Sentences with phrase «of plant science research»

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.

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.

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Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta already grow large volumes of relevant crops (like lentils, peas and beans), house plant - science and ingredient research and development, have good transportation and logistics infrastructure and enjoy the benefits of preferential access to the U.S. market.

Overview: The Good Food Institute (GFI) seeks a graduate (or exceptional undergraduate) student in the social sciences who would like to apply their research skills to the context of consumer acceptance of plant - based and clean meat.

GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

The Nashville plant also houses the state - of - the - art «Supreme Oil Kitchens» facility, where research and development, culinary and food science professionals develop new products.

In the branch of this revolution devoted to rice, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and its collaborators in the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP)-- the CGIAR's Research Program on Rice — are already tapping into other ongoing revolutions in genetics, molecular biology, and plant physiology.

This covers research on improvement of rainfed lowland and irrigated rice varieties, plant pathology, entomology, soil science, agronomy, and farming systems.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

An international research team reports results of a three - year study of sediment samples collected offshore from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in a new paper published August 18, 2015, in the American Chemical Society's journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Matched with $ 150,000 from the State of Kentucky, WaveTech received a $ 150,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a light filter that can boost productivity in agriculture and control plant growth.

Zamora, now a doctoral student, conducted the experiment in the winters of 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at the UF / IFAS Plant Science Research and Education Unit near Citra.

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).

Cottone, a junior from Wilmington, Delaware, is working with Harsh Bais, associate professor of plant and soil sciences at UD, on research to help this globally important grain cope with increasing stress.

«The NRC has been pressured by the nuclear industry, directly and through Congress, to low - ball the potential consequences of a fire because of concerns that increased costs could result in shutting down more nuclear power plants,» said paper co-author Frank von Hippel, a senior research physicist at Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

On 20 December 2013, a paper by the Amborella Genome Sequencing Project that includes a full description of the analyses performed by the project, as well as implications for flowering plant research, will be published in the journal Science.

Members of the research team are from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany; Bar - Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany; and the University of Haifa, Israel; The James Hutton Institute, UK; University of California, Santa Cruz, USA; University of Minnesota St. Paul, USA; University of Tübingen, research team are from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany; Bar - Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany; and the University of Haifa, Israel; The James Hutton Institute, UK; University of California, Santa Cruz, USA; University of Minnesota St. Paul, USA; University of Tübingen, Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany; Bar - Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany; and the University of Haifa, Israel; The James Hutton Institute, UK; University of California, Santa Cruz, USA; University of Minnesota St. Paul, USA; University of Tübingen, Germany.

It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to new research at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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.

That fast - spreading development is creating additional water stress while simultaneously damaging the ecosystem's ability to absorb carbon dioxide and store or «fix» it in plants, according to the research — a study led by scientists at the University of Montana and published in the journal Science.

The paper is «solid, exciting research,» says ecologist Chris Field of Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, California, who notes that various models have looked at ways different factors might affect future plant growth.

New research from a team led by Wolf Frommer, director of the Plant Biology Department, Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, in collaboration with the Carter lab in Minnesota and the Baldwin lab at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, now identified key components of the sugar synthesis and secretion mechanisms.

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.

Infants as young as six months old tend to expect that plants are food sources, but only after an adult shows them that the food is safe to eat, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

The paper, «Effectiveness of Emission Controls to Reduce the Atmospheric Concentration of Mercury,» was published by Mark Castro of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Appalachian Laboratory and John Sherwell of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources» Power Plant Research Program.

The basic research funded by Syngenta within the framework of the «Plant Decision Making» Project at the Zurich - Basel Plant Science Center also provides practical findings for the agriculture sector.

The series of steps that plants use to make lignin has been studied for decades, said Wout Boerjan, a co-author of the paper who does research in plant biotechnology at Ghent University and Belgian life sciences institute VIB.

, 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 DevelopmentScience 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 Developmentscience in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

EPSO encourages the development of ideas and imaginative thinking in the plant sciences; Shumei and Andreas will present their research at the

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«The ability to identify nicotine and other plant - based drugs in ancient dental plaque could help us answer longstanding questions about the consumption of intoxicants by ancient humans,» said Shannon Tushingham, a WSU assistant professor of anthropology and co-author of a new study on the research in Journal of Archaeological Science Reports.

Support for the undergraduate intern program comes from the National Science Foundation through the Plant Genome Research Program grant awarded to Professor Georg Jander of BTI and Professor Jian Hua of Cornell University.

Applications in all areas of molecular plant science are welcomed where the research answers fundamental biological questions of relevance to the development of the European and Global Research Area in molecular plant research answers fundamental biological questions of relevance to the development of the European and Global Research Area in molecular plant Research Area in molecular plant science.

This award recognizes Bob Rabson's steadfast advocacy for plant biology through the creation of funding programs in the Department of Energy for research in basic energy sciences.

The workshop received funding support from a UWA Research Collaboration Award, a UWA School of Plant Biology synthesis grant and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

Eugene Mamontov's background in both basic and applied science has made him a valued partner for scientists who come to the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL in search of a better understanding of the water dynamics in their research — projects as diverse as studying plant cellulose or analyzing nanostructured membranes for desalination.

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science provides keys for plant identification and methodology for paleobotanical research.

Students at the Watson School are exposed to a broad representation of biological sciences, invigorated by CSHL research expertise in genetics, molecular, cellular, and structural biology, neuroscience, cancer, plant biology, and bioinformatics.

«Ranging from basic research in plant molecular sciences through the field application of new discoveries, these teams benefit science, Washington agriculture, energy and human health.»

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.

«Research in the plant sciences is clearly a strength at WSU and in the College of Sciences,» he said.

Doing so will allow science to play a more prominent role in the decision - making process in Congress and may result in increased funding for scientific research, improved regulations, and the implementation of other policies that benefit plant biology.

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.»

It is part of a national plant genome research initiative established by the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

1996 Maarten J. Chrispeels for his research on the interface between cell biology and biochemistry, as a spokesperson for the science, as an inspiring teacher and mentor, and as an exacting editor of the journal Plant Physiology

Follow the links below to read stories from the past year of BTI scientists engaging in innovative research, applying plant science in new ways — and in the process — training the next generation of scientists.

Special emphasis is given to research in the areas of integrative neuro - sciences, medical imaging, translational immunology and cancer research, microbiology and infection research, biochemistry and pharmaceutical research, plant molecular biology, geo - and environmental research, astro - and elementary particle physics, quantum physics and nanotechnology, archeology and prehistory, historical science, religion and cultures, language and cognition, media and educational research.

These include; the Gold Medal of AE awarded to Helga Nowotny for her contribution to the development of European science; the 2017 Erasmus Medal of AE to Andreu Mas - Colell for his lifetime contribution to scholarship in Economics; the first ever Ádám Kondorosi Advanced Prize of the AE to Allan Downie for his pioneering research in symbiosis and plant sciences.

With about $ 540,000 provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program as part of the total project's $ 2.9 - million in funding, he will be able to learn whether that protein plays a similarly crucial role in crops like tomatoes.