Sentences with phrase «fruit development»

The platform will also have a 4 - D element, using slices to show changes due to fruit development over time.

«Our first objective was to generate a transcriptomic atlas during tomato fruit development with an unprecedented level of spatiotemporal resolution,» said Philippe Nicolas, postdoctoral scientist at BTI.

Dr Charles Baxter from Syngenta said: «This discovery has relevance for the development of new tomato varieties via conventional plant breeding and is a significant step forward in understanding processes involved in fruit development, allowing more refined control of this process in plant breeding.»

She and her colleagues found Karma, a mobile piece of DNA known as a transposon, inserted in the middle of an important gene for normal oil - palm fruit development called DEFICIENS.

The sequence data was then compiled, parsed, and organized into the TEA, where it can be analyzed to investigate the various biological processes important for fruit development.

This study seeks to identify all the genes throughout fruit development, different tissue types, DNA that regulates those genes, hormones and their control, and the structural polymers that make up cells walls and contribute to fruit texture, and the ability to resist drying out.

In 2012, rapid plant growth as a result of unusually high temperatures and warm, nighttime early spring temperatures resulted in tree fruit development that was at least four weeks ahead of normal by late March.

The finding is «a massive advance in our understanding of tomato fruit development and ripening,» says Alisdair Fernie, who studies the chemical composition of tomatoes at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany.

Fruit development is enhanced by increased sunlight.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh studied the nectar secreted by a plant from the passionfruit family during flower and fruit development.

Microbes are big part of the soil for grape growers; what happens underground can influence the vine growth and fruit development and downstream wine assets, he explains.

«One of my main research interests is to develop and test models of hormonal regulation of fruit development,» said BTI scientist Carmen Catalá.

Systems Biology of Tomato Fruit Development: Combined Transcript, Protein, and Metabolite Analysis of Tomato Transcription Factor (nor, rin) and Ethylene Receptor (Nr) Mutants Reveals Novel Regulatory Interactions