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].
Another type of injury is caused by leafhoppers that feed upon plant mesophyll tissue.
Flavins are synthesized by bacteria, yeasts, and green plants; riboflavin is not manufactured by animals, which therefore are dependent upon plant sources.
In time, he will add 15 to 20 pounds to his 200-pound frame to better control the shuddering energy generated upon planting a fiberglass and carbon-fiber pole into a box while running at sprinter's speed.
Fig. 5 Expression profiles of the rice EUL genes upon plant stress represented as fold change.
Slugs can have profound effects upon plant community structure and, by selective grazing, act as ecosystem engineers.
