Sentences with phrase «now plant biologists»

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.

Not exact matches

Last month, 25 years after that first EPCOT greenhouse boat ride, a full - fledged biologist now (studying malaria instead of vegetables but oh well), I decided to revisit the plants that inspired my career in science.

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

The research group of LMU biologist Caroline Gutjahr, in collaboration with research groups led by Peter Dörmann (Bonn University), Wolfgang Eisenreich (Technical University of Munich) and her LMU colleague Martin Parniske, has now shown that the plant contributes more than just sugars to the relationship: It also delivers essential lipids to its fungal partner.

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

Since then biologists have got used to the idea that some plants eat animals, but now discoveries about one group, the Nepenthes pitcher plants, are upsetting some of their long - held beliefs.

With an entire plant genome to work from, biologists can now probe the genes responsible for such basic plant activities as budding, blooming, sleeping and seeding.

«Plants recycle, too: Biologists have now identified a new protein complex which is crucial for endocytosis in plants.&Plants recycle, too: Biologists have now identified a new protein complex which is crucial for endocytosis in plants.&plants.»

Now a research team led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside, has found a new drought - protecting chemical that shows high potential for becoming a powerful tool for crop protection in the new world of extreme weather.

Until now, biologists had long assumed that using plants to grow human vaccines was impossible.

«It is quite a striking pattern now that someone has pointed it out,» says plant evolutionary biologist Peter Crane of Yale, who was not involved in the study.

North America, as a result, has 20 percent more plant species now than it did before colonization, biologists say.

Some biologists and planetary scientists say that the amount of CO2 now in the atmosphere is nearly the minimum to sustain plant life.