Sentences with phrase «model plant system»

«Liverworts are showing great promise as a model plant system and this discovery that they can be colonised by pathogens of flowering plants makes them a valuable model plant to continue research into plant - microbe interactions.»

To test their theory, Xiaoli Guo, a post-doctoral researcher in Mitchum's lab and first author of the study, synthesized the CLE - B nematode peptide and applied it to the vascular cells of Arabidopsis, a model plant system used in plant research.

Makarevitch I, Martinez - Vaz B. (2017) Killing two birds with one stone: Model plant systems as a tool to teach the fundamental concepts of gene expression while analyzing biological data.

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David Mau, the village's director of public works, said the study conducted by Strand Associates will include creating a computerized, hydraulic model of Glencoe's main water system and making recommendations that could help officials determine the future of the village's 85 - year - old, beachfront water plant.

The models must track how carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cycle through the whole system — how the gases interact with plant life, oceans, the atmosphere — and how this influences overall global temperatures.

This study suggests that plants are emerging as model objects to study general questions related to anesthetics, as well as to serve as a suitable alternative test system for human anesthesia.

Cucumber is a major vegetable crop consumed worldwide as well as a model system for sex determination and plant vascular biology.

However, the modeling study showed that the mutually beneficial relationship between the flowering tomato plant and its bee pollinators — as well as the overall system — can persist through higher rates of herbivory than researchers had previously believed.

The HHMI grants confirm Arabidopsis «is still the Rolls Royce of model systems in plant biology,» says Dangl.

The findings are based on analyses of ancient plant leaf wax found in the sediments of the Gulf of Guinea in combination with computer models of the climate system.

Working on Arabidopsis, a model plant used widely in plant biology labs, Cutler and his colleagues focused their efforts on tinkering with one of the plant endogenous systems involved in drought responses.

But this sort of cogeneration system, if you want to call it that, of using the power plant output and the waste heat from that to drive the desalination plants, he was saying, you know, in 20 years that probably could be a great model and an efficient model for water generation in Southern California.

Hummingbirds and their nectar plants have long served as model system for examining ecological and evolutionary processes because of their strong mutual dependencies.

The wispy, ankle - high mustard plant called Arabidopsis serves as a model system for plant biologists.

It is also the first to demonstrate that a deep convolutional neural network — a computing system modelled after the neuron activity in animal brains that can basically learn on its own — can effectively differentiate between similar plants with an amazing accuracy of nearly 100 %.

«We need to do more in the actual tree system rather than relying solely on extrapolating from model herbaceous plants.»

Approaches successful in other systems, such as modeling signal transduction and synthetic biology methodologies [32] could improve future generations of detector plants by enhancing signal transmission and providing means to deal with biological «noise».

Johnsongrass can rapidly adapt to changes in climate, soil, surrounding organisms, and agriculture in ways not previously observed in other plants, making it an important model system to explore the underpinnings of weediness.

The short generation time and relatively compact genome of Arabidopsis make it an ideal model system for understanding numerous features of plant biology, including ones that are of great pharmaceutical or agricultural value.

tomato as this process results in bacterial speck, an economically important disease, and also serves as a powerful model system for understanding fundamental mechanisms involved in plant - pathogen interactions.

Map - based cloning in crop plants: tomato as a model system II.

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR): a comprehensive database and web - based information retrieval, analysis, and visualization system for a model plant

Build an oxygen plant Students create models of an oxygen - delivery system and relate it to the function of the human circulatory system.

Modelling of plant species occurrence is important due to the primary level of plants within trophic systems.

Implemented algorithms were made use of as the modeling basis on which we developed a geographic information system (GIS), summarizing plant distribution using principal variables of the water - energy dynamic.

In this lesson, students will learn to make and interpret scale models and practice using the metric system for measurement by discovering the relative sizes of various large plants and animals.

If you look around our school on a typical afternoon, you will see sixth graders studying botany and history by planting tomatoes in our garden and building models of ancient aqueduct systems, third graders using research to design proposals for more diverse books in our libraries, and kindergartners buzzing as they return from interviewing local business owners in downtown Durham.

All that, combined with benchmark braking and world - class ride and handling characteristics, make the Dodge Charger SRT8 civilized enough for a grocery run but fully capable in more challenging situations • The 2009 Dodge Charger SRT8 is part of a broad lineup of Street and Racing Technology vehicles developed under the credo «Race inspired, street legal» SAFETY AND SECURITY Please refer to the Safety and Security Glossary for descriptions of the following features: • Advanced Multi-stage Air Bag System • All - speed Traction Control System • Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) • Auto - reverse Sun Roof • BeltAlert • Brake Assist • Brake / Park Interlock • Child - protection Rear Door Locks • Constant Force Retractors • Crumple Zones • Electronic Stability Program • Energy - absorbing Steering Column • Enhanced Accident Response System • Height - adjustable Seat Belts • HomeLink Universal Home Security System Transceiver • Inside Emergency Trunk Release • Interior Head - impact Protection • Knee bolsters • LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers for CHildren) • Low - risk Deployment Air Bag • Power Adjustable Pedals • Remote Keyless Entry • Seat Belt Pretensioners • Sentry Key ® Engine Immobilizer • Side - impact Door Beams • Tire Pressure Monitoring Display COLOR AVAILABILITY • Deep Water Blue Clear Coat • Bright Silver Metallic • Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat • TorRed • Hemi Orange (with Super Bee Special Edition Package) MANUFACTURING INFORMATION • 2009 model year production start: July 2008 • Production location: Brampton Assembly Plant in Brampton, Ontario, Canada • 6.1 - liter HEMI V - 8 engine: Saltillo Engine Plant in Saltillo, Mexico • Five - speed automatic transmission: Indiana Transmission 1 in Indianapolis MARKET POSITION Dodge Charger SRT8 is the latest incarnation of a storied Dodge performance nameplate, combining SRT performance attributes with Dodge attitude.

The main purpose of the hybrid powerplant system is to provide a hybrid system that can be retrofitted to existing models, retaining the same power - plant and also eliminating the need to develop a completely different platform, like the Honda Civic Hybrid.

All versions of the sedan also feature an independent rear suspension system for the first time, which gives the Jetta a much more planted feel in corners and removes some of the roughness from the 2013 model's ride.

The Dodge Journey offers up an adequate driving experience, the available powertrains have good power and spec and the optional all - wheel drive system does give those models equipped with it a more planted and safer feel.

And although it shares a power plant with the Scat Pack model, the upgrades here go beyond standard equipment like the 900 - watt audio system and leather seating.

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The model was perfected by Enron when it raped and pillaged the Californian power market in the late 1990s and early 2000s: engineer a deliberate «outage» at a gas - fired generation plant, allow the grid to almost collapse and then extort outrageous prices from the grid manager to prevent a «system black».

However, even today's most sophisticated Earth system models suffer from uncertainties that stem from the difficulty of simulating small - scale or complex processes, such as raindrop formation and carbon uptake by plants.

However, most of the current Earth system models that predict climate change and C cycle feedbacks lack both a mechanistic formulation for height - structured competition for light and an explicit scaling from individual plants to the globe.

The third model of virtual power plants is, like Stem's approach, a mixed bag of assets such as battery storage, solar power, and energy efficiency systems that both reduce consumption and supply clean power in targeted ways.

Model finds operating nuclear plants flexibly can reduce electricity costs, increase revenue for nuclear plants, and cut carbon emissions in electric power systems.

«What we've done is we've taken a model that was once tied to plant phenology and adapted it to be more tuned to the atmospheric component so that we can isolate the part that's driven by the climate system or is driven by the atmosphere.»

Consequently, the most advanced climate models now require, in addition to concentrations or emissions of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O and halocarbons), emissions of reactive gases and aerosol precursor compounds (SO2, NOx, VOC, BC, OC and NH3), to model atmospheric chemistry and interactions with the climate system.6 For most variables, a sectoral differentiation would improve the quality of the calculations (e.g. from power plants and agricultural burning).

At rooflite, our soil systems have optimized properties for both water management and plant health, which always leads to significantly better stormwater retention results than what current theoretical models predict.

A General Model for Techno - Economic Analysis of CSP Plants with Thermochemical Energy Storage Systems

The Japanese utility is also hosting trials of energy storage systems made by US commercial provider Stem Inc and Sunverge within its service area, with both companies known for their aggregated «virtual power plant» business models.

Translating the above to climate science, if you tell me that in 100 years earth inhabited by your children is going to hell in a handbasket, because our most complicated models built with all those horrendously complicated equestions you can find in math, show that the global temperatures will be 10 deg higher and icecaps will melt, sea will invade land, plant / animal ecosystem will get whacked out of order causing food supply to be badly disrupted, then I, without much climate science expertise, can easily ask you the following questions and scrutinize the results: a) where can I see that your model's futuristic predictions about global temp, icecaps, eco system changes in the past have come true, even for much shorter periods of time, like say 20 years, before I take this for granted and make radical changes in my life?

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.

Related Volcanoes, Tree Rings, and Climate Models: This is how science works Fossil Focus: Using Plant Fossils to Understand Past Climates and Environments Atmospheric oxygen over Phanerozoic time Coupled carbon isotopic and sedimentological records from the Permian system of eastern Australia reveal the response of atmospheric carbon dioxide to glacial growth and decay during the late Palaeozoic Ice Age

In the traditional model of a national electricity system — widely used for more than 50 years — large conventional gas, coal and nuclear generation plants supply large centres of demand.

It's like the difference between E = MC2 and designing a fusion power plant: a lot of theory and modeling and testing lie in between, and the systems are very difficult to run full - scale tests or gather long records of extremely accurate data for.

Reductions in the number of days with suitable climate conditions for plant growth also underscore an internal discrepancy of Earth System Models: while these models project dramatic enhancements of NPP [5,20,36], our results show multiple climate variables becoming limiting for plant growth, particularly in tropical areas, which could result in considerable reductions in future NPP (S4Models: while these models project dramatic enhancements of NPP [5,20,36], our results show multiple climate variables becoming limiting for plant growth, particularly in tropical areas, which could result in considerable reductions in future NPP (S4models project dramatic enhancements of NPP [5,20,36], our results show multiple climate variables becoming limiting for plant growth, particularly in tropical areas, which could result in considerable reductions in future NPP (S4 Fig).

As of November 2014, there were 14 Earth System Models from 12 centers in eight countries that modeled temperature, soil moisture, and solar radiation at a daily resolution for at least one of the three RCPs (S1 Table)(Note: all Earth System Models that we used include feedbacks of plant production on water balance).