Sentences with phrase «mechanisms under field conditions»

Masters Student, Rotation, Dept. of Plant Pathology December 2005 — April 2006 Cornell University, Geneva, NY Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Smart The lab focuses on the identification of novel plant defense mechanisms under field conditions and is looking at the relationship between pathogen and insect resistance.

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The program focuses on understanding the physiological mechanisms of crop performance under stress conditions, particularly under drought stress and typically involves 15 - 20 field and greenhouse studies each year.

Largely because of these mechanisms, most marine phytoplankton tested in single - species laboratory studies and field population experiments show little or no change in photosynthetic rates when grown under high pCO2 conditions equivalent to ∼ 760 μatm (Tortell et al. 1997, Hein & Sand - Jensen 1997, Burkhardt et al. 2001, Tortell & Morell 2002, Rost et al. 2003, Beardall & Raven 2004, Giordano et al. 2005, Martin & Tortell 2006).