Sentences with word «uncultivated»

This new estimate is due to the conversion of uncultivated land into agriculture and urban use.
The group calculate that 4.1 to 6.9 million hectares of uncultivated land will have to be cleared to grow crops for biofuel and to feed the EU.
Since then his solitary walks in uncultivated areas have become his signature practice.
The plant is indigenous to New Zealand, beekeepers set up their hives in wild uncultivated areas in which Manuka bushes grow.
In fact, the need to expand MIxS to uncultivated organisms was identified in one of the recent GSC meetings at the DOE JGI.»
Researchers like Vaughan worry that without strong regulations, surging demand for bioenergy could displace food crops — causing prices to rise — or push farmers into uncultivated lands.
The Saponin actually tastes bad to insects so no pesticides are needed, and the trees naturally love poor uncultivated soil.
Furthermore, when previously uncultivated land, including tropical forests, is brought into cultivation, large amounts of carbon are released from the soil, worsening the carbon dioxide balance.
Metagenomic analysis at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) of the microbiome helped reveal that 70 percent of the enzymatic activity originated from cellulases produced by a cluster of uncultivated bacteria in the compost.
For Wild Flower, Cain references the endurance of uncultivated plants and their propensity to thrive in the harshest environment.
The keeper of an olive grove would improve the output of his cultivated olive trees by cutting away unproductive branches and grafting shoots from uncultivated olive trees onto the stump.
The saponin actually tastes bad to insects so no pesticides are needed, and the trees naturally love poor uncultivated soil.
Comparative genomics analyses with uncultivated environmental TM7 assemblies show remarkable conserved gene synteny and only minimal gene loss / gain that may have occurred as TM7x adapted to conditions within the human host.
We will put a particular emphasis on revealing the biological roles of uncultivated species.
This freedom and willfulness, as observed in nature uncultivated, became both a literal and metaphorical model for the work.
Thomas Paine declared that, if it had not been for tyrants, «the earth, in its natural, uncultivated state, was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race.»
Three other uncultivated crops that were very important in Native American cooking (and are most commonly used today) are cacti, piñon nuts, and chiltepíns (wild, berry - like chile peppers).
Uncultivated foods are better for the planet and your plate, and many of these foods can be as close as the local supermarket.
«If you leave between the Brexit - dominated Tory party and a hard - left Labour party vast, uncultivated centre ground, at some point someone is going to come along and cultivate it,» he said.
Around the edges of south eastern towns, perfectly good agricultural land often remains uncultivated as a result of price distortions created by the Metropolitan Green Belt.
Efforts to obtain and study genomes and enrichment cultures of uncultivated microbial lineages will likely further expand our knowledge about archaeal phylogenetic and metabolic diversity and their cell biology and ecological function.
While vast areas of medieval Europe were uncultivated forests and wastelands, cities like these, usually shut within high stone walls, were far more densely populated than today.
This view has identified new capabilities of cellulases and identified uncultivated bacteria involved in biomass deconstruction.
«Fermentation, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism in Multiple Uncultivated Bacterial Phyla.»
The paper reports on the comparison of two culture - independent strategies for recovering bacterial genomes: single - amplified genomes and metagenome - assembled genomes, and its implication for in - depth analyses of uncultivated prokaryotic taxa.
As cultivated people know (and, to their misfortune, uncultivated people do not), culture is above all a matter of orientation.
The coastline is backed by uncultivated evergreen rainforest, home to 109 species of mammals and 184 species of birds.
Precious Woods is a company which deals in sustainability of tropical forests globally founded by Swiss group operating in Costa Rica with reforestation of uncultivated pasture.
But worldwide, communities are banding together to save their local urban wild spaces, using a variety of tactics like outreach, events, guerilla gardening, and in the case of one Montreal collective, creating an interactive online map using open source tools, mapping the wild, uncultivated spaces of Montreal.
Any person who without the written permission of the landowner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession of the land, willfully enters any lands under cultivation or enclosed by fence, belonging to, or occupied by, another, or who willfully enters upon uncultivated or unenclosed lands where signs forbidding trespass are displayed at intervals not less than three to the mile along all exterior boundaries and at all roads and trails entering the lands, is guilty of a public offense.
To make matters worse, previously uncultivated areas — the habitats of pandas, antelopes and wolves — especially in China and western North America will come under increasing pressure from wine growers.
Wild or uncultivated plants provide about four times the fiber of commercial plants (13.3 grams of fiber per 100 grams versus 4.2 grams of fiber per 100 grams, respectively).4 Certainly, there are some benefits to switching from a standard Western diet to a paleo - type diet — highly processed foods, refined carbohydrates, fried foods, and fast foods are eliminated, and fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds are encouraged.
Long's signature practice involves taking solitary walks in uncultivated areas.
A majority of the bacterial sequences corresponded to uncultivated species and novel microorganisms.
Even so, some interesting new fighters have been growing in uncultivated soil.
Adapting microbial communities to grow on biomass substrates has provided access to the genomes of uncultivated bacteria often overlooked in natural ecosystems.
It is now clear that the federal corn ethanol mandate has driven up food prices, strained agricultural markets, increased competition for arable land and promoted conversion of uncultivated land to grow crops.
We have left the highways of the town planners not for an uncultivated wilderness, but in favour of meandering in a rose garden, which is not without its own order and design.
The land may previously have been uncultivated or used for some other crop, perhaps food.
Other «ones» are «any other single thing so intractable as the uncultivated mind,» or «so tractable as the cultivated mind.»
Altogether about 52 per cent of the land in the occupied territories has been confiscated — under a variety of pretexts, such as the government's right to take over any land needed for «military purposes» or «public purposes,» or that is uncultivated or lacks a legal title.
Since the early Nineties, southern regions in Italy have experienced chronic issues of illegal disposal of urban waste, mainly due to easy access to uncultivated land, presence of caves and sovereignty of mafiosi — to use a general definition that encompasses mafia, camorra, «ndrangheta and other networks.
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