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That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time.

They beautified it with plants.

It captures the energy which plants produce during photosynthesis, a process of converting sunlight into energy.

Some desalination plants exist where feasible, but they are costly to run and can need constant repairs.

The slugs can manufacture chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight, and hold these genes within their body.

When we think of animals and plants, we have a pretty good way of dividing them into two distinct groups: one converts sunlight into energy and the other has to eat food to make its energy.

In addition, at that time a greater percentage of homes and electrical plants were run on petroleum than today.

The plant's carbon-capture technologies would serve as a pilot project for other new coal-burning plants.

David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.

They found fossils of microscopic marine plants which suggest that the region was once open ocean not solid ice.

"The yield is never going to be high," Farrant says, so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cash out of high-yield fields, but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa

At a time when natural history was a valuable tool for discovery, Merian discovered facts about plants and Insects that were not previously known.

At the same time, this sea-water also kills off the greedy giant apple snail, an introduced pest that feeds on young rice plants.

Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply, they cease growing and start to die.

Extreme conditions produce extremely tough plants.

In the seed world, that makes them rare, because most seeds from flowering plants are quite robust.

It's not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat.

Just like medical researchers use rats to test ideas for human medical treatments, botanists use plants that are relatively easy to grow in a lab or greenhouse setting to test their ideas for related species.

Many different kinds of plants have developed tactics to weather dry spells.

Many of them are the same that regulate how seeds become dryness-tolerant while still attached to their parent plants.

Native plants are coming back, and the fox once again bound about carefree.

Now they are trying to figure out what molecular signaling processes activate those seed-building genes in resurrection plants—and how to reproduce them in crops.

Resurrection plants, defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of water per gram of dry mass, are different.

She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops.

She received assistance naming plants, making sketches and referencing the work of others.

Some plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought; others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.

The big difference between "drought-tolerant" plants and these tough plants: metabolism.

The Nature Conservancy has declared war on a multitude of invasive species here, from sheep to plants to the aggressive Argentine ant.

The Queensland rock violet is one of the best studied resurrection plants so far, with a draft genome(基因图谱) published last year by a Chinese team.

There are good reasons why crop plants do not use dryness defenses already.

They may be able to handle a drought of some length, and many people use the term "drought tolerant" to describe such plants, but they never actually stop needing to consume water, so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.

Whether it is a transition from imported to domestic oil or from coal-powered electricity production to natural-gas power plants, politicians love to talk big.

Yet on these and similar formations in deserts around the world, a few fierce plants have adapted to endure under ever-changing conditions.

Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get.

Big serving bowls and plants can easily makes us fat.

Follow the track for the sake of plants.

It ends abruptly at 3, 000 meters, giving way to lands of low growing plants.

It gets help from other plants.

Keep to the track, where one exists, so you lessen the chance of damaging fragile plants.

Scientists find from their studies that plants can protect themselves against insects.

Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out vocs when being attacked.

Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees to sell the wood.

Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color.

Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away.

Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants.

The plants get ready to fight back.

Until we don't stop climate change, many animals and plants in the world will be gone.

What the plants pump through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds, vocs for short.