Sentences with phrase «with plant diseases»

Problems with plant diseases, rising labor costs, and competition from lower - priced imported peppers have led to a 75 percent decline in the acreage devoted to growing chiles in the state in the last twenty years.

Not exact matches

Plant - based foods have long been associated with a reduced risk of many adverse health conditions, including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and overall mortality.

of Sulfur mixed with water every two weeks thereafter... this will help keep avoid pepper plant diseases and help keep overall pepper plant problems away.

Juice is brimming with brilliant phytochemicals, which are the substances in plants that are among the most powerful ways to fight disease.

Contrast that with the predominantly plant - based societies where people live a very long time and heart disease is almost unheard of.

Similarly, risk of coronary heart disease associated with an 1,800 - calorie diet emphasizing plant protein (93 grams) was found to be somewhat lower than the risk associated with a similar diet containing only 49 grams of plant - based protein.

These powerhouse plants are packed with vitamins, minerals and disease - fighting phytonutrients.

The win / win benefits to not only the environment but also health care — with plant - based diets known to reduce heart disease, diabetes, several types of cancer, and obesity (currently at a shocking 23 per cent, with 60 per cent of Canadians overweight)-- make this negligence incomprehensible.»

By adding these new genes, genetic engineers hope the plant will express the traits associated with the genes, such as resistance to certain diseases or herbicides.

As a plant pathologist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Rice Research Unit in Beaumont, Texas, Toni Marchetti oversaw a new program in 1972 to develop new cultivars that better resisted costly diseases like rice blast.

The plant - based sources of these nutrients tend to be low in saturated fat, high in fibre and packed with antioxidants, helping mitigate some of the modern world's biggest health issues like obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer, among many others.

The advent of rice varieties bearing genes with resistance to the disease has changed the perception about the disease: the incorporation of host - plant resistance genes in rice varieties, their adoption and deployment in the world's main rice - producing environments is probably one of the most significant evidences of the role of plant pathology in agricultural development.

Bob started off teaching science with the Peace Corps in Africa and went on to research plant diseases in South America, Asia, and the USA.

Monitoring for pests and diseases; monitoring water use; planting cover crops; and reducing tillage are all associated with significant cost savings.

According to that study, replacing animal proteins with plant proteins can greatly reduce the risks of coronary heart disease.

Long story short, we eat them all up now and with all we're doing with our new plant - based lifestyle and his protocols, we're healing my «Graves Disease» and our family's «Lyme Disease» and so much more!!

Farmers in Mexico and Central America are already dealing with the effects of climate change: shorter growing seasons, unpredictable rainfall, and a surge in plant diseases and pests.

In this video, Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks with doctors, researchers, and individuals about how eating a plant - based diet can make you «heart attack proof» and help prevent heart disease.

Pioneers like Dr Dean Ornish and Dr Caldwell Esselstyn where among the first to show that if you combined a low fat, plant based diet, with walking and stress management, not only could you prevent and reverse heart disease (and many other chronic conditions), but you could also increase telomerase activity.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

These substances are naturally found in plant - based foods, with disease fighting and disease protection abilities.

The airborne disease strikes coffee plants, flecking their leaves with spots causing them to wither and fall off.

Crop insurance provides growers with protection against crop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly applied).

The technique could also be used to tinker with plant pests or mosquitoes so they don't spread lethal diseases, such as malaria.

But with hundreds of channels you can measure carbon and nitrogen content, and you can tell a lot about plant health, plant disease, or leaf chemistry, all of which affect crop yield.»

Farmers spray their crops with fungicides to control these plant diseases, but their effectiveness is limited as disease pathogens mutate to become insensitive to the fungicides.

Three other lines modified with RGA2 showed strong resistance, with 20 % or fewer plants exhibiting disease symptoms in three years

That finding raises prospects for eco-sensitive disease control — spraying cacao trees with beneficial fungi, for instance, or planting them alongside endophyte donor plants.

Appel says the Colorado plant will be designed to digest whole, diseased cattle along with slaughterhouse waste.

She branched out from lab research after 6 years and spent a couple of years working in field schools with farmers to learn and teach scientific approaches to plant disease and how to curb its spread.

Unseen by the human eye, plants interact with many species of fungi and other microbes in the surrounding environment, and these exchanges can impact the plant's health and tolerance to stressors such as drought or disease, as well as the global carbon cycle.

By developing a symbiotic relationship with fungi, plants not only become more tolerant to diseases but can also help contribute to more sustainable agricultural practices.

Planting huge acreages with a single variety of the same genetic makeup meant the entire harvest could be wiped out at once by disease or pests or changes in rainfall.

Pedrono's team plans to do thorough veterinary checks to make sure the new tortoises aren't bringing invasive plants or exotic diseases with them to Madagascar.

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A higher intake of a more healthful plant - based diet — one rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, etc. — was associated with a substantially lower risk of heart disease.

Seven days later, they infected the same plants with blast disease.

In exposing the biological logic behind such inherited diseases, Mendel paved the way for modern - day genetic investigations — a span of progress the humble monk never imagined as he knelt in the abbey soil with his pea plants.

«When we examined the associations of the three food categories with heart disease risk, we found that healthy plant foods were associated with lower risk, whereas less healthy plant foods and animal foods were associated with higher risk,» said Ambika Satija, ScD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston and the study's lead author.

We tend to think of pollinating insects as our ecological friends, but in the wrong place nonnative bees can spell trouble instead by competing with native insects, promoting reproduction in nonnative plants and potentially spreading disease.

Overall, adherence to a plant - based diet was associated with a lower risk of heart disease.

Farmers have been grafting plants for thousands of years to combine, say, a tree that bears delicious fruit with one that has disease - resistant roots.

«Practically speaking, we need to understand how to sustain plants with all of the mounting stressors today, such as drought and an increase in pathogens (e.g., plant disease),» Fitzpatrick says.

«It's a bit like human disease but in plants, to understand the pathogen and its interaction with the plant allows to develop a functional cure to treat the affected plants» emphasizes the specialist in plant genomics.

Scientists have found that a plant pigment called quercetin — found in some fruits, vegetables, herbs and grains — could help to prevent the damage to nerves associated with the childhood form of motor neuron disease.

A chemical found in plants could reduce the symptoms of a rare muscle disease that leaves children with little or no control of their movements.

«In both experiments, the greatest disease severity of downy mildew was observed in 2 - week - old basil regardless of the plants treated with ASM or not,» the authors said.

The study looked at a way to substitute animal - based saturated fats for plant - based unsaturated fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Plants are known to communicate with each other via shade, aromatic chemicals, and physical touch, promoting processes such as growth and defense against disease, as well as attraction of bees and other pollinators.

Researchers will initially use it to test GM wheat with resistance to powdery mildew, a fungal disease, but they could ultimately plant other crops such as potatoes.