Sentences with phrase «for plant science»

Dan has also been a tireless advocate for plant science by serving on more than a dozen federal grant panels.

The RootChip: an integrated microfluidic chip for plant science.

Mark first developed a passion for plant science while serving as an agroforestry volunteer in the U.S. Peace Corps, where he started a reforestation program that brought iguana ranching and sustainable land management practices to his site in rural Panama.

2 Department of Agronomy and Horticulture / Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture / Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583

«During the past four decades, allergic diseases have become a global health problem,» says project leader Professor Dabing Zhang, who leads the University of Adelaide and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Laboratory for Plant Science and Breeding.

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Researcher Jan Krauss told the website e! Science News, «Our ultimate goal is to develop a specialized degradation tool for every individual plant waste material containing cellulose.»

In partnership with Dr. Michael Greger, Rasch incubated and established NutritionFacts.org in 2010, a non-profit healthcare site which is now the preeminent, science - based resource for consumers and physicians to learn about plant - based nutrition.

For example, it has more plant science PhDs than anywhere else in the world thanks to the presence of Monsanto, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Washington University, among otplant science PhDs than anywhere else in the world thanks to the presence of Monsanto, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Washington University, among science PhDs than anywhere else in the world thanks to the presence of Monsanto, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Washington University, among otPlant Science Center and Washington University, among Science Center and Washington University, among others.

The organization cited St. Louis» BioSTL bioscience economic development coalition — established in 2001 to build on plant and life science strengths — as a model for cities endeavoring to create economic growth through regional strengths.

Unless, of course, there was a major disaster that rapidly buried all sorts of plant and animal life under extreme pressure, in which case science would allow for fossil fuels to develop in such a circu.mstance (as evidenced in the Mt. St Helens eruption)... but said disaster never occured in the bible, did it?

London Terrarium will start with a short introduction explaining the history and science that goes into building a terrarium, from the different plants you can use to why activated charcoal has become an essential product for them.

I hold a B.S. in Nutrition Science and Dietetics and have been a plant - based eater for 10 years, a writer since age 10, and an animal lover since birth.

Founded more than 20 years ago as a pilot plant by President Dan Siegel — who holds a doctorate in food science, Deli Star specializes in wholesale meat and cooked meat products for a variety of customers throughout the company.

With sustainable, plant - based ingredients and unique, advanced facilities, the Science People at Roquette develop solutions for companies of any size, enabling business partners to excel in their respective product categories: human nutrition, animal nutrition, pharma, and biochemical.

«No matter how you slice it the science will say, plants are good for you and better for the planet than an animal - based diet.»

We were joined by representatives of the Department of Science and Technology - Biosafety Committee, Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry and members of the PhilRice Institutional Biosafety Committee, who had overseen every aspect of our work for the last few months.

Hydroponics is the science of growing plants without soil using an inert medium (sand or gravel) and a water and nutrient solution containing all the elements required by the plant for normal growth.

This unrivalled event provides a unique platform for food industry professionals to meet face to face with suppliers of cutting edge processing, packaging and plant technology as well as the latest in food science.

This curriculum for middle and high school students includes classroom activities, identification sheets and a dichotomous key for identifying salt marsh plants, and data sheets for salt marsh field trips utilizing lessons developed by Kristen Grant and the salt marsh science protocols developed by Dr. Robert Buchsbaum and Dr. David Burdick.

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Elementary students plant, harvest, and shuck corn for their annual popcorn harvest (math and science lessons are incorporated into this and other crops they grow).

Minnesota School Gardens: A Guide to Gardening and Plant Science by Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom [external link] In addition to instructions for establishing and maintaining a school garden in Minnesota, this guide contains 31 plant — science based lessons that assist in embedding its content into the classPlant Science by Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom [external link] In addition to instructions for establishing and maintaining a school garden in Minnesota, this guide contains 31 plant — science based lessons that assist in embedding its content into the claScience by Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom [external link] In addition to instructions for establishing and maintaining a school garden in Minnesota, this guide contains 31 plant — science based lessons that assist in embedding its content into the classplant — science based lessons that assist in embedding its content into the clascience based lessons that assist in embedding its content into the classroom.

A really simple craft for kids for after reading the book in springtime is this Cress Caterpillar — a mixture of a craft and some simple science for toddlers and preschoolers to see how plants grow.

This growing plants science activity is so much fun for spring!

In schools they have to plant seeds in sterile conditions only when the science curriculum says they may, and line up for meals which they have no hand in preparing.

In 1969, an outdoor classroom for science study, The Nature Trail, was planted by students and teachers on the perimeter of the School's property.

Pick a book with «Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls», a book about women in science or just a book with a female protagonist and plant the seed of success early on.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

A $ 413,000 state grant helped pay for a green roof — plants and soil that absorb rainwater — on the Gateway Center at State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Researchers at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), an NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, study plants like this Arabidopsis thaliana to learn how molecules, cells and tissues integrate mechanics within plant and animal biology, with the aim of creating new materials, biomedical therapies and agricultural technologies.

That plants like bryophytes influenced the formation of mud deposits long before roots appeared is a surprise, says geobiologist Woodward Fischer of Caltech who wrote a commentary about the study for the same issue of Science.

He didn't get into art college, so he pursued his scientific interest in fungi instead, studying for a bachelor's degree in plant sciences at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a Ph.D. in mycology.

Readers will learn how to match a tooth to the correct mammal, discover the intelligence of crows, deepen their passion for plants and gain insights into wildfire - prone terrain when just by picking up any of the winners of this year's AAAS / Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books.

Through Science in Asylum, Goidenko volunteered as a teacher in KinderUni, a summer science program for kids in Vienna, teaching them about different properties of soil and giving them hands - on experience with growing Science in Asylum, Goidenko volunteered as a teacher in KinderUni, a summer science program for kids in Vienna, teaching them about different properties of soil and giving them hands - on experience with growing science program for kids in Vienna, teaching them about different properties of soil and giving them hands - on experience with growing plants.

For instance, DeBoer explained, one of the items in the AAAS Science Assessment Website discusses whether a jar with a plant sealed inside it will contain the same mass before and after the plant dies.

The resulting backcrossed plants and information about their genomes, «shows a way forward for improving chickpeas and many other crops too,» says von Wettberg, a professor in UVM's Department of Plant and Soil Science.

Meadows of underwater seagrass plants might lower levels of harmful bacteria in nearby ocean waters, researchers reported February 16 during a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In a 1978 paper for Science, J. P. McBride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and his colleagues looked at the uranium and thorium content of fly ash from coal - fired power plants in Tennessee and Alabama.

The work is the first of its kind in any organism and will have implications for both plant and animal sciences.

In a recent issue of Trends in Plant Science, František Baluška, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Stefano Mancuso, a plant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetaPlant Science, František Baluška, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Stefano Mancuso, a plant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetaplant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Stefano Mancuso, a plant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetaplant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetation.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Thanks to a National Science Foundation — funded initiative called the iPlant Collaborative, for example, there's an emerging generation of data - analyzing «plant biologists» who have never gotten their hands dirty digging in soil or watering seeds.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

According to Crispin Taylor, the executive director of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Rockville, Maryland, and a former editor for Science Careers, plant genomics is «a discipline and a set of tools, both.&rPlant Biologists in Rockville, Maryland, and a former editor for Science Careers, plant genomics is «a discipline and a set of tools, both.&rplant genomics is «a discipline and a set of tools, both.»

For more, check the out the January 12th episode of the daily SciAm podcast, 60 - Second Science, titled, «Wet Plants Feel the Burn».

Jansson told Science that because the plant they ate was by definition not a GMO, «we do of course not need to ask for a permit or even inform them.»

Rogers and plant science colleagues at UMass Amherst, with postdoctoral researcher and first author Jennifer Albertine, write, «The implications of increasing CO2 for human health are clear.

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.»

For example, Ambili Nair did her Ph.D. in plant sciences and pursued a straightforward postdoctoral fellowship before changing directions.