Sentences with phrase «not of the plant physiology»

Not of the plant physiology, biophysics, and genetics he studied at Yale and as a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, but of the departmental politics and stiff competition for limited funding he saw in academia.

Not exact matches

Partly out of fear of not finding a faculty job, and partly because of the temptation to work with one of the legends in plant environmental physiology, I accepted a postdoctoral position with Paul Kramer at Duke University, just prior to defending my thesis.

«It is not as simple as it being a dilution,» said Andrew Leakey, a co-author of the paper and an associate professor of plant physiology at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign.

«I think this will definitely help,» says Alisdair Fernie, who was not part of the study but has studied tomato chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany.

For Amborella, «what is amazing about this case is the sheer scale of the transfer and the [evolutionary] distance between the species,» says Ralph Bock of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam - Golm, Germany, who is not part of the Amborella team.

«Although these results are «good news» in the sense that the underlying physiology of plants is not going to make the warming of the planet radically worse, the problem we have created in the first place with our greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning still exists,» he says.

While we are perhaps lucky that CO2 has this effect on plant physiology, in addition to being a greenhouse gas, it is not our «get out of jail free» card when it comes to our ongoing emissions of CO2.

Humans have clearly adapted complex systems to deal with extended famine and different environments, but the body of evidence demonstrates that our digestive systems, physiology and physical traits are best designed to eat plants over the long - term, not animals.