Sentences with phrase «plant chemicals found»

A University of Naples study determined that lutein and zeaxanthin, which are plant chemicals found in the fruit, also help boost hydration.

One of the active components of Burdock Root is sesquiterpene lactones, which are active plant chemicals found to have antibacterial and antifungal properties.

Not exact matches

Well before modern genetic engineering technology was around, humans found ways to tweak the DNA of plants by zapping it with chemicals or radiation — resulting in crops that are not considered GMOs.

Linalool - a naturally occurring chemical found in many flowers and spice plants with many commercial applications, the majority of which are based on its pleasant scent (floral, with a touch of spiciness).

Many plants produce toxic or foul - tasting chemicals that deter seed predators, but these chemicals are usually found in the plant's leaves and roots as well as its fruit.

Apparently it's a chemical reaction, «This discoloration is the result of sunflower seeds being rich in Chlorogenic acid which is found naturally in all plants.

But how to find a nail polish that didn't smell like a chemical plant and leave one feeling slightly woozy?

While most all natural diapers stay safe because they take away so many harmful chemicals, Babyganics has found a way to replace those chemicals with many plant based additives which serve an even bigger purpose when it comes to health of your child's skin.

The hearings are drawing interest in the Capital Region amid a water contamination crisis in the village of Hoosick Falls, where the municipal drinking water was found to be contaminated with PFOA, a chemical used in manufacturing plants nearby.

Kinisky said Saint - Gobain has consistently taken responsibility to help find and fund alternate water supplies, or provide filtering systems, in areas where PFOA and other perflourinated chemicals have been detected in groundwater near its current and former manufacturing plants.

The municipal water supply in Hoosick Falls, a village in Rensselaer County near the Vermont border, was found to have been contaminated with the chemical PFOA from a nearby plastics plant run by Saint - Gobain.

Wastewater treatment plants are not designed to remove the chemicals found in pharmaceuticals and personal care products.

In recent weeks, traces of the chemical have been found in private wells and public water supplies in the town of Hoosick, well outside the village, and in North Bennington, Vt., where Saint - Gobain also had a manufacturing plant that closed in 2002.

They spoke emotionally about the high levels of the toxic chemical PFOA, which was used in the manufacture of Teflon products by a nearby plant, and was found in their blood.

On Monday, the EPA acted on what many Hoosick Falls residents have been hoping for ever since the chemical PFOA was found in drinking water there: the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant on McCaffrey Street has been named a federal Superfund.

The app found two «trapped» people in a large - scale, simulated terrorist attack at a seaside chemical plant in Stavanger, Norway.

Like its human counterpart, the cat bitter taste receptor Tas2r43 was activated by bitter compounds aloin (found in the aloe plant) and denatonium (used to deter children and pets from consuming chemicals such as antifreeze) but responded differently to the compounds.

When sagebrush plants are attacked by hungry insects, researchers have found, they emit chemical cues into the air to alert neighboring plants.

The search for food is linked to other areas in the olfactory center of female tobacco hawkmoths (Manduca sexta) than the search for plants to best lay eggs, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, found.

Some plants communicate through chemicals released by their tissues, while other species use soil bacteria to find out what's going on their neighborhoods.

Children under five living near a chemical plant in West Virginia were found to have higher concentrations of an industrial chemical than their mothers

Garlic mustard's weapon, Klironomos finds, is a chemical that kills the soil fungi that help many plants, including woody trees, obtain key nutrients.

In recent years, scientists have identified a host of compounds called chemical elicitors — found, for example, in insect saliva — that can limit plant defenses, including the production of bad - tasting compounds that ward off herbivores.

In a new study, U.C. Davis ecologist Richard Karban found that the chemicals can also influence a plant's twin.

The confusion over which strain belongs to which species derives in part from illicit growers ascribing a species name to a plant based on its psychotropic effects, rather than its actual genetic makeup: Many, ah, enthusiasts believe C. sativa produces a stimulating, mind - altering effect thanks to delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a chemical found in the plant's sticky resin.

What they had found, it transpired, was really a plant chemical which had been modified by bacteria in the human gut.

Researchers also have found that wastewater treatment plants and sewage sludge are highly contaminated with the chemicals.

Microbiologist Rose Cooper at the University of Wales has found honey to be 10 times more effective than a sugar solution at killing antibiotic - resistantStaphylococcus aureas, a wound - infecting bacterium common in hospitals, perhaps because honey contains plant chemicals that inhibit microbial growth.

Comparing Purple Kush with another popular form of the same plant — the hemp - fiber producing Finola varietal — the group found that one gene critical for churning out the precursors to the chemical that gives pot its kick, tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, had been turned off.

Synthetic marijuana, sometimes called «Spice,» is made with shredded plant material coated with chemicals that are designed to mimic THC, the psychoactive compound found naturally in marijuana.

The finding is «a massive advance in our understanding of tomato fruit development and ripening,» says Alisdair Fernie, who studies the chemical composition of tomatoes at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany.

Resveratrol is a naturally - occurring chemical found in grape skins and other plants.

The most promising active ingredients were then tested on model animals: ursolic acid, a waxy natural chemical found in apple peels and rosemary; curcumin, the bright yellow plant compound in turmeric; and resveratrol, a natural compound common to red grapes or berries.

A chemical found in plants could reduce the symptoms of a rare muscle disease that leaves children with little or no control of their movements.

During the past decade, some cancer research has highlighted the potential therapies found in plants, including chemicals found in foods such as turmeric, apple peels and green tea.

Now a research team led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside, has found a new drought - protecting chemical that shows high potential for becoming a powerful tool for crop protection in the new world of extreme weather.

The reason could be that plant defenses against pathogens gradually weaken after a fire, Moritz and Odion speculate — for instance, from stiffer competition among plants as they grow, decreased chemical defenses as they age, or depletion of soil nutrients.The findings suggest that California's fight against forest fires over many decades may have precipitated or accelerated the outbreak, and that perhaps controlled burning could be used to halt it, the authors say.

«The chemical diversity found in nature has always been a significant source of inspiration for drug design and development, but although the medicinal properties of plants have been recognized for thousands of years, marine environments remain relatively unexplored,» said Jane Ishmael, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology at Oregon State University and the lead author of the new study.

Mint and basil plants have enzymes that make these chemicals, so the team found and then inserted the genes responsible into yeast.

To find out, Engler and her colleagues extracted cyanogens from the plants and recently emerged butterflies and determined their chemical structures using nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy.

However, the types of organic compounds found in plant matter — dominated by aromatic hydrocarbons — underwent some chemical changes, but remained relatively resistant to impact pressures.

A chemical element found abundantly on planet earth, in rocks, plants and animals (including humans).

In analyzing this data, a multi-year task, the team found that at night, the concentrated power plant exhaust creeps atop the temperature inversion in the air where the atmosphere is relatively calm, allowing time for different kinds of chemical reactions that might not occur during the day.

He found applications in controlling chemical plants.

For example, the resistance of wild parsnip to webworm attack depends on when the parsnip blooms and on concentrations of certain chemical compounds with insecticidal properties found in the plant.

However, the types of organic compounds found in plant matter — dominated by aromatic hydrocarbons - underwent some chemical changes, but remained relatively resistant to impact pressures.

It's important to know that although THC and CBD are the most studied components of cannabis, there are many more chemical compounds found within the plant, such as cannabigerol (CBG), cannabichromene (CBC), cannabidivarin (CBDV), tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), terpenes, and flavonoids.

At some point between 1999 and 2008, each of the participants also provided at least one blood and urine sample which the scientists analyzed for the presence of various chemicals, including dioxins contained in pesticides, phthalates found in fragrance, plastics, cosmetics and hair spray, plant - derived estrogens, and polychlorinated biphenyls, among others.

Caffeine is a natural chemical stimulant found in various quantities in beans, leaves and the fruit of some plants.

Blue jeans used to get their blue from indigo, a flowering plant (and you can still find high - end, indigo - dyed selvedge denim), but that natural process is pricy, and now 90 percent of denim produced in China uses cheap, synthetic dyes made from coal tar, sulfur, and other toxic chemicals.