Sentences with phrase «msu plant biologist»

Plant biologist José Dinneny probes the very beginnings of root development, which may have important implications for growing food in a changing climate.

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«Seeds are ideally suited to storing life,» says David Tepfer, an emeritus plant biologist at the Palace of Versailles Research Center of the National Institute for Agronomic Research in France.

The results are surprising and one is quite amazing — when a plant biologist from the University of Cambridge, Fernan Federici, pairs up with David Benjamin, an architect working at Columbia University.

«The wild relatives of crop plants are the most promising reserves of genetic diversity,» say Eric Bishop von Wettberg, a plant biologist at the University of Vermont.

Crispin Taylor is Executive Director of the American Society of Plant Biologists.

Plant biologist Romain Pierron, who at the time of the survey had a 1 - year contract as a tech transfer officer, went through two periods of unemployment — one between the end of his doctoral contract and his defense in 2015, and another as he was applying for positions the following year — before recently taking a 2 - year postdoc at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

They focused on a mustard green called Arabidopsis, the reference organism used by plant biologists in their research.

«We are potentially looking at a very fundamental agent for the action of fire in the world's plants,» says plant biologist Kingsley Dixon, also of the University of Western Australia, who helped isolate the molecule.

Thanks to a National Science Foundation — funded initiative called the iPlant Collaborative, for example, there's an emerging generation of data - analyzing «plant biologists» who have never gotten their hands dirty digging in soil or watering seeds.

According to Crispin Taylor, the executive director of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Rockville, Maryland, and a former editor for Science Careers, plant genomics is «a discipline and a set of tools, both.»

Genomics gives plant biologists working in related fields «opportunities to start talking about what experiments not only are interesting but are important to do,» he says.

The ASPB is the world's largest organization of plant biologists.

The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»

However, instead of consensus, a new study by an interdisciplinary research team at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) of psychologists and plant biologists found a wide range of different opinions among scientific experts about how to describe invasive plant species, and how severe their effects on the environment are.

Yet that is what seems to occur in the weedy cress Arabidopsis thaliana, the workhorse of plant biologists.

Now, plant biologists have attempted to create the first hypoallergenic peanut through genetic engineering.

But Dean DellaPenna, a plant biologist at the University of Nevada at Reno, is more concerned that the genetic engineering debate will slow efforts to improve nutrition worldwide.

«You would never guess something happened there 23 years ago,» says Martin Hajduch, a plant biologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra.

But appearances are misleading; the twigs are an important reference for all plant biologists.

Plant biologists know that stomata open when exposed to light and close in darkness, but the dynamics of this opening and closing have been little studied because there hasn't been a good way to directly measure them in real time.

Scientists should also recognize that there is a limit to what they can achieve, says Marcel Kuntz, a research director and fundamental plant biologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in the Laboratory of Plant and Cell Physiology in Grenoble, France.

To study how violin contours change over time, Dan Chitwood, a plant biologist and avid viola player at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, analyzed photographs of more than 7000 auctioned violins made between the years of 1560 and 2003.

This oversight stems in part from the fact that few plant biologists know how — or are naturally inclined — to convert their biological insights into the mathematical equations that modelers need to improve the accuracy of their work, Leakey said.

Moctezuma routinely shows his students science documentaries such as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and the time - lapsed photography movies produced by plant biologist Roger Hangarter, «so they can watch a film and discuss or write how the film relates to the different concepts they would learn in class,» Moctezuma says.

«It's becoming impossible to work in Brazil, especially for young scientists,» says plant biologist Marcos Buckeridge, a professor at the University of São Paulo and president of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences.

For Duke plant biologist Xinnian Dong, who for 20 years has studied plant immune responses in Arabidopsis, HHMI support comes in the nick of time to replace the NSF funding that had supported her early work.

Even the Russian Soyuz capsules that are the only route back to Earth since the space shuttle was retired last year are not ideal, because they lack freezers to store the seedlings during the plunge home, says the experiment's lead investigator Imara Perera, a plant biologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

For plant biologists, the unraveling of the genetic code of this small mustardlike weed, Arabidopsis thaliana, offers a long - awaited window into the genetic makeup of all plants, including key crops.

«As part of ITbM's interdisciplinary research initiative, we decided to search for new compounds that can inhibit the cell division in plants without causing damage to them,» says Minako Ueda, a plant biologist and a leader of this study.

HHMI wanted to see more plant biologists apply, says Jack Dixon, HHMI chief scientific officer, so it and the Moore Foundation set up a special competition just for the field.

«A racecar driver in Monaco wouldn't choose the same tires as a postal worker in the Yukon,» said Douglas Schemske, co-author and MSU plant biologist.

A group of plant biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University, have reported in the journal Genes and Development, on their discovery on how plant's maternal and paternal factors cooperate for the child to grow in the proper shape.

The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) in Rockville, Maryland.

Now plant biologists and immunologists at York have joined forces to examine a very closely related family of these small molecules (flavonoids) to establish how tiny changes to their chemical structures affect their bio-activity.

«Plants have, for a long time, provided us with valuable products like food, biofuels, construction materials and the oxygen we breathe,» notes plant biologist turned chemical engineer Juan Pablo Giraldo, a postdoctoral fellow in the research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who did the work.

The debate centres on the finer points of flower architecture, but points to a broader concern about using statistical models and large data sets to tackle biological questions, says Pamela Soltis, a plant biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Plants biologists have engineered flaxseeds to contain heart - friendly fats normally only found in fish.

Regulators need to adapt to these new techniques, or run the risk of over - or under - regulating GM plants, says Roger Beachy, a plant biologist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, and former head of the USDA's National Institute for Food and Agriculture.

The study showed that «the control of the secondary cell wall is incredibly complex and detailed, which is important for plant biologists who want to change it to make biofuels,» she said.

American Society of Plant Biologists.

In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University and other research institutes, have examined the ovules of plant cells by live - imaging to reveal a novel cell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fusion.

The wispy, ankle - high mustard plant called Arabidopsis serves as a model system for plant biologists.

But two plant biologists credit the leaves instead.

«We need to find ways to stimulate investment in food and agriculture and this helps accomplish that,» says plant biologist Roger Beachy of the Washington University in St. Louis, the former director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

A new method by researchers from New England Biolabs and New Mexico State University provides plant biologists with a quick and simple approach for separating plant nuclear DNA from organellar DNA for genomic and metagenomic studies.

Plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University have discovered the key element, an EPFL2 peptide that is responsible for creating the teeth - like shapes on plant leaves.

Help in identifying the mutant gene came from a team from the University of California, Davis, headed by plant biologist Deborah Delmer.

At first this section may include only your association memberships: «American Society of Plant Biologists, Mycological Society of America, American Phytopathological Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science.»

«We have some very serious problems in agriculture, and we need to use all of the science that we can to solve these problems,» says Robert Goldberg, a plant biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.