Sentences with phrase «uses of plant hormones»

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And because I promote selecting organically grown foods whenever possible you will also be avoiding the pesticides and herbicides used in the conventional growing of plant foods and the hormones and antibiotics found in non-organic meat and poultry.

Together with scientists from Columbia (USA), Olomouc (Czech Republic), Warsaw (Poland), Osaka (Japan) and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, the researchers at the University of Bonn have used Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to discover that the beet cyst nematode itself produces the plant hormone cytokinin.

A team at the University of Missouri Bond Life Sciences Center collaborated with scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany to discover genetic evidence that the parasite uses its own version of a key plant hormone and that of the plants to make root cells vulnerable to feeding.

«One of the great things about using Arabidopsis as our host plant is the vast genetic resources of cytokinin and hormone mutants that are available through the scientific community,» De La Torre said.

Using ACME, the authors demonstrated that cells in the stems of seedlings exhibit a gradient of mechanical properties in the presence of the plant growth hormone gibberellic acid.

So the next time you're using a rooting powder to give your plant cuttings a jumpstart, think of Zimmerman and Hitchcock, whose trials and errors yielded insights into the effects of plant hormones, as well as a highly useful garden product.

Using the well - characterized signaling pathway of the phytohormone ethylene and plant - optimized genome - wide ribosome footprinting, we have uncovered a molecular mechanism linking this hormone's perception to the activation of a gene - specific translational control mechanism.

The only studies I found on this hormone aspect indicated that extremely large amounts of the Stevioside part of the plant would be needed to affect hormone balance (and Stevioside only makes up 10 % of the sweet compounds in the plant), so I don't think this is a tremendous concern, especially for moderate or occasional use.

As such, this alkalizing herb is probably the single most effective plant used for balancing of the hormones needed for conception to take place.

Synthesized human growth hormone, or somatropin, is made from plants using recombinant DNA technology and formed into an exact copy of natural growth hormones (this is where the term bio identical comes in).

A waxy plant steroid (often lumped in with the fats), our body uses it as a form of waterproofing, and as a building block for a number of key hormones.

There are also natural ways to replace lost hormones such as plant pseudo-estrogens and herbal remedies that are available over the counter, in addition to bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT — not to be confused with HRT which involves the use of synthetic hormones).

A: The USP progesterone used for hormone replacement comes from plant fats and oils, usually a substance called diosgenin which is extracted from a very specific type of wild yam that grows in Mexico, or from soybeans.

Mesotherapy is a technique that uses injections of vitamins, enzymes, hormones, and plant extracts to rejuvenate and tighten skin, as well as remove excess fat.

In the case of the hormones we use, the word «natural» is used to refer to the structure of the hormone molecules, which are produced from natural plant sources.

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).