Sentences with phrase «reducing vegetative»

Depending on crop load, reducing vegetative shoot growth in spring or summer could mitigate or initiate alternate bearing.

The problem afflicts modern cities and impacts human health and reduces vegetative production.

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Alcohol acts as a narcotic — first, in suppressing the higher mental functions and then, as larger doses are taken, in reducing a person to the animal level and finally to unconscious vegetative immobility.

It diminishes soil productivity, reduces food production, deprives the land of its vegetative cover, and negatively impacts areas not directly affected by its symptoms, by causing floods, soil salinization, deterioration of water quality, and silting of rivers, streams and reservoirs109.

There was little evidence of erosion a month later after establishing the vegetative cover that will reduce future sedimentation downstream.

Measures to reduce traffic - related air pollution and noise, such as the upgrade of bus fleets, policies promoting the reduction of car and bus idling and the installation of vegetative barriers may help attenuate this environmental risk factor.