Sentence examples for Upon plants from inspiring English sources

As plants respond to these fluctuations by becoming smaller, animals that depend upon plants — from deer to rabbits to insects — will need to eat larger quantities of smaller plants, the scientists say.

In the lush valleys east of the Mississippi River, societies grew increasingly dependent upon plants such as amaranth, sumpweed, sunflower, and squash; their plentiful seeds and flesh provided a rich and ready source of food.

Many plants possess such healing potential, while conversely there are many which can be used as deadly poisons; and there are plants known for their mind-altering properties, such as peyote and Jimson weed in the Americas; but in modern industrial societies we tend to have lost sight of them all, and look upon plants merely as background vegetation.

It has been shown that Cu,Zn-nanoparticles decreased the negative effect of drought action upon plants of steppe ecotype Acveduc.

Salt-tolerance would be an especially important ability to bestow upon plants for agricultural and industrial purposes, because high salinity conditions are ubiquitous on earth and represent major barriers to growth.

In addition to facilitating biotic stress alleviation, a number of reports have been published regarding the activity of some plant growth-promoting bacteria to confer upon plants the ability to tolerate abiotic stresses such as drought, salt and nutrient deprivation [7], [8], [9], [10].

Density stress was imposed upon plants as an environmental effect because heterosis may be more evident in conditions of stress (Tollenaar and Wu 1999).

Besides being consistent in space and time, most values of interaction strength asymmetry were positive which indicates that animals are more dependent upon plants than vice versa (Blüthgen et al. 2007), a result commonly found in other oceanic archipelagos (Kaiser-Bunbury et al. 2010; Traveset et al. 2015 b ), and a pattern not found to be influenced by invasion level in this study.