Sentences with phrase «many plant genomes»

The platform is used for everything from analyzing seismic data to find promising places to drill for oil to looking at plant genomes in search of new hybrids.

This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate - change scientists, biologists, geneticists, modellers and engineers who are using and developing new technologies and research platforms to unlock the vast stores of information within plant genomes.

Fortunately, plant genomes — all of an organism's genetic information — are a vast storehouse of genetic variability that can be used to help prevent the loss of species suffering from climate change.

The race is on to bank Earth's riches on the moon, from sacred texts to human and plant genomes, in the hope of rejuvenating Earth after a major cataclysm (see main story).

As for the identities of Mendel's other four genes, Weeden says he expects them to be revealed in the next few years as more plant genomes give up their sequences.

Even more surprising, these bits of plant genome may have health consequences, suggesting that some biomolecules can remain active even after digestion.

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.

However it's defined, the plant - genomics profession expanded greatly with the start of the National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI), says Jeff Dangl, the John N. Couch Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The technologies used by the researchers can be applied to any plant genome, so the implications extend beyond wheat.

The USDA is negotiating a deal between the US and Britain on sharing data, whereby wheat information would be deposited in the National Agricultural Library's plant genome database in Maryland, and British scientists would receive software tools for interrogating the database.

Other times, the desired trait, such as the ability to resist certain pests, can be absent in plant genomes.

Jerry Miksche, director of the US Department of Agriculture's Plant Genome Research Program, says that more British effort on wheat would be «good logic, in that Great Britain's research on wheat has made great strides».

These workshops have presented an important opportunity to bring together scientists who are contributing actively to topics such as aquaculture, farmed animal biotechnology, biodiversity, plant genome research, cellular microbiology, and AIDS vaccine research and diagnostics.

This approach requires tweaking and testing plant genomes over and over until researchers find a combination of genes that works.

One is that knocking out the excision repair system leads to an increase in plant genome mutations even when the plant is kept in the dark, away from UV or other forms of light.

The genome of Chalcolithic barley grains is the oldest plant genome to be reconstructed to date.

Although the Arabidopsis sequence can itself serve as a guide to other plant genomes, plans are underway to sequence the rice genome and researchers are debating the merits of sequencing maize and other crops.

In a paper published today in Science, a team led by CSHL Professor and HHMI Investigator Robert Martienssen and Professor Jean - François Couture of the University of Ottawa announces that they have solved the mystery, exploiting unique aspects of plant genomes.

With an entire plant genome to work from, biologists can now probe the genes responsible for such basic plant activities as budding, blooming, sleeping and seeding.

The UNC scientists hope to determine why that is and precisely how plants» distinctive set of excision repair proteins work together to keep plant genomes in good repair.

In the past 6 months, these approaches have led to a flood of high - quality animal and plant genomes in preprints and published papers.

«These archaeological remains provided a unique opportunity for us to finally sequence a Chalcolithic plant genome.

By comparing DNA sequenced from primate stool samples to plant genomes the authors were able to actually measure the amount and diversity of plants being consumed by the captive and wild primates, and the difference was stark.

By sequencing the genome of the extensively studied moss Physcomitrella patens and comparing it to the sequenced genomes of rice, the flowering plant Arabidopsis, and single - cell algae, an international team has been able to look at what the ancestral land - plant genome looked like.

By comparing the genomes of flood - tolerant plants, the researchers were able to pin down the resistance to a particular region of the plant genome, which they dubbed Submergence 2.

Endophyte genomes undergo CpG methylation, while prokaryotic genomes do not, making it easy to sequence either of these along with the particular plant genome (s) of interest.

By comparing this plant's DNA with other plant genomes, researchers are getting a stronger sense of how flowering plants came to dominate Earth.

Genetically engineered maize is created by introducing a gene into the plant genome that expresses a toxic protein from a bacterium, i.e. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

Traditional crossbreeding mixes entire plant genomes and can take decades to yield a new variety.

Terminal - repeat retrotransposons in miniature (TRIM) are involved in restructuring plant genomes.

A spruce gene map infers ancient plant genome reshuffling and subsequent slow evolution in the gymnosperm lineage leading to extant conifers.

This work was funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program (IOS - 1126971 and IOS - 1546218), the Zegar Family Foundation (A16 - 0051) and the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute (G1205) to M.D.P., and from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to D.Q.F. (NE / N010957 / 1).

Give - and - take: interactions between DNA transposons and their host plant genomes.

Support for the undergraduate intern program comes from the National Science Foundation through the Plant Genome Research Program grant awarded to Professor Georg Jander of BTI and Professor Jian Hua of Cornell University.

Plant genomes encode the myosin XI family of myosin proteins.

BTI's Plant Genome Research Program hosted 29 undergraduate and high school students for a summer of hands - on lab work, bioinformatics training, and mentoring by scientists at BTI, Cornell University and the USDA Holley Center.

We have used three variations of a strategy known as pathogen - derived resistance (PDR), whereby fragments of DNA from the pathogen are inserted into the plant genome providing it with resistance against the pathogen.

Researchers working at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Japan have found that epigenetic tags, such as methyl groups, on some areas of the plant genome can cause interference with gene editors and reduce their efficiency.

Boyce Thompson Institute's 2016 Plant Genome Research Program Symposium is Thursday, August 11 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the BTI Atrium and Auditorium located at 533 Tower Road on the Cornell University campus.

Endogenous pararetroviruses: two - faced travelers in the plant genome.

Viral sequences integrated into plant genomes.

It is part of a national plant genome research initiative established by the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The long - term goal of this program is to understand the structure, organization and function of plant genomes important to agriculture, the environment, energy and health.

Her work was funded by a NSF Plant Genome Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The microbe Agrobacterium tumefaciens is harmful to plants and useful to scientists for the same reason: It transfers DNA into plant genomes.

Manuel J. Torres, Ph.D., Volunteer Dr. Torres was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory in The Center for Applied Genetic Technologies at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA..

The methyltransferase pseudogenes contain motifs of the Caulimovirus, a virus often found integrated in to plant genomes, and of different retrotransposons families such as aedes aegypti, Gypsy, Helitron - 5, CACTA - 1, RTEX and CR1 (see Supplementary Table 2).

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) The USDA's Plant Genome and Data Information Center provides access to a variety of information, products and services on a range of plant and animal genome mapping.

With about $ 540,000 provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program as part of the total project's $ 2.9 - million in funding, he will be able to learn whether that protein plays a similarly crucial role in crops like tomatoes.

These small, mobile and virus - like DNA elements have been a part of plant genomes for millions of years and most of the time they lie dormant and do no harm.