Sentences with phrase «how nematodes»

About 15 years ago, Mitchum and colleagues unlocked clues into how nematodes use small chains of amino acids, or peptides, to feed on soybean roots.

«Understanding how the nematode modulates its host is going to help us exploit new technologies to engineer plants with enhanced resistance to this terribly devastating pathogen,» Mitchum said.

Not exact matches

The Lion of Kona demonstrated how arabica coffee plants are grafted onto liberica root stocks to produce plants that are resistant to the nematodes that plague the area's coffee beans while maintaining the exceptional taste one expects from Kona coffee beans.

The Lion farms of Kona demonstrated how arabica coffee plants are grafted onto liberica root stocks to produce plants that are resistant to the nematodes that plague the area's coffee farms while maintaining the exceptional taste one expects from Kona coffee.

Biologists have for decades discussed how two genes in the familiar lab nematode Caenorhabditis elegans might help embryos build their organs.

That's how many lab C. elegans nematodes grow a normal body (left) with a wide, inner feeding tube (partly visible toward worm top).

In collaboration with scientists at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Sloan - Kettering Institute in New York, he's imaging how the brain of a nematode develops.

He always thought of himself as more of a botanist and a nematode guy, studying how parasitic soil - dwelling worms interact with crop plants.

«We grew soybean plants in a greenhouse, inoculated them with nematodes, and then used the assay to determine how many repeats each plant had.

This Arabidopsis root shows how the beet cyst nematode activates cytokinin signaling in the syncytium 10 days after infection.

Now, Mitchum's team is trying to find how this key gene might work differently in other nematode types, like root - knot nematode as part of a new National Science Foundation grant.

Given that Earth may be losing as many as 140,000 species a year — most of those nematodes and other uncharismatic microfauna — the question of how well conservation has worked to preserve biodiversity may soon be moot.

She says that it has been a recalcitrant question exactly how tardigrades are related to seven other phyla of molting animals known as ecdysozoans, a group that includes both arthropods and nematodes.

By looking at fragments in more detail the researchers could work out how to align them in the order they appear on the nematode's chromosomes.

In a recent paper in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Shapira, who studies the gut microbes of the nematode C. elegans, reviews evidence that demonstrates how microbiotas affect and contribute to host evolution, either by evolving along with the host, or by stepping in at critical moments to help the host adapt to a new environmental challenge.

The researchers also want to know how the plant attracts nematodes to its sticky death trap in the first place.

As reported Friday in Molecular Ecology, the likelihood that nematodes have similar microbial profiles does not correlate with how closely they are related.

Researchers projected images of plates containing the nematode C. elegans, describing how the worms are used in lifespan experiments.

Lithgow's recent work at the Buck Institute with the nematode C. elegans (a type of worm) has shown how iron accumulation can accelerate the aging process.

This year the organizers overtly recognized the history of our biomedical research niche in which C. elegans nematodes are used as a model organism (see our SAGE blog on how C. elegans models are used to study aging).

As one of the three initial cores established when the Buck Institute was founded, the Genomics Core has played a vital role in helping shape investigations in the basic molecular biology of aging, from assisting in the investigation of how specific drugs can extend lifespan in simple model organisms such as the nematode C. elegans, to facilitating studies in various animal models of age - related disease.

Lab manager Abigail at Pheronym is explaining how biocontrol works for agricultural pest control and how Pheronym uses pheromones from microscopic roundworms to improve the efficacy of commercially available beneficial nematodes for insect control.

In laboratory experiments designed to determine what might have caused the nematode treatment to fail, the effectiveness of the nematodes was strongly influenced by the relative amounts of sand and clay in the soil, and how wet it was.