Sentences with phrase «plants use»

Plants use energy from the sun with no cost or any concern for it.

Through a process known as photosynthesis, most plants use the energy in sunlight to convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, plus water, into simple sugars, which are used as building blocks and form the main structural components.

To discourage weeds and encourage native plants we use methods like manual weeding, mechanical mowing, and the judicious application of herbicides.

Many commercial pet food plants use meat by - products.

Finally, I don't want to neglect the many products that enhance the maintenance and growing of live aquatic plants, including water additives, proprietary substrates and even systems that deliver carbon dioxide into the water, a compound that plants use in respiration.

Lectins are a type of protein many plants use to defend themselves from being eaten.

In the liver, it is reformed into long chains called glycogen, which is a storage form of glucose (plants use amylopectin and amylose, animals use glycogen).

It's a form of poison that the plants use to deter getting eaten in the wild.

All these antioxidants are molecules that plants use to protect themselves against environmental factors as solar radiation, heat, toxic chemicals, molds, etc..

«Plants use only about one or two percent of the light energy falling on the leaf surface for photosynthesis» according to Kopsell.

Animal tissues exclusively synthesize MK - 4, but many anaerobic bacteria synthesize other menaquinones, which they use for energy production much in the way that plants use vitamin K1.80 We can therefore obtain vitamin K2 by absorbing that which is produced by our intestinal flora or by eating fermented foods, in addition to eating animal foods which contain vitamin K2 synthesized from vitamin K1 found in grass.

Plants use to scare the animals who want to eat them.

The plants use it to help prevent being eaten.

In fact, the same antioxidants that give some plants a reddish hue is what the plants use to protect themselves from the sun's radiation.

Tubers are enlarged roots or stems that plants use to store nutrients.

LEDs are effective because they can trigger a natural photo - biochemical reaction (similar to how plants use chlorophyll to convert sunlight into plant tissue).

Do plants use these to fight their own nemeses, defects and diseases?

Lectins are a key mechanism plants use to protect themselves and perpetuate the plant species.

Plants use this process to produce food.

To avoid this, plants use a process called nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) which releases all the excess energy as heat.

All geothermal power plants use steam to turn large turbines, which run electrical generators.

The field trials focused on a process that plants use to shield themselves from the sun.

It will tell us how much water different plants use and need and how they react to environmental stresses from water shortages.

Such a system is also called an artificial leaf or solar - fuel generator because in many ways it mimics the process which plants use to convert sunlight and CO2 into oxygen and fuel (sugars, carbohydrates).

To achieve this goal via optimization of their Darwinian fitness, plants use their own plant - specific intelligence, cognition and behavior.

The process works through a mixture of steps using nanowires and bacteria that work together to mimic the photosynthesis process that plants use to turn carbon dioxide into food and the byproduct, oxygen.

Jander lab members investigate the chemical defenses that young corn plants use to fight off simultaneous attacks from hungry insects.

Many plants use a group of chemicals called sinapate esters to defend against the sun while they absorb light for photosynthesis.

In order to investigate whether plants use the bees» safe sites to ensure pollen transfer, the following experiments were carried out in an indoor flight cage at the example of Salvia pratensis L. and Salvia officinalis L. with laboratory B. terrestris as well as with Borago officinalis L. (Boraginaceae) and managed A. mellifera caught in the Botanical Garden (HHU Düsseldorf).

Environmental change can be particularly harsh when the plants we use for food, fuel, feed and fiber are affected by this change.

In photosynthesis, plants use the chlorophyll in their leaves to collect sunlight, whose energy is ultimately used to form sugars and other molecules.

It was a mystery whether all plants use the same genes as Arabidopsis to produce stomata, or whether all the different stomatal forms and patterns result from each plant using its own unique set of genetic blueprints.

The series of steps that plants use to make lignin has been studied for decades, said Wout Boerjan, a co-author of the paper who does research in plant biotechnology at Ghent University and Belgian life sciences institute VIB.

And we learn which strategies plants use to adapt to changing environmental conditions.»

«Sugars in the cornfield: Plants use defenses against pests, but they don't always work.»

Most plants use activated sludge treatment, which uses bacteria to break down solids that come in from the wastewater.

«Our observation that plants use roughly the same amount of water regardless of water availability suggests that a warmer or longer growing season may have a relatively small effect on evapotranspiration and thus could affect landscape water balances less than we previously thought,» Hamilton said.

The fact that all these plants use the same genes suggests the paths plants can take to become predators are limited, or that this is the quickest path to their unusal lifestyle.

Most plants use chemicals to eliminate hydrogen sulfide.

«We and others had assumed the protein mechanism plants use for identifying beneficial fungi would be related to those,» said Paszkowski.

The results, described in the 7 March issue of Nature, raise the possibility that nematodes and plants use some of the same equipment to fight drought, says plant physiologist Dorothea Bartels of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany.

Plants use scents to communicate (SN: 7/27/02, p. 56).

Plants use a fragrant language but filthy air is messing with their communication lines, which might explain why insects are in decline and roses are losing their scent

The hairs in turn generate electrical impulses that somehow stimulate glands in the trap to produce jasmonic acid — the same signal that noncarnivorous plants use to initiate defensive action against herbivores.

Glyphosate inhibits a key enzyme that plants use to make amino acids.

Now, online today inBMC Ecology, researchers report a new type of mechanism that some plants use to communicate.

All plants use carbon dioxide from the air to make sugars, but maize ends up with a different balance between carbon - 12 and the rarer stable isotope, carbon - 13, compared with most other plants.

It contains almost no chlorophyll — the pigment that most plants use to make food — so to eat it must suck the sugary sap from other plants.

The two existing compressed - air plants use natural salt domes.

Plants use a variety of methods to spread their seeds, including gravity, forceful ejection, and wind, water, and animal dispersion.