Sentences with phrase «how plant systems»

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David Vieau, A123 Systems president & CEO, discusses the tough year for his company, and how he plans to rebuild after laying off 125 workers from a Michigan plant.

The attackers were likely conducting reconnaissance to learn how they could modify safety systems so they would not operate in the event that the hackers intended to launch an attack that disrupted or damaged the plant, he said.

At Key Stage 3 (age 11 to 13 +, Years 7 to 9) schools have to teach: that fertilisation in humans and flowering plants is the fusion of a male and a female cell; about the physical and emotional changes that take place during adolescence; about the human reproductive system, including the menstrual cycle and fertilization; how the foetus develops in the uterus, including the role of the placenta.

Research into the pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) is a clear example of how the agriculture and plant breeding systems changed.

«How can we connect the canals better to the canal towns, and what kind of programming should we have so that we attract more tourists and recreation, better quality of life, access to the waterfront, economic development... «it's about tourism, it's about recreation, it's about irrigation for our farmers, it's about water usage for some of the manufacturing and process plants that we have along the canal system,» Quiniones told WXXI News.

Dimensions: The size of a grow box (usually measured in feet) is important depending on how many plants you want to grow, how big they are, as well as how much floor space you can dedicate to the growing system.

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Our research enhances the traditional understanding of the plant defense system and describes a new concept describing how plants protect themselves against the pathogens that grow in the space outside plant cells (the apoplast)-- a new concept called effector - triggered defense or ETD.»

Bucket Size: Measured in gallons, the bucket size will give you an idea of how big the plants you put into the hydro grow system can get.

«What these researchers are uncovering about the agronomics of cup plant, as well as the insects that affect them, will help us decide how they can be integrated into a bioenergy cropping system,» said Vance Owens, director of the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center.

The models must track how carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cycle through the whole system — how the gases interact with plant life, oceans, the atmosphere — and how this influences overall global temperatures.

The next hurdle becomes how to get these different simulations to talk to one another, says Amy Marshall - Colón, a plant systems biologist at Illinois who leads a lab group independent of Long's and Zhu's.

In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.

«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.

«This shows us how the auxin system has become more complex, and which components plants can modify to use the hormone for new processes to regulate its growth and shape,» explains Professor Weijers.

«We show precisely how a key «switch protein», PHR1, controls the response to low levels of phosphate, a big stress for the plant, and also controls the plant immune system,» said Jeff Dangl, John N. Couch Distinguished Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Understanding how this immune system is regulated at the appropriate level of activity gives the researchers more ideas of points in the immune signaling pathway that could targeted to increase the plant's baseline ability to resist disease.

These experiments will help biologists understand how plants respond to microgravity, which will improve efforts aimed at growing food in space — a crucial component of long - duration missions to Mars or elsewhere in the solar system.

That study showed how removing a bumblebee species disrupted floral fidelity, or specialization, among the remaining bees in the system, leading to less successful plant reproduction.

«What was really cool about this research was we've known for a long time that a lot of different transcription factors were involved, but it was hard to understand how all the pieces fit together,» said Jenny Mortimer, director of plant systems biology at the Joint BioEnergy Division, a part of the Department of Energy.

«We want to know how this system works in all different cell types and in plants that we are interested in for biofuels.»

The results show how reduced competition among pollinators disrupts floral fidelity, or specialization, among the remaining bees in the system, leading to less successful plant reproduction.

I researched the interaction in various areas between rabbits, arthropods, coyotes, plants, and weather information in order to determine how these factors interact with one another to create a complete ecological system.

They are designing an artificial system that mimics how plants and other photosynthetic organisms use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into molecules that humans can later use for fuel.

For an understanding of how nuclear plant safety is assessed and will likely be evaluated moving forward, Scientific American spoke with Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil, environmental, industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles.

The study demonstrates how versatile the plant immune system can be while fighting a constant arms race against infectious bacteria.

«This year the CDP program emphasized how plant research and biotechnology can play important roles in creating more sustainable systems.

I enjoyed so much to start thinking in the capability of small things to make a notable difference in biological systems, such as how the properties of the cell membranes are influenced by its chemical composition, and how the food chain is mainly supported by the photosynthesis reaction of plants and algae, which ultimately lead us to survive.

While our analysis does not provide any details about how the computationally re-designed receptor binds the TNT ligand in planta, we consistently see reproducible signal transduction in our in vivo systems (bacterial and plant).

Other areas of Browse's research involve engineering plants to better survive low temperatures, and studies on how plant membranes use signaling systems to ward off attacks by fungi and bacteria.

Here's how RGGI works: Using an auction system, the states offer a declining number of carbon emissions credits each year, which power plant owners bid on and are then required to use to offset their carbon dioxide emissions.

Since their first work together in 2000, Collmer and Martin have sought to tease apart the interactions between effectors and plant defense proteins, to understand how and when the plant's immune system responds.

How HopAD1 and AvrPtoB help P. syringae to evade the plant immune system and raid the cell.

Specifically, Dangl and his team investigate how the plant immune system discriminates between microbial friend and foe in a complex environment, using tools and techniques from genomic, structural, cellular, and molecular biology.

Now Walker has a three - year, $ 870,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics program to learn how plants thwarted those past efforts and further, how plants firmly control iron in their systems.

Similar to how you might pull the weeds from a garden without disturbing the root system of a plant, love releases negative emotions while supporting your intuition and ability to sort things through.

Try it for yourself today and find out how plant - based iron can support normal energy levels, alleviate brain fog, and boost your immune system.

«Students take what they have done in the kitchen or garden, such as transplanting seedlings, then we build on their experience to understand how plant root systems work, the needs of plants and why we are careful to keep the roots hydrated and handle them gently,» Bev said.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

The responsibility of an operations manager comes with a set of challenges, but once you know how to deal with them, it will be fun for you to work on projects that include integrating new machinery into a production plant, implementing IT systems, training staff, etc..

There are no prompts to inform players how to plant / defuse bombs (you use the «F» key, by the way) and there is no explanation as to how the cards system works so you have to find your feet quickly when playing these matches.

I once recommended the original Plants vs. Zombies as an excellent example of how to do a game that progressed well, to where it would be possible to learn a complex system through steady incremental improvements.

-- a complete farming system with more than 70 plants, even many alien and exotic plants — an in game guide that will teach you how to play — two ways of crafting to accommodate even needs of casual users — tenths of wonderful music tracks by Bright Primate Multiplayer is being ported and it \'s coming soon!

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

Plant a Tree 10 Simple Ways to Keep Watersheds Clean How to Choose Eco-Friendly Farm Raised Fish Solar Sanitation Systems are Changing Developing Countries

When we talk about the environmental benefits of solar power, we often talk about how installing a solar energy system can have the same effect on the environment as planting trees.

Includes: specs, installation types from drain - away to custom recirculating systems and how to best locate your installation, choose plants and maintain your system.

Take a small example: Moving away from internal - combustion automobiles and trucks means more than just swapping in electric vehicles and expanding public transit; it also means building the infrastructure to support the new transportation system (chargers, added bus lines, additional electric power plants), retraining the people whose livelihoods were based on maintaining conventional vehicles, changing how cities are laid out and much more.

Faced with concerns over how quickly new nuclear will progress through the planning and licensing system, and the possibility that even coal plants that are compliant with existing EU environmental regulation may be forced to close early by the proposed Industrial Emissions Directive, generators have little choice but to prepare to build a second wave of gas - fired plants (ie in addition to the 8GW currently under construction) to keep the lights on before new nuclear and some CCS coal plants start to come onto the system in the 2020s.

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