Sentences with phrase «plant above ground»

Our soil here isn't great, so I have to plant above ground.

The reference is ambiguous since you can't eat every root and there's more to the plant above the ground than just the stem (ahem ¨ the flower) but that's not the point The idea is to eat as much of the plant as possible.

Although they lurk in the soil, they seem to protect the plants above ground.

It's the Rastrera algae, and the colour is reflecting back mostly violet which makes sense as violet penetrates deeper than blue and, like green for plants above ground, not requiring it for photosynthesis it reflects this back which is what we see, and, a bit of blueygreen, which main green is absorbed in oceans before the shorter blue and violet wavelengths.

(Plants above ground take in blue and red light for photosynthesis, reflect green.)

Not exact matches

Symptoms: Above - ground symptoms include plant stunting and leaf wilting.

The saute above is made up of new potatoes, red onions, tomatoes from my porch plant, green beans, poblano peppers, herbs de provence, and some fresh ground pepper.

Symptoms: Blighting or rotting of any above - ground or below - ground plant parts occurs.

Yet the consequences of this feedback between the plants on the ground and the atmosphere above them so far was not clear.

Doak believes it spends much of its early energy building an extremely long tap root that helps ensure water and nutrients later on, but slows the plant's above - ground growth in the meantime.

She also battled ceiling fans above her workspace while trying to grind dried plant material.

Earl Bardsley says that the water to drive the power plant should not be stored above ground at all, but below ground.

It can house more than 100 people above ground at a time, while fuel and cargo storage, waste - management facilities, maintenance garages and a power plant are all located beneath the surface of the ice sheet.

Early flowering plants are thought to have been woody — meaning they maintain a prominent stem above ground across years and changing weather conditions, such as a maple tree — and restricted to warm, wet, tropical environments.

The activity of each gene then was analyzed in an attempt to find the specific transcription factor responsible for regulating the conversion of sugar to starch in the above - ground portions of the plant, primarily the grains.

«In Cambodia and in many other rice growing regions, the plants are grown in the soil and then when they harvest, they remove the straw and all of the above ground portion, so they leave the roots in place but most of the silicon is in the straw and also in the husk,» said Seyfferth.

Scientists have in the past focused on above - ground characteristics, primarily leaf traits and the efficiency with which plants absorb sunlight for photosynthesis, he said.

«Thus far,» Hedin added, «everybody has quite naturally tried to understand how plants are organized by looking at above - ground traits.

Researchers determined it was related to the plant Sciaphila nana, an above - ground plant.

Repair facilities, dormitories, administrative buildings, a firehouse, power plant, water distillation plant, wharf, stores, clubs, warehouses, a science support center, and the first - class, 4,320 square - meter Crary Lab are linked by above - ground water, sewer, telephone, and power lines.

While more herbaceous plants die back, drawing any energy from softer tissues above ground into their roots, only to re-sprout in the spring (such as bulbs and tuberous plants).

The newly discovered plant Sciaphila yakushimensis is observable above ground only when it flowers or fruits.

The only time the newly discovered plants grow above ground is when they briefly flower or fruit, making it exceedingly difficult to find or study them.

The slow upward flow of water insures that the short lived radioactive gases produced by fission die off before the reactor coolant reaches the above - ground portion of the plant (another bonus of gravity driven flow!).

Above - Ground Plant Biomass, Carbon, Nitrogen Dynamics Before and After Burning in a Seminatural Grassland of Miscanthus sinensis in Kumamoto, Japan, Yo Toma, Fabian Fernandez, Aya Nishiwaki, Toshihiko Yamada, German Bollero, J. Ryan Stewart, Global Change Biology - Bioenergy, 2 (2): pp. 52 - 62, April 28, 2010.

Research in the Rose lab is focused on understanding the biological importance of the structural polymers that form plant cell walls, as well as the water resistant barrier, called the cuticle (the plant «skin»), which covers the above ground surfaces of land plants.

From the root to all of the above - ground parts of a dandelion, the entire plant can be used to make medicine.

Cut them off several inches above the ground to ensure that the plant will be able to grow back again easily.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Plants want to survive so the parts that animals can see (above ground) contain some toxins to make them less appealing.

Black cohosh is a slow - growing plant, and it may take a year or longer for an above - ground shoot to appear.

So if we have 100 pounds of plant biomass above ground, and an additional 100 pounds below ground, this still represents only 30 to 40 percent of this plant's total energy production.

... A healthy plant will have at least as much root biomass below ground as there is plant biomass above ground.

NRCA defines a green roof system as plantings / landscaping installed above a waterproofed substrate at any building level that is separated from the ground beneath it by a man - made structure.

Dr Hulvey and her team focused on the carbon stored in the above - ground tree biomass (tree trunks and branches), using above - ground biomass as a proxy for carbon storage in planted forests.

This spurs higher rates of photosynthesis and biomass production, so the plants produce more sediment - trapping growth above ground and generate more organic soil below ground.»

Gasification typically takes place in an above - ground gasification plant — however, the reaction can also take place below ground in coal seams.

Think of this energy storage tank of potential solar power as akin to the pile of coal outside an old coal plant, or to the underground cavern full of natural gas waiting to be burned up above ground in the nearby power plant.

The garden terraces, which reach up to about 60 meters above the ground, contain some 35,000 plants representing 76 species.

Onions: Onions don't take up a lot of room above the ground, and are said to deter many common insect pests in the garden, such as aphids, slugs, and cabbage worms, making them a good companion plant for peppers.

It appears to me, caveat as above, that AGW has created a lifeless system in thinking in this «energy balance» much as it has done with CO2 with its destruction of the dynamical system which is all life by thinking of plants merely as «carbon sinks», somewhere merely to store CO2; from which the used to be known fact that CO2 was food for all living carbon life forms is practically unknown and now at the absurd reasoning from not knowing it, that it can defy gravity and stay removed and out of reach from the carbon life forms which evolved from its property of being available at ground level.