Sentences with phrase «other weedy»

To determine how recently the swamp hibiscus and more than 50 other weedy plants arrived in the Galápagos, Jacqueline van Leeuwen of the University of Bern, Switzerland, and her colleagues dug into the fossil record.

Biologists in Arkansas thought the carp would crop reeds and other weedy vegetation.

Not exact matches

«The worst thing that could possibly happen is that the trait can transfer to other rice varieties or weedy relatives thru cross-contamination once the field testing is approved.

Farmers are worried that the trait can transfer to other rice varieties or weedy relatives thru cross-contamination once the open field testing is approved.

If the provitamin A trait is transferred by out - crossing from GR2E rice into other cultivated or weedy rice, progeny plants will not exhibit an altered selection advantage that could cause them to become more weedy or invasive in managed or unmanaged ecosystems.

However, though most other teams have their share of snowflakes too, we at Arsenal seem to have cornered the market in the weediest ones around.

The work complements other recent studies showing that greenhouse gas warming will shift plant ecosystems toward weedy plants, says Robert Jackson of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who has done similar work with natural grasslands.

One weedy strain resembles an Asian rice variety grown only in a small part of the Indian subcontient and the other strain resembles a rice grown in the tropics.

The weedy forms shatter, but they've re-evolved this ability by some other, as yet unknown, pathway, he says.

«If the litter layer is gone, and the soil is bare and clumpy, the earthworms may help weedy plants come in along with other invasive plants that we don't want.»

Ayoade nicely captures the way that teenage lovers can be so overawed by each other's existence that they barely talk and scarcely know each other; Oliver's mother may be drifting away from his weedy, marine biologist father (Noah Taylor), and Jordana's mother may be dying of cancer, but they apparently don't tell each other those things during weeks of smooching on the rainy waterfront, low - grade vandalism and possible clandestine sex.

While some of the cars — most likely the base trim — come with weedy, small tyres, a black grille and door handles, the other trim comes with alloys, chromed grille, and wing mirrors with turn indicators.

You control Locksley — oh, that's not referential at all — a very English man with a slightly weedy voice, who has foregone wearing tights or shooting arrows with other arrows in favour of becoming a streamer.

The coral community on the outer reef in South Tarawa is different from that at the other outer reef sites studied; South Tarawa is dominated by the weedy encrusting species Porites rus, while at the other sites the coral community is dominated by massive Porites spp., Heliopora spp., Montipora spp. and Favia spp. [47].

Yet, if I point out the squeaky door or the weedy flowerbed or the peeling paint to others, namely my children, I get zippo sympathy.