Sentences with phrase «by plant disease»

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When plants are attacked by disease or pests, they produce distinct visible patterns on their leaves.

The wild plants, when cultivated, were susceptible to chile wilt, the fungal disease aggravated by too much water.

By adding these new genes, genetic engineers hope the plant will express the traits associated with the genes, such as resistance to certain diseases or herbicides.

Meat consumption has been linked to serious health risks including heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer, while an increase in consuming plant - based foods shows numerous health benefits, namely decreasing the risk of many of those diseases caused by excessive consumption of animal products.

We do this by helping improve plant breeds, better manage increasingly scarce resources such as water, and keep pests and diseases at bay.

We are helping protect plants from pests and diseases by investigating plant defences and the tactics pests and diseases use to overcome these defences.

A fungal disease affecting plants that is characterized by dark, sunken lesions or black blisters on the pods.

Its goal — to raise enough funds by the end of 2016 to plant 20 million coffee seedlings to replace trees that are declining in productivity due to age and disease, such as coffee leaf rust.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

Crop insurance provides growers with protection against crop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly applied).

Gardeners would be well - advised to bone up on pest - and disease - control techniques and not take lightly the idea that some pest insects can wreck an otherwise spectacular summer by demolishing target plants.

Backed by scientific research, the film's doctors and expert researchers made a radical but convincing case that modern diseases can be prevented and often reversed by leaving meat, dairy, and highly refined foods off the plate and adopting a whole - food, plant - based diet instead.

Researchers found that NAD +, a natural molecule found in living cells, plants and food protects against autoimmune diseases by altering the immune response and turning «destructive» cells into «protective» cells.

A new understanding as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help scientists breed new, more successful disease - resistant agricultural crops.

Built by Precision Hawk of Indianapolis, the craft's thermal camera is meant to find outbreaks of insects and crop disease, which show up as hotspots when stressed plants lose their ability to regulate heat.

After receiving her Ph.D., Nelson headed off to the Philippines to study plant disease and genetic mapping at the International Rice Research Institute, where she was partly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

1493 by Charles C. Mann From Columbus's coming ashore to today, Mann tracks the global exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas.

Unseen by the human eye, plants interact with many species of fungi and other microbes in the surrounding environment, and these exchanges can impact the plant's health and tolerance to stressors such as drought or disease, as well as the global carbon cycle.

By developing a symbiotic relationship with fungi, plants not only become more tolerant to diseases but can also help contribute to more sustainable agricultural practices.

The department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service oversees more than 7800 animal holding facilities from zoos to circuses and aquariums, including roughly 1100 labs, some of them run by the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cartan - Hansen described the importance of the research in determining whether the outbreak of white nose syndrome had reached southwestern Idaho (there was no evidence of it in the power plant building), and she noted that humans can spread the disease by transporting the fungus on their shoes and clothing from caves harboring infected bats.

Planting huge acreages with a single variety of the same genetic makeup meant the entire harvest could be wiped out at once by disease or pests or changes in rainfall.

Mitochondrial diseases are caused by defects in mitochondria, the cell's energy plants.

The director of the service, Gilbert Grivault, says experiments showed that the plants were not suffering from any disease: they were being poisoned by the irrigation water.

«However our findings show that by manipulating the TaR1 protein we can create unfavorable conditions preventing the spread of STB in the plant, potentially providing a new strategy for combating this devastating disease.»

We tend to think of pollinating insects as our ecological friends, but in the wrong place nonnative bees can spell trouble instead by competing with native insects, promoting reproduction in nonnative plants and potentially spreading disease.

Clinical trials show that eaten regularly in sufficient quantities, the product's plant stanol esters can reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering levels of potentially harmful, low - density lipoproteins.

To convey the concept of drug dosage, Moctezuma shows his 200 undergraduate students the scene in Casino Royale in which Bond almost dies after being poisoned by a high dose of Digitalis purpurea, a plant extract used to treat heart disease.

The Federal Select Agent Program is jointly run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

The downy mildew disease affecting these plants is caused by a fungal infection; therefore research aims to analyze their differences.

However, genetic resistance in crop varieties is frequently defeated by the emergence of new rust strains, turning what used to be a disease resistant plant variety to one that is completely vulnerable.

Downy mildew caused by the fungus Peronospora belbahrii has become the most devastating disease of basil plants grown in the United States.

Cool, wet, and humid weather conditions create conditions conducive to infection by Peronospora belbahrii, and blowing wind and splashing water can spread the disease from infected to healthy plants.

«Kansas wheat producers are challenged by weather, pests and disease,» said Andrew Barkley professor of agricultural economics and lead researcher of a multi-disciplinary team that included agronomists and plant pathologists.

Plants in nature and agriculture that are stressed by drought, diseases or insects will mount defensive responses, and at the same time will typically stop growing or grow more slowly.

The team believes this evaporative cooling process might be used to some degree by all mushroom - producing fungi, including those that cause disease in plants, animals, and humans.

Maine: Voters approved Question 2, 60.6 % to 39.4 %, providing $ 8 million in bonds to help create an animal and plant disease and insect control laboratory administered by the University of Maine's Cooperative Extension service.

A team lead by Professors Ivana Gudelj, a mathematical biologist and Nick Talbot, a plant disease specialist, investigated the devastating rice blast disease.

Lee and Cate's research hints that this secret lever, which triggers translation of only a special subset of mRNAs — perhaps only 500 out of some 10,000 mRNAs produced by a cell — will be found to play a critical role in other diseases besides cancer, as well as in plants and animals.

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.

A new study of 100,000 people shows that switching to Willett's dietary scheme — which emphasizes whole - grain foods, plant oils, and plenty of exercise — cuts the risk of cardiovascular disease in men by 39 percent and in women by 28 percent.

That could enable effective protection from attack by a range of deadly plant diseases, Nürnberger says.

Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology and related disciplines.

A team of international researchers has uncovered a mechanism by which plants are able to better defend themselves against disease - causing pathogens.

Research Assistant, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology June 2002 — January 2004 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Principal Investigator: Dr. John Taylor The lab studies the evolutionary relationships of fungi, concentrating on the fungi that cause plant and human diseases, by sequencing DNA from different fungi and using the differences in sequence to infer their geneaPlant & Microbial Biology June 2002 — January 2004 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Principal Investigator: Dr. John Taylor The lab studies the evolutionary relationships of fungi, concentrating on the fungi that cause plant and human diseases, by sequencing DNA from different fungi and using the differences in sequence to infer their geneaplant and human diseases, by sequencing DNA from different fungi and using the differences in sequence to infer their genealogy.

Masters Student, Department of Plant Pathology May 2006 — August 2007 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Principal Investigators: Drs. Keith Perry and Stewart Gray Research conducted in these labs range from the mechanisms of aphid - virus interactions to epidemiology and disease management strategies of the diseases caused by viruses.

His group has generated the first disease resistant crop plant by using the TALEN technology.

His research interest focuses on 1) development and application of TALEN and CRISPR technologies for targeted genome editing in plant species, and 2) molecular mechanism of plant / microbe interactions and crop disease resistance engineering by using the bacterial blight of rice as a model.

Our plant technology allows us to provide a cost - effective production solution for drugs needed in large quantities due to the number of people affected by disease and / or high dosage requirements.