Sentences with phrase «wsu plant scientists»

«We have a dedicated R&D center, plant scientists, microbiologists, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers.

Plant scientists, including us, are working out the genetics of wild banana varieties and banana pathogens as we try to prevent a Cavendish crash.

Here's the back story: Ever since the «Bhut Jolokia» first caused a media - induced ruckus because Indian plant scientists were claiming the title of the «World's Hottest Pepper,» we've been tracking developments on the SuperSite (see a list of related articles at the bottom).

«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.

As a result, plant scientists have researched ways to develop drought - resistant strains of various crops, such as a variety of corn that agriculture giant Monsanto Company and chemical company BASF have submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval.

«Plant scientists identify aphid - destroying wasps in cup plants.»

Specially trained malting scientists work in conjunction with chemists to determine the efficiency of their malting process, while plant scientists work towards improving the barley varieties to yield more sugars, faster.

Previously, however, this aspect was examined more against the background of the hormone's gene regulation impact according to the Würzburg plant scientists.

«This was the proof that the root hair response to auxin is complex and possibly the result of a signal chain,» the plant scientist explains.

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.»

Howard - Yana Shapiro, a plant scientist wizard, focused on how to improve nutrition in crops, rather than just the volume of the yield, and the coming crisis in feeding the world's population.

In the quest for firmer tomatoes and melons, plant scientists have attempted to prevent plants from producing ethylene.

UF / IFAS aquatic plant scientist Lyn Gettys is compiling data to quantify the seriousness the plant — which resembles a lily — poses to canals.

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.

Plant scientist Ann Bybee - Finley says her first field experiment was humbling.

But like researchers who clone animals (see p. 85), plant scientists understand little about what actually controls the process.

Not so, says plant scientist Marcos Buckeridge who tells Jan Rocha how Brazil can supply the world with green ethanol

«We hope that the consensus among plant scientists presented here is heard by policymakers, the business community, and, more importantly, the general public and initiates a new conversation on how best to implement GM tools to improve crops for sustainable agriculture.

«Genetically modified technology a safe tool to help meet food supply demands, plant scientists say.»

In what Swedish plant scientist Stefan Jansson declares «maybe» a historic event, he cultivated, grew, and ate a plant that had its genome edited with CRISPR - Cas9.

Plant scientists have only recently begun to understand how the vernalization response in plants works, Akhunov said.

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.

The axiom, «growing like a weed,» takes on new meaning in light of changes in gene expression that occur when weeds interact with the crops they infest, according to plant scientist Sharon Clay.

The Global Crop Diversity Trust has said the planned bulldozing of the field collection will «forever tarnish a cause that generations of Russian plant scientists have lived and, quite literally, died to protect.»

Plant scientist Eduardo Fernandez in front of a poster showing how Monsanto's Bt corn had performed in field trials.

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.

«Making crop plants more water - use efficient is arguably the greatest challenge for current and future plant scientists,» said co-first author Johannes Kromdijk, a postdoctoral researcher at the IGB.

«This research shows that training people like Kevin in an interdisciplinary way allows us to break down communication barriers in science — between modelers and plant scientists, for example,» Leakey said.

Since then, very few plant scientists had questioned whether the equation for soybean also worked in other species.

«It appears that the «Delay of Germination 1,» or DOG1, gene is an environmental sensor, detecting environmental changes and enabling the plant to not only keep the seed dormant but to also delay flowering,» said study co-author Kent Bradford, a plant scientist and director of the Seed Biotechnology Center.

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.

They have made possible wholesale scans that turn up new gene modifications and variations, and the same should prove true for the new human gene arrays, says Joseph Ecker, a plant scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, who has helped pioneer whole - genome chips for Arabidopsis.

Yet out of 2000 recent applications, only seven had come from plant scientists.

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.

She was accepted as a doctoral student there and began a research career in which she was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants.

According to plant scientists from the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), growing potatoes in a lab situation was a very good idea, but bringing along just a few ounces of bean seeds — called Pulses — on the mission would be a better plan to start any emergency garden.

«We've created a genetic combination that no one has ever made before,» said plant scientist Gregg Howe, MSU Foundation professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, who led the study.

The team has made all the information needed to create this system freely available, so that plant scientists in other labs can use ACME in their own research.

That was 45 years ago and the flowers that Baker spotted on his hike have guided his career as a plant scientist.

With this study we've learned something new about how these pathways work, giving plant scientists another tool for improving crop yields.»

The plant scientist, who has been working on apomixis for a number of years with molecular geneticist Peggy Ozias - Akins, also at Georgia, says, «If one could clone the genetic mechanism [of apomixis] and introduce it to maize, rice and wheat, it would revolutionize food production.»

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.

Plant scientist Professor Long of Lancaster University and the University of Illinois said: «This is a very significant loss.

Plant scientists from the United States, Britain, and Latin America have teamed up with chocolate manufacturers to plot counterattacks, such as introducing benign fungi to displace the bad ones and planting cacao between taller coffee trees that supply fungi - stopping shade.

Plant scientist Selena Ahmed has spent nearly a decade studying tea production in southwestern China.

Within hours of reading the paper last week, the plant scientist at the University of Freiburg in Germany resigned as an editor of the journal and asked for his name to be removed from its website.

Similarly plant scientists need to work with industry to explore the full potential of a discovery.

The presenters included a philosopher, a medical historian, a plant scientist, and a technology historian.