Sentences with phrase «agricultural research scientists»

COLLEGE STATION — The battle against fever ticks rages on, and a group of Texas A&M University and French National Institute for Agricultural Research scientists are doing their best to determine where the fray will head by synthesizing historical models for use in curbing the pest globally.

Experimentation has been a part of Höller's work since he began his career as an artist while still an agricultural research scientist in the early 1990s.

Not exact matches

For starters, Canada should tap into one of the hottest research topics among agricultural scientists: transforming annual crops, such as wheat, soybeans and corn, into perennial ones.

Swapan Datta is Deputy Director General (Crop Science) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India; the Rash Behari Ghosh Chair Professor at Calcutta University, India; and a former scientist at ETH - Zurich, Switzerland, and at IRRI, Philippines.

To support this, a reinvigorated Indonesia rice research work plan was drafted this week by senior officials and leading scientists from the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD) and the Philippines - based International Rice Research Instituteresearch work plan was drafted this week by senior officials and leading scientists from the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD) and the Philippines - based International Rice Research InstituteResearch and Development (IAARD) and the Philippines - based International Rice Research InstituteResearch Institute (IRRI).

IRRI scientists based in Tanzania worked in close collaboration with Tanzania's National Rice Research Program of the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI)- KATRIN to develop the new varieties.

LOS BAÑOS, Philippines — On a hot, breezy afternoon on 21 January 2016, an international gathering of agricultural scientists and development officials dedicated the Lloyd T. Evans Plant Growth Facility (PGF) on the campus of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

India began its partnership with IRRI through the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in 1967 when Indian scientists from ICAR's two main rice research centers — the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Cuttack and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) in Hyderabad — began regularly visitiResearch (ICAR) in 1967 when Indian scientists from ICAR's two main rice research centers — the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Cuttack and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) in Hyderabad — began regularly visitiresearch centers — the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Cuttack and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) in Hyderabad — began regularly visitiResearch Institute (CRRI) in Cuttack and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) in Hyderabad — began regularly visitiResearch (DRR) in Hyderabad — began regularly visiting IRRI.

He attributed challenges facing farmers to lack of critical linkage between agricultural research and implementation, adding signing of MoU and partnership with IITA, the state is stand to have direct - to - farm linkage of scientific innovations in farming by the very best of agriculture scientists.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Göttingen, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia has now performed a complete and multidisciplinary assessment of all ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations as compared to lowland forests.

At a USDA research station near Amarillo, Tex., scientists are compiling data that encourage Funk and other farmers to use low - or no - till techniques (such as leaving crop residue to decompose), says Nolan Clark, station director and an agricultural engineer.

Joining Ale on the publication were lead author Pradip Adhikari, Ale's former postdoctoral student now at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Nina Omani, postdoctoral research associate, and Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist, both with AgriLife Research at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in Gainresearch associate, and Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist, both with AgriLife Research at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in GainResearch at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in GainResearch Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in Gainesville.

«Without the regulations, projects can't move forward into unconfined trials where crops are released into the environment and their performance is tested under different climatic and soil conditions,» says Simon Gichuki, crop scientist and head of the biotechnology centre at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in Nairobi.

Sandy Miller Hays, director of the Information Office with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), notes that work at the ARS, carried out by 2,200 scientists, touches on the lives of everyone in the United States.

In addition to Abu - Omar, co-authors include Trenton Parsell, a visiting scholar in the Department of Chemistry; chemical engineering graduate students Sara Yohe, John Degenstein, Emre Gencer, and Harshavardhan Choudhari; chemistry graduate students Ian Klein, Tiffany Jarrell, and Matt Hurt; agricultural and biological engineering graduate student Barron Hewetson; Jeong Im Kim, associate research scientist in biochemistry; Basudeb Saha, associate research scientist in chemistry; Richard Meilan, professor of forestry and natural reserouces; Nathan Mosier, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering; Fabio Ribeiro, the R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering; W. Nicholas Delgass, the Maxine S. Nichols Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering; Clint Chapple, the head and distinguished professor of biochemistry; Hilkka I. Kenttamaa, professor of chemistry; and Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service are testing a fungus that could one day be sent into battle against the land - grabbing vine, kudzu.

The research «contradicts the notion that trees and shrubs are drying up the prairie landscape,» says soil scientist Mark Seyfried of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service iresearch «contradicts the notion that trees and shrubs are drying up the prairie landscape,» says soil scientist Mark Seyfried of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service iResearch Service in Boise.

Ronald Cohen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, Berkeley who was not part of the research, calls the new study «provocative,» and says it shows agricultural fertilizer contributes a significant fraction of total NOx emissions in California.

Advocates for agricultural research hope that by putting a high - profile scientist in charge, the Administration can boost Congress's interest in supporting competitive research at USDA.

Martin Williams, a University of Illinois crop scientist and ecologist with the USDA - Agricultural Research Service, said this question is fundamentally important in improving the sustainability of sweet corn production in the United States and maintaining dominance in sweet corn production globally.

In particular, itcould spread over the Indo - Gangetic Plain through Bangladesh, northern India and eastern Pakistan, warn scientists at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) in Nashipur.

«This is an alarm bell for biotech scientists on the importance of strictly following ethical and other regulations on research,» wrote Huang Jikun, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy in Beijing, in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

Other scientists involved in the research were Zongwen Hu, Weiwen Chen, Zhengwei Wang and Yuchong Wang, all of the Eastern Bee Research Institute of Yunnan Agricultural Uniresearch were Zongwen Hu, Weiwen Chen, Zhengwei Wang and Yuchong Wang, all of the Eastern Bee Research Institute of Yunnan Agricultural UniResearch Institute of Yunnan Agricultural University.

During the second world war he became one of Hitler's biopirates — scientists who rushed into the Soviet Union behind the advancing German troops, occupying agricultural research stations and commandeering their plants and seeds.

Fulbright scholar Muthiah Muruganandam, left, a senior scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, and fisheries biologist Steven Chipps, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, will examine how land - use changes affect water quality and fisheries resources in northeastern South Dakota lakes.

The Long Ashton Research Station near Bristol was where scientists first discovered the type of nematodes that are now being developed by the Agricultural Genetics Company.

For example, if a non-adult atala lives in an area that's burned, it will probably die, said Thom, now a post-doctoral scientist with the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

«This research shows how important it is for industry and scientists to work together and find potential win - win solutions — or at least to mitigate the tradeoffs between conservation and agricultural production,» says UVM's Fisher.

Bing Liu, a student from Nanjing Agricultural University in China who's doing research in Asseng's lab, is the lead author for the study, which includes nearly 50 scientists worldwide.

BGI was set up as an independent research institute in 1999 in order to represent Chinese scientists in the Human Genome Project (www.genome.gov/10001772), and recently signed an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to collaborate on genetics studies tied to global health and agricultural breakthroughs envisioned as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals).

In a bungled attempt to anticipate the wishes of their new political bosses, the U.S. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) on Monday imposed what was widely interpreted as a gag order on its scientists communicating with the public.

Research conducted by scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire finds that appearance alone is not enough to identify these hybrid zone birds: there is no single, intermediate «phenotype» or physical appearance common to all of the first - generation hybrids found.

«For a long time, the root - knot nematodes have remained an evolutionary puzzle because the most devastating agricultural parasites are those that have abandoned sex and meiosis,» explains scientist Etienne Danchin of the French National Institute for Agriculturagricultural parasites are those that have abandoned sex and meiosis,» explains scientist Etienne Danchin of the French National Institute for AgriculturalAgricultural Research.

10.30 - 11.00 Stackebradt, Erko (Professor, Leibnitz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures; Coordinator, MIRRI - Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure, Braunschweig, Germany): Scientists and (their) microbial resources: responsibilities revisited 11.00 - 11.30 Balázs, Ervin (Member of HAS, Professor, Director - general, Centre for Agricultural Reserch, Hungarian Academy of Science, Martonvárár, Hungary): Microbes serving agri - food industry 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break 12.00 - 12.30 Nagy, Károly (Professor, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary): How science supports management of emerging infections 12.30 - 13.00 Rajnavölgyi, Éva (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary): Human life in invisible company - The significance of preventive vaccination

With the help of scientists in the lab of Ed Buckler, a Cornell Professor and USDA — Agricultural Research Station scientist, the researchers examined the genomes of 26 corn varieties to look for genetic links to terpene production and mapped them to their locations on the chromosomes.

EL BATAN, Mexico (January 25, 2017)-- Scientists from two of the world's leading agricultural research institutes will embark on joint research to boost global food security, mitigate environmental damage from farming, and help to reduce food grain imports by developing countries.

India began its partnership with IRRI through the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in 1967 when Indian scientists from ICAR's two main rice research centers — the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Cuttack and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) in Hyderabad — began regularly visitiResearch (ICAR) in 1967 when Indian scientists from ICAR's two main rice research centers — the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Cuttack and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) in Hyderabad — began regularly visitiresearch centers — the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Cuttack and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) in Hyderabad — began regularly visitiResearch Institute (CRRI) in Cuttack and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) in Hyderabad — began regularly visitiResearch (DRR) in Hyderabad — began regularly visiting IRRI.

The rights granted by the WSU Research Foundation under the this commercial license are related to pioneering discoveries made by Rodney Croteau, a fellow in WSU's Institute of Biological Chemistry and a scientist in the Agricultural Research Center.

«We know rather little about how much methane comes from different sources and how these have been changing in response to industrial and agricultural activities or because of climate events like droughts,» says Hinrich Schaefer, an atmospheric scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, who collaborates with Petrenko.

«Crucial to IRRI's receiving the Green Leaf Award is the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), which funded the investments required in constructing the PGF,» said Dr. Gururaj Guddappa Kulkarni, Senior Scientist and PGF Supervisor at IRRI.

These institutions were representing CGIAR, which includes a global network of 15 international agricultural research centres and has more than 8,000 world - class scientists and staff operating in over 100 countries.

With the funds sanctioned by Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and International Development Research Centre, Canada, the TN Agricultural University, Coimbatore, involving scientists in University of Guelph, Canada, Industrial Technology Institute, Colombo, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, University of Nairobi [Kenya], University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, have jointly developed Hexanal formulation, a nano - emulsion, to minimise post harvest loss and extend shelf life of mango.

### The research team In addition to Jonathan Claussen and Loreen Stromberg, co-authors of the paper describing water - repelling, inkjet - printed graphene circuits are: Suprem Das, an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Kansas State University, formerly an Iowa State postdoctoral research associate in mechanical engineering and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory; Srilok Srinivasan, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Qing He, an Iowa State graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering; Nathaniel Garland, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Warren Straszheim, an Iowa State associate scientist with the Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iowresearch team In addition to Jonathan Claussen and Loreen Stromberg, co-authors of the paper describing water - repelling, inkjet - printed graphene circuits are: Suprem Das, an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Kansas State University, formerly an Iowa State postdoctoral research associate in mechanical engineering and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory; Srilok Srinivasan, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Qing He, an Iowa State graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering; Nathaniel Garland, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Warren Straszheim, an Iowa State associate scientist with the Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iowresearch associate in mechanical engineering and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory; Srilok Srinivasan, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Qing He, an Iowa State graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering; Nathaniel Garland, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Warren Straszheim, an Iowa State associate scientist with the Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at IowResearch Laboratory; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State.

Goodell and Jellison's collaborators include scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; Pennsylvania State University; Swansea University, U.K.; University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology; USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Pineville, La., and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn..

If a women carries both genes that reduce this conversion, she can have a one - third to two - third reduction in the ratio of retinyl palmitate (active vitamin A) to beta - carotene circulating in her blood.27 Studies conducted by scientists with the USDA Agricultural Research Service confirm that 45 percent of individuals can not achieve adequate vitamin A status from beta - carotene alone.28, 29

Frederick Breidt is a food scientist and microbiologist who works for Agricultural Research Service (ARS) at United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) since 1990.

Like tomatoes, this refreshing fruit is also packed with lycopene — scientists at the South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory in Oklahoma estimate watermelon to have 40 % more lycopene than raw tomatoes.

However, weight - loss physician Jacquie Lavin and scientists from the Agricultural Research Service and the Institute for Food Research maintain that potatoes are rich in nutrients that can enhance your health and prevent disease.

As part of a two - year research project funded by the Office of the Chief Scientist to improve student participation in STEM - related disciplines, the Year 9 Agricultural and Horticultural Studies students were partnered with Lambley Nursery.

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