Sentences with phrase «plants have evolved»

Herbicides can no longer control the weeds that threaten crop productivity and food security in the UK because the plants have evolved resistance, and future control must depend on management strategies that reduce reliance on chemicals.

Plants have evolved to be optimized to their environments, not optimized for productivity.

Lightning strikes can fix nitrogen, some plants have evolved relationships with fungi and bacteria to fix nitrogen or we have been known to add artificial or natural fertilizer.

Such a simplistic argument ignores the fact that plants have evolved into the environments in which they live — I dare say Scottish broom would perform rather poorly in Atlantic Brazil — but that does not prove anything.

Much like the idea of vibronic interactions we reported on two years ago, it turns out that plants have evolved their solar energy technology (proteins in photosynthesis) to work at the quantum level.

Others include the fact that many plants have evolved a trick for concentrating CO2, called C4 photosynthesis, so higher levels make little difference to them, and that in the tropics very high temperatures can impede growth.

Over time, plants have evolved to adapt to a constantly changing, often hostile, environment.

A new plant evolution study shows scientists how some plants have evolved in order to prevent freezing.

Flowering plants have evolved several mechanisms to reduce such pollen losses, for example toxic pollen that can not be digested or mechanical features that prevent pollen collection [15,18 — 20].

We envisage that this work will lead to discovering how flowering plants have evolved to form their current structure and shape.»

Many plants have evolved acrid compounds to dissuade animals from eating them.

The plant endosperm has been an important factor in the establishment of a mutualistic relationship with humans - to facilitate their survival and spread, crop plants have evolved larger backpacks to ensure continued utility to humans.

A principle limitation of efficient photosynthesis is that organisms absorb more light in full sunlight than they can use effectively, thus plants have evolved a variety of mechanisms for photoacclimiation, including a mechanism described in the current new findings.

«Plants have evolved defense mechanisms to protect themselves, such as thorns, bitter - tasting berries, and in the case of certain types of grass, by harbouring toxic fungus deep within them that can be dangerous or even fatal for grazing animals,» says York U Biology Professor Dawn Bazely, who worked with University of Cambridge researcher Andrew Tanentzap and York U researcher Mark Vicari on the project.

«Plants have evolved to develop a different growth mechanism to animals,» says Ueda.

Ward is working to determine how plants have evolved in response to changing carbon dioxide levels over geologic and contemporary time scales.

«Populations of T. cristinae on the two host plants have evolved many differences in their physical form while still exchanging genes,» said Egan, a Huxley Faculty Fellow in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice.

«This is a serious health issue but very little is known about their evolutionary history and why plants have evolved these allergens.»

Flowering plants have evolved a sheltered three - tissue seed design that packs a lunch (the nutritive tissue called the endosperm) and an overcoat (the hard, protective seed coating) along with the embryo itself.

In addition, many of Madagascar's plants have evolved defenses against large herbivores, such as spines and multiple leaf shapes that protect young sprouts from browsing tortoises.

Researchers expect that this likely has an impact for how plants reproduce, and they suggest that plants have evolved over time to take advantage of it.

To compensate, many plants have evolved repair mechanisms and reproductive strategies that allow them to produce offspring even without the meeting of sperm and egg.

Some rice plants have evolved a leg up on their microbial adversaries by breaking the chemical code bacteria use to communicate.

Some plants have evolved to be parasites, feeding off host fungi.

Some kwongan plants have evolved chemical defenses and manufacture poisons to keep their leaves from being eaten.

Our sun bombards the Earth with solar energy, and plants have evolved to capture this energy.

«Born in 1999, our plant has evolved into a state - of - the - art, fresh - food facility,» the company says.

But by the late Palaeozoic, land plants had evolved, boosting the level of oxygen in the air to 21 per cent, the level found today.

In the case of moss campion, the plant has evolved a strategy of slow, deliberate growth.

«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.»

A group of South American plants has evolved bulbous organs in their flowers that spray pollen at pollinating birds because birds eat the male flower parts whole

By the end of this period, ferns and seed plants had evolved.

Between these factors and that the fact that the actual wheat plant has evolved way beyond it's original genetic makeup, most guts have trouble digesting wheat products.

Not exact matches

Kenneth Freeman, Ambius» head of innovation, has been with the company since the 1990s and has since evolved his understanding of why humans are drawn to keeping plants in indoor environments and why doing so improves health and well - being.

We may, somewhat simplistically, speak of four successively higher or «emergent» levels that have evolved: matter, plant life, animal life, human life.

A California walking stick insect that has evolved to produce individuals with two distinct appearances — an all - green form that camouflages well with broader leaves and a form with a white stripe running down its back that blends better with needle - like leaves — can markedly affect its broader ecological community when the appearance of the bug is mismatched with the plant it's living on.

God is not like a super-seed that helps an ordinary seed to evolve and attain liberation from its encapsulation, nor is it a plant which, compared to the seed, has attained its freedom.

the existence isnt any different because no one here can prove what happens when you die, no one, so i suggest you make the best of your time in this planet that has the perfect balance of oxygen for you to breath and be thankful to whatever happened in this planet that made so many animals and plants and nature coexist and allowed us to have a place to live... well sorry to those who were killed by religious agendas... Do you know that someone tried to shut me up once by saying, oh then how can we be so perfect in form, we cant be evolving because how come we do nt evolve today..

«Every species of plant, animal and even things like bacteria and viruses have evolved over the billions of years of Earths existance.»

Moreover, from the Whiteheadian point of view one has to recognize that the evolving events — actual animals and plants as we meet them in real life — are influenced by environmental factors as well as genetic.

She said humans MUST have evolved to eat animals because growing plants is DAMN HARD!

The recipes and my diet have evolved since then to be much less restrictive, but still largely plant - based.

I had the pleasure of visiting Jensen's Vista facility again in the - 1990s to write another story on his evolving production plant.

Along the way the Violife range has evolved, using plant based ingredients, such as coconut oil, that have been meticulously selected with criteria of, no allergens, non-GMO, and no gluten.

It is a master of camouflage, having evolved to look just like the plants that they live on and eat, thus hiding from predators in plain sight.

Our breast milk could not have evolved to be the perfect complement to all traditional diets around the world — these could range from plants, insects, game meat, grain crops, seal blubber, fish — you get the picture.

Blasting GM DNA into a plant arbitrarily and out of a sequence of genes that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, in a manner aimed to optimise the functioning of an organism, is risky and unpredictable, and bound to destabilise the biochemistry of the plant.

But the plants» molecular assembly lines have evolved to optimize the plants» survival, not to churn out buckets of one substance we humans want to get our hands on,» she said.

The caterpillar eats no other plants and has, therefore, evolved this very particular camouflage.

The study, led by Dr Allan Debelle and Dr Rhonda Snook in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, looked at the mating patterns of fruit flies after they evolved for 100 generations in either polyandrous populations (where several males have to compete for a single female) and monogamous populations (where each male has access to only one female).