Not exact matches
«We added lower concentrations [of silver] to a more
complex system, but rather than find no measurable effect, we found that the silver nanoparticles significantly altered the plant growth,
microbial biomass and
microbial activity.»
«Plants and their
microbial neighbors have this beautifully
complex and intricate
system of communicating through chemical signals, with each trying to manipulate the situation to maximize their own fitness,» Bais says.
About 30 years ago, scientists found a link between MS and certain variants in the major histocompatibility
complex (MHC), a cluster of genes that help the immune
system distinguish between the body's own proteins and those of
microbial invaders.
Biocellion is being used to model a variety of biological
system behaviors, such as biofilm formation and wrinkling,
microbial growth dynamics in
complex soil structure, brain tumor growth and invasion, formation of
complex bacterial colonies, and changes in blood vessels and skin cells.
The ILRS PhD projects use interdisciplinary approaches, combining methods of microbiology, natural product chemistry, chemical ecology, bioinformatics and
systems biology to decipher
complex biological mechanisms underlying
microbial and biomolecular
Specifically, Dangl and his team investigate how the plant immune
system discriminates between
microbial friend and foe in a
complex environment, using tools and techniques from genomic, structural, cellular, and molecular biology.
Trean, by understanding the
complex interactions among no - till, crop diversity, crop synergism, and the soil
microbial community, one can develop cropping
systems that yield more, but do not necessarily require more inputs.