Sentences with phrase «when plant biologist»

When plant biologist Bailey Colburn is offered a research job, she knows Justin Mercer is playing her somehow.

The results are surprising and one is quite amazing — when a plant biologist from the University of Cambridge, Fernan Federici, pairs up with David Benjamin, an architect working at Columbia University.

Not exact matches

«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 result: «The pollination of chilli plants is considerably better on the plots of land that are farmed in the traditional way, even when slash - and - burn practices are used,» says biologist Robert Paxton.

When the boy became a biologist, he recognized that the chaparral was a unique ecosystem, with its own suite of interdependent plants and animals, the coastal sage scrub home to fox and bobcats, wrentits and spotted towhees, cactus mouse and California quail.

Plant biologists know that stomata open when exposed to light and close in darkness, but the dynamics of this opening and closing have been little studied because there hasn't been a good way to directly measure them in real time.

When it comes to plants and animals, biologists think of DNA as the sole storehouse of genetic information.

In a previous study, Duke University biologist Xinnian Dong and colleagues discovered that plants fend off potential fungal infections by boosting their defenses in the morning, when many fungi are likely to release their spores and launch an attack.

Two years ago, plant biologist Teemu Teeri was walking by a train station in Helsinki when he noticed some vivid orange petunias in a planter.

A challenge going forward, whether with introduced animals, plants or pathogens, will be to know when to fight an invasive species (it's worth pushing on pythons, biologists say) and when to accommodate them.

Benjamin Sulman − a biologist at Indiana University, but then of the Princeton University Environmental Institute in the US − and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they have developed a new computer model to examine what really happens, on a global scale, when plants colonise the soil and start taking in moisture and carbon from the atmosphere.

«There was a broad presumption that ecosystems and plants recovered almost immediately when the weather got wetter,» said William Anderegg, a biologist at the University of Utah.