Gramene is a curated, open - source, integrated data resource for comparative functional genomics in crops and
model plant species.
Led by Oxford's Prof. Nicholas Harberd, the team looked at 9000 mutations accumulated in five generations of a MMR - deficient strain of
the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, and compared them with mutations arising in an MMR - proficient strain.
Not exact matches
«I was interested in the evolution of cooperation,» she says, «and fungi and
plants are
models for understanding how symbiotic
species interact — how the relationship is policed and maintained.»
Species distribution or crop - niche
modeling is another sophisticated technology that archeologists use to predict where
plants and other organisms grew well in the past and where they might be useful today.
The researchers, including postgraduate students Miaolin Chen at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Deborah Devis at the University of Adelaide's Waite campus, performed a genome - wide analysis of potential pollen allergens in two
model plants, Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) and rice by comparing those results among 25
species of
plants ranging from simple alga to complex flowering
plants.
Previous
modeling studies have looked at the direct effects of herbivory on a three -
species community: flowering
plant, pollinator and herbivore.
«Wood formation
model to fuel progress in bioenergy, paper, new applications: Lignin research may represent the most comprehensive
model of a biological pathway in a single
plant species.»
Indeed, Williams and co-authors expanded the Brewbaker dataset by including 2,511
species for which they
modeled trait evolution (tri - vs bicellular pollen) using a modern (2013) seed
plant phylogeny and two different sets of analyses.
The next step for the
model, she said, is to try to determine which individual
species of phytoplankton will bloom where, based on nutrient amounts, temperatures and other factors — using satellites and other tools to determine which kind of microscopic
plant is where.
The paper is a culmination of several years of close collaboration and interdisciplinary studies, including
species modeling,
plant growth studies and climatology.
More work is needed to extend the new approach to other
plant species, and to broaden the effort to include
models that look at dynamics at the ecosystem scale, the researchers said.
Together with his colleagues, he
modeled the vulnerability of more than 700 European
plant and animal
species to future climate change.
Yet Emilie Muller wants to go further than simply
modelling the wastewater treatment
plant ecology: «We want to understand what factors determine the
species composition and accordingly the balance in the ecosystem.»
The researchers have applied their
model to four alpine
plant species and used supercomputers to simulate the dispersal and adaptation of these
species under three possible climate scenarios up to the year 2090.
Tomatoes are already an ideal
model species for
plant research, but scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) just made them even more useful by cutting the time required to modify their genes by six weeks.
In the new study, Hervé Sauquet of the Université Paris - Sud in Orsay, France, and colleagues combined
models of flower evolution with a database of features for 792
species of flowering
plants, and data from the fossil record.
Paek is the senior author of a paper to be published this week in The
Plant Cell that takes advantage of the genetic resources in this
model species to reveal important underpinnings of drought responses in
plants.
Unlike previous ones, the new
model showed that predator and prey populations fluctuate less in complex food webs — those with long food chains, omnivorous predators, and competing
species of
plant - eaters.
To this end, the researchers selected an approach based on machine learning that is often used in nature and wildlife conservation to develop
models for the distribution of various
species of
plants and animals.
Clustering these gene
models with 13 other
plant species resulted in 20,646 gene families, of which 1554 are predicted to be unique to conifers.
Marchantia is a novel emerging
plant model species and will be used together with Arabidopsis in this project to investigate and compare the interactions of ROXY proteins with transcription factors and their nuclear activities during land
plant evolution.
His research interest focuses on 1) development and application of TALEN and CRISPR technologies for targeted genome editing in
plant species, and 2) molecular mechanism of
plant / microbe interactions and crop disease resistance engineering by using the bacterial blight of rice as a
model.
Using a simulation
model, the authors showed that these complex interactions between
plants mediated by soil biota equalise growth differences between
plant species, thus promoting their long - term coexistence.
Focusing initially on five staple crops — wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea — the project seeks to empower public
plant breeders to use genome - wide approaches to
model plant performance in real time using tools that can be shared across diverse
species and regions of the world.
We came across a compound that had been isolated from a
plant species and shown to have effects on blocking the growth of blood vessel cells, both in the culture dish and also in animal
models.
Evolutionarily speaking, Arabidopsis is considered to be a genetic
model for more than 200,000
species of flowering
plants, each of which shares a basic architectural foundation and similar biochemical processes.
And, as much as vegans wouldn't want to admit it, if the human
species returned to a more literal Paleo picture — actually hunting for actual wild animals when necessary (and eating them fresh), making animal foods just a part of the overall diet, and eating no refined
plants (like white flour or white rice, which don't exist in nature), a couple things would happen: (1) we could put an end to the horrific treatment of animals in the factory farming industry, and (2) the environmental devastation that results from our current food production
model would be substantially minimized.
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modelling,
Plant characterisation,
Species - Area, water - energy dynamic
Modelling of
plant species has been carried out with qualitative use of the water - energy dynamic.
Modelling of
plant species occurrence is important due to the primary level of
plants within trophic systems.
Species area relations and information rich modelling of plant species var
Species area relations and information rich
modelling of
plant species var
species variation.
Mathematic integrated algorithm construction details qualitative characteristics of
plant species integration into common
models and quantification to dictate a control strategy based approach of relevance to over 300 000
plant species.
«True knowledge can never be gained by attributing «purpose» to phenomena», he wrote.47 To prove that Gaia is not a teleological theory Lovelock developed a simple computer
model consisting of a world dominated by one
plant species, daisies.
that they used ecological
models to estimate future changes in the distribution of arabica coffee
plants and 39
species of coffee - pollinating bee in the world's largest coffee - growing region.
Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from
plants, cold spells (Australia), computer
models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers,
plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million
species, half of all animal and
plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)
Researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA that they used ecological
models to estimate future changes in the distribution of arabica coffee
plants and 39
species of coffee - pollinating bee in the world's largest coffee - growing region.
Furthermore, our
models ignore the influence of
species interactions on
plant ranges [54].
Other honourable mentions in the Carbon Brief survey of most influential climate papers go to Norman Phillips, whose 1956 paper described the first general circulation
model, William Nordhaus's 1991 paperon the economics of the greenhouse effect, and a paper by Camile Parmesan and Gary Yohe in 2003, considered by many to provide the first formal attribution of climate change impacts on animal and
plant species.
The new insights can improve the
modeling of many large - scale systems, from carbon cycling and climate change
models to the distribution of animal and
plant species, say the researchers.
The researchers looked at data from 16 state
plant collections and used two climate
models to see where Californian
species would have to move to survive.
Finally, the impacts of climate change on
plant growth could alter ecological interactions among
species with potential cascading effects on food webs; integrating changes in suitable
plant growing days and NPP within recently developed General Ecosystem
Models [40] could provide some insights into the magnitude of these changes.