Sentences with phrase «plant stems by»

Also don't miss a major work involving 200 tiny Japanese bells attached to plant stems by Christian Boltanski and Anya Gallaccio's walk - in amethyst grotto - cum - sculpture.

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In both cases individual members may exercise some dominance over others, in particular by altering the patterns guiding further growth and development, but the social coordination stems from basic patterns embodied in the genetic makeup of the plant cells and in the laws and traditions of human culture.

By commonly consuming all parts of plants from this group, including flowers, leaves, stems, stalks, roots and seeds, we allow this cruciferous vegetable group to integrate together an unusually wide range of nutrients that is broader than any other single food group subdivision in the average U.S. diet.

Yerba Mate Tea is a South American beverage made by steeping the ground leaves and stems of the Yerba Mate plant.

A plant virus characterized by dark green or yellow - and - green mottling of stems and leaves.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

I explained to J that the flower was drinking the water and you could see where it went by following the blue colour up the stem and into the petals he loved this idea and asks plants that he sees in the garden whether they are thirsty now and if he decides they say yes he goes and waters them.

The recent concerns with the VRA's thermal component stem from the government's advertisement in the Daily Graphic of August 23, 2017, noting the sale of at least a majority stake in specified thermal plants owned by the Volta River Authority (VRA).

Speeches came from a variety of speakers, including a science broadcaster and writer, a Pakistani - born Canadian Muslim who works in STEM, a Pakistani - born professor who studies cell biology and anatomy; and, an emergency room physician who helped start the process to phase out coal - fueled power plants by 2030 in Alberta.

One reaction, regulated by jasmonic acid, comes into play when insects chew on the plant's leaves, stems or fruit, damaging the plant and leaving insect saliva.

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.

The only previous demonstration — by researchers led by Shou - Wei Ding, PhD, a professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at UC Riverside and co-corresponding author of the current study — was done in embryonic stem cells and in newborn mice.

And on their way up to the stems, they are attacked by the ants, which are patrolling the plant.»

A study carried out by the Regional Service for Plant Protection in Rennes found that tomato plants watered from the River Seiche in central Brittany suffered from wrinkled leaves, bent stems, slow growth and deformed or unusually small fruit.

The inhibition is regulated by different molecules in animals and plants,» explains NAIST Professor Masaaki Umeda, who studies the role of stem cells in plant growth.

Those shifts most likely stem from the copious quantities of carbon dioxide spewed by fossil fuel — fired power plants that are changing the climate and, thus, the tiny plants known as phytoplankton that serve as the base of the oceanic food chain.

By removing a specific gene, researchers reduced the amount of lignin (stained red) by 36 % in cells in a plant's stem, making it easier to recover sugar - rich parts of the plant that can be converted to automotiBy removing a specific gene, researchers reduced the amount of lignin (stained red) by 36 % in cells in a plant's stem, making it easier to recover sugar - rich parts of the plant that can be converted to automotiby 36 % in cells in a plant's stem, making it easier to recover sugar - rich parts of the plant that can be converted to automotive

It also has applications in plant breeding by increasing the precision of markers for traits such as malting quality or stem rust.

When prompted by peptide signals, stem cells in the meristem develop into any of the plant's organs — roots, leaves, or flowers, for example.

Between 80 % and 90 % of methane emitted from rice fields is produced by microbes living on plant roots; some of the gas dissolves into the water and bubbles up, but most is absorbed along with water by plant roots, travels up to the stems and leaves, and escapes into the atmosphere.

Stem rust, named for the blackening pustules that infect plant stems, caused devastating crop epidemics and famine for centuries before being tamed by fungicides and resistance genes.

Researchers created SUSIBA2 rice by introducing a single gene from barley into common rice, resulting in a plant that can better feed its grains, stems and leaves while starving off methane - producing microbes in the soil.

(Methane forms as a by - product of anaerobic bacterial decomposition of organic matter in the soil and reaches the atmosphere through the roots and stems of the rice plants.)

«Intriguingly, the teosinte plants grown under past conditions exhibit characteristics more like corn: a single main stem topped by a single tassel, a few, very short branches tipped by female ears and synchronous seed maturation.

The authors believe their findings can be used by land managers to predict likely outcomes related to forthcoming disturbances occurring as a result of grid development, and that protecting unaltered landscapes from fragmentation by transmission lines, roads, crested wheatgrass plantings and the invasion of other non-native vegetation is integral to stemming range expansion by ravens.

As night fell, astronomer Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan watched a plant's leaves, symmetrically arranged side - by - side on a stem, clamp shut.

Biosynthesis of these monomers is accomplished by expressing a bacterial enzyme in the plant stems.

For example, increased planting of winter wheat will be accompanied by increased crop pests, such as wheat stem sawfly, and the natural regulation of this pest by native parasitoids will likely decline.

By comparing the V. carteri germ and somatic cell transcriptomes, Matt and Umen found that the somatic cells had more transcripts from young, lineage - specific genes, whereas the germ cells had more transcripts from ancient genes that are similar to those expressed in stem cells from animals and land plants.

It attacks different parts of the plant: the collar, which can ultimately kill the entire leaf blade; the stem, which turns blackish and breaks easily (node blast); the neck of the panicle, where the infected part is girdled by a grayish brown lesion, or when severe, causes the panicles to fall over; or on the branches of the panicles which exhibit brown lesions when infected.

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Catterall, USA (Past Core Member)- The Molecular Basis of Electrical Excitability Steven Charlton, UK - Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery Moses Chao, USA - Mechanisms of Neurotophin Receptor Signaling Mark Coles, UK - Cellular differentiation, human embryonic stem cells, stromal cells, haematopoietic stem cells, organogenesis, lymphoid microenvironments, develomental immunology Steven L. Colletti, USA Graham L Collingridge, UK Philippe Delerive, France - Metabolic Research (diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver, cardio - vascular diseases, nuclear hormone receptor, GPCRs, kinases) Sir Colin T. Dollery, UK (Founder and Past Core Member) Richard M. Eglen, UK Stephen M. Foord, UK David Gloriam, Denmark - GPCRs, databases, computational drug design, orphan recetpors Gillian Gray, UK Debbie Hay, New Zealand - G protein - coupled receptors, peptide receptors, CGRP, Amylin, Adrenomedullin, Migraine, Diabetes / obesity Allyn C. Howlett, USA Franz Hofmann, Germany - Voltage dependent calcium channels and the positive inotropic effect of beta adrenergic stimulation; cardiovascular function of cGMP protein kinase Yu Huang, Hong Kong - Endothelial and Metabolic Dysfunction, and Novel Biomarkers in Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Estrogen Deficiency, Endothelium - derived Contracting Factors in the Regulation of Vascular Tone, Adipose Tissue Regulation of Vascular Function in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension, Pharmacological Characterization of New Anti-diabetic and Anti-hypertensive Drugs, Hypotensive and antioxidant Actions of Biologically Active Components of Traditional Chinese Herbs and Natural Plants including Polypehnols and Ginsenosides Adriaan P. 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Ginger, considered a root by many people, is actually an underground stem of the ginger plant.

Pygeum can also be propagated by taking leafy stem cuttings from plants with healthy and vigorous shoots.

The striking and beautiful blue cohosh plant bears purple - blue flowers that are surrounded by three purple - blue stems that divide into leaves at the top.

«CBD» is an abbreviation for cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive chemical compound found by extracting the stem of the hemp plant.

The goji berry plant is characterized by its thorny stems, smooth bright green leaves, purple flowers, and distinctive orange - red berries, which can be larger or smaller depending on the goji species.

Antioxidants help lessen the damage caused by free radicals and the entire mulberry plant - leaves, stems, and fruit, contains antioxidants.

There will be times where you will have to take the bull by the horns / plant by the stem and diagnose yourself.

Damping off, a disease characterized by the rot of roots and stems, is often a result of the fungus Rhizoctonia solani, and occurs when the rhizomes have been planted in soil that does not drain well.

To conduct the study, which was published in December in Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, researchers prepared red cabbage and pakchoi (also known as bok choy) by cutting off the stems and chopping the leaves into 1 to 2 centimeter strips.

These plant stem cells, some of the most powerful renewal cells in nature, have been effectively — and sustainably — extracted by The Body Shop and bottled in the brand's Drops of Youth Youth Essence Lotion.

All students will be challenged by these tasks, I recommend stretching out the microscope lessons in particular (I formed a whole weeks STEM tasks around this module for studying animal and plant cells (also on tes)-RRB-.

Another type of Piranha Plant, called the Piranha Creeper, is introduced, which has a long stem and can be defeated by knocking it back into its hole with attacks.

Through meticulous study, Landy documents every fibrous hair and root stem, elevating a plant normally despised by culture to a place of reverence.

Basically, a sharp hooped blade on the end of a long stick, these beauties allow you to easily weed large areas without bending over by simply dragging and / or pushing the end blade along just under the soil surface, slicing through plant stems and severing them from their roots.

However, even today's most sophisticated Earth system models suffer from uncertainties that stem from the difficulty of simulating small - scale or complex processes, such as raindrop formation and carbon uptake by plants.

So do plants, by taking carbon dioxide; storing the carbon in leaves, stems, and trunks; and returning the oxygen to the air.

Methane is produced in sediments below the soil's water table and travels upward through the soil, through the stems of some plants or by bubbling through standing water (ebullition).

The Japanese utility is also hosting trials of energy storage systems made by US commercial provider Stem Inc and Sunverge within its service area, with both companies known for their aggregated «virtual power plant» business models.

Neonicotinoids have been linked to colony collapse in the past; the incredibly effective pesticide works by spreading throughout the seeds and stems of treated plants; making its way into nectar and pollen supplies, where it is picked up by pollinators like bees; and, finally, attacking the nervous system of the exposed insects.