«What was really cool about this research was we've known for a long time that a lot of different transcription factors were involved, but it was hard to understand how all the pieces fit together,» said Jenny Mortimer, director of
plant systems biology at the Joint BioEnergy Division, a part of the Department of Energy.
Not exact matches
WeizMass and MatchWeiz are not limited to the study of
plant metabolites but may also be used to investigate the
biology of other living
systems, including animal and human metabolism.
Using a combination of
systems biology and bioinformatic techniques, the scientists cleverly isolated proteins, which, when mutated, abolished the
plant's ability to respond to CO2 stress.
In this scenario, Bethany Huot, MSU cell and molecular
biology graduate program alumna and the study's lead author, wanted to find out if
plants» defense
system was compromised or was pathogens» virulence enhanced?
Cucumber is a major vegetable crop consumed worldwide as well as a model
system for sex determination and
plant vascular
biology.
In recent
plant biology studies, there have been hints of a relationship between
plant phosphate levels and immune
system activity — a relationship that some microbes can manipulate.
A biologist, Schaal was among the first
plant scientists to use molecular
biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in
plants and she has worked to advance understanding of
plants» molecular
systems and population genetics.
The HHMI grants confirm Arabidopsis «is still the Rolls Royce of model
systems in
plant biology,» says Dangl.
Working on Arabidopsis, a model
plant used widely in
plant biology labs, Cutler and his colleagues focused their efforts on tinkering with one of the
plant endogenous
systems involved in drought responses.
Nicholas Brereton, a research fellow at Université de Montréal's
Plant Biology Research Institute and senior author of the study, adds that «our initial mind - set was that bioinformatics and
biology could be more profoundly integrated to see the diversity of function within a challenged root
system.
The research missions include a microbiology study of yeast, a fruit fly study designed and built by students, a
plant biology investigation and the maiden voyage of NASA's new rodent research
system.
«Biological timing: Biologists investigate the mechanism of an auxiliary clock: Researchers use new
systems biology methods on
plants.»
Couple that with a condition known to the
plant community as «
plant blindness» - the tendency for students to be more interested in studying animals than
plants, and
biology teachers» preference for using animal
systems to demonstrate biological concepts - and you have yourself a
plant publicity crisis.
2016 — Gloria Coruzzi - a leader in exploring the interface of
plant and
systems biology and provided the first integrated view of mechanisms controlling the assimilation and use of nitrogen.
Approaches successful in other
systems, such as modeling signal transduction and synthetic
biology methodologies [32] could improve future generations of detector
plants by enhancing signal transmission and providing means to deal with biological «noise».
The short generation time and relatively compact genome of Arabidopsis make it an ideal model
system for understanding numerous features of
plant biology, including ones that are of great pharmaceutical or agricultural value.
Specifically, Dangl and his team investigate how the
plant immune
system discriminates between microbial friend and foe in a complex environment, using tools and techniques from genomic, structural, cellular, and molecular
biology.
Rick (Washington University, St. Louis) is an outstanding scholar and mentor who has made distinguished and sustained contributions to three broad areas of
plant biology: the ubiquitin - proteasome
system, autophagy, and phytochrome structure and signaling.
The Sequel
System will allow BGI to meet the growing demand for SMRT Sequencing services for bacterial,
plant, and animal de novo, transcriptomics, and epigenomics sequencing, and also in fields outside of agriculture, such as in conservation
biology, like the «Life Periodic Plan'that we just launched during the 2018 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference,» said Gao Qiang, CEO of BGI Tech.
A solar - panel
system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of
plants filters air and water in a freshman
biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.
The centers» mission will be to conduct
systems biology research on microbes and
plants.