Some articles on plants, plant:
... Such plants are termed a "variety", "selection" or "strain" but these are ambiguous and confusing words that are best avoided ... asexually propagated cultivars grown from seeds produce highly variable seedling plants, and should not be labelled with, or sold under, the parent cultivar's name ... Some cultivars are agamospermous plants, which retain their genetic composition and characteristics under reproduction ...
... Dwarfing genes are widely used in creating more productive food plants, such as grains ... One condition that results in loss of grain crops is called 'lodging', where heavy ears of almost ripe grain bend the stalk until the grain touches the ground, becomes wet, and spoils ...
... identical and known as clones this includes plants propagated by division, layering, cuttings, grafts, and budding ... material may be taken from a particular part of the plant, such as a lateral branch, or from a particular phase of the life cycle, such as a juvenile leaf ... Plants whose distinctive characters are derived from the presence of an intracellular organism may also form a cultivar provided the characters are reproduced reliably from generation to ...
... magic and medicine with invocations to banish disease and a catalogue of useful plants, minerals, magic amulets and spells ... In India, the Ayurveda is traditional medicine that emphasizes plant-based treatments, hygiene, and balance in the body’s state of being ... Indian materia medica included knowledge of plants, where they grow in all season, methods for storage and shelf life of harvested materials ...
... the country to contain Holly-leaved Naiad (Najas marina), a species on the flowering plant section of the list of endangered species in the British Isles and is protected under ... Other important plants are Milk Parsley, marsh pea, saw sedge, six varieties of orchids including the and rare aquatic macrophytes ... hay meadow is an ecological relict with a high plant diversity due to the continuing centuries old practice of receiving only a cut in late season for a hay crop ...
Famous quotes containing the word plants:
“Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use,
Did after him the World seduce:
And from the fields the Flow’rs and Plants allure,”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
“... feminism is a political term and it must be recognized as such: it is political in women’s terms. What are these terms? Essentially it means making connections: between personal power and economic power, between domestic oppression and labor exploitation, between plants and chemicals, feelings and theories; it means making connections between our inside worlds and the outside world.”
—Anica Vesel Mander, U.S. author and feminist, and Anne Kent Rush (b. 1945)
“We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.”
—A.J. (Arnold Joseph)