Sentences with phrase «with plant defenses»

You've bravely fought the zombies with your plant defenses.

Herbivores have three primary strategies for dealing with plant defenses: choice, herbivore modification, and plant modification.

Phenolic acids are often associated with plant defenses or plant - microbe communication.

Not exact matches

There is solid science showing that plants respond to the sounds that caterpillars make when eating plants and that the plants respond with more defenses.

Seung Ho Chung, graduate student in entomology working with Felton, decided to investigate how plants identified chewers and how herbivores subverted the plants defenses.

Noting that insects have been evolving resistance to natural plant defenses for millions of years and that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the first reported case of insecticide resistance, he concludes, «Finding ways to delay resistance is a never - ending challenge with any pest management approach.»

«If a plant can evolve novel or different defenses from its relatives or neighbors, it will suffer fewer attacks and have a higher likelihood of survival, which gives rise to the surprising result that relatives and neighbors differ dramatically in defenses,» said co-author Phyllis Coley, distinguished professor in the Department of Biology at the U and research affiliate with The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

«What is remarkable is that the plants exposed to different vibrations, including those made by a gentle wind or different insect sounds that share some acoustic features with caterpillar feeding vibrations did not increase their chemical defenses,» Cocroft said.

Then the task force followed with a dozen major recommendations, some of which would order nuclear plant operators to strengthen defenses against extreme flooding or earthquakes when necessary and to harden vents that would carry away explosive hydrogen gas from damaged reactor cores in the two types of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The team members were surprised to find that the plasmid shares many genes with the chromosome, suggesting, says Boucher, that the plasmid supplies alternative versions of genes to help the bacterium elude plant defenses.

Plants have an immune system that helps them recognise a range of pathogens, but they have to keep up with enemy fire that is perpetually evolving and constantly adapting new ways of getting around a plant's primary defenses.

Orrock and colleagues activated tomato plants» defenses by spraying them with increasing concentrations of methyl jasmonate — a version of a chemical that plants release when they are being attacked that triggers downstream responses such as increased production of toxic metabolites.

There are many toxins in many of the plants we eat, doesn't necessarily mean they'll do us harm, it's the nature of plants that they have various defenses and you'd imagine that plant eating animals have learnt to deal with this to a fair extent?

Remarkably, eating a plant - based diet along with walking every day may improve our cancer defenses within just two weeks.

It has been suggested however, that when plants aren't sprayed with chemicals to stave off bugs and weeds, they naturally increase their own defenses to fend them off on their own.

Then, and as a consequence of this, there are native to Cedros herbivores, which on one hand compete with the goat population for food and presumably have kept it from increasing beyond carrying capacity, and on the other hand forced the native plants to keep their defenses against herbivores, unlike plants on megaherbivoreless islands which tend to lack those defenses.

It actually punished you by reducing substantially how much money you made playing, yet it still cost the same to plant seeds to help with your defenses.

Kill the horde of Skull warriors and collect the ectoplasm to set up towers and defenses whenever the magic stones light up: CATAPULTS, to throw flame to the enemy; BARRICADES, to block the attackers in their path; BARRELS, to shoot fire arrows and explode them in the middle of a skeleton legion; POISON PLANTS, to hit the warriors and slay them slowly while they walk... There are diverse types of magic energy to use at war: LIGHTNING, to defeat targets with metal or steel armor; FIRE, to burn light armor troops and blow up the exploding barrels; ICE, to turn your victims into ice cubes and slow them down; POISON, just one drop and the victim will succumb little by little to its toxic effects; STUN, to shoot and make their heads spin and leave them stupefied; EXPLOSIVE, to send everything flying with its strong TNT head... Use all with the different kind of arrows and do individual, radius or multiple damage.