Sentences with phrase «reaching plant roots»

Thatch can help provide a good growing environment for grasses, but excess thatch can prevent water and oxygen from reaching plant roots and create conditions for diseases, Grubbs said.

Not exact matches

With roots reaching all the way back to the 13 original American colonies, Rebecca Lukens inherited her father's ironworks plant, which sat on the Brandywine River.

Perennial plants have roots that reach deep down into the soil and create their own ecosystem over time; they give back to the soil they inhabit.

With funding from Wine Australia, a team of scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Adelaide and CSIRO Agriculture and Food identified genes expressed in grapevine roots that limit the amount of sodium — a key component of salt — that reaches berries and leaves.

Perennials plants have much longer root systems than annuals, allowing them to reach deeper into the soil, and tap more nutrients.

Water is pulled upward in plants when evaporation from the leaves creates a tension in the water column that reaches down to the roots.

The more arsenic reaches the plant in this way, the more its roots shrivel up.

(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.)

Below the soil surface, maca has a fleshy, underground root, known as the hypocotyl, which grows seven inches (18 cm) deep and can reach up to 3.5 inches (9 cm) in diameter, and from which most of the plant's culinary and medicinal preparations are made.

It also ensures that moisture reaches the roots of your plants, rather than being wasted on the foliage, where it may evaporate without benefit.

Having a root this large helps the plant survive the long dry summers here in the Bay Area, by spreading out and down to reach nutrients and groundwater.

Using only natural light, she then started to photograph vegetables and roots whose tendrils, reaching for the sun, expressed all of life's striving and aspiration, and finally, the maturing plant, evoking the inevitable downward spiral into decay.

While the inspirational seed for this exhibition was planted in Latin America, it has grown and blossomed far beyond its roots, reaching across geographical, linguistic and creative borders.

The model variables that are evaluated against all sorts of observations and measurements range from solar radiation and precipitation rates, air and sea surface temperatures, cloud properties and distributions, winds, river runoff, ocean currents, ice cover, albedos, even the maximum soil depth reached by plant roots (seriously!).

Wherever a forest is converted to a grassland, or a grassland to desert, or barren ground is created, maximum skin surface temperatures rise by 10 to 40 °F.8 Also to quench the thirst of growing populations, extraction of subsurface waters has lowered the water table.9 As the water table drops below the reach of roots, soil moisture is reduced and plants die.