The particular pollen they found in the insects» guts, says paleobotanist Bill Chaloner of the University of London, was adapted for wind dispersal, and the bugs could have «inadvertently consumed the pollen while foraging for
other plant tissue.»
Results also showed that riboflavin content differed with sweetpotato tissue type, but was consistently higher in the leaves; mature leaves contained higher amounts of riboflavin than young leaves and
other plant tissues, including roots.
Not exact matches
Antioxidants are naturally found in most
plant - foods, and help counter the inflammatory effects of free radicals — molecules that can damage the skin, and
other body
tissue.
When a water molecule is more attracted to the
plant, it is pulled towards the
plant tissue, but as water molecules are highly attracted to each
other the first molecule brings further water molecules with it.
While doing her Ph.D., Wang came across a defense mechanism in
plants involving apoptosis, where «the
plant cell is induced to die around the infection site so the pathogen can not be spread to
other tissues,» Wang says.
Some
plants communicate through chemicals released by their
tissues, while
other species use soil bacteria to find out what's going on their neighborhoods.
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.
This will provide researchers with greater insight on the diversity of
other eukaryotes and prokaryotes living inside
plant tissues.
Frommer and his lab have worked extensively on the family of SWEET sugar transporters, which play several key roles in
plants, including producing nectar and transporting sugars from the leaves to
other tissues.
The observations are based on satellite readings of CO2, carbon monoxide (which is released by wildfires) and
other factors like the fluorescence of the chlorophyll in
plant tissues (which reflects growth).
We invite original innovative research on the rational engineering of
plant systems at all levels, including proteins, protein complexes, sensors, metabolic and signalling pathways, microcompartments such as carboxysomes, subcellular compartments, cell types or
tissues, as well as the engineering of novel
plant hybrid species and the interactions of
plants with viruses, bacteria, and
other organisms.
The new method is inspiring scientists to grow human
tissues not only on apples but in
other plant products as well.
Phytic acid is the principal storage form of phosphorus in many
plant tissues, especially the bran portion of grains and
other seeds.
Inuit people «never got scurvy» because they ate stomach lining, liver and
other tissue of animals (sea and land) that ate green
plants.
Animal
tissues exclusively synthesize MK - 4, but many anaerobic bacteria synthesize
other menaquinones, which they use for energy production much in the way that
plants use vitamin K1.80 We can therefore obtain vitamin K2 by absorbing that which is produced by our intestinal flora or by eating fermented foods, in addition to eating animal foods which contain vitamin K2 synthesized from vitamin K1 found in grass.
Repellents: Consider repellants containing both a bittering agent and a penetrating agent to allow it to better absorb into
plant tissue or
other material.
It can be found in
plant and animal
tissue and it is necessary for the growth of yeasts and
other fungi.
· Knowledge of
plant and animal organisms, their
tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each
other and the environment.
Vascular
plants have lignified
tissue and specialized structures termed xylem and phloem, which transport water, minerals, and nutrients upward from the roots and return sugars and
other photosynthetic products.
On the
other hand, if the calendar date prior is uniform, that just implies that a random sample of
plant material or herbivore
tissues is more likely to have a C14 date near 2450BP or 2200 BP than
other adjacent periods.
Other studies of
plant and animal
tissue have attributed declines in δ13C that are greater than the expected based on the Seuss effect to upwelling [11], [24]; however, upwelling has not been rigorously tested.
Carbon fixed into
plants is then cycled through
plant tissues, litter and soil carbon and can be released back into the atmosphere by
plant, microbial and animal respiration and
other processes (e.g. forest fires) on a very wide range of time scales (seconds to millennia).
Wood performs several essential functions in
plants, including mechanically supporting aboveground
tissue, storing water and
other resources, and transporting sap.
During the spring and summer, trees and
other vegetation take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, incorporating some of the carbon into the
plant tissue and releasing oxygen into the air.
Because the different isotope ratios for the two kinds of
plants propagate through the food chain, it is possible determine if the principal diet of a human or
other animal consists primarily of C3
plants or C4
plants by measuring the isotopic signature of their collagen and
other tissues.
Criteria Description Fish Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to fish (both saltwater and freshwater) Daphnia Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to Daphnia (invertebrate aquatic organisms) Algae Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to aquatic
plants Persistence / Biodegradation Rate of degradation for a substance in the environment (air, soil, or water) Bioaccumulation Potential for a substance to accumulate in fatty
tissue and magnify up the food chain Climatic relevance Measure of the impact a substance has on the climate (e.g., ozone depletion, global warming, etc.)
Other Any additional characteristic (e.g., soil organism toxicity, WGK water classification, etc.) relevant to the overall evaluation but not included in the previous criteria 1.3.3 Material Class Criteria The following material classes are flagged due to the concern that at some point in their life cycle they may have negative impacts on human and environmental health.