Sentences with phrase «live plant cells»

An international team of scientists led by the UK's John Innes Centre and including scientists from Australia, Portugal, China and Italy has perfected a way of watching genes move within a living plant cell.

Furthermore, they used their versatile system to show that stretching induces irreversible increases in cell length in living plant cells, but that the increases in cell length are partially reversed in dead plant tissues once stretching stops.

Not exact matches

While Beyond Meat is making its products out of plants, Memphis Meats grows meat in tanks by feeding oxygen, sugar, and other nutrients to living animal cells.

What guides the process in all living things is DNA, which regulates every cell of every plant and animal.

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

A thin layer of living cells spread out in two dimensions over the globe could accomplish little; but concentrated in three - dimensional forms, cells constitute the vast and varied world of plant and animal life.

for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing photosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, ma - mmals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.

(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which present what are apparently very great differences in space and time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).

Heretofore, this earth has witnessed the emergence of single - celled living organisms, the growth of multicelled plant organisms, the advent of animals with centralized nervous systems making self - directed activity possible, and the flowering of humanity with its far - flung culture.

Such human social organization may be compared with the life of plants, whose individual cells may be highly specialized and interdependent.

In principle, life (in a generalized sense) and mind were there all along, but in primitive forms, much more primitive even than in a single plant cell.

The life of the plant is the life of its individual cells and no more.

Gradually organic chemicals were synthesized and eventually self - replicating complex molecules evolved, enabling the evolution of living cells, leading to multi - cellular organisms, plants and animals.

Dietary Methylglyoxal (MGO) is a compound that occurs naturally when glucose is made available to a living cell in the human body, plant or animal.

Researchers found that NAD +, a natural molecule found in living cells, plants and food protects against autoimmune diseases by altering the immune response and turning «destructive» cells into «protective» cells.

Some 71 percent of the plant cells and 84 percent of the fungal cells showed signs of life afterward, and about half the cells were able to restart normal photosynthesis after rehydration.

In a 1967 paper published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Margulis suggested that mitochondria and plastids — vital structures within animal and plant cells — evolved from bacteria hundreds of million of years ago, after bacterial cells started to collect in interactive communities and live symbiotically with one another.

This unique organization of tubulin is preserved among all living plant and animal cells, because it is essential for way in which microtubules assemble, Al - Bassam said.

«Tropical trees, compared those in temperate forests, have three times as many living cells surrounding the xylem that can facilitate these processes, which are not observed by the typical experiments we conduct to determine how vulnerable a plant is to droughts.»

Microbes living in oxygen - rich environments use enzymes floating free inside their cells to digest such plant matter.

They live inside their host's cells and have highly specialized features: They are only able to reproduce inside the host's cells, they have the smallest known genome of all organisms with a cell nucleus (eukaryotes) and they posses no mitochondria of their own (the cell's power plant).

More knowledge of the basic function of auxin is in itself important to the life sciences: how plants function at various levels, from cell to organs and as a whole.

Microscopic roundworms (nematodes) live like maggots in bacon: They penetrate into the roots of beets, potatoes or soybeans and feed on plant cells, which are full of energy.

A team at the University of Missouri Bond Life Sciences Center collaborated with scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany to discover genetic evidence that the parasite uses its own version of a key plant hormone and that of the plants to make root cells vulnerable to feeding.

Scientists think plant cells living in space do not behave the same way as cells in plants on Earth, and the experiments will examine these changes on a molecular level.

«So we've never been able to image the cells in high resolution as they produce this all - important biological material inside living plants.»

«We had previously learned that messenger RNA, a nucleic acid present in all living cells whose primary role is to act as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA, moves between parasitic plants and their hosts, but we have yet to discover the significance of this exchange.

Through live cell imaging, they were able to identify a new triarylmethane compound that can rapidly inhibit cell division in plant cells.

Polytomella is a free - living, single - cell plant that gets its food from the fresh water it lives in.

When alien species invade and take over communities, they may not come alone — many plant species are host to a whole suite of microorganisms that not only live in plant cells, but also in the soil surrounding the plants» roots.

Eventually, plant - based solar cells might be built into the case of a laptop computer or cell phone to extend battery life.

Though most of these proteins are present in multiple root cell types, the researchers found, their statistical models and experiments in living plants suggest the combined effect is to activate the Short - root master switch in some cells but not others.

Today, his legacy is evident in everyday life, far outside the labs of physicists — from cell phones and satellite communications to nuclear power plants to medical scanning devices.

Life is the dominant source of the molecular oxygen on our planet, as the gas is produced by photosynthesis in plants and microscopic, single - cell organisms.

But scientists — who want to harness the potential of cells as living computers that can respond to disease, efficiently produce biofuels or develop plant - based chemicals — don't want to wait for evolution to craft their desired cellular system.

Nagoya, Japan — Dr. Daisuke Maruyama and Professor Tetsuya Higashiyama at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI - ITbM) of Nagoya University and the JST - ERATO Higashiyama Live - Holonics Project along with their international team have shown by live - cell imaging techniques that flowering plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana undergo a cell to cell fusion to prevent the attraction of the second pollen tube after fertilization has occurLive - Holonics Project along with their international team have shown by live - cell imaging techniques that flowering plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana undergo a cell to cell fusion to prevent the attraction of the second pollen tube after fertilization has occurlive - cell imaging techniques that flowering plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana undergo a cell to cell fusion to prevent the attraction of the second pollen tube after fertilization has occurred.

In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University and other research institutes, have examined the ovules of plant cells by live - imaging to reveal a novel cell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fusCell, an international group of plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University and other research institutes, have examined the ovules of plant cells by live - imaging to reveal a novel cell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fuscell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fuscell fusion.

A. avenae and other anhydrobiotic plants and animals — organisms that can live without water — produce large amounts (up to 20 % of a cell's mass) of certain sugar molecules that harden into a semisolid state.

«Live cell imaging of asymmetric cell division in fertilized plant cells: Insight into why leaves grow up and roots grow down in flowering plants.»

«We were able to show by live cell imaging that polarization of the cell occurs after fertilization of the egg cell, and both MTs and F - actin play a role in inducing asymmetric cell division to form the plant's body axis,» says Ueda.

«The reason why this has been difficult was because there was not an efficient method to visualize the dynamics of cell division using the living zygote hiding deep inside the plants,» she continues.

Expression of nitrite and nitric oxide reductases in free - living and plant - associated Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 cells.

Recent advances in genome engineering make it possible to precisely alter DNA sequences in living cells, providing unprecedented control over a plant's genetic material.

Nonetheless, building a user - friendly device that allows scientists to track the activity of a single gene in all cell types over the course of a plant's life cycle is a tall order.

Mitochondria are the living machines within cells that act as their «power plants,» converting the energy - rich nutrients in our food into ATP that directly powers biochemical reactions in the cell.

If the individual cell is restored to its normal chemical balance thereby turning its electrical potential, we will have given life where death and disintegration would normally occur within plant and animal cell.»

Widely distributed in plants and animals, proteins are the principal constituent of the protoplasm of all cells and are essential to life.

This remarkable beauty recipe from Life In Blush makes use of chlorella, a single - celled aquatic plant overloaded with antioxidants and amino acids.

Life Extension Berry Complete contains a blend of plant - based antioxidants designed to fight oxidation in the cells of the body.

Structurally, chlorella is a higher life form than spirulina, Spirulina is classified as a photosynthetic bacterium, while chlorella is a plant with a cell nucleus, making it exactly like the advanced fruits and vegetables we eat everyday.