Sentences with phrase «first plant scientists»

She was accepted as a doctoral student there and began a research career in which she was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants.

A biologist, Schaal was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants and she has worked to advance understanding of plants» molecular systems and population genetics.

Not exact matches

The scientists wrote in the journal Current Biology: «Our findings indicate for the first time that visiting honeybees provide plants with a totally unexpected advantage.

Here's the back story: Ever since the «Bhut Jolokia» first caused a media - induced ruckus because Indian plant scientists were claiming the title of the «World's Hottest Pepper,» we've been tracking developments on the SuperSite (see a list of related articles at the bottom).

The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.&rplant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.&rPlant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»

Plant scientist Ann Bybee - Finley says her first field experiment was humbling.

In one of the first studies of its type, scientists found that the way in which plants arrange their flowers affects the flight patterns taken by foraging bees.

Abagyan told New Scientist that Russia will let its 12 first - generation nuclear plants run for their «design lives» of thirty years.

To grow a plant with better salt tolerance or pest resistance, scientists must first add genes to the embryo.

For the first time, scientists have improved how a crop uses water by 25 percent without compromising yield by altering the expression of one gene that is found in all plants, as reported in Nature Communications.

Now the first fossilised specimens of a carnivorous plant are helping scientists probe the organism's early evolution and their Eocene habitat.

The first study to clearly show plants do indeed talk through that underground network was done in 2013 by scientists based in the United Kingdom.

«Using satellite - based remote - sensing equipment can allow scientists, and therefore policymakers, to determine with accuracy whether carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides detected in the vicinity are truly from the plant, or from other sources,» said Rodica Lindenmaier, postdoctoral research associate and first author of the paper.

This is the first time scientists have found both sun - and shade - tolerant adaptations within a single plant.

Indiana University scientists have discovered the first known instance of a plant or animal lacking several key genes involved in energy production in cells.

Scientists believe lichens were among the first living things to try their luck on dry land some 600 million years ago, 200 million years before the first plants arrived.

Although scientists suspected that plants consume small amounts of oVOCs, this study provides the «first concrete data,» says chemist Roger Atkinson of the University of California, Riverside, who was not involved with the research.

Scientists have for the first time genetically modified plants to contain a particularly healthy kind of fatty acid in their seeds.

«We found that microbes associated with native species provide resistance to invasion, and microbes associated with invaders break down this resistance and may poison native plants,» says study first author and UNSW scientist Associate Professor Paul Gribben.

In a world - first, Japanese scientists have used the revolutionary CRISPR, or CRISPR / Cas9, genome - editing tool to change flower colour in an ornamental plant.

New research conducted by scientists at the University of York and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona reveals for the first time that Europe's earliest humans did not use fire for cooking, but had a balanced diet of meat and plants - all eaten raw.

Assistant professor Senthil Subramanian has become the first South Dakota State University plant scientist to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award.

For the new study, scientists found the first «mutant» rice plant that had no susceptibility at all to the friendly fungi.

For the first time, scientists showed that removing a sugar molecule from a plant's defensive compound can also result in detoxification.

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.

For the first time ever, scientists have documented a widespread extinction of bees that occurred 65 million years ago, concurrent with the massive event that wiped out land dinosaurs and many flowering plants.

Scientists have, for the first time, traced the nanoparticles taken up from the soil by crop plants and analysed the chemical states of their metallic elements.

In a first step toward achieving industrial - scale green production, scientists from BNL and collaborators at Dow AgroSciences report engineering a plant that produces industrially relevant levels of chemicals that could potentially be used to make plastics.

Scientists have for the first time discovered which insects pollinate a rare carnivorous plant called the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)-- and...

The award, established by the Society and first given in 1983, is made triennially to a scientist or lay person in recognition of outstanding service to the science of plant biology.

Millions of dollars probably will be spent trying to create the first virtual plant, an Internet tool that scientists might use to study the role of every gene and protein in the life of a plant.

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First, agricultural scientists will use the genetic blueprint «to find a cheap and effective means of controlling CVC,» and second, «to gain a deep understanding of plant pathogenic processes, which could then be applied to other pathogenic pests.»

Scientists have long wondered how this transition occurred, and whether herbivorous dinosaurs first developed the beaks used to graze on plants or the stomachs needed to digest them.

Leading the charge of GR2.0 and 3.0 will be a crop of vibrant and intelligent young scientists in league with IRRI through the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) and spread out across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, «many of whom are attending their first International Rice Congress now,» said Zeigler, himself a plant pathologist who started young working on various crop staples.

Most importantly, D2 was the first to be produced on a mass industrial scale; scientists discovered that irradiating plants and fungi with ultraviolet light led to D2 being created.

When asked about the cause of these fires, the scientist said it was in part real estate speculation and in part the lumber industy which first planted the wrong trees and then basically gave up on the woods alltogether when the market collapsed (or something like that).

Along with Roger Revelle, Weinberg was one of the first American scientists to draw attention to threat posed by climate change and, also along with Revelle, urged that nuclear instead of coal plants be built.

MSM misunderstands or misrepresents permafrost study U.S. labs to study abrupt climate change Scientists witness first massive Arctic methane release Oklahoma plants absorb less CO2 after a hot year Cleaner air, more -LSB-...]

But the Hawaiian scientists tried a simple theoretical approach, by first identifying the ranges of temperature, soil moisture and light that drive 95 % of the world's plant growth today.

Scientists at the Institute for Solar Research tested the particle receiver CentRec for the first time with concentrated solar radiation in the DLR solar thermal power plant in October.

Scientists at the University of Montana, the University of California, Davis, and the University of Idaho are the first to find a widespread downward shift in Californian mountain plants.

You say «Skeptic scientists first claimed global warming is not happening, then they said it is happening but is not man - made, then they caved in and said it is man - made and is either good for plants, or too expensive and too late to fix».