Sentences with phrase «plant genera»

By utilizing a slightly modified coexistence approach (Mosbrugger and Utescher, 1997), we were able to generate climatic ranges for 16 plant genera identified at the site and a MAT estimate (see Appendix).

So after reading that Dragon's blood is a bright red resin that is obtained from different species of a number of distinct plant genera, you couldn't believe how relieved I was.

Chiles fall under the capiscum plant genus, and their heat is determined by how much capiscum oil they produce.

Celebrated travel writer Bryson sprinkles this saga with sharp - witted portraits of such scientists as the sex - obsessed Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who invented the modern biological classification system and named one plant genus Clitoria.

«No plant genus is more important as a carbon balance on Earth than peat mosses.

Jamesbondia falls under the tropical flowering plant genus Alternathera, according to the proposal in the latest issue of the journal Plant Biosystems.

However, the working group's research interest lies in different regions: «We are particularly interested in the tropical and subtropical plant genus Crotalaria, at home primarily in Africa,» says Ober's associate Dr Elisabeth Kaltenegger.

«Mangoes are juicy stone fruit (drupe) from numerous species of tropical trees belonging to the flowering plant genus Mangifera, cultivated mostly for their edible fruit.

«All lilies belonging to the plant genus Lilium are considered highly toxic to cats,» says Dr. Steven Hansen, board - certified veterinary toxicologist and director of the ASPCA's Animal Poison Control Center.

Members of the plant genus Lilium produce a chemical, present throughout the plant, which can cause a cat to suffer fatal kidney failure.

Despite the punch that these two ingredients add to bland food, they are members of the Allium plant genus, which is toxic to both dogs and cats.

Developing traits those don't exist in a plant genus or family is obviously harder and takes longer timescales.

Not exact matches

Hemp belongs to the cannabaceae plant family that contains over 270 species and 11 genera and is often confused with cannabis plants that are uses as a source of the drug, marijuana; however, hemp does not have any psychoactive or drug properties and is often identified as an agricultural crop.

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing photosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, ma - mmals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.

Cox is a research coordinator and senior scientist at The Land Institute where he focuses on sorghum, a genus of plants in the grass family.

Each of these plants falls under the genus Allium; the actual progenitor of onions is difficult to identify because its cultivars are sterile.

Chile peppers are the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae.

It has long been believed that capsaicin was present only in the pods of the Capsicum genus and in no other plant or animal material.

[read species guide] Capsicum terminology is very confusing with Pepper, chilli, chile, chili, aji, paprika and capsicum all used interchangeably to describe the plants and pods of the genus Capsicum.

Until then, I'd never heard of it, and it seems quite versatile; it's a plant - based thickening agent made from the root of an Asian mountain plant within the pea genus.

Amber is comprised of hydrocarbon, plant materials, succinic acid and a mishmash of tree resins from different types of conifers, such as the extinct Hymenaea species and Pine genus.

SEDUM PREFERED: Plants most recommended for green roofs belong to the genus Sedum.

As plants go, Rafflesia is an oddball genus.

The foot and ankle bone seen here belonged to a large, plant - eating sauropodomorph called Glacialisaurus hammeri, a new genus and species of dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic period, approximately 190 million years ago.

With up to a few dozen holes pockmarking each of its leaves, the Swiss cheese plant (genus Monstera, pictured) is aptly named.

Tobacco refers to a genus of broad - leafed plants of the nightshade family indigenous to North and South America, or to the dried and cured leaves of such plants.

Globally, there is an outstanding ratio of one endemic Laparocerus for each 35.7 km2; a record not beaten by any other genus of plant or animal in Macaronesia.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

The plants on which this vast industry are based are often wrongly named, for example, within the genus Rhododendron.

Scientists at the RBGE turn those data into taxonomic monographs (descriptions of all the plants in a particular genus) and floras (descriptions of all the plants found in a given geographic area).

Michael Donoghue and Erika Edwards, plant evolution researchers at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, analyzed water conservation mechanisms in the cactus genus Pereskia, an assortment of leafy shrubs and trees that are thought to represent the ancestral state of living cacti.

The plants, which graduate student Lachezar Nikolov collected in the jungles of Malaysia and Thailand, belong to the genus Rafflesia.

Plants in the genus open little five - petaled flowers and readily form classic seeds that mix genes from pollen and ovule.

Sharing genes across species is evidently common in this genus and not at all rare among plants.

One example for such an association has now been reported by an international team of researchers in the journal New Phytologist: a fungus of the genus Trichoderma lives inside the tissue of tomato plants (endophytically) and helps its host to defend itself against infestations by parasitic nematodes.

Other species in this genus play critical roles in biofuel production, and plant and human health.

The result is an unsurpassed density of plants and animals that are endemic not only at the species level but in many cases also in the broader scientific categories of genus and family.

Citrus is a common term and genus of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, originating in tropical and subtropical southeast Asia.

The Kadsura genus is an evergreen climbing plant of the Schisandraceae family.

The new species was discovered as part of a 5 - year, $ 4.36 million study funded by the National Science Foundation to inventory all 1500 or so species in the Solanum genus — a diverse group that includes poisonous plants commonly known as nightshades as well as agriculturally important crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.

Located on the side of a mountain in this coastal African country, the genus of flowering plants has pulled out all stops.

The modus operandi of one species in this genus — E. rostratum — was to infect a plant and in some cases precipitate tissue death.

In many cases, they examined clusters of closely related organisms, such as tiger beetles or a group of tropical plants called spiral gingers that belong to one genus.

Beck and Semple tested this assertion on the goldenrods (genus Solidago), a notoriously difficult group of plants in the sunflower family.

The new species belongs to the genus Solanum, which includes some 1,500 species of mostly poisonous plants, including nightshades, but also three economically important, global food crops: tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants — the last of which is most closely related to S. cordicitum, Bohs says.

Discovery of the new species was a small part of a five - year, $ 4.36 - million National Science Foundation - funded study — led by Bohs — to better classify and create a comprehensive online inventory of all 1,500 species in Solanum, one of Earth's largest genera of flowering plants.

The Solanaceae family, including the genus Solanum, is known as the nightshade family, and many of the plants are toxic, hallucinogenic or medicinal, although others — like tomatoes, potatoes and chili peppers — are edible.

Henk Vlug and Peter Smits, entomologists at the Research Institute for Plant Protection in Wageningen, in the Netherlands, are trying to kill the bugs with tiny worms which harbour bacteria of the genus Xenorhabdus in their guts.

Genetic sequencing identified the RNA genome as a member of the insect - infecting Cripavirus genus, but the DNA viral genome was more mysterious: It was unlike any sequenced present - day viruses, but distantly related to plant - infecting geminiviruses.