Sentences with phrase «with plant defence»

Tom gained his PhD from SLU in Uppsala under Christina Dixelius working with plant defence against pathogens.

Not exact matches

Research groups from Cologne and Würzburg are now reporting a new facet of the fungus - plant relationship in Nature Communications: The researchers identified a protein with which the fungus suppresses the immune defence of the populated plants.

Stabbing a predator with an offensive weapon is a tried and tested defence strategy: thousands of animals and plants are covered with horns, thorns or spines.

So if conditions that are not the normal ones are applied to them (such as watering them with salinated water, subjecting them to high lighting intensity or working with raised concentrations of CO2), these defences will become intensified and, as a result, the antioxidant qualities of the plants will be boosted.

When Hubbes exposed vaccinated trees to the virulent strain of the fungus, he found that the trees were ready to mount a defence, trapping the fungus in infected cells by hardening the walls of these cells with lignin — an organic polymer in plant cell walls that imparts rigidity.

Green Belt Movement (GBM), since its inception in 1977 by Nobel Laureate Prof. Wangari Mathai, has worked with locals and Kenyan Defence Forces to plant over 51 million trees in Mount Kenya, Aberdare and Mau complex - three of five major mountain ecosystems of Kenya.

Smart survivors, these plants have developed an array of intriguing adaptations and defence mechanisms to cope with the scorching sunlight, gale - force winds, dry summers and wet winters.

The great re-imagining of the classic tower defence games involving plants defending a house against zombies was met with critical and financial success.

Plants vs Zombies, PopCap Games breakthrough zombie flower defence title, has been given a definitive release date... and Loving Life With Hello Kitty & Friends has been slated for later in the year.

It's a vastly different story on iOS, of course, where that platform is over-saturated with examples of tower defence games, and indeed, which has served as something of an evolution chamber for it, with various features like hero units and upgradeable towers added over the years to the basic «plant down some towers to defend against waves of enemies» template.

Those concerns stem from KfWs fierce defence of financing for new coal plants in the past, claiming that it is compatible with a 2 °C climate target.

Along with representatives from the Environmental Defence Fund and the Prince of Wales» Corporate Leaders Group, Agency experts detailed how increased energy efficiency, phasing out least - efficient coal - fired power plants, investing more in renewables, ending fossil - fuel subsidies and cutting methane emissions can limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.