Sentences with phrase «wild grasses»

Savory argues that livestock such as cattle, when moved around ranches in patterns that simulate the movements of large herds of wild grass eaters, can help stimulate the -LSB-...]

Soon collecting wild grass seeds evolved into planting and reaping crops, which reduced people's intake of proteins and vitamins, but brought ample calories, survival and fertility.

Today, after the Agricultural Revolution of about 10,000 years ago, we humans around the globe regularly consume grains [the major ones are wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, rice, sorghum, and millet] that were all derived from wild grasses.

Savory argues that cattle, when moved around ranches in patterns that simulate the movements of large herds of wild grass eaters, can help stimulate the restoration of some desertifying ecosystems by rebuilding soils that have degraded over the past centuries from intensive agriculture.

Look for wild grasses, dandelion, nettles, plantain, lambs quarters and daisies to name a few.

More than a year ago, she got a foxtail — a barley - type wild grass — caught in her ear.

There's fallen trees and huge rocks everywhere, and the soil is overrun with wild grass.

«That... was all just wild grass and dirt.

Researchers could use them to screen seeds for infection or identify wild grasses that can transmit the fungus to wheat fields.

Along with hundreds of stone and bone tools, the carbonised wood of a former dwelling, and woven wild grass that is one of the earliest examples of a textile, were the incomplete bodies of five humans.

First, two wild grasses combined genomes to make what was the ancestor to durum (pasta) wheat.

That's how 28 - chromosome emmer wheat, for instance, mated with another 14 - chromosome wild grass, goat grass, and yielded the ancestor of all modern wheat, the first Triticum aestivum species.

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The Previews menu holds all of these but the Blu - ray and Wild Grass spots and adds trailers for Animal Kingdom, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Friends with Money, Eat Pray Love, and «The Pillars of the Earth.»

New Wave icon Alain Resnais directs this jaunty metafiction with the same anything - goes gusto as his wonderful Wild Grass (2009), employing trick lighting, digital effects, split screens and thrilling coups de théâtres to explore the melancholy heart of the creative process.

Wild Grass Rated PG for some thematic material, language and brief smoking Available on DVD French with with English Subtitles When a woman has her wallet stolen, the man who eventually finds it sets off on an insane mission to win the woman's heart, even with his wife's knowledge.

They then close the old trail by scattering wild grass seeds, which the students will collect today.

On a ranch of willows and wild grass outside Sacramento, the cowboy cooed to his tawny mustang.

Because kangaroos graze on wild grass, they are healthy.

Foxtail is the common name for a grass awn, a piece of wild grass containing a seed and several long bristles.

Among its flora, stand out giant ferns, the ichu (Altitude wild grass) and a great variety of orchids, among which the beautiful Wakanki stands out.

Wild grass sways in the breeze as tree branches wave softly from side to side.

The meadow is covered with thick wild grass and flowers but is also a work of art in itself.

The seeds of wild grasses are very small and difficult to harvest.

During the late eighteen hundreds the British developed a hybridized grass from wild grasses and voila, lawns were born.

Virtually untouched by modern man, the area includes villages of stone pit houses built halfway underground, rock shelters, cliff - side granaries still holding corncobs and wild grass seeds, and hundreds of colorful rock art panels — pecked out with a hand tool or painted — some predating the Fremont.

Among the foreign contenders that crop up once in a while I would mention Eric Gautier (Gauthier is a musician) for Wild Grass.

You're watching a commercial or web video, and there's fields of wild grass, children playing with dogs, a grandmother and daughter sharing a quiet smile in the kitchen, all set to a generically happy John Tesh - ian soundtrack with a voiceover like smooth caramel that makes you want to call everyone you love and tell them so... and then you find out it's an ad for a new cholesterol pill.

What do we make of Mat 6:30 - 34 6:30 And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won't he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?

However I do want to let you see a glimpse: a small house by the sea, wild grasses and watercolour sky, wood burning stove curling its smoke into nothingness.

* EPA scientists find engineered genes in wild grasses 13 miles away from a test plot of genetically modified creeping bent grass.

Modern corn, the author argues, had not one ancestor but two: it is derived from a cross between a primitive corn and a perennial form of the wild grass teosinte.

Maize evolved from a wild grass in Mexico and was being cultivated there on a small scale 5000 years ago.

In Massachusetts, Hazen's lab is researching Brachypodium distachyon, a type of wild grass that is an evolutionary intermediary between Arabidopsis and grasses used for biofuels.

«Around 9,000 years ago in modern - day Mexico, people started collecting and consuming teosinte, a wild grass,» says Nathan Wales of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

A second gene found in the wild grass Aegilops tauschii, a botanical parent of today's bread wheat (T. aestivum), also helps bread wheat fight the fungus, another research team reports.

Genetic evidence indicates that the New World maize arose from the wild grass called teosinte that's found in the moist Balsas River Valley of Mexico.

By simulating the environment when corn was first exploited by people and then domesticated, Smithsonian scientists discovered that corn's ancestor, a wild grass called teosinte, may have looked very different then than it does today.

Around 10,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, our sharp - eyed ancestors noticed an odd stand of wild grass.

In fact, wheat is a cross-pollination of wild grasses, making it a direct result of hybridization.

Emmer wheat appears to have been hybridized about 2,000 years after einkorn via the union of two wild grasses.

Did you know that all wild grasses are edible and that there are more than 400 different kind of grasses?

large handful of fresh dandelion leafs small bunch of wild grasses 2 apples (optional) juice of 1/2 lemon 1 cucumber and / or 3 celery stalks

The ocean water is channeled daily into pristine ponds, edged with natural waterways, wild grasses and other green plants.

I use e3 Live (renew me), Synergy Greens, camu camu powder, fresh dandelion, wild grasses, nettle leafs or whatever I have available.

The cereal grains we consume today (in particular, wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, rice, sorghum, and millet) were hybridized from a family of wild grasses.