Rust fungi are biotrophs taking nutrients from living cells.

When a plant expands too forcefully, taking light, water and nutrients from less aggressive natives, I don't plant it in my garden.

Today that process would take almost a year, and sediment, nutrients, and algae can cause problems in local waters.

The lower part of the trap contains glands which take nutrients from captured insects.

Plants need their roots especially for three reasons: The roots take water and nutrients, a sort of food, from the soil.

"The placenta has evolved to take nutrients from the bloodstream," Haig says.

The dense roots are said to take nutrients out of the water helping to prevent the growth of algae.

As time passes between meals, the body starts to take nutrients from long-term reservoirs.

Her younger brother Clord was secretly working on a cure, but it involved lethally taking nutrients out of young women.

Any earlier, and we wouldn't be taking advantage of all the energy and nutrients available in the field grasses.