Sentences with phrase «experiments on plants»

And that's what experiments on plants grown in elevated CO2 have always shown — until now.

So it is ironical that the only sure demonstration of this type of change, for over a century, has come from experiments on plants.

Day 5 — Moray & Maras Terraces of Salt Hike Breakfast at Hotel, pick up from your hotel at 8:00 AM, you will head out on the road that crosses the Sacred Valley of the Incas to reach the important Moray archeological site (3176m / 10419ft), where enormous circular and Pre-Incan semi-circular agricultural terraces were constructed to be used as a botanical laboratory for experimenting on plant domestication and foreign crop acclimatization.

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With customary flair, Stack ended the experiment by gathering up all the rating sheets and setting them on fire in a small picnic area in back of the plant.

Calls on the University of Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, as well as other Kentucky public universities, to conduct research on hemp planting, cultivation, and analysis on demonstration plots.

South Carolina officials hope the farmers will experiment with different soil, temperature and watering techniques to figure out what combination the plant thrives on.

Those who feel there is something «unnatural» about introducing human genes into animals or plants forget that we share a high proportion of our genes with these species already: it is precisely this collective heritage that allows experiments on frogs to spawn treatments for human cancer.

The main experiments used to conduct this research are the Farming Systems Trial (FST)- the oldest continuous trial in the US that compares organic and conventional farming systems, the new Vegetable Systems Trial (VST)- comparing the impacts organic and conventional farming practices on nutrient density in vegetables and linkages to soil health, and Integrated Crop - Livestock Systems using annual and perennial crops along with cattle or hogs for soil, plant, and animal health.

«The Veggie experiment is currently the only experiment we are supporting which involves evaluating the effects of plant life on humans in space,» Alexandra Whitmire, a scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a press release.

The National Academy of Science and Technology Philippines deplores the disruption of the multilocational field experiment by anti-GMO elements who uprooted the month - old transplanted golden rice plants in Pili, Camarines Sur on 08 August 2013.

When experimenting with new foods that contain plant - based proteins, consumers are looking for the health benefits without compromising on taste and mouth feel.

As I began designing experiments to investigate the symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen - fixing bacteria, my committee members applauded my ambition to pioneer a project far beyond the scope of my lab, which focuses on plant - pollinator interactions.

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Mendel, who theorized that unseen units were transmitting traits from one generation to the next, based his conclusion on a mind - numbing series of experiments involving more than 30,000 pea plants.

Much of my team's work focuses on transgene technology from early - stage experiments in model plants all the way to field trials with crop plants such as corn.

By conducting a series of experiments on young plants, the researchers have shown that the growth of the lodgepole pine is greatly affected by which organisms live in the soil.

The study, published in the November 2015 issue of HortScience, reports on a 3 - year experiment conducted in greenhouse soil rotationally planted with cucumber or tomato and lettuce with and without manures.

«Previous studies of the impacts of drought on flowers and bees have looked at individual species, often in the laboratory, but we used an experiment with rain shelters to examine the effects on real communities of plant species living in chalk grassland,» said Dr Ellen Fry from the University of Manchester, who set up the experiment.

Droughts are expected to become more common and more intense in many parts of the world, and researchers studied the impact on flowering plants using a field experiment.

Stepan and Kimberly Fenn, associate professor of psychology and director of MSU's Sleep and Learning Lab, conducted an experiment in which about 200 participants watched a video of a crime (a man planting a bomb on a rooftop) and then, 12 hours later, viewed one of two computer lineups of six similar - looking people.

With attention riveted on the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan's scientific community has been quietly taking stock of how extensively the magnitude - 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 March damaged facilities and experiments.

On this day in 1865, Austrian monk Gregor Johann Mendel presented seminal results of his plant - breeding experiments at a meeting of the National Sciences Society in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

Packham's two weeks of isolation was the first experiment in a series of tests designed to develop a life - support system based on both plants and chemical processes.

A plant experiment carried into orbit will evaluate the growth and development of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings in space where they are not effected by wind, their own weight or other forces they would encounter on Earth.

During the experiment Packham breathed oxygen given off by the wheat, while the plants survived on the carbon dioxide he exhaled.

Singh eventually settled on a Glycine tomentella plant known as PI 441001 for these experiments because the wild plant was immune to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode.

Scientific experiments to measure the rate and effects of climate change on plants aren't matching up to what is happening in nature, a new study finds.

Over the time span of the experiment, data were collected on 60 plant species, largely every other day during the growing season.

On the basis of dubious experiments, Lysenko postulated that plants could pass environmentally - acquired traits to their offspring, a theory discredited by modern science, not least by the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953.

In preparation for planting an outpost on that far - off world, experiments onboard Red Dragon are set to test on - the - spot propellant production.

Sometimes what the scientists have written has been political satire, like Leo Szilard's The Voice of the Dolphins or OR Frisch's charming little thought experiment On the Feasibility of Coal - burning Power Stations, in which he applied to fossil - fuel power generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plantOn the Feasibility of Coal - burning Power Stations, in which he applied to fossil - fuel power generation the strictures imposed on nuclear planton nuclear plants.

Scientists think plant cells living in space do not behave the same way as cells in plants on Earth, and the experiments will examine these changes on a molecular level.

Here Williams is experimenting with forbs — perennial and annual flowering plants — that could appeal to farmers who do not want to deal with the hassle of woody plants on their fields.

Sweeney delved into work in Bais's lab at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute after school, on weekends and during summer breaks, culturing an estimated thousand Arabidopsis plants for experiments.

In view of the need to capture carbon and your report on rice plants growing five times larger when given a microbiotic fungus (28 July, p 8), what a temptation to use this on giant sequoia, even if it would be a long - term experiment.

Experiments in 2014 on sagebrush showed some plants spoke a language dominated by camphor compounds, while others emitted more thujone, coincidentally the same chemical suspected to be responsible for the hallucinogenic effects of absinthe.

In 2015, a group of Canadian scientists published the results of an experiment on Indian colza plants, relatives of turnips that are cultivated in India for their oil - rich seeds.

The research team conducted experiments on the roots of Arabidopsis, a plant often used as a «model organism» in plant biology and had its genome fully sequenced in 2000.

At the start of the experiment, the tiny power plants relied on a diverse community of proteobacteria, including several species of Geobacter and Shewanella, and produced power somewhat inefficiently.

(The experiments performed by Grinath's team included removing all ants from some rabbitbrushes, allowing just a few ants on others, and leaving the ants alone on still other plants.

Now, a new experiment here on Earth has shown potato plants can actually grow in «near - martian» conditions.

Monica Gagliano, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Western Australia, thought her experiment on associative learning in plants wasn't working.

The University of Florida team designed experiments in which they evaluated 2 - to 7 - week - old basil plants for their susceptibility to downy mildew, and studied the effect of a pre-inoculation application of the fungicide acibenzolar - S - methyl (ASM) for controlling the fungus on maturing basil plants.

For the experiments, UF and USDA researchers brought two types of thrips — tiny insects that often feed on plants — from Brazil to Florida laboratories.

In the third experiment, two sprinkler head types (wobbler and impact) were compared for their effect on irrigation water capture using Ligustrum japonicum plants in 16 - cm - and 27 - cm - diameter containers.

Throughout the experiment, they measured the effects of each species mix on three important salt marsh functions: overall grass growth (productivity); the rate of dead plant removal (decomposition); and how fast tidal or storm surge water percolated through the marsh (filtration).

They suggest conducting experiments to test that hypothesis.Meanwhile, John Hall Cushman of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, showed that soil samples taken along hiking trails have much higher rates of P. ramorum spores than those taken away from the trails, and that plants in areas with high visitation rates, such as public parks, had greater infection rates than those on sites where access is restricted.

«Very odd people must have trashed the trees,» says David Prior, a spokesperson for the U.K.'s Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions, which grants permits for experiments on genetically modified plants.

In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.

The experiments in Bayreuth, which also included several doctoral researchers — concentrated on the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), a common plant in the fields of Europe and Asia that has proven to be a useful model organism in biological research.