Sentences with phrase «mustard plant»

The pistil of a flowering mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana with a single HPAT gene mutation (left).

In Napa Valley winter offers the benefit of many fewer tourists, better service, and the beautiful color of mustard plants as winter changes to very early spring.

To test the function of proteins from these genes, they grew mustard plants in a broth spiked with DNQX, a chemical that blocks the glutamate receptor.

Zachariah Gezon, a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth College, studied the impact of early snow removal on a native mustard plant as part of a study looking at climate change and phenotypic plasticity.

Lippman and Cora MacAlister, Ph.D., lead author on the new paper, found that deleting the genes for these enzymes from the flowering mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the moss Physcomitrella patens resulted in similar defects in both species, which are widely separated in evolutionary time.

In the often - studied mustard plant called Arabidopsis, elevated temperatures cause the plants to grow longer stems and thinner leaves in order to cope with the heat stress.

Far more often, it is referred to as the «mustard plant family.»

Weis, for example, had predicted that droughts would make field mustard plants bloom earlier.

Beyond the 15 scientists, the star of the HHMI awards is arguably a small mustard plant, Arabidopsis thaliana.

But the Markan form of the parable seems superior in that it more vividly and correctly represents the Palestinian mustard plant.

Amidst acrimonious debate over the safety of genetically modified (GM) food crops, India's top biotechnology regulator last week declared a transgenic mustard plant «safe for consumption.»

Working in a tiny mustard plant called Arabidopsis, which is used as a genetic model and shares many of the same genes as other plants and crops, he and his team of biologists discovered that the proteins encoded by the four genes they discovered repress the development of stomata at elevated CO2 levels.

Researchers have found that a Rocky Mountain mustard plant alters its physical appearance and flowering time in response to different environmental conditions, suggesting some species can quickly shape - shift to cope with climate change without having to migrate or evolve.

In the new study, researchers looked at the life history, leaf shape, flowering time and other characteristics of a native wild mustard plant at different elevations in the Rocky Mountains, where warming winters are reducing snowpack and warming springs are causing an earlier snow melt.

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

Curiously, then, HPAT mutations can have developmental consequences in both the simple moss (see accompanying image # 2) and the more evolved mustard plant — enhancing growth in the one, impairing it in the other.

Herbicide - resistance genes from GM canola have turned up in wild, weedy mustard plants on roadsides in the United States, Canada and elsewhere.

While all my dogs love to eat (or nibble) a bit of grass, my Puggle also has an absolute passion for mustard plant roots.

Of the 40 varieties of mustard plants, only...

So far, the best they've done is to create some blue spots on the stems of flowering mustard plants — «which is not going to excite many people,» Guengerich admits.

Schiestl and his colleague grew field mustard plants, and exposed them to two types of pollinators: efficient bumblebees and inefficient hoverflies.

Thus a mustard plant that grew to 10 or 15 feet (2 or 3 meters) could rightly be said to «become a tree.»

Nor did the mustard plant grow into the greatest shrub on earth.

The parallels in Matthew (13.31 - 32) and Luke (13.18 - 19) indicate that aversion of this parable was found both in Mark and Q. Matthew and Luke agree against Mark in referring (wrongly) to the mustard plant as a «tree», and in having the birds nest in its «branches» (although actually it is the shade which attracts them); in both instances Mark is the more correct.

The mustard plant is a cruciferous vegetable in the same family as cabbage, Brussels sprouts and broccoli.

The mustard plant is a cruciferous vegetable in the same family as cabbage, brussel sprouts and broccoli.

Seeds from tobacco plants and from a relative of the mustard plant also rode outside the ISS during the same 18 months on the EXPOSE platform, and 23 percent managed to sprout afterward.

They surveyed the genome of the mustard plant Arabidopsis, finding two genes resembling the human glutamate receptor.

The mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana may be revealing another way in which life exploits RNA's capacity for genetic storage.

In a push toward greener fuels, the Air Force has modified some of these jets to fly on a biofuel derived from camelina, a relative of the mustard plant.

The mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana sometimes ends up with its grandparents» good copy of a gene instead of the mutant ones belonging to its parents.

The researchers developed what they call a «genetically - encoded reporter» in order to directly and instantaneously observe the movements of ABA within the mustard plant Arabidopsis.

In the current work, which is reported online this week in the journal PNAS, researchers in the Lindquist lab screened protein fragments from Arabidopsis thaliana, a relative of the mustard plant, and identified 474 that contain prion - like domains.

In the mustard plant Arabidopsis, for example, epigenetic alterations in leaf and flower shape can be passed on to offspring.

Over the years, yeast, fruit flies, mustard plants and mice have struggled through their own versions of an extreme reality TV show in the laboratory of Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist.

They then inoculated soil - filled pots with these four microbial samples and planted a common strain of mustard plant, Boechera stricta, in them.

Joanne Chory has spent more than 25 years using Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering mustard plant, as a model for plant growth.

With its small size, short generation time and compact genome, Arabidopsis thaliana, a member of the mustard plant family, has become the primary model for the study of flowering plants in laboratories around the world.

Knoblauch, then - doctoral student Timothy Ross - Elliott and other researchers from WSU, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Delaware analyzed Arabidopsis, a mustard plant and model organism, using non-invasive imaging, 3 - D electron microscopy and mathematical modeling.

Despite its status as a diminutive relative of the mustard plant, Arabidopsis thaliana has emerged as a powerful tool in plant molecular biology and genetics.

The mustard plant is actually a cruciferous plant (the same family as broccoli, cabbage and brussels sprouts).

Researchers have discovered that when homobrassinolide, which is also found in the mustard plant, was fed to rats, a response a lot like anabolic steroids was triggered with a minimum of side effects.

While there are approximately forty different varieties of mustard plants, there are three principal types used to make mustard seeds: black mustard (Brassica nigra), white mustard (Brassica alba) and brown mustard (Brassica juncea).

Mustard seeds are from the mustard plant, which is a cruciferous vegetable related to broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cabbage.

Scientists have discovered a natural steroid occurring in mustard plants, that acts much like the synthetic versions, but with minimal side effects.

Derived from the mustard plant, Abyssinian Oil contains a high content of fatty acids, which help your skin cells retain water and get rid of toxins.

He will dig up the ones he can get too, then look at me with those buggy Puggle eyes to beg me to go dig up the mustard plants in the rest of the yard!!