Sentences with phrase «in plant chemistry»

«The idea that changes in plant chemistry and therefore plant resistance may change the probability of cannibalism is very original,» says Andre Kessler, a chemical ecologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who did not participate in the study.

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Included in the acquisition are the company's five emulsifier manufacturing plants throughout the world in Europe, the United States, Malaysia, China and Brazil, and the Polymer Additives section takes this safe, non-contentious food ingredient chemistry and applies their technology to the polymer industry.

ReactIR, Particle Track and Particle Vision enable understanding of reaction progression, mechanisms, kinetics, and particle characterisation in situ and in real - time for batch and flow chemistry in lab and plant environments.

Prayon, world leader in phosphate chemistry, plans to build a manufacturing plant for food grade sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP).

The Isophytol plant showed us how chemistry looks on a huge industrial scale which, while impressive, is difficult to take in.

The scientists are now planning further experiments study the co-evolution of dandelions and their root herbivores in order of find out whether the presence of root - feeding insects has shaped the plant defensive chemistry in the course of evolution and whether the insects show adaptations to dandelion defenses.

«Breaking the chain: Catalyzing a green future for chemistry: Researchers create catalyst for refining chemicals in plant waste, allowing a green way to produce valuable raw materials.»

In addition to pharmacy classes, students there get a solid grounding in maths, physics, chemistry, pharmacology, cellular and plant biology, physiology and disease symptoms, and law and economicIn addition to pharmacy classes, students there get a solid grounding in maths, physics, chemistry, pharmacology, cellular and plant biology, physiology and disease symptoms, and law and economicin maths, physics, chemistry, pharmacology, cellular and plant biology, physiology and disease symptoms, and law and economics.

Inspectors come with a range of expertise, from physics, engineering, and chemistry to computer science and even biology; samples from plants and animals often play a role in detecting unreported nuclear materials.

Finding a cost - effective method for breaking down the tough cellulose in plant matter to produce ethanol has been a tough challenge, involving both innovations in chemistry and in field operations like the baling feeder developed by Woodford.

This signaling pathway could be used to optimize the photosynthetic efficiency of plants subject to water and nutrient deficiencies, with potential applications in agriculture and reactor - based crop development for green chemistry and algae - based biofuel solutions.

Also ranked quite highly were plant and animal sciences, chemistry, space science (the European Space Agency has its research center in Noordwijk), and clinical medicine.

Both are examples of «chemical gardens,» a type of chemical process and the name of an experiment common in chemistry sets that operates along the same principles and forms tubes of crystals that make plant - like shapes, Escribano said.

But although scientists know this chemistry found in plants is helpful to humans, they do not fully understand how it works or know how to bring it about in a lab.

Once invasive plants become established, they can alter soil chemistry and shift nutrient cycling in an ecosystem.

So Cordatos and UTC's idea is not to use the enzyme itself, but to master its chemistry and «use it in the unnatural environment of power plant flue gas,» Cordatos said.

«I think this will definitely help,» says Alisdair Fernie, who was not part of the study but has studied tomato chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany.

These findings led treatment plants to begin manipulating chlorine chemistry in order to lower dichloramine concentrations and, ultimately, reduce NDMA formation.

The Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University in Japan is committed to advance the integration of synthetic chemistry, plant / animal biology and theoretical science, all of which are traditionally strong fields in the university.

One quibble, which I suspect is due to the publisher more than the author, is that the style of the introductory pages on the chemistry in the plants leaves much to be desired.

It's becoming clear and clearer as people look at different stages of the plant's growth and in different habitats growing next to other plants that the stressors in the environment can really change the chemistry; because most of the medicinal compounds in the plants are what are called secondary compounds, so they are not things essential to the metabolism of the plant like sugar and water and ATP for energy and DNA.

Meteorites often contain organic matter not created by life, which have some similarities in their organic chemistry to land plants.

«This could lead to the development of new methods to improve the plant fertilization efficiency and open a new avenue for carbohydrate research in plant biology using synthetic chemistry approaches.»

This discovery is expected to lead to advances in research to improve plant fertilization efficiency as well as carbohydrate chemistry for plants.

Possibilities include environmental toxins linked to crops or to plant decay by - products (e.g., bacterial / fungal toxins), as well as a combination of the former with agricultural practices, atmospheric chemistry, and an idiosyncratic immune reaction in genetically susceptible children (28, 29).

A 1937 Better Homes and Gardens story said that using «Hormodin isn't any more difficult than playing with the chemistry set you bought Junior» and that the compounds would make nature «hurry up, [and] jump thru hoops» or even to «make a raincoat out of the rubber plant in your living room.»

«Nighttime chemical evolution of aerosol and trace gases in a power plant plume: Implications for secondary organic nitrate and organosulfate aerosol formation, NO3 radical chemistry, and N2O5 heterogeneous hydrolysis.»

The members of the society are experts in the fields of biology, agronomy, forestry, plant pathology, chemistry, pharmacy and other associated disciplines.

Bachelor's degree curricula include courses in chemistry, genetics, microbiology, statistical methods, plant physiology, animal behavior and forestry.

Can you explain the difference (in chemistry and the way our bodies utilise it) between «estrogen» from animals and «phytoestrogen» in plants which mimics estrogen in humans?

Flooding the body and the nervous system with nutrients from plant food in the form of juices and raw food Provide the necessary amino acids, vitamins and minerals to restore brain chemistry and assist in detoxification.

George Burr had conducted his doctoral research in the deserts of Arizona and Utah, studying the effects of soil chemistry and climate on the distribution of plants and the quality of their sap.

This is because of the chemistry involved: many bitter compounds are there to deter insects, or help plants have a strong immune response, and are abundant in wild plants.

A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.

The list of case studies are for use in teaching anatomy, chemistry, environment, evolution, medicine and health, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics, physics and engineering, plant science, psychology, atmospheric science / meteorology, and other sciences.

«One surgery I performed was on a piranha that ate a plastic plant,» says Susan Horton, DVM, of Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital in Skokie, Ill. «Foreign bodies aren't uncommon, but water chemistry tends to be the biggest cause of problems with fish.

Each particular essential oil has constituents imprinted in the plant's chemistry which indicate the individual benefits for the oil.

The constituents or chemistry of the essential oil is held in tact during distillation which, in turn, holds the healing properties of the plant.

Her residency and exhibition, «Sycorax's Garden,» explores the intersection between science and mysticism in the evolution of organic chemistry, considering how botanical treatments were historically associated with female social roles of healer, herbalist, and witch, as well as how many of the plant - based materials we use today were introduced to the Western world through global exploration and conquest in the Age of Empire.

Born in 1931, Bontecou's creative outputhas not only been informed by World War II, but by other wars that followed; the exploration of space; and the disastrous effects of «better living through chemistry» upon plant and animal life.

--- ignorance about atmospheric chemistry really shows here...... snip --- «Moreover, the CO2 that is supposedly causing «catastrophic» warming represents only 0.00035 of all the gases in the atmosphere (1.25 inches out of a 100 - yard football field), and proposals to control this vital plant nutrient ignore a far more critical greenhouse gas: water vapor.»

Plants and plankton influence the composition of the atmosphere, play a part in the water cycle, and regulate ocean chemistry.

Consequently, the most advanced climate models now require, in addition to concentrations or emissions of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O and halocarbons), emissions of reactive gases and aerosol precursor compounds (SO2, NOx, VOC, BC, OC and NH3), to model atmospheric chemistry and interactions with the climate system.6 For most variables, a sectoral differentiation would improve the quality of the calculations (e.g. from power plants and agricultural burning).

The result of putting more carbon into the atmosphere than can be taken out of it is a warmer climate, a melting Arctic, higher sea levels, improvements in the photosynthetic efficiency of many plants, an intensification of the hydrologic cycle of evaporation and precipitation, and new ocean chemistry.

It also substantiates what all biologists have always known: that even the most innocent plant is a solar - powered chemistry set in continuous operation throughout the growing season.

Most of these are second order effects unrelated to plant hormone chemistry; while plants become brittler, less well - nourished and more nitrogen - depleting, less capable of maintaining thermal homeostasis, faster aging and weedier as CO2 plant hormone changes affect them, they generally just shift their mix in the wild and drop their productivity as soil microbes change toward more adverse colonies, but aren't yet wholesale dying out for the most part.

Plant operators should pursue a graduate s degree in any physical science stream such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc..

Key Highlights: • Honored with the Calpine's Stellar Award for ideas and work in the enhancement of the plant's water chemistry program.