Sentences with phrase «plant compounds which»

Oxalates are plant compounds which bind to minerals like magnesium and inhibit their absorption.

No two fruits in nature have the same exact profile of antioxidants, and many antioxidants are actually phytonutrients, smaller plant compounds which have their own hidden powers.

In addition, fresh vegetables contain plant compounds which are anti-inflammatory.

Cantaloupes contain healthy polyphenols, which are a form of plant compound which is a known anti-oxidant and disease - fighter.

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They contain a wide array of beneficial plant compounds known as phytosterols and free - radical scavenging antioxidants, which can give your health an added boost.

They also contain plant compounds known as phytosterols and free - radical scavenging antioxidants, 1 which can give your health an added boost.

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.

The healthy alternatives are packed with phytochemicals (plant - based compounds) that include antioxidants, flavonoids and carotenoids, all of which help reduce inflammation and protect the tissues from oxidation, which can damage them.

Inputs into an organic production system are generally prohibited if synthetically compounded — defined by the ACO Standard as a process which chemically changes a material derived from plant, animal or mineral resources, with the exception of microbiological processes.

I think it's awesome that Anima Mundi has made this plant based collagen enhancing compound which is completely cruelty free and vegan.

Picaridin is made to resemble the compound piperine, which occurs naturally in black pepper plants.

According to make studies, plant sterols are compounds, which help reduce cholesterol absorption.

The Metropolitan Syracuse Wastewater Treatment Plant, which supplies about 20 percent of the water that flows into the lake, has spent millions on upgrades to reduce ammonia, phosphorous and other compounds.

That's because it comes from plants, which are prolific producers of polyphenols, antioxidant compounds believed to mop up so - called free radicals, very reactive molecules that can damage DNA.

The resulting mergers yielded the compound cells known as eukaryotes, which in turn gave rise to all the rest — the protoctists, fungi, plants, and animals, including humans.

Evidently, earthworms change the forest soils from a fungal to a bacterial - dominated system, which speeds up the conversion of leaf detritus to mineral compounds and thereby potentially robs plants of organic nutrients.

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.

When converting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into a sugar, plants use an organic catalyst called an enzyme; the researchers used a metal compound called tungsten diselenide, which they fashioned into nanosized flakes to maximize the surface area and to expose its reactive edges.

Many traditional pharmacopeias include Aristolochia and related plants, which contain nephrotoxins and mutagens in the form of aristolochic acids and similar compounds (collectively, AA).

In a time during which more scientists are investigating plant compounds to develop drugs to improve our quality of life or treat illnesses, all inhabitants of this planet lose out, including those who have never heard of INBio.

The presence of these so - called herbivore - induced volatile organic compounds can make the plant less attractive to pollinators, which can reduce pollen deposition and negatively affect individual plants, an effect known as herbivore - induced pollinator limitation.

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

Using mass spectroscopy, the researchers identified one of the compounds as chlorogenic acid lactone, a breakdown product of chlorogenic acid, which is present in nearly all plants.

But ammonia plants also produce anhydrous ammonia, ammonium nitrate (the compound that caused last week's explosion in Texas), ammonium sulfate, UAN (urea ammonium nitrate solution) and other forms of ammonia used in agricultural and industrial applications — none of which use the leftover CO2.

Dr. Minako Ueda, Dr. Masakazu Nambo of the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University and their colleagues have reported in the journal Plant and Cell Physiology, on the development of a series of triarylmethane compounds, which were tested on plant cells to see their effect on cell diviPlant and Cell Physiology, on the development of a series of triarylmethane compounds, which were tested on plant cells to see their effect on cell diviplant cells to see their effect on cell division.

«As a result of screening about 200 compounds, we found that (3 - furyl) diphenylmethane (chem7), which is a triarylmethane that contains 2 phenyl groups and a furyl (a 5 - membered aromatic ring containing 4 carbons and an oxygen atom in the ring) group, had strong inhibitory activity on plant cell division,» says Ueda.

Like vehicles and power plants, trees emit airborne chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which in the presence of sunlight react with nitrogen oxides in vehicle fumes to form ozone, one of the components in smog that makes it a health threat.

A technician scraped away clay to reveal compound leaves, which placed the specimen in the flowering plant group known as eudicots.

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.

Most plants rely on the C3 process, which uses carbon dioxide and fixes three - carbon compounds in a photosynthetic cycle, but a few have evolved the more efficient C4 variety, developing a competitive edge by fixing four carbons per cycle.

Plants get their scents from volatile organic compounds, which easily turn into gases at ambient temperatures.

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.

Compounds such as the EPFL2 peptide and auxin, which control plant growth, act as «keys» to activate specific physiological processes.

A promising source of hydrogen is the organic compound cellulose, which is a key component of plants and the most abundant biopolymer on Earth.

According to a study led by the researcher Usue Pérez - López of the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology of the UPV / EHU's Faculty of Science and Technology, the colour of the leaves of these vegetables determines the speed at which their compounds act.

Based on a plant - based class of molecules known as indoline alkaloids, the compound inhibits an enzyme called polymerase, which enables a virus to make thousands of copies of itself and cause disease, explains Claire Marie Filone, the study's lead author.

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.

Bottom line: many birds eat plants that are rich in compounds with a distinctive yellow pigmentation — which some birds can modify chemically to form the red pigment that becomes their calling card.

Many herbivores are known to store their host plant's toxic compounds in specialized compartments of their body, a process which is called sequestration.

Plants emit more volatile organic compounds at higher temperatures, which can increase ozone formation if mixed with pollutants from human sources.

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).

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.

Many of these compounds are far too complex to synthesize in the laboratory, but they can be purified from the plants in which they are found.

For instance in Mahonia or Oregon grape — it's a plant from the Pacific Northwest — there is one compound called hydnocarpin that will kill [a] certain type of bacteria, but the bacteria develops a resistance where it evolves this pump to remove the hydnocarpinfrom its cells and it's no longer toxic; and then it turns out that the Oregon grape also has this other compound called berberine which stops that pump from working, so it's only in combination [that] these two compounds in that plant will actually still kill the bacteria.

Plants function as chemical manufacturing factories, and they can be altered to make specific chemical compounds, many of which can be useful in ways we do not yet understand.

So this is becoming a bigger and bigger problem, and there is one plant I think I have mentioned on the walk, Sweet Annie or Qing Hao; it's a Chinese plant that's being used — it has been used traditionally to treat malaria and fevers — and they extract a compound called artemisinin from that which they are trying to use more and more in Africa.

Some new and soon - to - be-released chocolate products tout the fact that they are rich in flavonoids or in cocoa, which usually contains those potentially heart - healthy plant compounds.

«For the first time we found more complex, compound structures, together with simpler hairlike structures» in a plant - eating dinosaur, Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, which lived about 175 million years ago, said Pascal Godefroit, a paleontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, «that really resemble the protofeathers in advanced» meat eaters.