The plant's seeds are thought to be distributed, in part, by bird beaks, feet, and digestive systems. |
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I've named it after Henri Becquerel in honour of the plant's peculiar beard. |
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He applies a third of each plant's yearly allotment before spring growth starts and the rest after fruit sets. |
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From the perspective of ethnobotany, the higher a plant's status among native peoples, the more potent it often proves to be medicinally. |
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Pick mint early in the morning because the sun draws out some of the plant's essential oils. |
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The farmers allege that shutting off the thermal power plant's electrostatic precipitator caused the fog. |
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It is concentrated in this plant's leaves and is derived from pyridine molecules. |
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The nuclear plant's oldest units, 1 and 2, will be decommissioned by the end of 2002, as was planned. |
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I also like to remove deadheads or seed-heads that weigh down the plant's foliage. |
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The idea was that this trivial name would be easy to. remember and would trigger the memory of the plant's 'correct' polynomial name. |
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The plant's shiny, fleshy leaves, stems and underground tuber store water, so it's able to go weeks without water. |
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If a plant's DNA calls for a plant to grow long roots, then the plant grows long roots. |
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He found that the fungus causes the plant's roots to grow finer and more fibrous. |
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The plant's growth is restricted both by underground piping and the foundations of the path. |
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The new shareholder has declared the intention to conclude agreements with the plant's creditors and restore the production. |
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The chipboard uses the cucumber plant's strong fibrous strands to create a dense and durable material held together with resin. |
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The plant's leaves contain pilocarpine, a rare alkaloid used in the treatment of glaucoma and when diagnosing cystic fibrosis. |
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The plant's shoots receive nourishment from a complex network of connections to the roots. |
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From now on I'll remove any suckers that appear as they'll only draw away the plant's energy from the important matter of producing fruit. |
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If this disease develops in the plant's crown, a wet rot may kill the entire plant. |
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The ice plant's lime green foliage contrasts strongly with prickly silver mats of neighboring pinks. |
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The plant's foliage withers back during the summer while pretty, orange-red berries appear in the fall. |
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The two compounds considered important in the plant's anti-depressant activity are hypericin and hyperforin. |
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Filled with the energy of a season's growth, hips and berries are certainly the fruit of a plant's labour. |
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What the crowd didn't know was that the plant's steam turbine had malfunctioned, forcing a shutdown before the ceremony began. |
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Once four or five trusses have formed, pinch out the main growing stem to halt the plant's growth. |
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The ideal form for a particular tree depends not only on your preferences, but also on the plant's natural growth habit. |
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His group determines a plant's vulnerability by inoculating detached leaves with the pathogen. |
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But since the plant's seeds are sterile, the grass does not spread like an invasive species. |
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To start new plants, remove a leaf at the plant's base and cut down each side of the center rib, as shown in illustration at right. |
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This non-selective herbicide is taken up through the leaves and translocated to the roots, where it disrupts the plant's metabolism. |
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He gave her seeds for the variety, and told her to roast the plant's seeds and grind them for a caffeine-free coffee substitute. |
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Feed in spring and summer with a balanced liquid fertiliser, to help speed up growth and enhance the plant's health. |
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The plant's flexibility in product selection makes it versatile enough for many different types of contractors. |
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Four of the five bracts that enclose and protect the plant's spathe and spadix now have fallen. |
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The plant's workforce includes skilled moulders, assemblers and maintenance workers, many of whom are furious at the reports of closure. |
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Hummingbirds favored the maguey cactus, and people who extracted the plant's sap were also known as hummingbirds. |
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The plant's six drive-through bays can receive up to 1 million pounds of milk per hour from trucks arriving on a continuous basis. |
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Each wall in each alcove had detailed plants and flowers, each plant's leaf had carefully carved veins. |
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The telex machine in the plant's foreign trade office was buzzing with communications from companies in Europe, America and the Far East. |
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With both the main generators and their backup out of service, the plant's cooling system was dependent on batteries, which last eight hours. |
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The mychorrhizal fungi live on the roots and physically extend the plant's reach for nutrients and water with hairlike tentacles called hyphae. |
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All three names were derived from the shape of the flower, but none warned of the plant's deadly nature. |
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Within six months the plant had installed scrubbers in the plant's chimneys. |
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The botanist who spots a double flower in a field of single sees a chance mutation that has altered that plant's genetics. |
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Most feel that failure to diversify and a complacency born of the plant's long history have sounded its death knell. |
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When the plant's about to go to seed, the leaves become lacy and thread-like and they're just too strong to eat. |
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Terebrantia, the pest thrips, lay their eggs inside the plant's epidermis, the results of which can drive you mad trying to get rid of them. |
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The technology can be used to trick a plant's molecular machinery into making a range of medically useful compounds. |
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True essential oils, on the other hand, are a complex mix of the plant's hormones, nutrients and biochemicals. |
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Just look for the tractor trailer with its hazard lights flashing, parked in the middle of the street as it waits to jockey into position in the plant's cramped parking lot. |
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Cutting flowers or pruning back in the fall keeps the plant's sap running. |
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Interestingly, each small compartment is named after a plant, and it is this plant's oil that is used for the massage, explained the masseurs, clad in lovely pink skirts. |
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A plant's growth in size is both by cell enlargement and cell division. |
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The plant's active principles are volatile oils, tannins and bitters, and plant constituents acknowledged to improve digestion, reduce GI spasms, and lessen nausea. |
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Although the seminal roots continue to function throughout most of the plant's life, their most important contribution comes before the nodal roots are established. |
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The plant's four plate presses, which squeeze the water from the sewage, have been unable to process all the sludge coming in because it is so wet. |
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The substances responsible for the plant's sweetness are chemicals called glycosides, primarily one dubbed stevioside, which are concentrated in the leaves. |
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The stoppage and protest shut down most of the plant's production lines. |
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Other researchers took imprints of the plant's surface to look for tiny openings that would allow the fragrance to escape, and tissue samples to study biochemistry. |
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The plant's homogenizer runs at a rate of 25,000 pounds an hour. |
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Generally, you want water to reach everywhere within the plant's root zone, which may be as deep as 18 inches and as wide as the crown of the plant. |
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The flies' larvae build galls within the flower buds and steal some of the plant's energy, leading to a reduction in the number of seeds that develop. |
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If the tests are successful it sees the eventual commercial use of petcoke as a way of cutting the plant's costs to help it compete with cheaper gas-fired power stations. |
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The finding would be consistent with the plant's stated production capabilities in the field of basic raw materials for explosives and propellants. |
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Fortunately, the grievous damage to the reactor did not result in any injuries or deaths, in large part because of the robust design of all of the plant's systems. |
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Operating costs exceeded revenue, and the plant's owners tried to partner with the government to prevent closure. |
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Siebert's research confirmed that salvinorin A, first isolated a decade before, was the plant's main psychoactive ingredient. |
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The phytochemicals responsible for the sharp flavor of garlic are produced when the plant's cells are damaged. |
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Merial Animal Health Ltd's managing director David Biland said today that investigations continue to show no failure in the plant's procedures. |
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Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus reduces the plant's impact on algae growth in the harbor. |
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Paul, MN, has officially closed after company officials announced plans to liquate all of the plant's assets. |
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The Portuguese word is also a mystery. In northern Europe it is simply the earth-berry due to the plant's habit of creeping along the ground. |
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These elements are often present at the active sites of enzymes that carry out the plant's metabolism. |
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The quality control manager estimates that 75 pans get reworked each shift, or 19 percent of the plant's total production each day. |
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Sunlight activates a chemical reaction in the plant's leaves. |
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The plant's toxin is aconitine, which slows the heart until it and respiratory system are both paralysed. |
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Not all stands of the plant are toxic, and the toxicity may be the side effect of the plant's response to a fungal infection. |
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Despite the plant's English name, it is not particularly closely related to the true asphodels. |
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The net uptake of carbon dioxide, and therefore, the plant's potential for growth, must be positive for the plant to survive. |
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The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers. |
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Thereafter, KDEP seized the plant's daily logbooks and the data sheets from the turbidimeters. |
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The plant's spread has changed the topography of some California beach ecosystems, especially in sand dunes. |
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Any dripping juice from opened bags runs down a grid on the debagging table and flows through the plant's draining system. |
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A change in a single position of a rice plant's genetic code lets it hold onto grains until harvest, new research suggests. |
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The Gori 1 nuclear power plant's operations were suspended in March over safety concerns following a blackout event. |
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Scatter dry granules within the plant's drip line, then water thoroughly so the chelate soaks into soil around roots. |
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Skewing occurs when a plant's roots grow at an angle rather than a straight vertical line. |
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Transmission to healthy plants occurs when the infected vector feeds and egests the bacterium into the plant's xylem. |
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Organisms that trip the plant's sensory hairs are sucked inside bladderlike traps to be digested. |
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The color blue made it very unique among planetary rings, which are usually red because the particles are too small to be affected by the plant's forces. |
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For more than three centuries, the Bushmen and Khoikhoi of South Africa have been infusing rooibos leaves and stems for the plant's health benefits and healing properties. |
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The plutonium traces, which are too low to present a hazard to human health, were found at six spots far away from the plant's premises, The Japan Times reports. |
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Japanese orders for MOX recommenced on 17 April 2013, being supplied by the Sellafield MOX plant's main competitor, the French MOX fuel vendor COGEMA owned by Areva. |
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Every plant is a member of a family and a genus, and in this case, an air plant's genus is Tillandsia, which is part of the larger Bromeliad family. |
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Legend has it that the plant was so important to the local economy that coins were minted that depicted the plant's seedpod, which looks like the heart shape we know today. |
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All of these hardscape features possess water-retaining pores that slowly release water vapor to adjacent plants, elevating the ambient humidity to the plant's benefit. |
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The plant's growth was stunted because it was placed in a closet. |
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As piercing-sucking insects, they use needlelike stylets to insert saliva into plant tissues and open a pathway to ingest fluids critical to the plant's survival. |
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The sequence, which essentially provides a parts list of the soybean genome, will help scientists use the plant's genes to improve its characteristics. |
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In a statement today, Merial Animal Health Limited's managing director David Biland said investigations continue to show no failure in the plant's procedures. |
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The tree shrews and the rats defecate into the plant's traps while visiting them to feed on sweet, fruity secretions from glands on the pitcher lids. |
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Too late I learned that you can develop an allergic reaction to poison ivy after previously uneventful exposures, which induce a sensitivity to the plant's oily sap, urushiol. |
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Cells in a typical liverwort plant each contain only a single set of genetic information, so the plant's cells are haploid for the majority of its life cycle. |
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The garlic plant's bulb is the most commonly used part of the plant. |
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It often increases the plant's uptake of inorganic compounds, such as nitrate and phosphate from soils having low concentrations of these key plant nutrients. |
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These results indicate a high level of heterozygosity, which can be related to the plant's dioecy and to the low level of selection in papaya in Kenya. |
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The SNCR is meant to clean nitrogen oxides from the plant's emissions. |
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When a plant's leaves fall to the ground and decompose, tiny silica particles inside the plants called phytoliths remain as part of the soil layer. |
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Which plant's local names include banewort and devil's berries? |
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