosses and lichens and have similar wound responses.

In response, the World Health Organization declared that the treatment of choice should combine the plant - derived drug artemisinin with other antimalarials.

On the other hand, histidine kinases allow bacteria, plants, and fungi to sense and respond to their environment, regulating a number of cellular responses such as osmoregulation, chemotaxis, sporulation and microbial pathogenesis (37).

«Are there other behavioral responses that herbivores do when their plants change?

«We hope that other scientists will use these data to answer questions such as why, unlike humans, some plants do not deteriorate as they age, why some environments are better for agriculture than others, and how fast plant populations will move in response to climate change,» said Yvonne Buckley, professor of Zoology in Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences.

But, she said, «as a registered dietitian my response to this study is that it, like so many others, shows why it is important for us to continue to shift from animal protein choices to plant - based choices to improve overall health.»

Based on human and animal research, it appears a variety of nutritional and botanical substances — such as adaptogenic herbs, specific vitamins including ascorbic acid, vitamins B1 and B6, the coenzyme forms of vitamin B5 (pantethine) and B12 (methylcobalamin), the amino acid tyrosine, and other nutrients such as lipoic acid, phosphatidylserine, and plant sterol / sterolin combinations — may allow individuals to sustain an adaptive response and minimize some of the systemic effects of stress.

Based on human and animal research, it appears a variety of nutritional and botanical substances - such as adaptogenic herbs, specific vitamins including ascorbic acid, vitamins B1 and B6, the coenzyme forms of vitamin B5 (pantethine) and B12 (methylcobalamin), the amino acid tyrosine, and other nutrients such as lipoic acid, phosphatidylserine, and plant sterol / sterolin combinations - may allow individuals to sustain an adaptive response and minimize some of the systemic effects of stress.

Other times, we would plant the gas pedal without response from the transmission, left to build revs from 3000 rpm.

Depending on market response, production will be shared with the company's other plant in Greater Noida as well.

In response, he began to create cages in which body parts meld with transistors and circuit boards sprout plastic flowers; boxes in which disembodied eyes stare at magazine pages and ears listen to radios; and greenhouses in which electronics, plants, and body parts are grafted to each other.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

In other notable recent developments, Simply Energy, the Australian retail arm for Engie, said in late March that it will aggregate 6MW of Tesla household batteries together with 2MW of demand response at commercial premises in Adelaide in a virtual power plant project supported by the government - backed Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

APS has purchased power contracts for the following: 310 MW solar (primarily from 280 MW Solana Concentrating Solar Power plant in Gila Bend), 289 MW wind, 10 MW geothermal, 14 MW biomass, 6 MW biogas, 60 MW non-disclosed «inter-utility» plus 480 MW with PacifiCorp, 25 MW Demand Response and others (see slide 39).

Power plants with on - site fuel have gone offline for other reasons during extreme weather events, Chen said, while demand response and wind energy can still perform.

Other responses to this open - ended question included damage to plants, animals and the landscape (12 % of those asked) and effects on human health and local infrastructure (6 % of those asked).

On the other hand, resilience of established plants and seed banks [46], differing population responses at range margins [47], and adaptive evolutionary responses might mitigate the influence of climate change.

Carbon dioxide emissions in Germany may increase by 4 percent annually in response to a moratorium on seven of the country's oldest nuclear power plants, as power generation is shifted from nuclear power, a zero carbon source, to the other carbon - intensive energy sources that currently make up the country's energy supply.

Other researchers used historical (real - world) data for land use, atmospheric CO2 concentration, nitrogen deposition, fertilization, ozone levels, rainfall and climate, to develop a computer model that simulates plant growth responses for southern US habitats from 1895 to 2007.

Alongside its other energy efficiency offerings, the company's demand response formula (DemandSMART) entails working with businesses and institutions (a supermarket chain, for example, or a university or manufacturing plant) to establish how they could cut power consumption if called upon to do so (up to, say, 50 fewer hours per year)-- for example by switching off the power supply to a cold store (which can maintain safe temperatures for hours without being boosted), or by cutting a percentage of lighting, or delaying a power - hungry process until later.

For now, that mostly means natural gas plants, but it can also mean batteries and other kinds of energy storage, always - on renewables like geothermal and landfill methane, or programs that shift and control demand («demand response»).

You might still have to import electricity from other regions or fire up backup power plants, but that'll happen a lot less often than if you didn't have a smart grid that could do «demand response».

In response to the deteriorating situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Department of Energy, and other technical experts in the U.S. Government have reviewed the scientific and technical information they have collected from assets in country, as well as what the Government of Japan has disseminated.

Where else can someone who is working at unskilled things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage job due to a lack of education and / or meaningful real - life experience etc., get to go to real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the most expensive and most important financial transactions of their lives in trade for big fat commissions) often with a minimalist education (maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative upon passing the real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching jobs?