Sentences with phrase «of plant geneticists»

Practical experience of plant geneticists reveals that most insertions of new DNA in plant chromosome have little effect on other genes (Bouché and Bouchez 2001).

Although their research has been performed in a weed called «Arabidopsis thaliana», the work horse of plant geneticists, the team is confident that their discovery can be used for the protection of crops from their enemies.

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Martin Fregene, a plant geneticist and the director of the BioCassava Plus Program.

This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate - change scientists, biologists, geneticists, modellers and engineers who are using and developing new technologies and research platforms to unlock the vast stores of information within plant genomes.

This questions was quickly answered after consulting with the auxin geneticists Professor Klaus Palme from Freiburg and Professor Malcolm Bennett from Nottingham: «From a collection of mutants of the model plant Arabidopsis with an atypical response to the administration of auxin, one special mutant did not exhibit any IAA - mediated root hair depolarization,» Hedrich recalls.

«It's almost as if we had traveled back in time and sampled the same plant that gave rise to cultivated peanuts from the gardens of these ancient people,» said David Bertioli, an International Peanut Genome Initiative, or IPGI, plant geneticist of the Universidade de Brasília, who is working at UGA.

«The biosafety study that has been carried out is as thorough as it can be, and now ideology should not overwhelm scientific evidence,» says Deepak Pental, a plant geneticist at the University of Delhi here who developed the GM variety.

For example, if you're a plant geneticist and you're against the widespread use of pesticides, then you shouldn't apply for a postdoc or a job with Monsanto, a company that has a lot of solid projects in its pipeline but also produces Roundup pesticide resistant crops.

Rocheford, a plant geneticist at Purdue, drew the attention of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for his research on variations affecting provitamin A carotenoids — naturally occurring plant pigments that our bodies can convert to vitamin A — in maize.

Low - level cyanide poisoning is a problem in some regions, like Africa, where cassava is often poorly processed, agrees plant geneticist Wilhelm Gruissem of the Institute of Plant Sciences in Zurich, Switzerplant geneticist Wilhelm Gruissem of the Institute of Plant Sciences in Zurich, SwitzerPlant Sciences in Zurich, Switzerland.

The last piece of the poppy puzzle is now in hand: Plant geneticists have isolated the gene in the plant that carries out the last unknown step in converting glucose and other simple compounds into codeine, morphine, and a wide variety of other medicPlant geneticists have isolated the gene in the plant that carries out the last unknown step in converting glucose and other simple compounds into codeine, morphine, and a wide variety of other medicplant that carries out the last unknown step in converting glucose and other simple compounds into codeine, morphine, and a wide variety of other medicines.

Britain risks losing its considerable lead in the plant breeding technology of the future unless it increases its spending, according to plant geneticists.

It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety («Dwight» Glycine max) with a related wild perennial plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first fertile soybean plants that are resistant to soybean rust, soybean cyst nematode and other pathogens of soy.

Now, geneticists have developed a potential boon for the health of African subsistence farmers who rely on the crop: transgenic plants with roots practically free of cyanide - forming chemicals.

asks Maarten Chrispeels, a plant geneticist at the University of California at San Diego.

Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.

While you're busy decking the halls with boughs of holly this season, geneticists, plant pathologists and forestry professors are hard at work making better Christmas trees for the future.

Meanwhile plant pathologist Gary Chastagner of Washington State University and geneticist Ulrik Nielsen of the Forest and Landscape Research Institute in Denmark are developing trees that better retain their moisture — and so drop fewer needles on your carpet.

Plant geneticists are busy identifying dozens of stretches of DNA that help determine the size, shape, color, scent, flowering characteristics, and longevity of various plants.

Plant geneticists have figured out how to almost double the production of garden tomatoes.

And a session on Organic Farming explained the role of chemists, molecular biologists, and plant and animal geneticists in this form of agriculture.

And other plant researchers are very pleased: «This is a great paper... with great importance to agriculture,» says Steven Jacobsen, a plant geneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved with the work.

Because the abnormality shows up in genetically identical clones, «it's impossible to attack genetically,» an approach often taken when a crop has a bad trait that can be bred out of that variety, says study co-author Robert Martienssen, a plant geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

The discovery should help growers weed out bad seedlings, making cloning a viable option again, says Jerzy Paszkowski, a plant geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

«If there's no protein, no toxin,» says study coauthor Monica Schmidt, a plant geneticist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

[That] fits with the idea that multicellularity evolved separately [in plants and animals],» says plant geneticist Robert Martienssen of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

«The results are profound, for a number of different reasons,» says Steven Kay, a geneticist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who studies circadian clocks in plants.

Plant geneticist Catherine Feuillet of INRA - UBP in Clermont - Ferrand, France, and her colleagues have isolated one of wheat's 42 chromosomes and made a physical map of it, placing more than 1400 molecular landmarks along its 995 million bases.

But these crops tend to have low yields and poor grain quality, says geneticist Pamela Ronald of the University of California, Davis, and breeding these plants without knowing what genes to extract is time consuming and inefficient.

Plant geneticist Amy Iezzoni of Michigan State University in Lansing agrees.

The plant scientist, who has been working on apomixis for a number of years with molecular geneticist Peggy Ozias - Akins, also at Georgia, says, «If one could clone the genetic mechanism [of apomixis] and introduce it to maize, rice and wheat, it would revolutionize food production.»

The new information, published in The Plant Journal, will not only expand geneticists» knowledge of barley's DNA but will also help in the understanding, at the genetic level, of wheat and other sources of food.

«For wheat researchers languishing in genomic poverty, this is the beginning of genomic empowerment,» says Bikram Gill, a plant geneticist at Kansas State University in Manhattan.

Tim Helentjaris, plant geneticist at the University of Arizona, testified that DNA from the pods perfectly matched DNA from one of the trees (This Week, 29 May).

«The only way to get a real story, the closest we can get, is to sequence nuclear genomes from orchids,» says Victor Albert, a plant geneticist at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

This is the result of a cooperation project of behavioral ecologist Eckhard W. Heymann from the German Primate Center (DPZ) with plant geneticists Birgit Ziegenhagen and Ronald Bialozyt from the Philipps - University Marburg.

Using techniques collectively known as molecular breeding, geneticists have started to return results in a variety of plants, said Ed Buckler, a plant geneticist at Cornell University who recently helped sequence the corn genome.

A team led by Robin Allaby, a plant geneticist at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, was looking for the earliest evidence of domesticated plants in the British Isles.

More than 15 million hectares — an area the size of Bangladesh — is commonly stricken, and the lost rice is enough to feed 30 million people, said Pamela Ronald, a plant geneticist at the University of California, Davis.

So corn geneticist Virginia Walbot of Stanford University examined the effects of short wavelength UV irradiation on corn plants growing on an experimental plot near Stanford.

Plant geneticist Peter Quail of the University of California, Berkeley, says the process is unexpectedly simple: There could easily have been a dozen regulators between cryptochromes and COP1, he says.

This ancestor «started off with a whole new set of duplicate genes,» says Michael Clegg, a plant geneticist at the University California, Irvine, who was not involved with the work.

Plant geneticist Agnès Ricroch coauthored several review papers assessing GMO safety, including a 2012 paper examining the long - term health of animals fed GM corn, potatoes, soybeans, rice and the grain triticale, a cross between wheat and rye.

A team led by Kelly Swarts, a plant geneticist then at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, sequenced the genomes of 15 cobs.

The goal, says plant geneticist Tom Carruthers of the University of Oxford, was to «gain insight into the origins of the sweet potato — when it arose, where it arose and how it arose.»

A new discovery, spearheaded by Cornell and University of Illinois plant geneticists and published in the Jan. 18 issue of the journal Science, could change all that.

The research could lead to at least tripling the provitamin A levels [the precursor to vitamin A] in Africa's maize, said senior author Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Station research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and Cornell adjunct associate professor of plant breeding and genetics.

And the species» struggle to adapt and survive can make attempts to control the fertility of plants difficult, according to Steve Strauss, a tree geneticist at Oregon State University who has also consulted with ArborGen.

In this week's issue of Nature, the Yanofsky team reports the discovery of two weakened SHATTERPROOF genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, a tiny flowering weed geneticists study to isolate genes important in plant development.

For more than a century, geneticists have known that, in organisms that pair up to reproduce, most genes have a 50 - 50 chance of being inherited, as Gregor Mendel famously showed in the 19th century with pea plants.