Sentences with phrase «university plant scientists»

A study by Purdue University plant scientists and University of Nebraska - Lincoln engineers advances our understanding of how plants control their shape and development at the cellular level.

Assistant professor Senthil Subramanian has become the first South Dakota State University plant scientist to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award.

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Professor Charles Benbrook, one of the authors of the study and a leading scientist based at Washington State University, explains, «Our results are highly relevant and significant and will help both scientists and consumers sort through the often conflicting information currently available on the nutrient density of organic and conventional plant - based foods.»

A new understanding as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help scientists breed new, more successful disease - resistant agricultural crops.

«I'm a plant scientist in Dr. Patel's lab at Big State University, with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.

The network encourages interdisciplinary research across departments and universities, so that environmental scientists collaborate with energy scientists, for example, and architects with plant scientists, says David Thomas, director of the Bangor University - based network.

Reporting their latest results in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, scientists in Germany based at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT) together with researchers from the Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants at the University of Bonn, have been discovering what makes these plants so spPlants at the University of Bonn, have been discovering what makes these plants so spplants so special.

Greg Rau, a scientist at LLNL and the University of California, Santa Cruz, conducted a series of small - scale lab experiments that found seawater and calcium can be used to remove carbon dioxide from a gas - fired plant.

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.

According to Bueckert, a plant scientist at the University of Saskatchewan, «tolerance to heat stress in peas seems to be dependent on quite a few traits.»

A new climate change modeling tool developed by scientists at Indiana University, Princeton University and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration finds that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere owing to greater plant growth from rising CO2 levels will be partially offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes that derive their energy from plant root growth.

Scientists at Kumamoto University originally developed a cultivation kit to culture and identify mycorrhizae, fungi that have a symbiotic relationship with many plants and are necessary for cultivating orchidaceous plants in the laboratory.

New research from an Iowa State University scientist identifies a genetic mechanism that governs growth and drought tolerance in plants, a development that could lead to better performing traits in crops.

The international team of researchers including scientists from the University of Surrey and the Animal and Plant Health Agency, have mapped the spread of rabies in the region to help inform control methods.

Estimates show that by 2050 the world population will be more than 9 billion and this growth will occur primarily in areas of the world already experiencing food scarcity and water availability issues, as Steven Leath, plant scientist and president of Iowa State University, noted in a lecture last year at AAAS.

Scientists have a promising new approach to combating deadly human viruses thanks to an educated hunch by University of California, Riverside microbiology professor Shou - Wei Ding, and his 20 years of research on plants, fruit flies, nematodes and mice to show the truth in his theory.

As part of a larger project on «Biological Design and Integrative Structures,» researchers at the Plant Biomechanics Group of the University of Freiburg have been working with civil engineers and material scientists to investigate how this specialised structure could be applied in architecture.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

The study shows that «all plants seem to be living on the edge», says Yadvinder Malhi, an ecosystems scientist at the University of Oxford.

To mitigate the trend and support conservation efforts, scientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) are sharing a way to predict which plants or animals may be vulnerable to the arrival of a new species.

A recent study by a Kansas State University weed scientist finds why the invasive weed kochia is like a cockroach of the plant world.

The authors, a team of scientists from Princeton University and the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, uncovered plant growth rates of only 2 to 4.4 percent.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

A group of plant scientists, led by University of Missouri researchers, recently found one of the mechanisms cyst nematodes use to invade and drain life - sustaining nutrients from soybean plants.

Together with scientists from Columbia (USA), Olomouc (Czech Republic), Warsaw (Poland), Osaka (Japan) and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, the researchers at the University of Bonn have used Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to discover that the beet cyst nematode itself produces the plant hormone cytokinin.

The scientists, led by agronomist Kenneth Cassman of the University of Nebraska and Shaobing Peng of the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, believe hotter nights may speed up respiration, causing the plant to work harder and waste energy.

The EU must take urgent action to halt the spread of invasive species that are threatening native plants and animals across Europe, according to a scientist from Queen's University Belfast.

A new research study from University of Florida Institute for Plant Innovation scientists Jessica Gilbert, Michael Schwieterman, Thomas Colquhoun, David Clark, and James W. Olmstead (HortScience, July 2013) sought to measure the characteristics associated with the «blueberry eating experience» by prioritizing the traits that could help improve flavor.

A team at the University of Missouri Bond Life Sciences Center collaborated with scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany to discover genetic evidence that the parasite uses its own version of a key plant hormone and that of the plants to make root cells vulnerable to feeding.

Scientists at the University of Bonn together with an international team discovered that nematodes produce a plant hormone to stimulate the growth of specific feeding cells in the roots.

A team of researchers at the University of Bonn, in cooperation with scientists from the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, has now identified a gene in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), called NILR1, that helps plants sense nematodes.

With funding from Wine Australia, a team of scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Adelaide and CSIRO Agriculture and Food identified genes expressed in grapevine roots that limit the amount of sodium — a key component of salt — that reaches berries and leaves.

Scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have teamed up with researchers at Willamette University, a liberal arts college in Salem Oregon, to develop genetic tools that could save the Joshua tree from extinction.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Scientists from the University of York have developed an innovative new green method of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power stations, chemical and other large scale manufacturing plants.

«Gastrointestinal diseases are a major cause of mortality in wild and captive pandas but scientists understand very little about their digestive process,» says co-author Ashli Brown Johnson, state chemist and Mississippi State University associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and plant pathology.

Scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and the Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Science of the Martin Luther University in Halle - Wittenberg, Germany, have now succeeded in visualizing the immediate wound or herbivory responses in plants.

Scientists at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University have found that the mineral vaterite, a form (polymorph) of calcium carbonate, is a dominant component of the protective silvery - white crust that forms on the leaves of a number of alpine plants, which are part of the Garden's national collection of European Saxifraga species.

Wild varieties, in contrast, «have dark green shoulders, and that makes it harder to determine the right time to harvest,» says Ann Powell, a plant scientist at the University of California, Davis.

«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.

Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls at the University of Adelaide have discovered that a variety of sorghum growing wild in Australia, Arun, has the potential to yield over 10,000 litres of bioethanol per hectare per year.

That fast - spreading development is creating additional water stress while simultaneously damaging the ecosystem's ability to absorb carbon dioxide and store or «fix» it in plants, according to the research — a study led by scientists at the University of Montana and published in the journal Science.

University of Groningen scientists have described how microbial invasions follow the same general pattern as invasions by plant or animal species.

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.

Scientists from the University of Bern now identified the most important environmental and species characteristics for plants to colonize and establish in novel places.

Lily Lewis a PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut explained, «Mosses are especially abundant and diverse in the far Northern and Southern reaches of the Americas, and relative to other types of plants, they commonly occur in both of these regions, yet they have been largely overlooked by scientists studying this extreme distribution.

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.

The winners of the prize are Maged Al - Sherbiny from Egypt, for his research on vaccines and diagnostics against hepatitis C and schistosomiasis; plant scientist Felix Dapare Dakora from Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, in South Africa for his work on legumes and soil bacteria; and Rossana Arroyo of the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of Mexico's National Polytechnic Institute, who studies trichomoniasis, a parasitic disease.

In a «clash of the microbes,» University of Delaware plant scientists are uncovering more clues critical to disarming a fungus that is the number one killer of rice plants.

The ground breaking research, conducted by scientists at the University of Sheffield, revealed why plants using C4 photosynthesis — a complex set of structural and chemical adaptations that have evolved more than 60 times to boost carbon uptake compared to the ancestral C3 plants — grow so rapidly.