Sentences with phrase «plant response much»

Again, this is anecdotal, but I've seen the drooling, chin rubbing, falling - asleep - clutching - the - plant response much more often with a stalk of homegrown catnip.

Not exact matches

Unshaded coffee plants grown with fertilizer yield the most coffee, although unfertilized shaded crops generally yield more than unfertilized unshaded crops: the response to fertilizer is much greater in full sun.

They found that the nematode peptides triggered a growth response in Arabidopsis much in the same way as the plants» own peptides affected development.

However, Dr Pullen and his team present evidence that plant growth is actually «sink - limited,» meaning that genetic regulation and cell division rates have a much bigger role in controlling plant growth than previously thought: «We are proposing that plant growth is not physically limited by Net Primary Productivity (NPP) or the environment, but instead is limited genetically in response to these signals to ensure they do not become limiting.»

It has been known since 1939 (Laude et al) that plants» response to heat stress fluctuates between day and night — if you apply heat stress to a plant during the middle of the day, it is much more likely to survive than if you applied the same heat stress at night.

A new study by researchers from Brown and Tufts universities suggests that researchers have been overlooking how two key human responses to climate — how much land people choose to farm, and the number of crops they plant — will impact food production in the future.

There is a lot known about how plant and animal cells respond to extreme heat stress, but not much was known about their response to ambient heat or how they regulate their response to heat between day and night.»

For example, how much does nutrient availability limit the response of the plants to increased CO2?

His response to me on July 10, 2003 was, «Contrary to general opinion, the distinction between dietary protein sources in terms of the nutritional superiority of animal over plant proteins is much more difficult to demonstrate and less relevant in human nutrition.

The suspension is rarely upset by imperfections and lends the car a planted feel, but the relatively soft tuning permits too much body roll, dulling the Optima's responses when pushed a bit harder through switchbacks and esses.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

Figures 1 and 2 illustrate that, compared to a coal plant, a battery is able to offer much more rapid and accurate response to the grid - balancing control signal.