Sentences with phrase «young plant scientist»

FESPB supports students and early career researchers to bring their work to the widest possible audience at Congress with support grants and our most prestigious award - the FESPB Young Plant Scientist.

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But just as the felling of a large tree allows young plants to sprout in the newly sunny ground that it formerly shaded, the passing of a major scientist permits new ideas to spring up in the intellectual space she or he once dominated.

«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.

In a series of experiments published in 2014, Argentinian biologists grew young Arabidopsis thaliana (yes, scientists really like that plant) in rows of pots.

Because the seedlings stand only 10 centimeters tall, the scientists concluded that the leaves» color would help a young, tender plant blend in with leaf litter and hide it from a browsing moa.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

On the research applications front, Dr. Chia Tet Fatt, a young scientist from the Natural Sciences Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, revealed Singapore's very first genetically modified organism (GMO)-- a transgenic resveratrol producing red lettuce for the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular diseases — which was developed by introducing the stilbene synthase gene into a red plant and diverting the precursors into resveratrol synthesis.

Farmers and scientists saw that they could promote the growth of young soybean plants by dipping the roots of these plants.

Leading the charge of GR2.0 and 3.0 will be a crop of vibrant and intelligent young scientists in league with IRRI through the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) and spread out across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, «many of whom are attending their first International Rice Congress now,» said Zeigler, himself a plant pathologist who started young working on various crop staples.

Rapid genome evolution can occur in predictable patterns, an international team of scientists has found whilst researching young plant species.

The findings led the scientists to see a direct correlation between eating plant - based foods and improved emotional well - being among healthy young adults.

A young man visits his fiance's estate to discover that her wheelchair - bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants.

At the University of Illinois, scientists found that children as young as 5 who engaged with plants and nature showed reduced signs of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Even now, when the world was filling up with surprisingly young scientists and army officers and plant managers — the older ones having taken to disappearing by night, leaving silence behind them, and gaps in every hierarchy to be plugged by anxious twentysomethings working all hours to learn their new jobs — even now, pinched and tired as he was, dull - skinned like everyone else on the tram, he still had the occasional difficulty with someone misled by his big adam's apple, and his big eyes, and his sticking - out ears.

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.

This is a wonderful book for young scientists and plant lovers — both girls and boys.