The phrase
"plant kingdom" refers to a group of living beings that includes all types of plants. It is a classification term used to describe the group of organisms that consists of plants, such as trees, flowers, grass, and moss.
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«The animal [food] world is focused on only a few animals, and we have the whole
entire plant kingdom just filled with possibility.»
Forgive the bad play on words, but one of this Sunday's episodes of Life over on our big brother Discovery Channel (that's 8 pm ET by the way) is all about this planet's
vast plant kingdom and all the different challenges they
Bioflavonoids are biologically active flavonoid compounds found throughout the
entire plant kingdom.
It's all in
the plant kingdom.»
Buckwheat has the highest source of biological protein in
the plant kingdom.
Our task is to eliminate the need for meat from animals and find the same or analogous materials in
the plant kingdom.
I find
the plant kingdom loves to gift us cures during these wet seasons.
«What's so cool about
the plant kingdom is just how big it is, how many options we have,» says Simon.
Coconut oil, however, is one of the few sources of saturated fats found in
the plant kingdom.
Beyond Meat's task is to eliminate the need for meat from animals and find the same or analogous materials in
the plant kingdom.
With it's completely unique structure and texture, it's unlike anything else from
the plant kingdom.
I often compare bone broth to green juice in that it extracts the goodness from the animal kingdom into a more digestible form making nutrients more readily available in your body, just like green juice does for
the plant kingdom.
The plant kingdom, however, is highly dependent on phytic acid to -LSB-...]
There is plenty of protein in
the plant kingdom.
In
the plant kingdom, parthenogenesis and sex are far from mutually exclusive.
The writing gets a bit, ahem, flowery at times, but Garden is a lively alternative to traditional botany textbooks, reveling in scientific exploration of
the plant kingdom that comprises 99 percent of our big blue marble's biomass.
The pseudocolored electron micrographs that grace the pages of this striking book reveal the dazzling array of adaptations in
the plant kingdom.
In fact, as reported recently in Nature Communications, the new method reveals that biologically active plant substances typically associated with particular plant species — including those providing health benefits — are much more prevalent across
the plant kingdom than was previously thought.
The same functions evolving independently in completely different organisms has been seen before in the animal and
plant kingdoms.
And their sensor concept is expected to find many other applications to monitor other types of transporters and transporters in other organisms outside of
the plant kingdom and even enzymes.
Color in
the plant kingdom is not merely a joy to the eye.
The lab of UNC - Chapel Hill Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar reveals first - ever repair map of an entire multicellular organism to illuminate the inner workings of
the plant kingdom's highly efficient DNA repair system..»
While proteins involved in endocytosis, such as clathrin, are conserved across the animal and
plant kingdoms, the members of the TPLATE complex appears specially designed for plants.
Ultimately, this would be a smaller effort than that envisaged by Peter Raven of the Missouri Botanical Garden, which aims to protect every endangered species in
the plant kingdom.
Among the 31,000 plants listed in the Flora of China (FOC) are some that offer the hope of treatments for malaria and HIV, and others that illuminate the evolutionary roots of
the plant kingdom.
The traps on the tips of its leaves are some of the fastest - moving appendages in
the plant kingdom, taking just 10 miliseconds to snap shut when small invertebrates land on them.
Originally these odd forms were thought to be part of
the plant kingdom, which is why we still see lichens collected by botanical gardens.
Long a symbol of life and fertility in Eastern cultures, the fig tree has now shown that its sexual prowess is tops in
the plant kingdom, at least in one respect: It appears to hold the distance record for how far its pollen routinely travels to fertilize other fig trees.
«It's really remarkable how important these seemingly simple sugar modifications are for growth and development throughout
the plant kingdom,» says Lippman.
The finding, published today in Scientific Reports, upends conventional wisdom about the early evolution of
the plant kingdom.
With more than 25,000 species, they're the biggest group within
the plant kingdom, comprising roughly 8 % of all vascular plant species.
While Murre and his colleagues concentrated on T cells, they believe this mechanism may be unfolding throughout the animal and
plant kingdoms.
A protein that detects hormones in smoke has a much wider and more ancient role in
the plant kingdom — detecting microscopic soil fungi which colonise plants and feed nutrients to their cells.
This «symbiosis» between plants and certain microbial fungi is prevalent across
the plant kingdom, and thought to date back to the earliest transitions of plant life from water to land some 450 million years ago, as plants had to develop ways of surviving on land by acquiring nutrients from soil many millennia before they evolved roots.
But they have some of the smallest leaves in
the plant kingdom, with most never growing beyond 6 centimeters.
But they may extend well beyond
the plant kingdom to help researchers understand other processes, like fluid transport in kidneys.
Despite having no prior training in plant biology, Wisecaver was driven by her own curiosity to apply an approach she developed to study secondary metabolism in fungi to
the plant kingdom.
Ware notes that genome doubling is not uncommon in
the plant kingdom, and hypothesizes that «it may be a very successful way for speciation to occur.»
He has made fundamental discoveries related to the elucidation of biochemical pathways and associated genes for unusual fatty acids in
the plant kingdom.
Proteins are actually complex molecules made up of a chain of various amino acids, and they are abundant in
the plant kingdom.
Their unique composition that includes 65 % globulin edestin protein is the highest in
the plant kingdom.
Horsetail, not to be confused with cat - tail, is possibly the most abundant source of silica in
the plant kingdom, so much in fact that the herb can be used for polishing metal.
Cacao, at its origin, has one of the highest sources of iron in
the plant kingdom.