Sentences with phrase «sagebrush plant»
When sagebrush plants are attacked by hungry insects, researchers have found, they emit chemical cues into the air to alert neighboring plants.
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Two genetically identical sagebrush plants grown side - by - side fended off herbivores, including caterpillars and grasshoppers, more effectively than did two unrelated plants.
This means that the number of sagebrush plants will increase still further as older plants die off and are replaced by new seedlings.
Not exact matches
Then, about 12,600 years ago, steppe plants like aromatic sagebrush appeared, followed soon after by animals such as woolly mammoth, bison, and jackrabbits.
Experiments in 2014 on sagebrush showed some plants spoke a language dominated by camphor compounds, while others emitted more thujone, coincidentally the same chemical suspected to be responsible for the hallucinogenic effects of absinthe.
«Industrial development, wildfires, invasive plant species, and other disturbances are changing sagebrush landscapes throughout the western United States.
... Sagebrush, by comparison [with the flowers], is less active at photosynthesis and it produces far less plant material each year.