Plant in sentence

1143 examples of Plant in a sentence

I plant the potatoes, I weed the garden, I domesticate the species.

You know, we hear about these city kids who think that wool grows on trees or that cheese comes from a plant.

Actually, it's a small manufacturing plant set up by Grameen Danone, a joint venture between Grameen Bank of Muhammad Yunus and the food multinational Danone to make high-quality yogurt in Bangladesh.

But we discovered that if you plant banana trees, papaya trees on the periphery of these leach pits, they grow very well because they suck up all the nutrients and you get very tasty bananas, papayas.

What we do is we put a monarch in a big cage, a medicinal plant on one side, a non-medicinal plant on the other side, and then we measure the number of eggs that the monarchs lay on each plant.

And as sunken skyscrapers add crumbled concrete to the new forest floor, the soil acidity plummets, potentially allowing new plant life to thrive.

Within 35,000 years, the plant cycle removes the last traces of lead left by the Industrial Revolution from Earth’s soil, and it may take up to 65,000 years beyond that for CO2 to return pre-human levels.

I am a plant geneticist.

An organic farmer and a plant geneticist?

For this reason, farmers plant rice varieties that carry genes for resistance.

I love this video because it shows the power of plant genetics to help farmers.

Many people thought that the Hawaiian papaya was doomed, but then, a local Hawaiian, a plant pathologist named Dennis Gonsalves, decided to try to fight this disease using genetic engineering.

What scares me most about the loud arguments and misinformation about plant genetics is that the poorest people who most need the technology may be denied access because of the vague fears and prejudices of those who have enough to eat.

And so we tried this out, and here's one of our experiments, where we took this potted plant that you see on the right and we filmed it with a high-speed camera while a nearby loudspeaker played this sound.

I'm no Mandela, but I ask myself: Could I, too, plant seeds of hope in the ruins of the past?

Within the map is a map of every plant in this orchard.

The second thing we can do is take models of plants, construct three-dimensional reconstructions, and from that estimate the canopy size, and then correlate the canopy size to the amount of leaf area on every plant.

So if you know this leaf area index, you essentially have a measure of how much photosynthesis is possible in every plant, which again tells you how healthy each plant is.

So when a plant or an animal cell detects a double-stranded break in its DNA, it can fix that break, either by pasting together the ends of the broken DNA with a little, tiny change in the sequence of that position, or it can repair the break by integrating a new piece of DNA at the site of the cut.

Also, it damaged the nuclear power plant of Fukushima, the nuclear power plant just by the water.

And today, I read the reports and an average of 300 tons are leaking from the nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

And to do this, we built a very rough topographical map of the region around the nuclear power plant.

But with this in mind, we organized this expedition, which was the closest civilians have been to the nuclear power plant.

We are sailing 1.5 kilometers away from the nuclear power plant, and with the help of the local fisherman, we are collecting sediment from the seabed with a custom sediment sampler we've invented and built.

The term penniform means "feather-shaped" in Latin, but could this actually be a depiction of a plant or a tree?

In one of most classic examples, Mendel combined a purebred yellow-seeded plant with a purebred green-seeded plant, and he got only yellow seeds.

For example, they inserted the genes, or instructions, for a cell to create firefly luciferase and luciferin into a tobacco plant.

Once there, the tobacco plant followed the instructions slipped into its DNA and lit up like a Christmas tree.

It's actually a very efficient converter of plant protein into animal protein, and it's been a godsend to the third world.

Our hero would become a walking, talking nuclear power plant, ultimately harming every person he tries to save.

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