Sentences with phrase «for plant cell»

Blake's contributions to the plant biology community and ASPB span more than 20 years, including extensive editorial service (e.g., as an editorial board member for The Plant Cell), high - impact organizational and service activities, and training and instruction both in and out of the classroom.

Clark has served the ASPB community as an editorial board member for The Plant Cell, the organizer of a major Plant Biology symposium, and a member of the Eric E. Conn Young Investigator Award Committee.

2004 — Natasha Raikhel — for her studies of protein trafficking and for developing the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana as the organism of choice for plant cell biology

Julia Bailey - Serres (Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside) is an outstanding member of the plant biology community.

Fossil cell content has so far mainly been recorded for plant cells, e.g. in Eocene fruit and leaf cells [26], calcified Jurassic royal fern cells [27], Carboniferous pollen and spores [28] or Precambrian thallophytic seaweeds [29].

Photosynthesis is limited usually by the supply of light (right amount and duration as it takes time for the plant cells to make the important enzyme Rubisco — this isn't stored as it is costly for the plant to make).

Not exact matches

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

Tesla is planning to build the biggest lithium - ion battery plant in the world in an effort to not only reduce cell costs for its electric vehicles but to ramp up production as well to keep up with projections that it will be churning out 100,000 vehicles annually by 2015.

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing photosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, ma - mmals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.

Some humans romantically yearn for a regression back to social anarchy, which might be likened — rather fancifully, to be sure — to the cells of a plant longing for the mobility of single - celled organisms.

In recent years, some Christian scientists and philosophers have vociferously challenged this assumption, arguing for the necessity of appealing to intelligent agency to account for certain highly complex components of the universe, especially but not exclusively the cells of plants and animals.

Such whole - grain varieties contain high levels of phenols and tannins, two plant compounds with a knack for mopping up free radicals that can wreak havoc on cell membranes and other delicate machinery within the human body.

It's also a source of plant - based iron, required for healthy blood cells and metabolism.

Going in chronological order, I think back to last spring when plant cells were deciding to be clusters or not and the weather was great for cluster primordia development.

Plant based fats like those found in nuts, seeds and coconut oil, contain fatty acids that make up our cell membranes, help with brain function, are necessary for the absorption of fat soluble vitamins (including A, C, E, D & K) and for the production of energy and hormones.

Thus, the rate of freezing for plant tissues is extremely important due to the effect of freezing rate on the size of ice crystals, cell hydration, and damage to cell walls (Rahman, 1999).

Amino acids are the building blocks of protein and your body breaks down protein from animal and plant sources in your diet to provide the amino acids required for your cells and your growing baby.

«When a new substance forms during a chemical reaction, many students think that the atoms and molecules have actually changed into something new, whereas they simply rearranged, that the mass increase of plants is due to minerals in the soil, or that cell division alone accounts for animal growth,» said Cari Herrmann Abell, a senior research associate at Project 2061.

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.

Therefore, thin - film solar cells seemed bright with promise, so bright that the DoE made Solyndra's effort to build a new 28,000 - square - meter plant to manufacture the cylindrical modules the recipient of the first - ever loan guarantee for a renewable energy project — $ 535 million.

The Cologne molecular biologist is an expert on root - colonizing fungi and the plant immune system, the Würzburg chemist is a specialist for sugar molecules and their functions in cells and organisms.

When this plant is up and running, it will supply the cells for all 60,000 Volts that GM will build, annually, for the car's first edition.

Plants have many enzymes capable of duplicating RNA, Ecker notes, as well as a system for transporting the chemical between cells.

The same goes for the genetic material found in chloroplasts: the energy centers of all plant cells.

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.

Not only the root's stem - cell niche is located there, the root tip also accommodates sensors for an auxin - dependent growth of the plant based on gravitation.

Such organelles as mitochondria, for instance, generate fuel; in plant cells, chloroplasts manufacture sugars to break down into that fuel.

This unique organization of tubulin is preserved among all living plant and animal cells, because it is essential for way in which microtubules assemble, Al - Bassam said.

CRISPR — Cas9 (or CRISPR, for short) has given scientists a powerful way to make precise changes to DNA — in microbes, plants, mice, dogs and even in human cells.

Hanging on to one of the pieces, our electron is now headed for the cell's power plant: the mitochondrion.

Sicor, for example, has recently acquired a plant in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Genentech a cell culture manufacturing facility in Porriño, Spain.

High in the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa grows a bristly shrub that embodies the tug - of - war taking place between industrialized and developing nations over the value of genetic resources — the genes found in plant, animal or microbial cells used for research as well as in commercial products, such as enhanced seeds and naturally derived cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

For a plant to create reproductive cells, it must first erase a key code, a series of tags attached to DNA across the genome known as epigenetic marks.

«Together these studies tell a story about how mushroom - forming fungi evolved a complex mechanism for breakdown of plant cell walls in «white rot» and then cast it aside following the evolution of mycorrhizal associations, as well as the alternative decay mechanism of «brown rot,»» Hibbett said.

The technique could also be modified for microscopy, allowing imaging of photosynthesis inside the plant cells.

From the cores, the scientists also extracted eDNA — DNA lingering in the soil from, for example, plant leaves, rootlets, animal feces, urine, or even skin cells.

Whereas the chiefly single - celled prokaryotes barely figure in the CBD, fungi at least get a mention in the updated Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, which is part of the convention: «Parties may choose on a national basis to include other taxa, including algae, lichens and fungi.»

Until now, scientists were unable to prove that mammals use RNAi for killing viruses, but ironically, it was Ding's earlier research into plants, nematodes and fruit flies that helped him find the key: viruses have been outwitting that innate protection in our cells by using proteins to suppress our virus - killing mechanism.

Looking for plants that tolerate stress Inside the cells of a corn plant, tiny molecules called RNA relay messages to help with cell activity.

The search for answers might shed light on how cells» fates become fixed during development, and how plants manage to retain such flexibility.

For a typical paper - recycling factory, one Emefcy fuel cell module, which is about the size of a cubic meter, could treat about three cubic meters per day of wastewater depending on the amount of organic material present, according to Cohen, and the modules can be scaled to meet the needs of larger or smaller plants.

Unraveling the tightly wound network of molecules — cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin — that make up the cell wall of plants for easier biofuel processing.

«For example, in the embryonic development of plant cells.

The Pm3 gene is the «blueprint» for a protein that can receive signals in the plant cell, i.e. a receptor.

Using next - generation sequencing technologies that were previously unavailable, Michael Gardner, a graduate research assistant, and Jianying Wang, a senior research associate in Mitchum's lab, made a remarkable new discovery — nematodes possess the ability to produce a second type of peptide that can effectively «take over» plant stem cells that are used to create vital pathways for the delivery of nutrients throughout the plant.

A home appliance that grows the ingredients for a healthy meal within a week from plant cells is no longer science fiction.

«The NILR1 is the genetic code for a receptor protein that is localized to the surface of plant cells and is able to bind and recognize other molecules,» says Prof. Florian Grundler, chair at the Department of Molecular Phytomedicine at the University of Bonn.

Most resistance genes, in wheat and other plants, code for protein receptors located inside cells; the Stb6 gene codes for a receptor protein on the cell's surface.

«For a long time it was speculated that plant hormones play a role in the formation of a nurse cell system in roots,» says Prof. Dr. Florian Grundler from the Molecular Phytomedicine, University of Bonn.