Sentences with phrase «relationship with plants»

Fungi and its relationship with plants at the botanical garden took center stage recently when Alan Muskat, known to fungi fans as The Mushroom Man, recently led a foraging walk at the botanical garden.

Raimo Saarinen is a Helsinki based sculptor whose artistic practice focuses on the various ideas of nature and people's relationship with plants and ecosystems in the western post-industrial cultures.

I feel that the heart of true health is centered in our relationship with plants.

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is closely related to a bacterium that has a positive, symbiotic relationship with plants, Sinorhizobium meliloti.

The latest tome from prolific nature writer Mabey tells the story of our relationship with plants — as food and medicine, as symbols and fashion statements — through fascinating vignettes of different species from the green kingdom.

Dangl, who worked with lead authors, postdoctoral researchers Gabriel Castrillo and Paulo José Pereira Lima Teixeira, graduate student Sur Herrera Paredes and research analyst Theresa F. Law, found evidence that soil bacteria can make use of this tradeoff between nutrient - seeking and immune defense, potentially to help establish symbiotic relationships with plants.

Many ant species live in often highly specific symbiotic relationships with plants from which both partners benefit.

These fungi live in a symbiotic relationship with plant roots.

But one thing's for sure, the discovery means rewriting textbooks to add salamanders to a short list of organisms, including coral and bacteria, that form symbiotic relationships with plants.

It is a microbe (bacteria) that is produced by microorganisms internally (synthesised in the gut) and elsewhere (e.g. in soil by microbes that live in a symbiotic relationship with plant roots).

Not exact matches

Sakhalin 1 (Far East LNG): Rosneft's failure to gain third - party access to the Trans - sakhalin pipeline, owned by Gazprom, to move gas to the liquefaction facility and the impact of sanctions on Rosneft's relationship with ExxonMobil means that a decision on the $ 15 billion Far Eastern LNG plant (5 mtpa) will probably be delayed by at least two years.

Cultivating relationships with other nonprofit organizations, including those focused on environmental, global hunger, public health, free speech, and food safety issues, to build alliances and support for the policies that will be most effective at increasing plant - based options and readying the path to market for clean meat.

GFI builds relationships with chain restaurants, grocery stores, and foodservice companies to improve and promote plant - based alternatives to animal products.

The plant maintains a close relationship with Fort Gordon, which is 20 minutes away.

A jellyfish advances and withdraws, and in so doing exhibits some perception of causal relationship with the world beyond itself; a plant grows downwards to the damp earth, and upwards towards the light.

A jellyfish advances and withdraws, and in so doing exhibits some perception of causal relationship with the world beyond itself; a plant grows downwards to the damp earth, and upwards toward the light.

A relationship characterized by reconnoitering the frontiers of the secular where, both in the name of the church and outside of it, the gospel can be declared in new ways and with a new display of its power to build and transform to plant and to uproot, to burn and heal.

The Plano, Texas - based company firmly planted its roots in the industry by developing deep relationships with its clientele, grower and supplier base and distribution partners, which has enabled it to maintain partnerships for decades.

dōTERRA maintains strong relationships with the people who grow the plants that create its essential oils.

The company produces seafood products in its processing plants, in addition to the products it brings in from its relationships with multiple producers.

I have pages on the relationship between food and health, sustainable weight - loss tips, info on fasting, the chronic health conditions I have and the different specialist diets that I follow to cope with them including an anti-inflammatory diet, avoiding soya, gluten, grains and nightshade - family plants, a glossary of terms and much more!

GFI builds relationships with chain restaurants, grocery stores, and foodservice companies to improve and promote plant - based alternatives to animal products.

Despite the fact that their formal relationship didn't begin until that day, Kanaan says the seeds for a partnership with Chip Ganassi Racing were planted over a decade ago.

Our teacher naturalists work with students to help them develop an appreciation for native plants and animals and their habitats as well as the relationships of these ecological communities to our agricultural practices.

Anyway, Cameron will try to focus on the story and expect lots of planted questions from Tory MPs about how Miliband's relationship with Flowers.

Cuomo has a complicated relationship with nuclear power, however, having called for the closure of Indian Point considering the plant's proximity to New York City and the lack of a viable evacuation plan should a crisis occur.

Research groups from Cologne and Würzburg are now reporting a new facet of the fungus - plant relationship in Nature Communications: The researchers identified a protein with which the fungus suppresses the immune defence of the populated plants.

But Rafflesia's MatR appeared intact, and when the researchers compared its sequence to that of almost 100 other plant species, they found a close relationship with the Malpighiales, the plant order that includes passionflowers and violets.

«When plants give up photosynthesis, this changes their relationship with other organisms, such as the insects who may pollinate them,» comments Professor Suetsugu.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Scientists at Kumamoto University originally developed a cultivation kit to culture and identify mycorrhizae, fungi that have a symbiotic relationship with many plants and are necessary for cultivating orchidaceous plants in the laboratory.

The results help researchers understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic relationships, and how the mutualistic association provides host plants with beneficial traits for environmental adaptation.

By developing a symbiotic relationship with fungi, plants not only become more tolerant to diseases but can also help contribute to more sustainable agricultural practices.

One type of ant enjoys a symbiotic relationship with milkweed plants and tiny aphids.

Myco - heterotrophic plants germinate and grow through a symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi.

The research group of LMU biologist Caroline Gutjahr, in collaboration with research groups led by Peter Dörmann (Bonn University), Wolfgang Eisenreich (Technical University of Munich) and her LMU colleague Martin Parniske, has now shown that the plant contributes more than just sugars to the relationship: It also delivers essential lipids to its fungal partner.

A better understanding of the role of lipid biosynthesis in this type of symbiosis could therefore help to select host plants that can make optimal use of their relationship with their fungal partners, which can be a benefit to sustainable agriculture.

Plants have a symbiotic relationship with certain bacteria.

These findings show that the evolutionary step of loss of photosynthesis is not simply a loss of functions through loss of chloroplast: it dramatically changes the plant's relationship with other organisms.

I enjoyed the article on nitrogen - hungry pitcher plants and their relationship with defecating mammals (1 February, p 43).

The researchers are collaborating with an engineering company, Intrinsyx Technologies, to show this same beneficial relationship between microbes and agricultural plants, with crops given the beneficial microbes yielding more vegetables and responding better in dry, hot weather.

«The relationship between colour variation and stability was independent of activity period or host plant range, since the more stable species with large variation in colour drawing were not restricted in their activity to a shorter part of the year or to a narrower range of host plants.

It could be possible, then, to harness this relationship — via probiotic or related crop treatments — to enable plants to make do with less phosphate.

Plants have a complicated relationship with bees: They need the insects to spread their pollen, but — because pollen takes a lot of energy to make — flowers need to make sure each bee doesn't take too much.

The FDA is also aiming for more cooperative relationships with its counterpart agencies in China and elsewhere, collaboration with the World Health Organization to develop technologies that can identify contaminated products, and an up - to - date database of foreign plants.

Clearly, both native and exotic plants form intimate relationships with bacteria in the soil that facilitate the extraction and conversion of elements to biologically usable forms.

«If you supply additional nutrients, the plant grows but often at the expense of its fungal partner in the mutualism, creating an imbalance in the relationship with potentially far - reaching implications.»

When a language dies, it takes with it a pageant of knowledge: the stories of plants and their uses, animals and their relationships to the people, the songs, history, and culture — the very identity — of the people who speak it.

The tobacco plant Nicotiana attenuata has a love - hate relationship with the hawkmoths that visit its flowers every night.

The analysis of the spatial genetic structure of the Parkia population revealed a significant genetic relationship of the plant embryos and young trees within a radius of 300 meters, which coincides with the distance within which most seeds are dispersed by the tamarins.