Eran received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015 and used it to write a book, «War and Plants», in which he surveys historical, botanical, and geographical influences to explain
how plant biochemistry influenced human history.
Not exact matches
The intriguing thing to me about working in agricultural biotechnology at this moment is watching
how a multitude of subdisciplines such as
plant physiology,
biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and molecular and conventional breeding are blending into one big continuum where the lines begin to blur.
Any new scientific knowledge about the global environment, whether the
biochemistry of
how plants suck up CO2 and release moisture or the optical properties of sulfate aerosols, is eventually transformed into equations and woven into the computer simulations.
«It's amazing
how such a complex system has developed so many processes, like those we see in flower
plants», says research leader Professor Dolf Weijers, professor of
Biochemistry at Wageningen University & Research.
Researchers from Martin Luther University Halle - Wittenberg (MLU), the University of Bonn, the University of Freiburg and the Leibniz Institute of
Plant Biochemistry (IPB) in Halle have now discovered
how one of these proteins manipulates the nutrient supply and hormonal balance of
plants.