Sentences with phrase «giving plant scientists»

With this study we've learned something new about how these pathways work, giving plant scientists another tool for improving crop yields.»

Not exact matches

To coax the apples to create these particular anti-browning RNA molecules, the scientists gave the apple extra copies of the browning gene that were tweaked to set off the plant's interference mechanism.

GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

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.

Researchers on recent expeditions to the frozen continent have planted instruments that are giving scientists the information they need, and the latest projections from those data are alarming.

Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

Scientists at the RBGE turn those data into taxonomic monographs (descriptions of all the plants in a particular genus) and floras (descriptions of all the plants found in a given geographic area).

Biological control of pests, weeds, plants and animals gives «the best hope to providing lasting, environmentally sound and socially acceptable pest management,» according to a new book edited by two UF / IFAS scientists.

Taken together, such tools are giving scientists a better understanding of how plants respond to drought, high temperatures, pests, and disease.

It's given scientists around the world critical cybertools to catalog and analyze how plants and animals have responded to changes in global climate going back 5 million years.

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.

RENO, Nev. - The search for answers to protect Central American frogs from extinction is also giving scientists clues on how to predict and respond to emerging diseases and epidemics in humans, plants and other wildlife.

«Federal regulators were right to reject a proposal that would have amounted to nothing more than giving coal and nuclear power plants billions of dollars in guaranteed profits at the expense of consumers,» said Mike Jacobs, senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

variety (in agriculture) The term that plant scientists give to a distinct breed (subspecies) of plant with desirable traits.

Russian scientists have discovered a great deal about this plant over the years, giving us all the tools needed to formulate the ultimate supplement.

That might be confusing to students, but you can explain that the system of giving scientific names to plants resulted from the fact that scientists were confused too!

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).

Scientists look at a warming Arctic and see a shift from white to green, as tundra gives way to new plant life.

In a statement, the Union of Concerned Scientists called the White House plans «impressive,» particularly given the gridlock in Washington, D.C. Republicans have criticized the White House for bypassing Congress and using its executive authority to have the Environmental Protection Agency establish new power plant emissions rules.

The scientists gave some examples of plants they say could be developed commercially.

Let's just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, shows that plants clean

Let's just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, shows that plants clean out air pollution to a much greater extent than previously thought.