Sentences with phrase «plant specimens in»

Shikama photographed naturalized animals in the dioramas of New York's Natural History Museum, plant specimens in various greenhouses and, more recently, dried seeds.

Decreases in nitrogen concentration have also been reported for herbaria plant specimens in response to the increases in Ca during the twentieth century [50].

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Situated next to the North Shore mountains and within 20 minutes of downtown Vancouver, the property is in a forested setting and «features lush foliage of both native and specimen plantings, natural and man - made water features, a custom - built 9,000 - square - foot home, self - contained guest house, working 12 - stall paddock / barn and greenhouse,» says the company.

In his view, the water and earth, the plants, the sun, moon, and stars, the animals, and even «homo» specimens (p. 169) already existed.

Marchetti retired from ARS in 2001, leaving behind not only a legacy of excellence in rice breeding and plant pathology, but also a prized collection of 1,000 rice blast specimens he isolated from Texas, Arkansas, and other rice - growing states.

The plant is particularly good for container gardening, and one of our specimens lived as a perennial for 4 years in a pot, but gradually lost vigor and produced fewer pods each year.

Indeed I know people who have specimens up to 8 years old although plants are most productive in their earlier years.

In the set of 25 prepared slides, your daughter will be able to see a specimen of insects, plants, and various animal tissues.

In addition to our living collections, we have thousands of preserved specimens — from rare extinct species to common plants and animals.

The group will sketch native plants in and around the Nature Museum's gardens, working outdoors when weather permits, or indoors with specimens.

A species of subterranean plant was only seen once, in 1866, and was assumed to be extinct — until researchers stumbled across living specimens in Borneo

One specimen had 32 small, pencil - shaped teeth similar to those of plant - eating sauropods called titanosaurs, fossils of which have also been found in the area.

A parasitic wasp identified from Uroleucon aphids in South Dakota cup plants, for instance, had characteristics similar to specimens of a known species, A. tissoti, found in British Columbia and Florida.

From musing over plant specimens collected by Darwin to a blow - by - blow retelling of paleontology's bruising «Bone Wars,» veteran science writer Conniff lovingly chronicles the institution's role in advancing our understanding of everything

We're sort of like explorers who want to study the plant life in a new land: We collect specimens of interaction that exist out there, then systematically examine and compare them.

George Washington Carver The George Washington Carver Museum in Tuskegee, Alabama, houses the agricultural scientist's plant specimens and lab apparatus, as well as paintings, crochet, and other handicrafts he created in his spare time.

Perlman and Ken Wood, another daredevil botanist at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, have logged more than 1,000 expeditions in the last decade to collect rare plant specimens or at least save their seeds.

By analyzing genetic markers specific to sweet potatoes in both modern samples of the plant and older herbarium specimens, the researchers discovered significant differences between varieties found in the western Pacific versus the eastern Pacific.

The petrified specimen comes from a large plant eater such as Iguanodon, which lived about 133 million years ago, and whose brain was pickled in mud after it died

His specimens host a number of traits that plant breeders would want to see in oil - palm trees.

A technician scraped away clay to reveal compound leaves, which placed the specimen in the flowering plant group known as eudicots.

The ability to sequence the DNA of plants and animals has revolutionized many areas of biology, but the unstable character of DNA poses difficulties for sequencing specimens in museum collection over time.

Utilizing their specimens in order to better understand plant biodiversity and evolution is a clear way to honor and build upon this legacy.»

Collectors found the first two specimens of the prickly plant in 1974 and 1990 in west Texas.

This pressed specimen of newly identified plant species Solanum cordicitum was found in 1990 in Valentine, Texas.

Now — after a long search turned up a «pathetic, wilted» third specimen — a University of Utah botanist and her colleagues identified the spiny plant as a new, possibly endangered species and named it «from the heart» in Latin because it was found in Valentine, Texas, population 134 in 2010.

Her work includes analysis of pond sediments, soils, and more collecting to document plant diversity... We're also hoping to cast a broader net across Providence with an analysis of historical specimens of Plantago [plantain] in an attempt to match terrestrial trends in heavy metal concentration with measurements taken from nearby marine sediments in Narragansett Bay [south of Providence].»

In a recent article published in Applications in Plant Sciences, researchers at Brown University have demonstrated a unique resource that has been under our feet for decades: pressed herbaceous plants, labeled and stored as herbarium specimenIn a recent article published in Applications in Plant Sciences, researchers at Brown University have demonstrated a unique resource that has been under our feet for decades: pressed herbaceous plants, labeled and stored as herbarium specimenin Applications in Plant Sciences, researchers at Brown University have demonstrated a unique resource that has been under our feet for decades: pressed herbaceous plants, labeled and stored as herbarium specimenin Plant Sciences, researchers at Brown University have demonstrated a unique resource that has been under our feet for decades: pressed herbaceous plants, labeled and stored as herbarium specimens.

He was interested enough to have grown specimens of loosestrife in his garden, and to have spent much of the summers of 1862 and 1863 snipping stamens, «castrating» the plants to use his unsettling terminology, and meticulously hand - fertilizing them with camel - hair brushes.

Vandals or plant thieves have attacked the last surviving specimen of Ramosmania heterophylla, the cafe marron, on Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean.

This photo shows a the specimen of Solanum cordicitum found in Valentine, Texas in 2013 with a dayback and plastic bag on the ground to provide some scale and indicate the small size of the prickly plant, which grows no higher than 14 inches.

The colonization history of the Pyrenean rocket is well documented, explains postdoctoral researcher and corresponding author Katrien Vandepitte (Plant Conservation and Population Biology Research Group): «We found dried specimens of the Pyrenean rocket in herbaria from the 19th and 20th centuries and were able to isolate DNA from these samples.

When I took botany and taxonomy of vascular plants in college, we spent many an hour poring over specimens under dissecting microscopes pulled with tweezers from smelly jars of preserving liquid.

This spiny and wilted plant — shown here where it was found in Valentine, Texas in November 2013 — is only the third specimen of Solanum cordicitum ever found.

July 9, 2014 — Collectors found the first two specimens of the prickly plant in 1974 and 1990 in west Texas.

The first specimen was found in 1974 and the second in 1990, but over the years, the plant was wrongly assigned to three different Solanum species before a study led by University of Utah botanist Lynn Bohs identified it as an entirely new but likely endangered species.

In October 2015, Suetsugu Kenji, a project associate at the Kobe University Graduate School of Science, canvassed the island for plant specimens with photographer Yamashita Hiroaki.

To grow the plant for the benefit of all its parts, whole specimens can be found in garden stores during cultivation seasons.

In time they began experimenting with plant species, planting only the choicest specimens and weeding out undesirable characteristics.

They are so beautiful in mixed container plantings or as a single specimen plant nestled in between heirloom pumpkins.

CITES is an international agreement between governments, aimed to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten

After all, trees and bushes tend to change in size and are rarely planted as full - grown specimens.

These... well, deformed specimens were frightful enough to plant in my brain the stigma attached to independent authors.

I always tell customers who are setting up their first tank to go with plastic plants, but stick in one or two live specimens to test their husbandry skills.

In addition its herbarium contain 10,000 preserved plant specimens ranging from algae to flowering plants..

Arbor Care also specializes in hazard evaluations, stump grinding, large specimen plantings and transplanting as well as commercial maintenance, design and consultation.

In July 1802, explorer Matthew Flinders sailed the east coast, landing for a day to collect water and wood, and for botanists to collect plant specimens.

Extensive woodland gardens, specimen trees & plants — waterfalls and private beach beside Loch Lochy in th...

He finds the perfect specimen in the Star Plant.

Each of several anonymous performers is fully clothed in a fabric bodysuit — some suits boldly hypervisible and some printed with plant imagery that becomes almost a camouflage against the backdrop of transplanted, tropical specimens typical of this part of the gardens.