Sentences with phrase «wild plants as»

Some consideration should be put into picking wild plants as these should not have any toxic compounds that are potentially harmful for human culinary use.

By putting dirt from the house floors and rubbish heaps in her flotation tank, Near has found that the residents of Çatalhöyük were energetic collectors of wild plants as well.

Biologists knew that wild pollinators matter to wild plants as well as to certain crops such as blueberries, but not to commercial agriculture as a whole.

Not exact matches

The work is part of an effort to bring dying reefs back to life by growing tiny coral fragments in labs or nurseries — between four and 25 times as fast as they'd grow in the wild — and planting those fragments on reefs.

Plant scientists, including us, are working out the genetics of wild banana varieties and banana pathogens as we try to prevent a Cavendish crash.

Nevertheless we still leave it to grow as best it can, hardly tending it at all, like those wild plants whose fruits are plucked by primitive peoples in their forests.

The life story of the northern Russian wilderness - dweller Nikodim Kozheozersky tells of how this saint, as is customary for hermits, ate only wild plants, an assertion that is not hindered even when the hagiographer announces in the next sentence that he also cultivated turnips for his diet.

With her ex-husband Ian, she founded Robins Australian Foods with three main product lines: Wild Lime, a high - end line featuring the tiny fruit of the wild lime, a true citrus; Robins Bush Foods, which feature other indigenous plants such as mountain pepper and the bush tomato; and Hot Oz, a line which combines native plants such as lemon myrtle with hot chilWild Lime, a high - end line featuring the tiny fruit of the wild lime, a true citrus; Robins Bush Foods, which feature other indigenous plants such as mountain pepper and the bush tomato; and Hot Oz, a line which combines native plants such as lemon myrtle with hot chilwild lime, a true citrus; Robins Bush Foods, which feature other indigenous plants such as mountain pepper and the bush tomato; and Hot Oz, a line which combines native plants such as lemon myrtle with hot chillis.

Well as to our ancestors sprouting plants, I'm pretty sure as hunters and gatherers they picked wild baby greens... so now we don't have to go hunt... HURRAY!!!

Jon and Sarah Lark run Kangaroo Island Spirits in South Australia, and use two local indigenous plants — Myoporum insulare, or native juniper, and Olearia axillaris, coastal daisy bush or wild rosemary — as botanicals in their gin.

That said, some plant foods have a higher bioavailability of protein compared to other plant foods so if you want to increase your plant protein, here are 10 rich sources: lentils, beans, peanuts, tree nuts (such as cashews and almonds), seeds (such as hemp seeds, chia seeds, and sesame seeds), quinoa, leafy greens, nutritional yeast, tofu and tempeh, wild rice, and green vegetables like broccoli.

Stark is especially interested in drought - resistant, low - carbon - footprint wild edible plants that could serve as a source of fresh, affordable, and nutritious food for people living in urban food deserts.

Wild pollinators such as bees, butterflies and many other insects pollinate crops and wild plants, so that they can bear fruit and sWild pollinators such as bees, butterflies and many other insects pollinate crops and wild plants, so that they can bear fruit and swild plants, so that they can bear fruit and seed.

The key is to make sure you're getting plenty of Omega - 3 fats as well from plant - based foods like flax and chia seeds, walnuts and greens, as well as animal sources like wild salmon and other seafood.

The tree, being a legume like peanuts, is nitrogen - fixing, so it serves as a host tree for other wild plants such as chiltepins.

I like to offer something back to the wild when I harvest from it, such as coffee grinds or a healing crystal, as a way to thank the plant for its offering to me.

As a couples therapist, I want your marital sex life to grow as wild and uncontrollable as the mint plants that are now taking over my entire yarAs a couples therapist, I want your marital sex life to grow as wild and uncontrollable as the mint plants that are now taking over my entire yaras wild and uncontrollable as the mint plants that are now taking over my entire yaras the mint plants that are now taking over my entire yard.

An anti-GM group, «Take the Flour Back», describing itself as «a grassroots network of individuals», said it was extremely concerned about both the risk of cross-contamination of wild and domestic plants and the unknown health and environmental impacts.

I planted out as many as I could, distributed some in wild, untended areas of countryside and sent the rest up to the CSV nursery.

These waterways help supply drinking water and serve as habitat for aquatic, plant and wild life.

«I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that there are more of these plants in front of us than there are left in the wild,» says Kendon, gesturing at a shelf of 15 - month - old Paralophia epiphytica, a Madagascan orchid that is almost extinct in the wild as a result of logging.

«Not only are these insects vital as pollinators of crops and wild plants, but they also provide food for many birds and mammals,» said joint lead researcher Dr Ros Shaw, also of the University of Exeter.

The reason Palaeolithic humans were thought to have lived solely on wild meat, says Revedin, is that previous plant evidence was washed away by overzealous archaeologists as they cleaned the tools at dig sites.

They now have a list of native California plants, such as redbud (Cercis occidentalis) and wild asters, which can be combined to create ideal hedgerows, providing pollen - rich blooms from early spring to late autumn.

The two of them were proud of their business and showed me around their warehouses filled with head - high bundles of sempre - vivas and other wild - plant products such as bark and seedpods.

As a result, soybean breeders now have access to dozens of new soybean lineages, each with some of the traits of the wild Australian plants.

Singh eventually settled on a Glycine tomentella plant known as PI 441001 for these experiments because the wild plant was immune to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode.

The cocoa tree, Theobroma cocoa, originates from the upper Amazon basin, where wild types of the plant are vanishing as the forests are felled.

In their paper, they highlighted the need for more monitoring and enforcement, as well as research to better understand the impact of trade on wild plant populations and the actors involved in illegal trade.

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 1:20 pm: Colin Khoury, of CIAT and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, will discuss a recently completed inventory of CWR in the United States, as well as plans for protecting these plants both in gene banks and in the wild.

At the same time, says Berry, the plants in the wild, which are rare to begin with, are becoming endangered as people dig the hefty tubers for collectors or for food.

The arrival of tree bumblebees could be hugely beneficial to us by absorbing parasite pressure from our native species, as well as helping to pollinate wild plants and crops.»

Generally, any mutations that are widespread in domestic plants and animals but absent from their wild relatives are assumed to have played a key role in the process, spreading as people and their livestock moved across the globe.

Finally, they also discussed how satellite data on plant growth indicate that the concentration of wild reindeer herds in the far north of Russia has not led to overgrazing of their environment, as previously thought.

As bears, their digestive systems are designed to break down meat and small amounts of plant material, yet in the wild and in captivity these bears are exclusively herbivorous.

Our findings have important implications for society and the economy as pollinating insects are vital to support agriculture and wild plant biodiversity.»

But by the 1990s, white - tailed deer populations in parks had swelled to such size that many species of native wildflowers such as trillium and lilies largely disappeared, replaced by wild ginger and exotic species such as garlic mustard and Japanese stiltgrass, plants not favored by deer.

This chemical screen showed that a compound known as digoxin — a plant - derived cardiac toxin often used to treat various heart conditions — inhibited wild type HIV - 1 more than the mutated strain.

«At the Norje Sunnansund settlement, outside Sölvesborg in Sweden, you can see that just over half of the protein intake has come from fish, ten per cent from seals, and around 37 per cent from land mammals, such as wild boar and red deer, and scarcely three per cent from plants such as mushrooms, berries and nuts,» says Adam Boethius.

«The wild ancestors of C4 crops are thought to have grown as individuals in open habitats where the number of leaves that they produced would have been limited by water and nitrogen and most leaves would be exposed to full sunlight» said principal investigator Steve Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

Humans are powerful agents of evolutionary change: Wild animals and plants that are hunted or harvested evolve three times as quickly as they would naturally, according to a study from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Biology Letters published the research, which may have implications for the survival of both rare wild plants and major food crops as many pollinator species are in decline.

But residue analyses on pots found there may explain the mystery, as Peyronel and his colleagues described in a paper last year: The researchers found traces of wild plants often used for medicine, such as poppy for opium to dull pain, heliotrope to fight viral infections, and chamomile to reduce inflammation.

This is human - driven evolutionary selection, which happened with all of our crop plants as wild plants were converted into more and more useful and nutritious versions.

The bottom line for Palmgren is this: the plants we eat and depend on are not the same as those originally found in the wild, whether they've been genetically modified or not.

In elevated CO2, the SeLS plants could grow nearly as fast as wild - type (4).

Of special note today: gut microbiota species expressing orthologs of human Ro60 might be involved in triggering and sustaining chronic autoimmunity in lupus; The portal vein blood microbiome in patients with liver cirrhosis; A randomized clinical study suggests dietary promotion of short chain fatty acid producing gut microbes as an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes; and the sexual dimorphism of root, flower and leaf microbiomes in the wild strawberry plant

Scientists can do this because plants that have been cultivated and farmed as crops will change, or evolve, differently from their wild ancestors.

«We then showed that this slower energy dissipation process is active in wild - type plants under stress conditions, such as cold and high light, and that it limits oxidative damage to lipids.

German sporting and dog magazine Wild und Hund reports that thousands of domestic and wild animals are falling ill from tainted waste from green «climate - friendly» biogas plants, which is then used as an agricultural fertilizer in fieWild und Hund reports that thousands of domestic and wild animals are falling ill from tainted waste from green «climate - friendly» biogas plants, which is then used as an agricultural fertilizer in fiewild animals are falling ill from tainted waste from green «climate - friendly» biogas plants, which is then used as an agricultural fertilizer in fields.