Sentences with phrase «other plant tissues»

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.

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.»

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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.

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