Sentences with phrase «roots of rice plants»

The next step in the research was to sample the rhizosphere, the soil in the region around the roots of rice plants growing in the field, to reveal the microbial community living there and to attempt to elucidate their roles.

If it turns out that thioarsenates are absorbed by the roots of the rice plants and make their way to the rice grains unaltered, then further research will be needed.

Previously, Bais and his research team isolated Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105, a bacterium that lives in the soil around the roots of rice plants and found that this beneficial microbe can trigger a system - wide defense against the rice blast fungus.

Clumps of bacteria (soil microbe EA106) and iron plaque begin forming on the roots of a rice plant.

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In the case of rice, SRI means planting out fewer, and younger, seedlings, in drier soil, and with regular weeding to aerate the roots.

They found that people at this time also likely relied on bananas, acorns and freshwater roots and tubers as important plant foods prior to the cultivation of rice.

Between 80 % and 90 % of methane emitted from rice fields is produced by microbes living on plant roots; some of the gas dissolves into the water and bubbles up, but most is absorbed along with water by plant roots, travels up to the stems and leaves, and escapes into the atmosphere.

Indeed, the root mass of the transgenic rice weighed about 35 % less than that of the conventional variety, which means that microbes have less to eat after the plants die.

«An iron plaque forms on the surface of the roots that does not allow arsenic to go up into the rice plant.»

(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.)

«In Cambodia and in many other rice growing regions, the plants are grown in the soil and then when they harvest, they remove the straw and all of the above ground portion, so they leave the roots in place but most of the silicon is in the straw and also in the husk,» said Seyfferth.

I've seen wheat fields ruined by a night of hail, rice fields destroyed by raiding wild pigs, cauliflower plants killed by frost, chick peas ravaged by root fungi and seeds that died before the monsoon rains arrived.