Sentences with phrase «new plant species»

Offers expertise in imparting knowledge about different plants and working on projects to determine new plant species.

Collaborated and interacted with other staff, botanists, bio-technologists, and chemists to study new plant species

Experimented production of new plant species from tissue cultures and took efforts to develop it

Recently, new plant species have been tested that grow well on marginal lands and could therefore produce biofuels without directly competing with valuable lands.

Throughout his 60 year career Roberto Burle Marx designed 2,000 gardens around the world; he also discovered around 50 new plant species.

Having designed more than 2000 gardens and discovered 50 new plant species, it is surprising that Marx's 60 year career remains somewhat overlooked.

Hotel establishments, for example, are responsible for introducing new plant species, which often carry diseases or insects to the island.

It is also essential to determine which effects were temporary (dwarfing in mammals and insects, and the Apectodinium range expansion, among others) and which left a permanent signature on life (benthic marine extinctions and the evolution of new plant species in the tropics).

The captive men's shovels exposed the oldest flowering plant fossil beds in North America, where the new plant species was ultimately found.

«A nonet of new plant species from Africa emphasizes the importance of herbaria in botany.»

«New plant species discovered on Yakushima: Time for a closer look at the island's lowland primeval forests.»

In 2016, Oregon State University entomologist George Poinar, Jr. announced the discovery of a new plant species that's a 45 - million - year - old relative of coffee found in amber.

Not exact matches

It's also working in Beijing on new technology in genome editing; unlike GMO technology, it doesn't involve inserting a gene from another species, such as a bacterium, into a plant.

Two examples: In plants, new species can be created by the multiplication of chromosomes (quite literally where there were two chromosome # 7's, now there are three, more DNA).

Conservationist Norman Myers, author of The Sinking Ark: A New Look at the Problem of Disappearing Species (Pergamon, 1979), estimates that with the advent of technology between 1600 and 1900, an average of one species of bird or mammal (little is known about reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates and plants) disappeared every four years, compared to one every 1,000 years during the «great dying» of the dinSpecies (Pergamon, 1979), estimates that with the advent of technology between 1600 and 1900, an average of one species of bird or mammal (little is known about reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates and plants) disappeared every four years, compared to one every 1,000 years during the «great dying» of the dinspecies of bird or mammal (little is known about reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates and plants) disappeared every four years, compared to one every 1,000 years during the «great dying» of the dinosaurs.

(Ask God which one was the first Adam???) 12s) no new large plant or animal species show up in the fossil record after 100,000 years ago.

And quite apart from humans, nature itself, we believe, has produced new species of plants and animals, new environments, and other important new facts.15 To interpret this use of the word «creativity»» from the standpoint of our metaphysics, we may claim that the production of such novelty» has to do exclusively (with the exception to be discussed below) with characterization.

1Donald A. Levin, «The Nature of Plant Species,» Science 204 (1979), 381 - 84; R. R. Sokal, «Population Differentiation: Something New or More of the Same?»

12) no new large plant or animal species show 12) God rests.

In fact, this isn't a new species, but a plant that has -LSB-...]

«I must not omit to notice the Colonels pepper patch, which is two acres in extent, all planted with a new species of red pepper, which Colonel White has introduced into this country, called Tobasco red pepper.

The newer process of genetic engineering, which involves inserting genes from unrelated species into a plant's genome to add desirable traits, has been used in crops such as corn, soy, and potatoes.

The changes shown through 2050 could lead to lost habitat, the isolation of some species and the rise of «dispersal barriers» — like a wall of new development that prevents plants and animals from migrating.

Now a new analysis is estimating the pace of species movement because of both climate change and land use, revealing new pressures that stem from local decisions to build, plant and cut on the warming landscape.

• The answer is complex, but the bottom line is that an invasive plant species starts with a big advantage: its natural predators, parasites and pathogens are generally absent from its new environment.

Dr Rhonda Snook, a co-author of the study and Reader in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, added: «Understanding how new species form remains one of the most enduring problems in evolutionary biology.

A new study by a Canadian Museum of Nature scientist helps answer a long - standing question in palaeontology — how numerous species of large, plant - eating dinosaurs could co-exist successfully over geological time.

This revealed that the plant was a close relative of the orchidaceous Lecanorchis amethystea, but clear differences in the inner part of the flower proved it was a new species.

The foot and ankle bone seen here belonged to a large, plant - eating sauropodomorph called Glacialisaurus hammeri, a new genus and species of dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic period, approximately 190 million years ago.

«Orchids, almost alone among flowering plants, have a large number of species that lure pollinators by mimicking a mate, or a nesting site or food resources — «lies all for the sake of love» — but such deceit seems to have played no role in accelerating the formation of new orchid species.»

«New species of parasitic plant discovered in Japan.»

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

The new plant is a descendant of a non-native species, the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus), which colonised the United Kingdom in Victorian times.

Dr Vallejo - Marin said: «The fact that the new polyploid involves a non-native plant is poignant, given the fact that human activities are transporting all sorts of animal and plant species well beyond their native habitats.

The ugly will include the need, for example, to brace for the ever more jarring effects of extreme weather patterns, the extinction of a huge range of animal and plant species, and the invasion into new latitudes of predators and pests.

Whether secondary forest can help avoid large - scale species extinctions also depends on the extent to which animals and plants accustomed to old - growth forests can successfully recolonise new areas.

Closed vats might produce pure strains of such high - oil species for feeding into large ponds to grow sufficient supplies, says systems engineer Ron Pate at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, who has been analyzing the fuel potential of microscopic plants.

However, instead of consensus, a new study by an interdisciplinary research team at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) of psychologists and plant biologists found a wide range of different opinions among scientific experts about how to describe invasive plant species, and how severe their effects on the environment are.

To mitigate the trend and support conservation efforts, scientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) are sharing a way to predict which plants or animals may be vulnerable to the arrival of a new species.

Over the longer term, the identification of the coffee tree genome sequence opens up new possibilities for varietal improvement, knowledge of the specific functions of the genes (in particular those specific to coffee trees), the possibility of transferring results to other species, and refining diagnostic tools for the function of the plant.

The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew owe much to Banks, and he encouraged the introduction and establishment of new species of plants in Britain.

Three species of non-photosynthetic plants rely mainly on camel crickets to disperse their seeds, according to new research from Project Associate Professor Suetsugu Kenji (Kobe University Graduate School of Science).

And with more than 500 species of plants and animals now threatened with extinction, New Zealand's ecologists are keen to make the most of the isolation provided by the country's 600 offshore islands.

By the beginning of the period, dinosaurs had been around for more than 85 million years, but some researchers have suggested that the spread of flowers sparked a surge in dinosaur diversity, with many new species evolving to feast on the green bounty — or to devour the plant - eaters.

The four plant species in this new subgenus are found in Central America and the Caribbean Islands, where U.S. ornithologist James Bond did his most famous work.

Meanwhile, botanists like Stuppy put a new spin on the tradition of seed collecting at the Kew gardens» Millennium Seed Bank, an international repository for plant species threatened with extinction in the wild.

Amazingly, several of the plant species the researchers found in the markets are even new to science — including Bulbophyllum anodon and a still undescribed Thrixperumum sp..

Yet, according to a new study involving 147 cities worldwide, surprisingly high numbers of plant and animal species persist and even flourish in urban environments — to the tune of hundreds of bird species and thousands of plant species in a single city.

«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.»

The genome sequence sheds new light on a major event in the history of life on Earth: the origin of flowering plants, including all major food crop species.