Sentences with phrase «affect plant development»

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These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

Come hear Rockland County Executive candidates tell us their views on the environmental issues affecting Rockland's future — including United Water's proposed Hudson River desalination plant, land use development, planning and zoning, water management, energy use, «green» growth and economic development.

Researchers from Purdue University and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln have discovered a soybean gene whose mutation affects plant stem growth, a finding that could lead to the development of improved soybean cultivars for the northern United States.

Rocheford, a plant geneticist at Purdue, drew the attention of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for his research on variations affecting provitamin A carotenoids — naturally occurring plant pigments that our bodies can convert to vitamin A — in maize.

In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.

The goal of research is to ascertain the technological, chemical, and biological parameters that affect pathogen removal in planted soil filters, so that the newly gained knowledge can be used for technological development in both industrialized and developing countries.

They found that the nematode peptides triggered a growth response in Arabidopsis much in the same way as the plants» own peptides affected development.

Drought stress leads to water deficits in crops, which affects crop growth and development and a number of metabolic processes in the plants, such as photosynthesis and primary metabolism

The next step is to ensure that these kind of genetic modifications don't negatively affect plants, said Mads Torry - Smith, director of research and development in the biomass applications division of Novozymes, who was not involved in the study.

It also provides an opportunity for you to engage in dialogue on policy developments affecting the plant biology community.

If local temperatures rise beyond 1 to 3 °C, crop yields are likely to decline as rising heat affects water availability and plant development.

Host plants utilized by Gypsy Moths affect survival and development of the parasitoid Cotesia melanoscela.

Today, thanks to an emerging body of research on plant - based nutrition, we're better able than ever to understand how diet affects both the development and treatment of disease.

Developing Ivanpah wasn't fast or cheap, either, for an even broader set of reasons than those affecting advanced coal plant development.