Sentence examples for reduce plants from inspiring English sources

Rather, the idea is not to reduce plants to storehouses of carbohydrates and vitamins or to that other source of energy so widely applauded today, biofuel.

For example, high TDS may reduce plants' osmotic activities or prevent adequate soil aeration.

This condition retards the growth of any affected plant which in turn might reduce plants yield.

Ploughing, and some fertilisers can help farmers reduce plants' uptake of the dangerous elements, and binding agents can be added to animal feed to reduce their uptake from the gut, he added.

Infestation rates did tend to be higher for lox2/3x Tplantslanthanhan for lox2/3 plants in populations, indicating that the absence of other volatiles such as GLVs may reduce plants' apparency to ovipositing T. mucorea.

The basic idea is that plant breeding is unlikely to improve attributes already favored by millions of years of natural selection, whereas there may be unutilized potential in selecting for attributes that increase total crop yield but reduce plants' individual fitness.

Mr Keen says the capital cost of the new units will be equal to the old ones, while they can reduce plant size by up to two-thirds.

But both scientists said that over longer periods, the effect could also reduce plant growth, canceling any enhancement of the soil's ability to store carbon.

Herbivore damage is expected to reduce plant growth.

Inoculations were performed a minimum of 3 days after transferring plants to reduce plant stress from transfer.

Mn- and Zn-deficiency or excess reduce plant growth and development.