Sentences with phrase «plant compounds for»

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Plutonium and uranium are converted into chemical compounds called oxides, and mixed together in fuel rods for civilian nuclear power plants.

Such whole - grain varieties contain high levels of phenols and tannins, two plant compounds with a knack for mopping up free radicals that can wreak havoc on cell membranes and other delicate machinery within the human body.

Besides antioxidants, chocolate also contains other potent plant compounds, including anandamide, named after the Sanskrit word for «bliss,» which is a neurotransmitter in the brain that temporarily blocks feelings of pain and anxiety.

These tiny baby plants provide a convenient and concentrated means for absorbing the active compounds.

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Thyme is packed with numerous health benefiting phytonutrients (plant - derived compounds), minerals and vitamins that are essential for overall wellness.

The plant produces white, milk, dark chocolate and compound and will supply them for industrial and artisanal supply, targeting the growing food - service sector in Brazil.

They believe the chemicals that keep spice plants safe from their natural predators are the same compounds that keep food safe for human consumption, particularly in warm climes where bacteria grow faster.

However, spirulina is a wonderful source of vitamins A, K, trace minerals, iron, antioxidants, healthy essential fatty acids such as GLA, and powerful detoxifying and longevity - enhancing compounds such as phycocyanin, a blue pigment in plants that has been shown to have incredible health benefits for the body!

Virtually all parts of the plant are used to treat inflammation, infectious disorders, and various problems of the cardiovascular and digestive organs, while improving liver function and enhancing milk flow in nursing mothers... Moringa is rich in a variety of health - enhancing compounds... the leaves seem to be getting the most market attention, notably for their use in reducing high blood pressure, eliminating water weight, and lowering cholesterol.

This will be compounded by the projection that «Gas supply from jubilee field will also stop as the FPSO is expected to shut down for repairs for a period between three to six months,» Mr. Agyarko said, thus the Asogli and AMERI plants may not be able to generate enough power.

One of these was withaferin A, a compound derived from a plant known as Indian ginseng that has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for centuries to treat a range of diseases, including epilepsy.

The team had earlier figured out that the basic starting material for bioluminescence in these fungi is a compound called hispidin, found in some other fungi as well as plants such as...

Compounds derived from medicinal plants have served as molecular templates for propriety drugs that are now used worldwide.

Back at the UW, he used newly developed techniques to scan the samples for some 100 compounds, covering 95 percent of all plant - based lignin.

Species known as mycorrhizal fungi use their mycelia to envelop or penetrate plant roots, contributing nitrogen compounds and mineral salts in exchange for sugars from the host organism.

Other researchers have shown that some terrestrial plants make compounds that inhibit reproduction in herbivores, but «this type of interaction was not known for marine environments,» says Ianora.

«The pathogen is producing an important compound that the plant already makes, but too much of a good thing ends up not being good for the plant,» said Barbara Kunkel, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences.

In the past, researchers have examined herbal medicines by running assays for toxic compounds and using DNA tests to determine whether a specific plant or animal is present.

The researchers, led by Sara Jaeger, Jeremy McRae, and Richard Newcomb of Plant and Food Research in New Zealand, found that for four of the ten odors tested, there was indeed a genetic association, suggesting that differences in the genetic make - up determine whether a person can or can not smell these compounds.

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.

Nitrogen helps plants produce proteins, including the key molecules that control photosynthesis, the process by which the sun's energy is captured and converted into the carbon compounds that are the raw material for growth.

Once the nematode signal is characterized, a new generation of natural compounds will be available that is able to induce defense responses in plants thus paving the way for safe and sustainable nematode control.

Schubert's group developed J147 in 2011, after screening for compounds from plants with an ability to reverse the cellular and molecular signs of aging in the brain.

THC is an abbreviation for tetrahydrocannabinol, which is the psychoactive compound in the plant.

Purple Kush plants, in turn, produced little to no cannabidiolic acid, a similar compound found in hemp plants, possibly because these molecules suck up the building blocks needed for THC.

These antitumorous, antiviral, and antifungal compounds may function as new drugs for humans, animals, or plants.

Genomic sequencing experts at Johns Hopkins partnered with pharmacologists at Stony Brook University to reveal a striking mutational signature of upper urinary tract cancers caused by aristolochic acid, a plant compound contained in herbal remedies used for thousands of years to treat a variety of ailments such as arthritis, gout and inflammation.

Network theory says they should indeed match, due to the prominence in both of dimethyl disulphide, a compound that is given off by the noisome dead horse arum plant and is a potent neurotoxin for some cockroaches.

Experiments in 2014 on sagebrush showed some plants spoke a language dominated by camphor compounds, while others emitted more thujone, coincidentally the same chemical suspected to be responsible for the hallucinogenic effects of absinthe.

«Three rings stop cell division in plants: Development of a triarylmethane compound for possible control of plant growth.»

«Being in the Mix Lab (special labs that have researchers from different disciplines mixed together) at ITbM, I was able to talk to an organic chemist, Masakazu Nambo, who suggested the use of triarylmethane compounds for cell division inhibition in plant cells,» she continues.

Bottom: Rice is particularly prone to accumulating arsenic because it confuses two forms of inorganic arsenic — arsenite and arsenate — with silicon and phosphorous compounds that are essential for the plant's structural integrity and health.

«As part of ITbM's interdisciplinary research initiative, we decided to search for new compounds that can inhibit the cell division in plants without causing damage to them,» says Minako Ueda, a plant biologist and a leader of this study.

In any case, a new market analysis by Lux Research forecasts that the global desalinated water supply will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.5 percent during the next decade as Australia, Israel, Singapore, California and others build desalinization plants for seawater and inland brackish water as well as for water recycling.

An Artemisia plant's anti-malarial compound, artemisinin, can get more concentrated as CO2 increases, possibly good news for plant - based medicine.

While their study confirms the identity of the compound responsible for NDMA formation and encourages treatment plants to continue implementing intervention methods, their work is far from complete.

For example, the best national pharmaceutical companies are starting to invest in the validation of plant - derived medicines in an attempt to lay claim to new medicines and compete with the conventional imported compounds, which make up over 70 % of the Brazilian market.

«For the first time we found more complex, compound structures, together with simpler hairlike structures» in a plant - eating dinosaur, Godefroit says, «that really resemble the protofeathers in advanced» meat eaters.

In one step, for example, a plant enzyme called SalSyn was doing a poor job of converting R - reticuline to another compound called salutaridine.

In the new study, led by Purdue biochemist Natalia Dudareva, the team looked for genetic changes as the plant developed from its budding stage, which had the lowest levels of volatile organic compounds, to its flower - opening stage, with the highest levels.

Humans have reduced fevers for thousands of years; Hippocrates recommended extracts of the willow tree bark, which was later found to contain salicylic acid, better known as aspirin; Romans, Chinese, and Native Americans used other plants containing similar compounds.

Using a laboratory technique called chromatography, they found three new compounds, one already - known compound that was identified for the first time in plants and 20 already - known compounds that were found for the first time in hops.

In 2002 he learned of the dire need for synthetic artemisinin, a compound derived from the sweet wormwood plant, which is 90 percent effective against the parasite that causes malaria and has few side effects (malaria kills some 3 million people a year).

Since MDHAR6 is plant specific, compounds that react with the enzyme in the same way as TNT, yet are readily degraded in the environment, could also be screened for herbicide potential.

So - called extremely low - volatility organic compounds, which are produced by plants, could be detected for the first time during field and laboratory experiments in Finland and Germany.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Bayreuth has now discovered that there are arsenic compounds which have a toxic effect on plants and yet had not previously been considered in connection with chemical analyses of rice and the estimated health risks for humans.

Fieldwork for the study — which was conducted by lead researcher Brittany Ayers, at the time an undergraduate in the Penn State Schreyer Honors College — was performed in a variety of weather conditions, which affected how the treatment plant dealt with the chemical compounds, Gall noted.

It's becoming clear and clearer as people look at different stages of the plant's growth and in different habitats growing next to other plants that the stressors in the environment can really change the chemistry; because most of the medicinal compounds in the plants are what are called secondary compounds, so they are not things essential to the metabolism of the plant like sugar and water and ATP for energy and DNA.