Sentences with phrase «plant growth while»

This would exclude credit for carbon sequestered during plant growth while also excluding taxes on upstream production - related emissions.

Organic farming reduces pollutants in groundwater and creates richer soil that aids plant growth while reducing erosion.

Young children will observe and explore plant growth while learning how to grow their own food.

Organic farming practices help reduce pollutants in groundwater and drinking water, and create richer soil that aids plant growth while reducing erosion.

Practically, the process slows plant growth while acclimating the seedling to harsher conditions.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Growth of investment in buildings and structures is expected to accelerate further, while expected investment in plant and equipment is lower than a year ago.

They plant the seeds of the Gospel, and encourage initial spiritual growth among those who believe, and then after a while — anywhere from a few days to a few years — move on to a new location to spread the Gospel elsewhere.

Monitoring results have shown that river red gum and black box trees surrounding the creek system have increased canopy cover and fresh growth, while water plants including rushes and sedges are also growing in abundance.

«Monocropping of the HYVs exposed the rice plants to various harmful pests while the excessive use of chemical fertilizers have stripped off the soils of its nutrients essential to plant growth,» added Panerio.

Letting your baby eat a variety of foods from different food sources (animal and plant) enables them to better meet their high nutrient needs for growth and development while priming their taste buds to accept a variety of nutritious foods.

While essential for plant growth, an over-abundance of this biologically - available nitrogen can result in «nitrogen saturation,» a phenomenon previously reported by Forest Service scientists in Riverside.

Plant growth is strongly influenced by the environment: stems grow up towards the sun, while roots grow down under the influence of gravity — an effect called gravitropism.

Global simulations conducted by the team found that microbial responses to enhanced root activity under rising CO2, while depending on plant species, climate and soil mineralogy, led to a loss of global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the world.

While CO2 stimulates reproduction and growth in plants, ozone has a negative impact on plant growth, the authors point out.

Sorting out sex - free embryogenesis might help scientists understand the cellular switches that plants use to stay flexible while still keeping growth under control.

Called AmazonFACE (Free - Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment), it's based on a simple idea: For 12 years, researchers will spray pure CO2 into instrumented plots in the rainforest northwest of Manaus, Brazil, raising ambient concentrations to 600 parts per million — a level the world could reach as early as 2050 — all the while taking meticulous measurements to determine how the gas affects the growth of plants.

Zebras walk an unmarked route that takes them to the next best place for grazing, while overhead thundering cloudbursts of late October rains drive new plant growth, filling pockmarks across this largest inland delta in the world.

And while Monsanto is digging into which soil microbes might help grow seeds better, Syngenta is hot on uncovering what metabolites can reveal about maximizing plant growth.

Before this study — the largest of its kind — conducted by a team led by Professor Dirk Inzé, scientists had little insight into the genes and genetic processes that drive some plants to limit their growth under drought conditions while others grow normally.

Deer clearly avoid certain invasive plants that are increasing in abundance in natural areas, suggesting that the herbivores are indirectly contributing to the growth and spread of unpalatable invasive plant species, noted lead author Kristine Averill, who spearheaded the research while pursuing her doctoral degree in Ecology at Penn State.

However, while experiments on natural ecosystems have also found initial elevations in the rate of plant growth, these have tended to level off within a few years.

For instance, while higher temperatures will boost plant growth in cooler regions, in the tropics they may actually impede growth.

These pegs form during the plant's early growth stage to help the seedlings emerge from their hard seed coat and anchor the developing plant in the soil while its roots form.

Some climate change effects will be beneficial for plant growth (e.g., elevated CO2 concentrations and longer frost - free seasons), while others will be detrimental (e.g., plant damage due to extreme events, increased weed growth, new or expanded pests and diseases).

Many scientists suspect that imprinting, in both animals and plants, happens because the paternal genome promotes growth of the biggest possible offspring, while the maternal genome promotes conservation of limited resources.

While seedlings from Plant Gravity Perception will not wind up on astronauts» plates, their studied growth furthers our knowledge of perceptual thresholds and makes selecting appropriate garden greens likely to thrive in space easier for future long duration spaceflight, including exploration missions beyond low - Earth orbit.

There are two general types of resistance genes found in wheat: Race - specific genes confer a high - level of resistance to specific strains of leaf rust but can be easily overcome by genetic mutation in pathogen populations, while slow rusting (APR) resistance provides partial resistance to a broad spectrum of races, but is typically effective only at the adult stage of plant growth.

, while depending on plant species, climate and soil mineralogy, led to a loss of global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the world.

In the chilly months of early spring, while neighboring competitors sit dormant, and before overhead trees come into leaf, the plant gets a jump - start on growth by pumping its cells full of water.

After discussing similar effects in other animal models of cancer and a few studies showing the ability of antioxidants to prevent cancer growth, Campbell concluded that «a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant - based foods decreased tumor development.»

This past Thursday marked the one - year anniversary of The Curious Case of Campbell's Rats, wherein we took a wild ride through over two decades of animal research in which Dr. T. Colin Campbell of China Study fame showed that dietary protein, whether it comes from animals or plants, protects against aflatoxin toxicity and the initiation of new precancerous lesions while simultaneously promoting the growth of precancerous lesions that have already formed.

Nutrients from animal foods promoted cancer growth, while nutrients from plant foods decreased cancer growth.

Referencing Campbell's rat studies, we're told that «the results were consistent: Nutrients from animal foods promoted cancer growth, while nutrients from plant foods decreased cancer growth.»

Your body produces less IGF - 1 (insulin - like growth factor 1) while fasting and on certain diets, such as a healthy plant - based diet.

Phenolics are phytochemical compounds in plants that protect them from the insults of nature while assisting with essential functions of reproduction and healthy growth.

Milk - based formulas often cause allergies while soy - based formulas contain mineral - blocking phytic acid, growth inhibitors and plant forms of estrogen compounds that can have adverse effects on the hormonal development in the infant.

She also suggests that students can study how the plants grow and stay healthy, and they can determine optimum locations while charting their growth.

After observing plants grown in California over 16 years, under altered CO2, nitrogen, temperature and water levels, researchers concluded that only higher nitrogen levels increased plant growth, while higher temperatures hindered the plants.

While it's true that in a controlled setting like a greenhouse, increased CO2 levels will generally improve plant growth, the global climate is not so simple.

Geothermal plant capacity and utilization, for both power generation and direct heat supply, is increasing, although the pace of growth in power generation has slowed compared to the past, while that of direct heat uses has accelerated.

According to Gray's study, while the growth of coal consumption has slowed, 570 new coal - fired plants are either being built or are planned, and if they go ahead would be responsible for a further 32,000 premature deaths each year.

... Caldeira's study showed that doubling the amount of carbon dioxide while holding steady all other inputs — water, nutrients, and so forth — yields a 70 percent increase in plant growth, and obvious boon to agriculture.

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An earlier growing season can also increase water stress while leaving plants more vulnerable to frost damage after starting growth too soon.

While all plants store C, growth constraints commonly cause the accumulation of C reserves as is well documented from unicellular plants to trees (Estiarte et al. 1999, Würth et al. 2005).

Critics contend these climate geoengineering approaches are risky and could kill marine life, stall plant growth, damage the ozone layer, and reduce rainfall while increasing warming in other areas.

I would not have expected this to be the case as the decomposition process involves oxidation reactions that are exponential functions of temperature while the alarmists have been been arguing for years that the plant growth process is limited by, and dependent on, factors other than just temperature.

While plants do need carbon dioxide to support photosynthesis, carbon dioxide levels are just one factor in their growth.

Reductions in the number of days with suitable climate conditions for plant growth also underscore an internal discrepancy of Earth System Models: while these models project dramatic enhancements of NPP [5,20,36], our results show multiple climate variables becoming limiting for plant growth, particularly in tropical areas, which could result in considerable reductions in future NPP (S4 Fig).