Sentences with phrase «plants have adapted»

Epstein, a professor of environmental sciences, has for much of his career conducted research, both on the ground and via satellite, on tundra regions — cold, extreme northern latitude areas where windswept plains are treeless, but a variety of low - lying, clustering plants have adapted to the environment.

As you are out enjoying the parks this summer, be sure to take a closer look and appreciate the many ways that plants have adapted to ecological conditions to disperse their seeds.

Most aquatic animals and plants have adapted to life in water with a very specific pH, and will die from even slight changes.

Some host plants have adapted to attacks from Xanthomonas bacteria and can recognise the manipulation through XopH.

«By understanding how plants have adapted to different climates, it will give us a head start in breeding crops able to cope with global warming.»

There I studied the factors that limit the growth of plants on different acid soils, and in particular, the ways in which plants have adapted to hydrogen or aluminium toxicity.

Haggerty suspects that the plant has adapted to kimberlite soils, which are rich in magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus.

Not exact matches

He has been working with engineers and architects to design a system that caters to the plant, instead of the plant adapting to its controlled environment like in most grows.

At times the land seems bountiful and kindly, and again harsh and unyielding, but it is always a challenge to human strength and ingenuity and people have learned to adapt their ways accordingly... agriculture continues to involve the relationship between humanity and the plant and the soil in which it grows....

I've been a vegetarian all my life but as I adapt a more plant - based lifestyle and slowly cut out dairy, it's been much harder for me to watch my loved ones indulge on animal products.

These varieties, or «land races,» called «Chimayó» and «Española,» had adapted to particular environments and are still planted today in the same fields they were grown in centuries ago; they constitute a small but distinct part of the tons of pods produced each year in New Mexico.

These varieties, or «land races,» called «Chimayo» and «Española,» had adapted to particular environments and are still planted today in the same fields they were grown in centuries ago; they constitute a small but distinct part of the tons of pods produced each year in New Mexico.

I have since adapted this diet slightly, but know I will continue to get the majority of my foods from plant - based, nutrient dense, healing foods.

The food plants eaten by the Native Americans are divided into two categories: those harvested in the wild and those cultivated plants that had managed to adapt to the dry desert climate or were irrigated.

The yield varies enormously according to the varieties grown and how well the particular plants adapt to the local environment; we have grown stunted plants with as few as ten pods and large, bushy plants with fifty or more.

The problem for the plants, animals and people living today is that they and we have adapted to the unusually stable climate of the past few thousand years

Smith had been studying how plants adapted to stress.

It comes from the plant Tribulus terrestris, which is particularly well adapted to grow in harsh, dry climates, and has successfully spread throughout Africa and parts of Europe, Asia and Australia.

Australopithecines had teeth and jaws that were in many ways adapted for eating fruit, seeds and other plant foods.»

But others have a tougher time adapting, like one of Nangonya's colleagues who has children; she was able to shift within the agency to stay planted in Vienna more often.

Published Dec. 18, 2017 in Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have exploited a catalog of bacterial genomes to identify and characterize candidate genes that aid bacteria in adapting to plant environments, specifically genes involved in bacterial root colonization.

Published December 18, 2017 issue in Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have exploited a catalog of bacterial genomes to identify and characterize candidate genes that aid bacteria in adapting to plant environments, specifically genes involved in bacterial root colonization.

He focused first on haemophilia B. Adapting a technique that he had previously developed to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes, Daniell and his group genetically modified tobacco plants to express human factor IX in their chloroplasts.

The floral turnover may have affected terrestrial vertebrate communities as the loss of wetland habitat space and an increase in arid climate adapted plants may have dwindled the supply of palatable vegetation for herbivores.

«The holy grail of plant science has long been to bioengineer the photosynthetic pathways in C3 and C4 plants to grow larger, more productive crops that are better adapted to climate change and boost food security.

«The Brisbane researchers at that time demonstrated that sugarcane and some other tropically adapted plants had evolved a different photosynthesis pathway than that seen in around 85 per cent of plants.»

The particular pollen they found in the insects» guts, says paleobotanist Bill Chaloner of the University of London, was adapted for wind dispersal, and the bugs could have «inadvertently consumed the pollen while foraging for other plant tissue.»

The aboveground plant cells have adapted to the bright, dry conditions with a sunscreen - like pigment and a special blend of chlorophyll that allow them to photosynthesize without frying to a crisp.

«It is unthinkable that, with a warming of 2oC, swallowtails would very likely vanish from the Norfolk Broads — and being totally dependent on their food plant, milk parsley, it won't be possible for them to adapt by moving elsewhere.

Stuck where they are, plants have to adapt to their environments, responding to stresses like drought or pests by changing how they grow.

Most plant species grown for food have an associated bank that stores thousands of samples: seeds of landraces, wild relatives, and varieties that are rare, old, or adapted to very specific environments.

«We hypothesized this because Neanderthals had been living in Central Asia and Europe for hundreds of thousands of years before our recent ancestors ever reached these areas — and thus had likely adapted to the distinct environmental aspects of these regions, compared to Africa, in terms of climate, plants and animals, and pathogens.»

They're genuine flowering plants whose ancestors over about 100 million years adapted to a salty underwater life that would quickly kill most land plants (SN: 12/5/09, p. 22).

Hummingbirds can weigh as little as 2 grams and have extremely diverse bills, adapted to fit their nectar plants.

A species of fly larvae have adapted to wade unscathed through the plant's deadly juices, to steal the insects it catches

That picture has begun to change, however, with the discovery of a number of early mammals that were well adapted to a variety of ecological niches, including eating plants that huge vegetarian dinosaurs also munched on.

That's why we have so many species of plants and so many that can be adapted to Western gardens.»

However, many insects have become adapted to plant defenses and can feed on plant tissues containing toxins or deterrents without the expected negative effects.

Because the newly created genetic resource is so broad, representing distantly related rice species that have evolved in habitats throughout Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia, it enables researchers to zero - in on valuable sequences that have been preserved as the plants adapted to different growing conditions.

Darwin had marveled at the diversity of these plants, and he saw the myriad ways in which the flowers and pollinating insects have adapted to each other as an extended case study in natural selection.

Plants have an immune system that helps them recognise a range of pathogens, but they have to keep up with enemy fire that is perpetually evolving and constantly adapting new ways of getting around a plant's primary defenses.

It seems that these locusts are well adapted to degraded grasslands, where sheep have eaten most of the high - quality plants.

Over the course of evolution, plants have developed mechanisms to adapt to periods of inadequate water, and as any gardener can tell you, some species are better able to handle drought than others.

In tropical climes, animals and plants aren't adapted to surviving freezing temperatures — and why would they be?

In some cases, these plants have been able to adapt to those challenges and we can see footprints of that in the genome,» explains Ware, a CSHL Adjunct Associate Professor.

And the species» struggle to adapt and survive can make attempts to control the fertility of plants difficult, according to Steve Strauss, a tree geneticist at Oregon State University who has also consulted with ArborGen.

Earth plants also absorb green light, but not as strongly, so leaves look green to the eye, having adapted to the conditions most commonly found around our Sun and on Earth's planetary surface.

Many plants are pollinated by insects and vertebrates (e.g., bats and or birds) that have evolved highly specialized flowers facilitating pollination by a specific group or species that are themselves concomitantly adapted through co-evolution.

In the meantime, all that extra stored heat will cause seawater to expand, raising sea levels, and altering the ecosystems that marine plants and animals have adapted to for eons.

Domestication (Doh - MES - ti - kay - shun) is the long and slow process by which people have adapted wild animals or plants to be tame and useful.