Sentences with phrase «plant uses defense»

In the second line of defense, the plant uses defense proteins inside the cell to detect the bacterial effectors and sound the alarm.

Not exact matches

Defense attorneys alleged that he planted the second glove in a racially motivated attempt to frame the athlete, and asked if he had used racial epithets in the past.

Dangl, who worked with lead authors, postdoctoral researchers Gabriel Castrillo and Paulo José Pereira Lima Teixeira, graduate student Sur Herrera Paredes and research analyst Theresa F. Law, found evidence that soil bacteria can make use of this tradeoff between nutrient - seeking and immune defense, potentially to help establish symbiotic relationships with plants.

There, a resort developer has partnered with the U.S. defense and aerospace giant to build a 10 - megawatt power plant using ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) technology.

Gene silencing is a natural adaptive defense mechanism used by plants against viruses.

It's interesting to note that some of the molecules are also used in plant defense, he adds.

Even though federal laws limit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to be used only for defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated) waste from nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed actions to expand WIPP to three additional missions in 2012 - 2013.

These proteins attempt to disable plant defense proteins, which the plant uses like security guards to monitor for invaders.

Assessing the involvement of NO and AtNOS1 in plant defense using GFP - reporter system and NO spin trapping

Solanine is a defense mechanism in some Solanaceae plants, used to protect against natural threats such as insects and small animals.

What they don't know is that since organic coffee farmers do not use chemical sprays, the plants have no defense against toxins like T - 2 toxins, ochratoxins, vomitoxins, and rubratoxins.

Ever since insects developed a taste for vegetation, plants have faced the same dilemma: use limited resources to out - compete their neighbors for light to grow, or, invest directly in defense against hungry insects.

The game itself seems like your usual tower defense fare, using various plants and bugs in each level.

1) press ignoring the Downing Street memo 2) media using retired generals, who have conflicts of interest with the Pentagon and defense contractors, as military analysts 3) holding fake FEMA press conferences with fake reporters 4) planting fake reporters at Whitehouse press conferences to ask friendly questions (Jeff Gannon) 5) Whitehouse secretly paying columnists outrageous sums to write favorable stories 6) Pentagon writing fake stories in Iraqi newspapers 7) political hacks rewriting the findings of scientific reports 8) putting journalists in jail for reporting wrongdoing 9) press basically ignoring the Justice Dept. Scandal even though it's worse than Watergate 10) the press basically ignoring voting irregularities 11) press ignoring Gov. Siegelman scandal 12) the Whitehouse using Newspeak when announcing legislation (ie.

But a new study from the Natural Resources Defense Council suggests the powering of so many devices around the clock is using huge amounts of energy — $ 19 billion worth of electricity on an annual basis, equivalent to the output of 50 large power plants.»]

Earth scientist Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a former chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, urges the administration to use its Clean Air Act authority to promulgate carbon regulations for existing power plants like it has for new ones: «Doing that will force fuel switching from coal to natural gas.»