secondary compound

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Howling monkey feeding behavior and plant secondary compounds: a study of strategies.
Higher sodium concentrations and lower concentrations of secondary compounds in crops may allow elephants to solve the complexities of meeting sodium requirements from wild foods.
The chemical composition of plant galls: are levels of nutrients and secondary compounds controlled by the gallformer.
The crowns of these rain forest trees produce significantly more secondary compounds at higher concentrations than understorey saplings.
Secondary compounds are produced by fully productive lexical derivations whose outputs are semantically transparent.
These four taxa represent families known for producing different classes of secondary compounds.
Studies that have found interactive effects utilized wider ranges of secondary compounds in artificial diets.
The chemical composition of plant galls: are levels of nutrients and secondary compounds controlled by the gall-former.
We have already found this to be the case for secondary compounds (watch-maker) and their relatives of the music critic type.
It is therefore reassuring for our analysis that secondary compounds invariably have fore-stress.
Effects of these secondary compounds on seedling germination and growth are largely unknown81.
They suggest secondary compounds that are toxic to many decomposers, as the most likely cause for this.
Howler monkey feeding behavior and plant secondary compounds: a study of strategies.
The data also highlight the importance of understanding the influence of environmental conditions and irrigation on the formation and retention of biologically active secondary compounds in field soils.
Canberra metrics (dissimilarity coefficients) were computed from a data matrix produced from relative amounts of 11 secondary compounds in pooled samples (table 2).
Food crops are selected to be highly digestible, high in energy and low in secondary compounds.
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