Sentence examples for valuable plant from inspiring English sources
But when he returned to England only to be mocked, Henry Whittaker took his valuable plant samples, with lucrative pharmaceutical potential, to the Dutch East India Company.
Surendra Singh Negi is the state's minister for alternative medicine, and he says he is worried that continued forest fires in the Himalayas may be wiping out rare and valuable plant life.
It's best to eat them whole: the papery pith contains valuable plant compounds (hesperidin, naringenin, limonene) that add to their antioxidant properties, along with soluble fibre, which slows down the absorption of fruit sugar in the bloodstream.
The scientists hope they will provide a more cost-effective way of producing valuable plant compounds than synthesising them artificially or extracting tiny amounts from natural sources such as grapes and soybeans.
TOKYO — New questions are arising about whether Tokyo Electric Power Company executives wasted precious time in the early hours of the nuclear crisis, either because of complacency or because they did not want to resort to emergency measures that could destroy the valuable plant.
Also, it mentions other investigations that evaluate the other biological activities of this valuable plant.
Growing valuable plants under fine cheesecloth or wire screening that excludes insect vectors also is done.
Winter mulches are commonly used to protect such sensitive and valuable plants as strawberries and roses.
Mr. Pickett is coming this weekend to give us an estimate on the magnolias — valuable plants, really, though I got them for free.
Mr. Everett, the horticulturist, told about the rescue work They set up a stove in the root cellar & took the most valuable plants down there.
Here where it originated, and where it provided the spark in local cuisine before the Portuguese introduced chilies from the New World, pepper grows amid other valuable plants, including vanilla vines, a species of orchid; tea bushes, as carefully trimmed as a dandy's mustache, which tuft the hillsides; and nutmeg trees, which produce both nutmeg and mace.
