nutrient-deficient

"Citrus greenery can look like a nutrient-deficient tree, of which we have many."

It lives primarily near fast stretches of stream, but also in nutrient-deficient waters.

They'll only leave you nutrient-deficient and grumpy, not to mention slow your metabolism.

Only a few plant species were hardy enough to survive the hot, dry, nutrient-deficient conditions on the pile.

This practice usually occurs in a nutrient-deficient environment.

The species is usually found in dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone-based nutrient-deficient soil.

Most sweet processed foods are calorie-dense and nutrient-deficient.

It does not require a specific soil but seems to prefer acidic and nutrient-deficient soil.

For example, Endogone fungi are known to grow in sand dunes, a nutrient-deficient substrate.

In this way, these plants are able to thrive in nutrient-deficient areas, such as sphagnum bogs.

Nepenthes lowii grows in nutrient-deficient soils of the upper montane zone.

This suggests that people are eating and drinking more calorically dense but nutrient-deficient foods, many if not most because they are sweet.

In the course of the monthlong stuffing schedule of nutrient-deficient corn and oil, a duck's liver may swell to 10 times its normal size.

The introduction of alien mycorrhizal plants to nutrient-deficient ecosystems puts indigenous non-mycorrhizal plants at a competitive disadvantage.

Like many carnivorous plants, this trapping mechanism allows the plant to seek supplement nitrogen sources from the insect as a way to replace the nutrient-deficient habitat.

Because of its shallow roots, maize is susceptible to droughts, intolerant of nutrient-deficient soils, and prone to be uprooted by severe winds.

Under unfavorable conditions, C. septicum forms endospores allowing it to survive under harsh conditions such as extreme temperature, dry land, and nutrient-deficient habitats.

Some plant roots, especially cluster roots, exude carboxylates that perform acid phosphatase activity, helping to mobilise phosphorus in nutrient-deficient soils.

But then, any vegetarian who is haphazard about meals or who substitutes nutrient-deficient foods like candy and doughnuts for animal flesh is also risking nutritional deficiencies.

International food trade, investment, commercialization and marketing are drastically impacting the availability of and access to energy-dense, but nutrient-deficient foods causing the aforementioned shift from traditional diet.

The three-cornered leek (Allium triquetrum) is a species of Allium that has been introduced into Australia where it has spread and become established in nutrient-deficient, damp habitats.

Found in dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone-based nutrient-deficient soils, P. linearis is adapted to a fire-prone environment; the plants resprout epicormic buds from beneath their thick bark after bushfires.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are most frequent in plants growing on mineral soils, and are of extreme importance for plants growing in nutrient-deficient substrates such as in volcanic and sand dune environments.