Sentence examples for plants efforts from inspiring English sources

While many Western states are building new power plants, efforts to build new towers and transmission lines have been far less aggressive.

Because C4 plants are higher yielding than C3 plants, efforts are underway to introduce the C4 pathway into the C3 crop rice.

For plants, efforts were centred on obtaining heritable changes in most transformable crop species by inducing mutations into open reading frames of interest, via non-homologous end joining.

In this article, we summarize recent advances in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying Fe uptake and transport in plants, efforts to increase plant tolerance to Fe deficiency, and attempts to increase the rice grain Fe content.

In plants, efforts are concentrated on various regions of the plastid genome, but no agreement exists as to what kinds of regions are ideal, though most researchers agree that more than one region is necessary.

The fact that the pathogen effectively reproduces (asexual sporulation) in this environment suggests that the plants effort to "defend" itself has in some way been manipulated or "hijacked" by the pathogen to support its asexual reproduction.

Three genetic markers have already been identified and will be used to select trees for future planting efforts.

They know from past seasons that blight years lead to skyrocketing opium prices and even greater planting efforts to come.

In Ningxia, in northwest China, a pest wiped out 1 billion poplar trees in 2000 two decades of planting efforts.

Another theory is that Southeastern tree-planting efforts (afforestation) in the mid-1900s may have slowed warming there by absorbing carbon dioxide, Dr. Shepherd said.

No one expects that today's tree planting efforts will have anything like these calamitous side effects, but if the campaign is not effective, the huge cost is, if nothing else, a financial disaster.