Sentences with phrase «plant chemicals known»

Berries are excellent sources of plant chemicals known as anthocyanins, which seem to lower blood pressure and make blood vessels more flexible.

The term flavonoid is held for a class of plant chemicals known for being a highly potent antioxidant.

Cumin is rich in phytosterols, plant chemicals known to inhibit the absorption of cholesterol in the body.

The active component of soya beans seems to be plant chemicals known as isoflavones.

Not exact matches

«If you are a chemical company that is also producing seeds, I don't know exactly what your motivation is to produce a healthy, strong and really delicious plant,» said Barber.

The president of a custom chemical manufacturing plant I know decided that all managers needed to implement 1 - 1 meetings with their direct reports so that communications were consistent yet specific to the needs of individual employees.

The Texas Gulf Coast is home to many of the nation's oil refineries and chemical plants, which routinely use chemicals like benzene that are known carcinogens.

Did you know that the sea around the UK is home to more than 8000 different of species of plants and animals, but this wonderful marine environment is being ruined by pollution, including rubbish left on beaches, sewage and chemical and oil spills.

It also uses food - grade plant and mineral based ingredients so if anything is ingested at bath time you know they'll be safe from harmful chemicals.

Officials knew, or should've known, that a Hoosick plant had long made Teflon with PFOA, a chemical linked to cancer.

In 1961 crews drilled a deep well at a chemical weapons plant outside Denver, known as the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.

He already knew that plants can change their chemical structure to protect themselves once attacked, or just touched, by a hungry herbivore.

«If we know the chemical composition of the nuclear waste coming out from those plants, we can definitely work on it.»

For years, chemical ecologist Dawn Luthe and her students wondered why fall armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera frugiperda) let piles of feces, known as frass, accumulate on corn, trapped in the plant's cuplike whorls where the leaves join the stalk.

The plant is one of many along an eighty - five - mile stretch of the Mississippi River known as the «chemical corridor.»

In the November issue of Animal Behaviour, a team reports the identification of a chemical compound known as myristyl acetate in the male plant bug spermatophore, a capsule containing sperm that is transferred to the female during copulation.

When grown in TNT - laden areas, which include old mines, waste sites, and military conflict zones, plants absorb and remove the toxic chemicals from the soil through their roots in a process known as remediation.

This chemical screen showed that a compound known as digoxin — a plant - derived cardiac toxin often used to treat various heart conditions — inhibited wild type HIV - 1 more than the mutated strain.

The active chemical in an aphid's alarm pheromone is (E)- beta - farnesene — one of a group of a plant metabolites, known as terpenoids.

At just under 600,000 bases, M. genitalium sports the smallest known genome for a free - living organism, and Venter hoped that an artificial genome could be modified to turn the bacterium into a living chemical - manufacturing plant.

Plants are known to communicate with each other via shade, aromatic chemicals, and physical touch, promoting processes such as growth and defense against disease, as well as attraction of bees and other pollinators.

At the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting here earlier this month, he proposed that chemists rally around an initiative to synthesize most of the hundreds of thousands of known organic natural products: the diverse small molecules made by microbes, plants, and animals.

To understand weathering, water quality, and soil formation on Earth and Mars, look no further than associate professor of geoscience Elisabeth «Libby» Hausrath, who investigates chemical interactions between water and rocks as well as the plant and microbial influences on those reactions.

Also known by its chemical name, Indole -3-butyric Acid (IBA), Hormodin works by mimicking a plant hormone called auxin that regulates many aspects of plant growth.

The land also includes buckthorn, a non-native plant species, which is known to change the chemical composition of the soil and remove light from the canopy trees.

Scientists have long known that plants impact the composition of the soil microbiome in the area surrounding their roots by sending out chemicals (metabolites).

Equally important (and often something not known by researchers) is the fact that GB diets contain many plant - derived chemical entities that are absent from purified ingredient diets.

The samples ranged from a simple alcohol to a complex plant hormone, and the new method, dubbed «CAL» for covalent alignment (the molecules form a type of chemical bond known as a covalent bond in the MOFs), enables researchers to determine the complete structure of a molecule from a single MOF crystal that contains the sample molecules in its pores.

These chemicals are known as «biomarkers,» and the discovery of O2 in one of these distant atmospheres may lead us to believe that something biological is producing the molecule, as plants do on Earth through photosynthesis.

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.

If you know of a community garden, you can help plant your own food, free of chemicals!

While we know that these chemicals can negatively affect ocean water and plant species, we don't have enough research to know how much of these chemicals are absorbed and retained by the fish and if any of this passes to those who eat the fish.

This plant contains chemical compounds known as flavonoids, plant - based phytoestrogens that are weak like soy, and is a potent aphrodisiac.

Did you know that many of the backyard weeds that many of us spend time fighting and spraying with chemicals (like Plantain) are actually medicinal plants with health benefits?

Plant chemicals in cocoa known as flavanols help the body synthesize the compound nitric oxide, which is critical for healthy blood flow and healthy blood pressure.

Not many know that chlorophyll which is responsible for the green color of plants is a potent detoxifier that helps flush out the harmful chemicals and heavy metals from the body.

And, as we all know, plants contain so much potential for optimal human health because they help us withstand a host of destructive forces, such as radiation, oxidative damage and chemical toxins that could be lethal — if ignored.

It is known to be one of the most widely studied plant - derived medicinal chemicals in modern science.

You know nothing of physics or chemistry.You think a dormant seed would be equal to a growing live plant in it's chemical profile?

Thus, free oils are no longer intermixed with the naturally - designed and balanced environment of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and ten thousand other chemicals found originally in the plants.

Root vegetables provide carbohydrates, minerals (such as potassium), vitamins, fiber and plant chemicals (phytonutrients), which are known to be health promoting and anti-aging.

These kinds of cholesterol - reducing plant chemicals are broadly referred to as «plant sterols» and have been shown to decrease levels of bad cholesterol known as LDL when combined with adequate fiber and protein.

Fruits and vegetables contain phytonutrients — or plant chemicals — known as flavonoids.

The Epimedium plant is said to contain certain chemical compounds, otherwise known as flavonoids that has antioxidant properties, in addition to having phytoestrogens which have effects similar to the estrogen.

What they don't know is that since organic coffee farmers do not use chemical sprays, the plants have no defense against toxins like T - 2 toxins, ochratoxins, vomitoxins, and rubratoxins.

Polyphenols, a type of plant - based chemical found in foods ranging from vegetables to chocolate, help neutralize the harmful substances known as free radicals and are thought to protect against heart disease and other health problems.

Aloe vera plants are known for their health and skin care benefits and it is a good idea to have atleast one Aloe vera lant at your home because most aloe vera gels commercially available have a lot of chemicals in them.

We are proud to be building the first homes in Hawaii made of «hemp - crete», an age - old, building / manufacturing material that is derived from a distant cousin of the «cannabis sativa» plant species we all know as marijuana, though with only a negligible amount of tetrahydrocannabinol - the psychoactive chemical credited for the marijuana high.

It's nice to know that Green Hill is a place where Sonic still hangs out, and that the Chemical Plant is defunct but has been converted into a base by Eggman.

On a side note, I'd love to know how efficient plants are at converting sunlight to chemical energy.