Not exact matches
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 genea
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 genea
plant 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.