Sentences with phrase «basic plant research»

In 1924, BTI was founded with the belief that basic plant research leads to real benefits for people and our planet.

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The center conducts basic and applied research into desert meteorology and solar energy, hydrology, ecology, plant and animal physiology, and cellular and molecular biology, with applications in pollution biodegradation in particular.

Schroeder is also co-director of a new research entity at UC San Diego called «Food and Fuel for the 21st Century,» which is designed to apply basic research on plants to sustainable food and biofuel production.

«What was specially relevant from a basic research standpoint was that, for the first time, the descent in levels of a plant hormone compared to control values as an answer to environmental stress could be a physiologically significant response — and data points in this direction,» adds Arbona.

Although this discovery is a result of basic research, it opens up new avenues in plant breeding.

Dirk Prüfer, Professor of the Biotechnology of Plants at Münster University and head of the Functional and Applied Genomics department at the IME in Münster, points out: «We achieved these research results only through effective collaboration between IME and Münster University — in other words, through the intelligent linking of applications - oriented and basic research.

This so - called short - term evolution leads to a continued increase of crop yield in mixtures — a possibility that, according to Schmid, was unexpected in both basic research and plant cultivation.

The basic research funded by Syngenta within the framework of the «Plant Decision Making» Project at the Zurich - Basel Plant Science Center also provides practical findings for the agriculture sector.

, welcoming the continued inclusion of the successful Excellent Science pillar in FP9, and setting out our position for research priorities and mechanisms to engender a mission - based approach to close the research and innovation cycle through increasing support for collaborative basic research, encouraging increased levels of trans - disciplinarity and emphasising the importance of plant science in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

However, all in all, a lot of basic research still needs to be carried out to fully understand the disease process: XopH is only one of a total of more than 35 effector proteins that bacteria inject into plants to colonise them.

The Visikol technology has applications in the fields of toxicology, pre ‐ clinical drug development, clinical diagnostics, basic research and plant biology and can be particularly valuable in fields like drug development and cancer diagnostics.

In keeping with HHMI's «people, not projects» approach to funding, this competition is open to those dedicated to basic research from both doctoral and / or medical training paths in the biomedical and life science disciplines, including plant, evolutionary, chemical and computational biology, as well as biophysics and biomedical engineering.

This award recognizes Bob Rabson's steadfast advocacy for plant biology through the creation of funding programs in the Department of Energy for research in basic energy sciences.

Eugene Mamontov's background in both basic and applied science has made him a valued partner for scientists who come to the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL in search of a better understanding of the water dynamics in their research — projects as diverse as studying plant cellulose or analyzing nanostructured membranes for desalination.

«Ranging from basic research in plant molecular sciences through the field application of new discoveries, these teams benefit science, Washington agriculture, energy and human health.»

He has led a well - regarded basic research program into mechanisms of plant disease and plant disease resistance, for which he was elected EMBO member in 1999 and FRS in 2003.

Julia's research has contributed to uncovering the basic mechanisms by which plants survive submergence and respond to the low oxygen levels associated with flooding.

Biofuels and bioproducts are a growing research focus for WSU, and the work of the Lewis laboratory is an example of the role of basic plant biochemistry research in advancing our progress into this and related areas.»

Succinct and readable Reviews and Opinions on basic research topics provide instant overviews of current thinking and new developments in plant biology.

Or your child is sick with recurrent asthma and ear infections and you want a dietary cure — you may be warned away from a highly effective therapy because members of the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association fail to understand basic scientific research about human protein needs and plant foods.

Basic biological research has often been done with plants, such as use of pollen core records to study the distant past or the pea plants used to derive Mendel's laws of genetics.

And for the first time, 20 governments and a passel of billionaires led by Bill Gates announced plans to ramp up long - lagging investments in basic research and development on clean energy — like advancing cheap, extensive battery storage to maximize the potential of solar power, safer nuclear plant designs and even technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The new reactor is designed for basic research on fusion and also as a potential prototype power plant that could produce significant power.

But without a substantial boost in basic research and development and large - scale demonstration projects related to technologies like mass energy storage, capturing and storing carbon dioxide, grid management and a new generation of nuclear plants, it's hard to see timely progress.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.