Sentences with phrase «plant diseases like»

Fertilization and strict weed and pest control are important; the plants are especially vulnerable to a number of pests and plant diseases like pepper budworm, mites, crickets, and aphids.

Not exact matches

The main variety of banana is the Cavendish and monocrops like bananas deplete the soil and make the plants more susceptible to diseases.

As a plant pathologist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Rice Research Unit in Beaumont, Texas, Toni Marchetti oversaw a new program in 1972 to develop new cultivars that better resisted costly diseases like rice blast.

The plant - based sources of these nutrients tend to be low in saturated fat, high in fibre and packed with antioxidants, helping mitigate some of the modern world's biggest health issues like obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer, among many others.

And once your plants get a viral disease like curly top, they are doomed to die.

Pioneers like Dr Dean Ornish and Dr Caldwell Esselstyn where among the first to show that if you combined a low fat, plant based diet, with walking and stress management, not only could you prevent and reverse heart disease (and many other chronic conditions), but you could also increase telomerase activity.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

«It's a bit like human disease but in plants, to understand the pathogen and its interaction with the plant allows to develop a functional cure to treat the affected plants» emphasizes the specialist in plant genomics.

Replacing saturated fats, refined carbohydrates (like simple sugars) or trans fats with an equal number of calories (2 percent — 5 percent of the total) from mono - unsaturated fatty acids from plants might lower the risk of heart disease deaths and death from any cause between 10 percent and15 percent.

Bletter: My main research for my PhD is in Peru, in the Peruvian Amazon, and in Mali in West Africa, and I am looking at the medicinal plants used there in traditional societies and indigenous groups for parasitic diseases like malaria, autoimmune diseases like diabetes and eczema and uterine fibroids, and trying to see if there is an overlap, so that if people in Peru and Mali are using a similar species to treat the same disease, that's a good bet that it is something effective, because they have independently found something useful, you know?

It allows plant breeders to take a desirable trait (like resistance to drought, insects, weeds, and disease) from one plant or organism and transfer it to the plant they want to improve, as well as make a change to an existing trait in a plant they are developing.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Crop scientists at Washington State University have explained how genes in the barley plant turn on defenses against aging and stressors like drought, heat and disease.

'' Managing systemic diseases like HLB is a difficult challenge that has faced plant pathologists for many years,» said Johnson «It is a privilege to work with an excellent team of researchers from many different disciplines with the goal of developing new tools that are both effective and safe.»

That's partly because different plants and animals will respond differently to threats like disease, pests, or climate change, but also because if one plant or animal falls victim to such challenges, others will be there to fill the hole left behind, helping to prevent the entire system from collapsing.

In patients with diseases like irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's, gut microbiome is often less diverse, altered by our low - plant - fiber Western diet and antibiotics.

It aids us in understanding, for example, how to fight diseases like HIV and how to grow plants that will survive in different environments.

They use natural plant centromeres (a key part of chromosomes needed for their inheritance), promoters (gene activation sites), and gene - termination sequences to assemble linear or circular minichromosomes that contain at least a dozen genes that can improve crops by promoting traits like pest and disease resistance.

Back to the film... What I love about Forks Over Knives is, in addition to hearing from incredible doctors like Colin Campbell (author of The China Study) and Caldwell Esselstyn, is that the film tells inspiring stories of real people, from all walks of life, who've embraced a plant - based diet and have thus reversed chronic health conditions like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

Eating a high plant - based diet, and ensuring it is higher in whole plant foods rather than mock foods, is even shown to be preventative for diseases like bowel cancer.

Just like in humans, the right balance of beneficial bacteria in and on plants can help the plants resist diseases and fungus and make them less susceptible to pests.

Research shows a plant - based diet has been connected to lower risk of cancer, heart disease and autoimmune disorders like colitis and arthritis, as well as fewer fertility problems.

Many terpenes and volatile chemicals released by plants appear to reduce all of these cellular pathways, promoting less inflammation, and hopefully less diseases like cancer.

In addition, degenerative diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and auto immune diseases are reversible on a plant based diet, even one that is complex carbohydrate centered, not a meat centered diet.

Heart disease was so rare among those eating these traditional plant - based diets, there were papers published like this: «A Case of Coronary Artery Disease in an African.disease was so rare among those eating these traditional plant - based diets, there were papers published like this: «A Case of Coronary Artery Disease in an African.Disease in an African.»

Its insoluble fiber may help fight cancer, and beta - glucan, a type of fiber found in some plant foods like oatmeal, may help lower cholesterol levels, thus protecting against heart disease.

It's like in the 1970s, when Nathan Pritikin appeared to reverse heart disease by the thousands, but no one took him seriously, until angiography was invented, and the likes of Ornish and Esselstyn could hold up images like this — proving conclusively that a plant - based diet could literally open up arteries, right there in black and white.

Well, for periodontal disease, affecting the tissues surrounding the teeth, like gingivitis (gum disease), one of the leading causes of tooth loss, plant - based diets should be protective.

Kaiser Permanente, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, among others now recommend a plant - based diet to avoid and reverse diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

Learn how insulin resistance works and why a plant - based diet is so effective at preventing chronic diseases like diabetes.

I wouldn't say this was a «great» article... Seems clear to me too that Jobs probably died because of his diet too tho... but what this article doesn't talk about is the health / unhealthiness of anyone who ate what jobs did but then also added meat and how long they lived or what diseases they had / or if they lived to be 110 years old... or someone who ate a different type of vegan diet like one with appropriate good proportions of whole foods in a plant based diet with fruit and no juice and how healthy or idk i've never heard of someone eating a good / human appropriate vegan diet and developing cancer but if one exists / existed i would imagine this site would of found them don't you?

Plant proteins also contain immunity - boosting phytonutrients, like flavonoids and isoflavones, that protect against disease.

Unhealthy cooked animal fats like trans fatty acids will cause lots of inflammation and can lead to heart disease, but not raw, plant - based fats

High levels of soy isoflavones — plant estrogens found in products like soy milk and soy nuts as well as many menopausal supplements — put women at risk for cardiovascular disease.

Environmental chemicals, lack of dietary fiber, excess dietary fat, estrogens in cow's milk, lack of plant - derived phytoestrogens, and resulting obesity are some of the means by which diet adversely affects hormones.6 - 10 Most importantly, when a woman changes to a low - fat, plant - food based diet her reproductive hormones correct and most troublesome female problems, like heavy menstrual bleeding, fibrocystic breast disease, and PMS are alleviated.

So, we have a pretty good idea that the diet which is the most health - promoting (disease fighting) is a whole plant food based diet fortified with B12 and possibly D. I can share some resources on what this diet really looks like if you are interested.

Cases like his happen all the time, and they don't have to happen as much because heart disease, obesity, and Type 2 diabetes are three of the easiest types of disease to treat with a whole foods plant - based diet.

I guess what l would like to know is making the change to a plant based diet, can l be hopeful that my auto immune disease be treated and possibly get off the Thoroxine that l am currently on?

Grapefruits are high in fiber and low in calories, and they contain bioflavonoids and other plant chemicals that protect against serious diseases like cancer, heart disease, and the formation of tumors.

So when we eat empty calories, meaning sugar, flour and processed foods that don't have the antioxidant levels of colorful plant foods like fruits and vegetables, we produce too many free radicals that destroy our mitochondria and produce fatigue, metabolic burnout and all the diseases of aging.

I've talked to people who said that they have certain diseases, like MS, that say they «can't absorb plant protein».

Consuming plant - based proteins — like lentils — are associated with a reduced risk of many lifestyle - related health conditions including heart disease, cancer and obesity.

In keeping with our example of nutrition, consider themes like growing (as a plant), boxing (fighting disease), a mother's care (nurturing body) or exploring a current food trend.

A handful of the garden members help feed the cats, dispel fears about diseases like toxoplasmosis and work hard to deter the cats from soiling the plants and veggies.

, parasites, toxic plants, getting hit by cars, diseases like diabetes and cancer, bacterial infections are just a few examples.

But it's also the by - product of fossil fuel combustion, and when a refinery or power plant reduces its greenhouse gas emissions (by becoming more energy - efficient, for example), it also releases fewer smog - forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides, less of the sulfur dioxide and soot that can irritate lungs and cause respiratory disease, and fewer toxic emissions linked to cancer and neurological disorders.

Like any garden, there are unpredictable changes in climate, mishaps with watering systems, or plant disease.

It is one of cause and effect — more carbon expelled from power plants results in more heat waves, super storms like Hurricane Sandy, and respiratory diseases like asthma caused by toxic chemicals in the atmosphere.

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«Among the best plants for creating vertical visual impact are the taller ornamental grasses, like Feather Reed Grass (or Calamagrostis),» he adds, «they are low - maintenance, disease resistant and thrive in relatively poor soil.»