Sentence examples for a desert shrub from inspiring English sources

And, later that summer, his cry found its way to Yulex, an Arizona-based company working to resurrect a low-energy, low-toxin recipe for rubber from guayule, a desert shrub native to North America.

A central composite design (CCD) was used to find the optimal temperature, pressure, moisture and duration for the supercritical CO2-based pretreatment of guayule, a desert shrub for commercial production of hypoallergenic latex.

Among the candidates are Russian dandelion and guayule, a desert shrub found in the south-western American states and in Mexico, says Joe Walter, a tyre expert at the University of Akron in Ohio.Food byproducts are also being considered as ingredients for new tyres.

Lesser-known plants like guayule, a desert shrub, and Russian dandelion, the central Asian version of our lawn weed, could one day help the tire industry protect itself from the uncertain supplies and fluctuating prices of natural rubber and crude oil.

But the Baneberry test, named for a desert shrub, did not go as planned.

They were built with mud and saxaul (a desert shrub) in one section, and dark basalt blocks in another, suggesting that the rocks may have been quarried from nearby extinct volcanoes and transported to the construction site.

Among these 31 NACs, GmNAC2 [ 17], GmNAC3, GmNAC4 [ 18], GmNAC5 [ 19], GmNAC6 [ 20], GmNAC11 and GmNAC20 [ 21] were reported either to be induced by abiotic stresses or to participate in stress toleranc e. Caragana intermedia Kuang & H.C. Fu, a leguminous plant, is a native desert shrub with strong drought, salinity, cold resistance, sand-fixing capacity and high forage value.

In a pair of eerie, solarized prints from 1989, "Cooling Tower" and "Cactus," Mr. Wood compares a nuclear-plant structure and a spiky desert shrub.

The species is commonly a spiny desert shrub 1 to 3 m tall, and more rarely a tree 5 to 8 m tall.

We examined whether surface roughness derived from LiDAR can explain variability in aeolian surface change following wildfire in loess soils of a cold desert shrub steppe in SE Idaho, USA.

Hastings et al [28] reported annual NEE of -39 and -52 [g C m-2], in two different years, for a dry desert shrub community in California, proposing water storage in stems and roots to act as buffers to variations in annual rainfall.