Sentences with phrase «leading plant biology»

During the BLOOME grant year, Science IRL will create 10 new episodes that feature guest plant scientists at Harvard and other leading plant biology institutions across the country.

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In particular, Australian R&D is world leading in a number of pre-farm gate fields including animal production, plant biology and environmental management (see Table 3).

Also online, an interactive feature including informational graphics, video clips, and more, as well as accompanying Web resources, explore how plant genome research is contributing to our understanding of plant biology and evolution and leading to tangible benefits for society.

In this scenario, Bethany Huot, MSU cell and molecular biology graduate program alumna and the study's lead author, wanted to find out if plants» defense system was compromised or was pathogens» virulence enhanced?

For example, students learn about energy in physics and biology, and whether the examples deal with colliding cars or sugar stored in plants, «it's still energy,» said Susan Rundell Singer, lead editor of a 2012 National Academies of Science report on DBER.

The investigations include research on protein crystal growth, which may lead to drug development through protein mapping, and plant biology.

Led by researchers at Duke University, the study offers clues to a longstanding question in developmental biology, namely how plants and animals make so many types of cells from the same set of instructions.

«We've created a genetic combination that no one has ever made before,» said plant scientist Gregg Howe, MSU Foundation professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, who led the study.

University of Adelaide researchers have made a breakthrough in investigating salt tolerance in plants which could lead to new salt tolerant varieties of crops, and also answer unresolved questions in plant biology.

Allison Miller, an associate professor in biology at Saint Louis University, is the lead for the NSF project, which also involves researchers from the University of Missouri, Missouri State University, Danforth Plant Center and Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, as well as the Grape Genetics Research Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Geneva, New York.

Research led by Eric Post, a professor of biology at Penn State University, has linked an increasingly earlier plant growing season to the melting of arctic sea ice, a relationship that has consequences for offspring production by caribou in the area.

«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.»

Children reading the comics should feel encouraged to use their natural inquisitiveness in biology and discover that a further study of plant biology could be very desirable and fun as well as lead to a future career.

To top it all off, Wisecaver's paper on the study was accepted into the leading journal in plant biology, The Plant Cell, with no revisplant biology, The Plant Cell, with no revisPlant Cell, with no revisions.

My interests in the interaction between plants and animals has led me to pursue a master's degree in entomology and ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavior.

This work is part of a newly funded U.S. Department of Energy / Department of Agriculture project led by the University of Missouri, Columbia to explore the biology of a single plant cell type, while gaining novel insight into the impacts of temperature and water availability on a crucial root cell necessary for nutrient uptake.

«A better understanding of the human perception of risk from climate change and the behavioral responses are key to curbing future climate change,» said lead author Brian Beckage, a professor of plant biology and computer science at the University of Vermont.

Led by David Tilman, a biology professor at the University of Minnesota, the research shows that «mixtures of native perennial grasses and other flowering plants provide more usable energy per acre than corn grain ethanol or soybean biodiesel and are far better for the environment,» according to a release from the University of Minnesota.