Sentences with phrase «for environmental stress»

While yields are generally high in these areas, the rice types must be further improved for yield potential and resistance to insects and diseases as well as for environmental stress tolerance, especially cold.

That makes it difficult for a researcher to know whether an erratic behavior is the result of a mental illness or some unaccounted - for environmental stress.

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For his part, Vairavamoorthy stressed the importance of water when it comes to the production of biofuels and highlighted the environmental impact.

Stress, as defined by the Jobs Rated methodology, is determined by 11 factors: travel, deadlines, working in the public eye, competitiveness, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards encountered, the life of oneself or others at risk, meeting and interacting with customers and / or the public, and the potential for job growth.

I should stress that Voser did not wade in on Canadian politics, and did say he supports the federal government's push to streamline environmental approval processes for energy projects.

Some were uneasy lest the statement slight concerns for justice — such as employment, majority / minority rights, or Third World development — in favor of a major stress on environmental or life - style issues related to energy.

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.

This nutrient (also found in other berries, red onions, red cabbage, etc.) is also very protective for the body as it helps reduce oxidative stress from environmental radiation from EMF's and pollutants.

Traits targeted for improvement include higher nutritional quality; tolerance of pests, diseases, and environmental stresses, such as flood and drought; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

We conduct research and training to improve rice for better grain quality and higher yield, resistance to pests and diseases, tolerance of environmental stresses, and less farm input requirement.

But one of the most important findings of this new cohort of researchers is that for most children, the environmental factors that matter most have less to do with the buildings they live in than with the relationships they experience — the way the adults in their lives interact with them, especially in times of stress.

I currently use or have used oils on myself or someone in my family for anxious feelings, stress, supporting digestion, occasional aches & pains, ear discomfort, head tension, respiratory function, seasonal allergies, sleeplessness, seasonal and environmental threats, mood lifting, focus, insect bites, skin support and more.

I think they so, particularly for children who are very sensitive, emotionally reactive, anxious, or exposed to high levels of environmental stress.

The researchers say the co-occurrence of high environmental stress and high rank in recreational benefits is a conundrum that calls for further research.

For his Ph.D., at the University of California, San Diego, he studied the genetics of plant development, then moved to studying plants under environmental stress.

He studied how genes related to environmental stress factors — drought, cold, and heat shock, for example — can increase the plant's defences in stressful conditions.

A long record of ancient stone tools could tell us if the monkeys picked up tool use in response to an environmental stress, such as rapid sea level changes, for example.

«What was specially relevant from a basic research standpoint was that, for the first time, the descent in levels of a plant hormone compared to control values as an answer to environmental stress could be a physiologically significant response — and data points in this direction,» adds Arbona.

Here's what the researchers think is going on in those nests that were inundated with water, clay or silt: The environmental conditions for those eggs are not great, which likely impedes gas exchange through the shells of the eggs, leading to greater embryonic stress and possibly death.

The researchers separate six key strategy areas for reducing water stress into «hard path» measures, involving building more reservoirs and increasing desalination efforts of sea water, and «soft path» measures that focus on reducing water demand rather than increasing water supply thanks to community - scale efforts and decision - making, combining efficient technology and environmental protection.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI - CBG), the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden (BIOTEC), and the Washington University in St. Louis, USA have now identified for the first time a benign, albeit biologically relevant function of prion domains as protein specific stress sensors that allow cells to adapt to and survive environmental stresses.

The discovery and understanding of this survival approach could pave the way for the development of novel strategies to improve the growth and yield of crops that undergo such environmental stress.

Those that lie near the cell surface, for instance, can expect to encounter lots of environmental stress, so the cell has evolved to tolerate the loss of some of them.

«I think what's needed for collective invasion will depend on the environmental stresses the cancer cells face, and it may shift with treatment,» Marcus says.

An environmental testing company surveyed the air and water and found nothing amiss, and a local neurologist concluded upon examining the girls that they had «conversion disorder,» a catchall moniker for physical symptoms that originate in the mind because of stress, trauma or even mass hysteria.

At Kumho Life and Environmental Science Lab in Kwangju, for example, 10 of its 55 workers are paid by the program and work alongside full - time employees to crystallize proteins, breed transgenic plants, and conduct studies on environmental stEnvironmental Science Lab in Kwangju, for example, 10 of its 55 workers are paid by the program and work alongside full - time employees to crystallize proteins, breed transgenic plants, and conduct studies on environmental stenvironmental stress signals.

Naturally made in grapes as a reaction to environmental stress (drought, for instance), resveratrol is one of several related chemicals, called polyphenols, that plants produce.

URBAN SHADOW: Human development in Monterey, Calif., looms over the nearshore marine ecosystem of the city's namesake bay, illustrating the high potential for anthropogenic — man - made — environmental stress.

Although not generally stressed about climate change, those with high levels of altruistic concern, or concern for the well - being of others, also engaged in some environmental coping strategies and pro-environmental behaviors — more so than those whose environmental concerns were mostly egoistic.

For this study, Passy developed a novel conceptual framework explaining the variability in species abundance distribution as a function of two gradients — environmental favorability and species stress tolerance.

These systems are especially important when our cells are stressed — for example, when we are exposed to extreme temperatures or UV radiation from the sun — as quite a lot can go wrong if cells are unable to respond to environmental stressors.

The samples were analyzed for signs of oxidative stress, which can be used to measure how much an environmental stressor, such as pollution, is weakening the bird's natural defenses.

Veterinary interventions and post mortems have provided substantial information about the captive population and its environmental stresses, and have wider implications for captive invertebrate populations, particularly those involved in conservation programs.

The theory on how the genetic susceptibility for schizophrenia combines with environmental stressors to result in a person developing schizophrenia is known as the predisposition / stress model, or diathesis - stress model).

Gene chips, for instance, are being used to follow the responses of whole sets of genes inside the plant to disruptive environmental changes, and to reveal the full range of changes going on inside the plant that form part of the full biological response to stress.

«This Biodiversity Library includes information on bacteria that are model microorganisms for studying photosynthesis, carbon and nitrogen assimilation, evolution of plant plastids, and adaptability to environmental stresses.

A possible hypothesis for exactly how stress contributes is that it may cause a neurotoxic reaction in the brain (primarily in the hippocampus) that leads to cell damage and death in individuals who are already vulnerable (due to genes or early environmental insult).

Map kinases are involved in different signaling chains responding to a wide range of environmental stimuli and stresses, and a detailed understanding of the cross talk between them is a prerequisite for accurate manipulation of plant traits.

Irrigated rice yields in Africa are often comparable to yields obtained in Asia, but there is a need for improved, high - yielding varieties, resistant to major environmental stresses, pests and diseases.

The Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research embraces a multidisciplinary approach to improve our understanding of psychological, environmental, and neural factors implicated in affective disorders.

The main objective of the event was to draw attention to the environmental threats posed by human behavior and stress the urgent need for a change of attitude, turning towards sustainable practices.

Fabrice Cotton is a Professor in the Institute for Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Potsdam and the head of the seismic hazard and stress field section of the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).

the challenge of simultaneously maintaining environmental and economic sustainability and how countries of the GCC are likely to be impacted by shifting preferences for low carbon energy resources in the developed world, including the economic and geopolitical stresses that may follow (forthcoming).

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

Traits targeted for improvement include higher nutritional quality; tolerance of pests, diseases, and environmental stresses, such as flood and drought; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

These results stress the role of the environmental microbial communities, in combination with unintentional antibiotic release, as potential recruitment pools for human pathogens.

Moreover, risk factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal factors, social stress, family stress or environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.

For many of these women, I connect the dots between how lifestyle factors including drinking and smoking, exposure to environmental toxins, and being chronically stress contribute to and exacerbate sex hormone imbalances.

In fact, antibiotics are the biggest culprit for dysbiosis, but other things like chronic stress and environmental stressors (e.g., pesticides) also contribute.

And the most common reasons for thyroid disorders are genetics, stress, nutritional deficiencies and exposure to environmental toxins.