Sentences with phrase «plant roots»

A conventional adjustable - rate mortgage (ARM) is a good option if you don't really plan on planting roots in your home.

Their ultimate goal is to better understand the impacts of climate on plant root physiology.

The first is by greatly extending plant root systems.

There is no comparison to the body; it can't utilize aluminum foil, but can use aluminum from plant roots.

In the case of the biologists, just the right chemical is needed to measure exactly how plant roots grow.

With many sources of carbon coming from the soil, such as plant roots and microorganisms, researchers need to distinguish those sources to get accurate measurements.

Nothing kills plant roots like an under - tank heater.

For buyers, it can mean having a place to plant roots while working toward purchasing the home they're living in.

Plant roots play a key part in keeping soil together, making it resistant to erosion and helping water flow through the soil, which can help to prevent floods.

Some bacteria do this within certain plant roots, but we'd like to look at nitrogen - fixing bacterial that live in other parts of many plants.

Plant roots inspire scientists in other ways, too.

Healthy soil holds more moisture, keeping plant roots hydrated in dry periods.

Plant roots excel at different things — for example legumes are better at getting water into the soil more quickly and maintaining root - soil strength.

They found that soil structure improved with higher plant diversity and that the diverse properties of different plant roots were the key factor in keeping soil healthy.

If you think this exotic plant root seems out of place in a modern day supplement, you couldn't be more wrong.

Actual plant roots are examined and analyzed in lesson three.

If you're going to plant roots somewhere we think there should be good access to medical care, low crime, good public transportation and, yes, nice weather.

To help plant roots grow deep, I am watering every third day.

Plant roots play an essential role in soil development and prevention of soil erosion.

Other research indicates that glyphosate can alter the mix of bacteria and fungi that interact with plant root systems, making them more susceptible to parasites and pathogens.4

The model variables that are evaluated against all sorts of observations and measurements range from solar radiation and precipitation rates, air and sea surface temperatures, cloud properties and distributions, winds, river runoff, ocean currents, ice cover, albedos, even the maximum soil depth reached by plant roots (seriously!).

But IPCC also believes there's a shift in the appetite for planting roots in any one location — the Millennial generation has a more transient demographic profile.

Zafeirios Fountas, Murray Shanahan Embodied Behavior of Plant Roots in Obstacle Avoidance.

Microbes that flourish in the area around plant roots take up specific organic acids from the root exudates.

Researchers are working to uncover exactly how these tiny worms trick plant root cells into feeding them for life.

Researchers from North Carolina State University's Department of Horticultural Science recently introduced a new apparatus called the «mini-Horhizotron,» a device used to non-destructively measure treatment and substrate effects on plant root growth in greenhouse production.

But, planting roots doesn't necessarily mean buying the traditional house with a white picket fence.

She and her husband are happy to be planting their roots here in Earlysville where they live with their two dogs - Tucker, a chocolate labrador, and Hoyt, a Boston terrier / shih tzu mix.

Thatch can help provide a good growing environment for grasses, but excess thatch can prevent water and oxygen from reaching plant roots and create conditions for diseases, Grubbs said.

The Plano, Texas - based company firmly planted its roots in the industry by developing deep relationships with its clientele, grower and supplier base and distribution partners, which has enabled it to maintain partnerships for decades.

This cell, the deepest of the wetlands, contains floating water lillies, where plant roots are perpetually submerged.

The chemicals disperse poorly into soil, while the parasites feed at plant roots well below the surface.

«Students take what they have done in the kitchen or garden, such as transplanting seedlings, then we build on their experience to understand how plant root systems work, the needs of plants and why we are careful to keep the roots hydrated and handle them gently,» Bev said.

Plant roots use a patterning mechanism to position lateral root branches toward available water.

One particular group, the mycorrhizal fungi, feed nutrients and water directly into plant roots, and are paid for this service with sugars from the plant.

Some want to use tree - powered sensors to monitor remote forests, while others, including the Wageningen team, see more potential in harvesting electrons released among plant roots.

«Beneficial relationships like this are found in fluorescent pseudomonad species that protect plant roots from pathogenic fungi, for example.

Microbes that flourish in the area around plant roots take up specific organic acids from the root exudates.

They found that the microbes that flourished in the area around plant roots preferred a diet more rich in organic acids than the less successful microbes in the community.

Through the quantitative analysis of individual plant roots and from root length measurements over time, an estimation of dynamical parameters such as relative cell elongation rates, meristematic activity rate, and time spent in the EZ was obtained (see description in Appendix Text: Section S1.A and formulae in Table EV2 both for Approach 1 and Approach 2).

The factors driving plant roots towards water seem to have deeper, um roots, than once thought (Credit: photocosma / Depositphotos)

Strip away the rugged exterior and you'll find that sugar beets have a high sucrose content, up to about 20 % of the unprocessed plant root.

With any sort of plant root bundle packaging, you are forced to buy more polypropylene and labels and trays.

In par - tiular, notes Newmark Knight Frank, many tech companies planted roots in Santa Monica, CA.

This was the year for a cohort of big, reckless, ruby - eyed bugs to break out of the soil for their first and only chance to mate after 17 years of sucking plant roots in the dark.

To show their program's promise beyond plant roots, the researchers also used it with a different microscope to watch groups of cells move around in growing zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos.

Nematodes damage plant roots, and reduce the plant's ability to take up water and nutrients.