Sentences with phrase «of plant science»

Dr. Trevor Suslow, a produce safety specialist at the department of plant sciences at the University of California - Davis, shares the results of recent package cleanliness studies and his perspective on minimizing the microbiological risks of multi-use containers.

, welcoming the continued inclusion of the successful Excellent Science pillar in FP9, and setting out our position for research priorities and mechanisms to engender a mission - based approach to close the research and innovation cycle through increasing support for collaborative basic research, encouraging increased levels of trans - disciplinarity and emphasising the importance of plant science in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Faculty of Science Department of Plant Science and Environment Plant and Soil Science Laboratory

After Dr. Daniel Colvin, the director of the Plant Science Research and Education Unit in Citra suggested it, MacDonald built pens and brought in domesticated pigs.

To promote innovative research and collaboration, the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and the American Society of Plant Biologists are pleased to announce the formation of the Plant Science Research Network.

We tracked down two of them — Hemayet Ullah, an assistant professor at Howard University and Beronda Montgomery - Kaguri, an assistant professor at Michigan State University — and got them to share their perspectives on being scientists of color in the field of plant science.

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The problem is assembling that sequence into order,» said David Neale, a professor of plant sciences at the University of California, Davis, who led the loblolly pine genome project and is an author on the GENETICS and Genome Biology articles.

The goal of this activity is to get as many people as possible around the world fascinated by plants and enthused about the importance of plant science for agriculture, in sustainably producing food, as well as for horticulture, forestry, and all of the non-food products such as paper, timber, chemicals, energy, and pharmaceuticals.

At ASPB, we are privileged to publish the work of a range of authors whose scientific experience and academic leadership have helped establish our journals, Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell, as highly respected sources of knowledge for the advancement of plant science.

By connecting plant science organizations, we are bringing together all those involved in plant and crop research, education and training, to harness the wealth of knowledge and expertise found within our membership base to strengthen and facilitate the development of plant science for global challenges.

It was at university that Harvey developed a love of plant science and saw an «opportunity to help the developing world through science: a career in plant genetics.»

«The holy grail of plant science has long been to bioengineer the photosynthetic pathways in C3 and C4 plants to grow larger, more productive crops that are better adapted to climate change and boost food security.

The paper is from an integrated, international group of plant science experts, led by Carnegie's Arthur Grossman and including lead author Wenqiang Yang and co-author Martin Jonikas, both from Carnegie.

Thus far, there has been insufficient research into this, which is one of the reasons why the international biodiversity council IPBES was founded,» explains Prof. Markus Fischer from the Institute of Plant Science at the University of Bern and head of the Biodiversity Exploratories project.

A team of investigators led by Motoyuki Ashikari of Nagoya University and Hitoshi Sakakibara of the Plant Science Center in Yokohama, Japan, analyzed the rice genome and identified several regions of DNA tied to improved grain yields.

ASPB has officially partnered with PS since 2006, and has sponsored 12 members of the Masters of Plant Science Team (MPST) annually since it was established in 2008.

Utilization of the resources developed through this proposal will lead to an increase in plant science knowledge, positive attitudes towards learning science, and awareness of plant science career options.

This year ASPB will be awarding accomplished plant biologists across all areas of plant science and at all stages of their career.

Ralph Cavalieri, associate dean of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences and director of the Agricultural Research Center, said, «This ranking confirms the quality, energy and intellect of our plant science faculty.»

Working collaboratively with various stakeholders, Katie facilitates developing and disseminating K - 16 educational resources that support the effective teaching and learning of plant science in formal and informal settings.

Membership in the American Society of Plant Biologists is open to anyone from any nation engaged with the full spectrum of plant science research from fundamental to applied.

Over the decades the Society has evolved and expanded to provide a forum for molecular and cellular biology as well as to serve the basic interests of plant science.

LA JOLLA — The Salk Institute is pleased to welcome Wolfgang Busch as an associate professor and Edward Stites as an assistant professor, leaders of plant science and cancer research, respectively.

The results, which appear in the July 30 print edition of Nature and online, represent a culmination of more than a decade of work by researchers in three countries, including Christer Jansson, director of plant sciences at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and EMSL, DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

Institutional membership is available to European universities, research institutions and departments in the field of plant science, and since 2008 also to selected plant science institutions worldwide.

This primary, ancestral role of forging a symbiosis with fungi is harnessed by over 80 % of all plant species on the planet,» said Dr Uta Paszkowski, from Cambridge University's Department of Plant Science, senior author of the study published today in the journal Science.

«Plants don't have ears to hear, fingers to feel or eyes to see,» said Gary Stacey an investigator in the MU Bond Life Sciences Center and professor of plant sciences in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.

ASPB is a professional society devoted to the advancement of the plant sciences.

However, falling crop yields may also be impacted by temperature - dependent factors other than heat stress, says Prof Graeme Hammer, director of plant science at the University of Queensland, who was not involved in the research.

Jim's service to ASPB is extensive: he has been an editorial board member of The Plant Cell for over 14 years, and since 2015 has been a member of the Advisory Committee (as the Genetics Society of America representative) of the Plant Science Research Network.

Short interactive videos in the exhibit's theater feature IBM researchers such as David Ferrucci (who led the development of Watson) as well as scientists such as Howard - Yana Shapiro, global director of plant science and external research at Mars Inc. «We wanted to do something that would be open to the public,» says IBM's Lee Green, vice president of brand experience and strategic design.

The team, led by Prof. Jaswinder Singh of McGill's Department of Plant Science, has identified a key gene that acts as a switch to determine how a particular plant will respond to high humidity and excess rainfall by either germinating early (PHS) or not.

The society also publishes a Newsletter and supports other congresses and initiatives within the field of plant science.

SPPS awards are given out to persons with merrits on the field of plant science.