Sentences with phrase «in plant geneticist»

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As a plant geneticist, attending this conference helped me to have better understanding about the food waste and loss in the world and new areas that I can apply my expertise to help improve food security in the world.

Syrian plant geneticist Hamdi Alsaffouri was able to get a position at Austria's Research Center for Forests after his academic home in Damascus was destroyed.

Hamdi Alsaffouri, 34, a plant geneticist from Syria who participated in the Science in Asylum seminars, has written his paper based on data from his doctoral thesis about cotton breeding.

«I think it's an important step forward, although I think it is a baby step,» says Joseph Ecker, a plant geneticist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., who was not involved in the work.

«It's almost as if we had traveled back in time and sampled the same plant that gave rise to cultivated peanuts from the gardens of these ancient people,» said David Bertioli, an International Peanut Genome Initiative, or IPGI, plant geneticist of the Universidade de Brasília, who is working at UGA.

For example, if you're a plant geneticist and you're against the widespread use of pesticides, then you shouldn't apply for a postdoc or a job with Monsanto, a company that has a lot of solid projects in its pipeline but also produces Roundup pesticide resistant crops.

Rocheford, a plant geneticist at Purdue, drew the attention of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for his research on variations affecting provitamin A carotenoids — naturally occurring plant pigments that our bodies can convert to vitamin A — in maize.

There were two extended reviews in the leading scientific weekly Nature, one by geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, the other by the plant cytologist Irene Manton.

Low - level cyanide poisoning is a problem in some regions, like Africa, where cassava is often poorly processed, agrees plant geneticist Wilhelm Gruissem of the Institute of Plant Sciences in Zurich, Switzerplant geneticist Wilhelm Gruissem of the Institute of Plant Sciences in Zurich, SwitzerPlant Sciences in Zurich, Switzerland.

The last piece of the poppy puzzle is now in hand: Plant geneticists have isolated the gene in the plant that carries out the last unknown step in converting glucose and other simple compounds into codeine, morphine, and a wide variety of other medicPlant geneticists have isolated the gene in the plant that carries out the last unknown step in converting glucose and other simple compounds into codeine, morphine, and a wide variety of other medicplant that carries out the last unknown step in converting glucose and other simple compounds into codeine, morphine, and a wide variety of other medicines.

Britain risks losing its considerable lead in the plant breeding technology of the future unless it increases its spending, according to plant geneticists.

It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety («Dwight» Glycine max) with a related wild perennial plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first fertile soybean plants that are resistant to soybean rust, soybean cyst nematode and other pathogens of soy.

Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.

Meanwhile plant pathologist Gary Chastagner of Washington State University and geneticist Ulrik Nielsen of the Forest and Landscape Research Institute in Denmark are developing trees that better retain their moisture — and so drop fewer needles on your carpet.

But a plant geneticist at Purdue University aims to raise the corn plant's stature in a more carbon - sensitive world by lowering its height and its need for water and nutrients.

And a session on Organic Farming explained the role of chemists, molecular biologists, and plant and animal geneticists in this form of agriculture.

Because the abnormality shows up in genetically identical clones, «it's impossible to attack genetically,» an approach often taken when a crop has a bad trait that can be bred out of that variety, says study co-author Robert Martienssen, a plant geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

The discovery should help growers weed out bad seedlings, making cloning a viable option again, says Jerzy Paszkowski, a plant geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

Plant geneticist Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi and her colleagues at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board in Selangor have been trying to understand why supposedly identical trees don't all produce equally good fruit for 30 years.

«If there's no protein, no toxin,» says study coauthor Monica Schmidt, a plant geneticist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

[That] fits with the idea that multicellularity evolved separately [in plants and animals],» says plant geneticist Robert Martienssen of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

«The results are profound, for a number of different reasons,» says Steven Kay, a geneticist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who studies circadian clocks in plants.

Plant geneticist Catherine Feuillet of INRA - UBP in Clermont - Ferrand, France, and her colleagues have isolated one of wheat's 42 chromosomes and made a physical map of it, placing more than 1400 molecular landmarks along its 995 million bases.

Plant geneticist Amy Iezzoni of Michigan State University in Lansing agrees.

The new information, published in The Plant Journal, will not only expand geneticists» knowledge of barley's DNA but will also help in the understanding, at the genetic level, of wheat and other sources of food.

«For wheat researchers languishing in genomic poverty, this is the beginning of genomic empowerment,» says Bikram Gill, a plant geneticist at Kansas State University in Manhattan.

Using techniques collectively known as molecular breeding, geneticists have started to return results in a variety of plants, said Ed Buckler, a plant geneticist at Cornell University who recently helped sequence the corn genome.

A team led by Robin Allaby, a plant geneticist at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, was looking for the earliest evidence of domesticated plants in the British Isles.

A team led by Kelly Swarts, a plant geneticist then at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, sequenced the genomes of 15 cobs.

Although their research has been performed in a weed called «Arabidopsis thaliana», the work horse of plant geneticists, the team is confident that their discovery can be used for the protection of crops from their enemies.

A new discovery, spearheaded by Cornell and University of Illinois plant geneticists and published in the Jan. 18 issue of the journal Science, could change all that.

The research could lead to at least tripling the provitamin A levels [the precursor to vitamin A] in Africa's maize, said senior author Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Station research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and Cornell adjunct associate professor of plant breeding and genetics.

In a 1987 Nature paper, a team led by plant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon coloIn a 1987 Nature paper, a team led by plant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon cplant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon cPlant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon coloin Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon color.

In this week's issue of Nature, the Yanofsky team reports the discovery of two weakened SHATTERPROOF genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, a tiny flowering weed geneticists study to isolate genes important in plant developmenIn this week's issue of Nature, the Yanofsky team reports the discovery of two weakened SHATTERPROOF genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, a tiny flowering weed geneticists study to isolate genes important in plant developmenin Arabidopsis thaliana, a tiny flowering weed geneticists study to isolate genes important in plant developmenin plant development.

Practical experience of plant geneticists reveals that most insertions of new DNA in plant chromosome have little effect on other genes (Bouché and Bouchez 2001).

For more than a century, geneticists have known that, in organisms that pair up to reproduce, most genes have a 50 - 50 chance of being inherited, as Gregor Mendel famously showed in the 19th century with pea plants.

Clegg, a plant geneticist from the University of California, Irvine, was in Quito for the ceremony, and he lectured on the role of science academies.

«Most of what you want to do is to disable genes one at a time,» and then examine what happens to the organism, says David W. Meinke, a plant geneticist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

Geneticists often knock out only one of several copies of a gene, producing no noticeable change in the plant.

Using state of the art analysis equipment, Agricultural Research Service plant geneticist Roy Navarre has recently identified 60 different kinds of phytochemicals, linked to the prevention of several diseases in the skins and flesh of a wide variety of potatoes.

«Summer Chestnut Leaves,» silkscreen Two weeks ago, the New York Times reported on efforts by two groups of plant breeders and geneticists to create an American chestnut that can withstand the blight that wiped out the tree by the billions in the first half of the Read More...

Two weeks ago, the New York Times reported on efforts by two groups of plant breeders and geneticists to create an American chestnut that can withstand the blight that wiped out the tree by the billions in the first half of the 20th century.