Sentences with phrase «than their plant counterparts»

This is of course in addition to the fact that animal proteins are more easily digestible than their plant counterparts.

Not exact matches

Determined to start a successful business and help cultivate a better way of life for conventional essential oil farmers in disadvantaged Indian villages, Mudar began the enormous task of organizing these laborers and directing them toward a more profitable agricultural pursuit: growing certified organic plants, which by their very nature command higher prices than their conventionally grown counterparts.

Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts.

The size of the phytoliths is an indicator of their source plant's history: wild Cucurbita plants (which include squash and gourds), for example, have significantly smaller inclusions than their farmed counterparts have.

«When water is limited, these modified plants will grow faster and yield more — they will pay less of a penalty than their non-modified counterparts.»

In a detailed accounting of the pollination life of cabbage thistles (Cirsium oleraceum), Knop and colleagues found that night - lit plants produced 13 percent fewer seeds overall than counterparts in naturally dark places.

Researchers have discovered that infected plants produce less pollen than their noninfected counterparts.

These little guys have a higher vitamin concentration than their fully matured plant counterparts — particularly vitamins C, E, and K.

Wild plant foods known to be consumed by hunter - gatherers generally maintain higher micronutrient concentrations than do their domesticated counterparts (4,145), as does the muscle meat of wild animals (64).

Arterton was joined by former sewing machine operators Eileen Pullen and Gwen Davis, two of the 187 women who staged a three - week walk - out from Ford's Dagenham plant in June 1968 after learning they were to be paid 15 per cent less than their male counterparts.

Buick says its Chinese plant in Yantai has world - class assembly quality and its Chinese employees are actually more fastidious about such things than many of their American counterparts.

Many people think the pyrethrins (naturally occurring compounds from the chrysanthemum plant) and pyrethroids (the synthetic counterpart) are less hazardous than fipronil.

On the show, Nipper Plants sport visible jaws that make them appear to be more menacing than their in - game counterparts.

Carbon use is important because, with current commercial technologies, power plants and industrial facilities equipped with carbon capture are more expensive to operate than their counterparts that vent CO2 into the atmosphere.

These plants have a 21 percent lower utilization rate than their counterparts located in low or medium water - stress regions.

Urban Heat Island profile Image from Lawrence Berkeley Labs From the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetation.