Sentences with phrase «useful plant nutrients»

The process also produces methane gas, clean water, and useful plant nutrients.

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The plant has only one taproot for taking up water rather than a root network that would be useful for absorbing nutrients from the soil.

The resulting report calls for more research on GM crops useful in developing countries, such as nutrient - enhanced foods and salt - tolerant plants, and urges that use of GM crops be weighed against the hazards of pesticide use and other current farming methods.

A brief and incomplete list of their positive roles would include the pollination of many, perhaps most higher plants; the decomposition of organic materials, facilitating the recycling of carbon, nitrogen, and other essential nutrients; the control of populations of harmful invertebrate species (including other insects); the direct production of certain foods (honey, for example); and the manufacture of useful products such as silk and shellac.