Sentence examples for complement of nutrients from inspiring English sources

The second method was to grow the plants in water culture, using the solution with a full complement of nutrients, which contained 0.0005% of NaCl, 1% or 2%.

Parsnip: Parsnip, a root vegetable, is widely available and has a richer complement of nutrients than onions the white/light green vegetable consumed in abundance in the American diet.

"There is strong evidence that animals try to forage as effectively as possible to meet their nutritional needs, mixing dietary items to provide a full complement of nutrients," writes primatologist Jessica Rothman of the City University Of New York's Hunter College, who was not involved in the study, in an e-mail.

But in samples with lower concentrations of phosphate and oxygen, the Earth-bound bacteria didn't grow as quickly as they did when fully nourished, while those cultured in microgravity grew as prolifically as those provided with a full complement of nutrients, the researchers report online today in BMC Microbiology.

These data suggest that Portiera and Hamiltonella are not only complementary but could also be mutually dependent to provide a full complement of nutrients to their host.

Salmon carcass analogues developed by Pearsons et al. (2007b) contain similar complements of nutrients and carbon-based compounds (including rare earth elements) as naturally returning salmon; therefore, their effect on stream food webs is hypothesized to mimic natural enrichment pathways.

A common set of genes was previously defined as the smallest possible group of genes that would be sufficient to sustain a functioning cellular life form under the most favorable conditions imaginable, that is, in the presence of a full complement of essential nutrients and in the absence of environmental stress [15], [16].

We also added a tool which searches for homologs in a list of 206 protein-coding genes proposed by Gil et al. (42) as the minimal gene set necessary for self-maintenance and reproduction in the presence of a full complement of essential nutrients and in the absence of environmental stress.

The techniques mentioned above often need to be complemented by the provision of nutrients.

Based on literature growth rates and on cell complement data, the measured sediment flux of nutrients could have provided up to 300% of P requirements, and up to 100% of N requirements of 50,000 cells L−1 of K. brevis, modified by water depth.

These defenses acting simultaneously, and probably complemented by unpalatable factors, would impair the acquisition of nutrients and toxify the predator rendering P. canaliculata eggs unusually well defended.