Sentences with phrase «plant scientists do»

Still, if anyone knows that the biggest redwood tree was once a seed in the soil, plant scientists do.

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Scientists and energy experts say that a distributed grid that doesn't rely on a single power plant for energy generation could help vulnerable island regions such as the Caribbean weather strong storms like Irma or Maria.

GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

GFI builds the capacity of the animal advocacy movement by recruiting scientists and entrepreneurs to work in cellular agriculture and plant - based technology and by doing scientific research.

Some nuclear scientists sympathetic to the protester's cause wonder if the demonstration did any good: «I don't expect that the protest will result in the plant not operating.

«When GFI's scientists started working on this issue in June 2016, Friedrich told them explicitly that GFI does not need to promote clean meat — if we think it can not become cost - competitive with the products of industrial animal agriculture then we should stop promoting it and focus on plant - based meat.»

Scientists do not completely understand the complex plant - soil - fungus - toxin interaction that infects some plants with aflatoxin and spares others.

At least at the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look around).

It also proved useful for making contacts: I eventually applied to do graduate studies in plant physiology at Queen's University, in the lab of a scientist with whom I had worked the previous summer.

But women scientists and lower class «plant collectors» did make great contributions to the field.

These plants might not have the sexy flowers of a peony, but according to new research, they do manage to attract small pollinators with a subtle sweet smell.Previously, scientists had presumed that these primitive plants needed a layer of water for their sexual reproduction.

Before the laureates did their work, other scientists had established that plants and animals have circadian rhythms.

But scientists have never known how these plants actually do it — or if the existing plant cells really do come alive again from a dormant state, or if its new growth is separate from the old cells.

«Before, we didn't have an understanding of... how far we can push these plants until they die,» says study coauthor Paul Skinner, a soil scientist and vineyard consultant in Napa.

Scientists think plant cells living in space do not behave the same way as cells in plants on Earth, and the experiments will examine these changes on a molecular level.

But although scientists know this chemistry found in plants is helpful to humans, they do not fully understand how it works or know how to bring it about in a lab.

Short interactive videos in the exhibit's theater feature IBM researchers such as David Ferrucci (who led the development of Watson) as well as scientists such as Howard - Yana Shapiro, global director of plant science and external research at Mars Inc. «We wanted to do something that would be open to the public,» says IBM's Lee Green, vice president of brand experience and strategic design.

By using fish excretions to feed plants, «you don't have to buy all these fertilizers that are made from petroleum products and that take energy» to produce and transport, says agricultural scientist James Rakocy of the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), a longtime proponent of aquaponics who has a demonstration facility at his institution.

However, the scientists note, relying on another species is risky, so how do the plants get away with putting all of their reproductive eggs in a few ant - carried baskets?

The first study to clearly show plants do indeed talk through that underground network was done in 2013 by scientists based in the United Kingdom.

Plant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in CPlant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in Cplant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in China.

Because of the very low nitrate levels found in arctic tundra soil, scientists had assumed that plants in this biome do not use nitrate.

But scientists — who want to harness the potential of cells as living computers that can respond to disease, efficiently produce biofuels or develop plant - based chemicals — don't want to wait for evolution to craft their desired cellular system.

That does not mean that scientists will necessarily be able to use this research to create plants with more easily digestible complex sugars in the very near future.

New research conducted by scientists at the University of York and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona reveals for the first time that Europe's earliest humans did not use fire for cooking, but had a balanced diet of meat and plants - all eaten raw.

Accordingly, scientists have invested much effort to understand how plants respond to drought stress and what can be done to increase the drought tolerance of economically important plants.

The Stanford scientists suggested roofs covered in photovoltaic panels would do a better job, by producing electricity that then obviates the need for more fossil fuel — burning power plants.

Scientists from the UA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture worked closely with cotton growers in Arizona to develop and implement resistance management strategies such as providing «refuges» of standard cotton plants that do not produce Bt proteins and releasing sterile pink bollworm moths.

«If a power plant is burning continuously, within three to five months, depending on the type of power plant, the carbon dioxide from the power plant is doing more to heat the earth than the fires in its boiler,» Ken Caldeira, a climate scientists at the Carnegie Institute and the study's co-author, said.

YOU may have heard of cultured meat, like the $ 300,000 lab - grown burger, but you probably haven't heard that scientists are trying to do the same for plants.

The study was done at both the University of Georgia Horticulture Farm in Watkinsville, Georgia and at the University of Georgia Tifton campus so the scientists could compare plant responses under different environmental conditions.

These plant scientists found their professional niches the same way that most scientists do: through a combination of hard work, information gathering, serendipity, and networking.

But how do scientists determine which other plants a particular species is related to?

But so do many plant scientists.

So on to plants and more musings of a non-expert: I understand that plants respond differently to different stimuli — when they are stressed they react differently from when they are relaxed and at peace with themselves — please do nt laugh you scientists because my brain is not a bad hard drive and I recall that some trees share resources with stressed neighbours under stressful conditions.

Although many Earth - type plants were once thought to be not as efficient as they could be because they do not use more green light, some scientists no longer think that this is true.

«We are very fortunate to have found in the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, an institution that believes, as we do, that we must act now to do more to nurture and support the bold ideas of the best plant scientists.»

Scientists can do this because plants that have been cultivated and farmed as crops will change, or evolve, differently from their wild ancestors.

A newly harvested plant, fruit or vegetable does not turn off — like a switch — and die, scientists report.

But the two plant scientists sometimes step away from their microscopes and specimens to have honest conversations with their colleagues about the challenges of doing research.

«We hope that other scientists will use these data to answer questions such as why, unlike humans, some plants do not deteriorate as they age, why some environments are better for agriculture than others, and how fast plant populations will move in response to climate change,» said Yvonne Buckley, professor of Zoology in Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences.

Along with a home - inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our brain - centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined.

In chap 1 of China study the'error» with alpha f protein in Philippino kids and the reproduction in rat studies, I interpret as «Cancer cells need animal protein to grow» If u stop it, they shrink.Ok i am not a scientist but I proposed this to 7 advanced cancer patients 2 of whom were in «palliative stage > All 6 are doing VERY WELL, the oncologists do not understand it.I tell them «plant based diet, no cheating».

Scientists found that infant rats don't grow as well on plants.

Washington — With their dead bees, green plants, and electrical gear in hand, elementary - school pupils joined scientists at the National Academy of Sciences here last week to help introduce a new science curriculum designed to help them «learn science by doing science.»

Told from the viewpoint of a talking tree on the plantation where George Washington Carver spent his young childhood, this handsome picture - book biography tells how the famous African American scientist always nurtured plants and studied them, but the law did not allow black children to go to school.

When climate scientists start acting as advocates for some specific technology, writing letters demanding the nuclear power plants stay open, when many other experts in the energy field have well - developed reasons for closing them and going with wind / solar / storage instead, it doesn't do climate activism any good.

Somehow we didn't need scientists to tell us that there is a link between flowers, plants, a

Many scientists much prefer the strong criticism of Hansen's assertions by Richard Lindzen, Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at M.I.T., — as do I. Stopping new coal plants is stupid anyway since China alone is building a new one every week.

I know your tongue is planted firmly in cheek, but I did some research on the matter, and found that the fossil fuel industry, automobile industry, and wal - mart - like fossil - fuel - based mega-scale consumer goods distribution industry have many thousands of times more money at stake (~ $ 10 trillion annually) on the outcome of this debate than do the scientists in question.