Sentences with phrase «of plant trait»

Scientists tracked down a multitude of plant trait data by using a variety of plant data bases that included thousands of species.

Incorporating this local variability of plant traits in the ESMs will lead to more accurate modeling of carbon cycle feedbacks.

Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high - tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant traits including leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, and specific leaf area (a measure of area displayed to intercept light per unit investment in leaf biomass).

«The scarcity of field measurements presents a major roadblock in creating high resolution global maps of plant traits,» said Ethan Butler, co-lead author and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Forest Resources at UMN's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

David Lee, a tropical botanist at Florida International University in Miami, says that although the evidence is speculative, the study suggests that «to understand the evolution of plant traits, you also need to look at extinct herbivores and their interactions with the plants.»

Map kinases are involved in different signaling chains responding to a wide range of environmental stimuli and stresses, and a detailed understanding of the cross talk between them is a prerequisite for accurate manipulation of plant traits.

The reconstruction of long - term fire histories in a given area of a size far greater than the classical lake catchment necessitates time - consuming field research using several complementary methods, including radiocarbon dating of charcoal, tree - ring dating and sometimes allometric scaling of plant traits, to accurately date ancient and recent fire events.

Not exact matches

One of the hardest traits to obtain is the ability to know when to keep your feet planted and when to walk out the door.

In August, the commission opened an in - depth investigation due to concerns that such a significant merger could distort competition in three areas: pesticides, seeds and traits (a characteristic of a plant).

Humans have been breeding plants to have desirable traits for thousands of years.

In my cross cultural setting, one aspect of this is to be aware of where our church plants are taking on traits of our own home culture instead of the local culture.

During the process of domestication, plants undergo changes in certain traits that make them more amenable to humans and agriculture such as larger seeds, larger fruits, a compact growth habit, and so on.

Phenotypic diversity, or the diversity of the visible plant traits does not fully reflect the genetic diversity that underlies it.

Selection for this suite of traits leaves a mark on the plant's genome by the reduction of genetic diversity in the areas that code for these traits.

The most notable trait of flax seed is that they are the richest sources of plant based omega -3-fatty acids in the world.

They are planting several varieties of rice with different traits and characteristics as insurance on whatever impacts the climate may bring them.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

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.

Thus a new generation of Terminator research is focused on biological containment to prevent engineered genetic traits (transgenes) from spreading to non-GM food plants and wild relatives.

Using genetic engineering or transgenic technology, the DNA of plants and animals is combined with the DNA of other species and artificially modified to exhibit traits such as resistance to cold or herbicides.

This wide variety of traits means that you can not easily sell seeds saved from F1 plants, because you can not tell what you are going to get.

Co-authored and illustrated with Elaheh Bos of Plant Love Grow, this book is designed to give children a visual example of what it means to develop positive character traits.

Demeter farms work according to biodynamic principles, in harmony with nature, and they respect the species - specific traits of animals and plants.

Furthermore, B. nipponica adults have intrinsic traits that may facilitate their actions as dispersal agents for this mycoheterotrophic herb: (1) their abundance in the plant habitat; (2) they are ground - dwelling, which means they defecate on the forest floor where M. humile's fungal partners, Russulaceae, reside; and (3) the long transit times of seeds through their gut (3 - 10 h) providing occasional long - distance seed dispersal.

Mendel, who theorized that unseen units were transmitting traits from one generation to the next, based his conclusion on a mind - numbing series of experiments involving more than 30,000 pea plants.

Data were collected on the amount of irrigation, total plant biomass, moisture content at harvest, forage quality and other agronomic traits.

If you've ever taken a biology class, you may recall seeing a portrait of Mendel next to a picture of pea plants that vary in traits such as their height and the color and shape of their seeds (round or wrinkled; green or yellow).

Possessing chlorophyll and engaging in photosynthesis are often given as important defining traits of plants.

Lucie Poulet said: «Challenges remain in terms of nutrient delivery, lighting and ventilation, but also in the choice of plant species and traits to favour.

By counting the proportions of these traits in several generations of pea plants, the inquisitive monk concluded that these features must derive from pairs of what we now call genes, which he discovered were randomly divided between offspring.

But patents are more restrictive, says Niels Louwaars, director of Plantum, a plant breeder's association in Gouda, the Netherlands: «When one trait in a plant is patented, you are in principle not allowed under the research exemption to use such materials for further breeding» without the patent holder's permission, he says.

According to Bueckert, a plant scientist at the University of Saskatchewan, «tolerance to heat stress in peas seems to be dependent on quite a few traits.»

She will «resurrect» plants from seeds collected across the scarlet monkeyflower's geographic range before and after the 2010 - 2014 study to learn about the impact of strong climatic events on the genetic variation of important traits.

«Identifying traits that make pea plants more resistant to heat stress is one piece of the puzzle,» says Bueckert.

Digital plants like these are part of a new movement in agricultural science called «in silico,» where researchers design highly accurate, computer - simulated crops to help speed up selective breeding, in which plants are chosen and replanted to amplify their desirable traits.

This is one of the first and most extensive studies that instead focused on the characteristics of the plant defensive traits through fieldwork and laboratory analyses of the anti-herbivore chemicals.

According to Peter Reich, the project leader, «Current ESMs represent variation in plant life using crude averages of trait values of plants; a model might be as simplistic as assuming all leaves in Amazonia or Alaska are identical.

«Subsequently, sophisticated statistical approaches were used to extrapolate plant trait values using a combination of climate, soil and spatial information.

Detailed global maps of key traits in higher plants have been made available for the first time, thanks to work led by researchers from the University of Minnesota's (UMN) College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

After 8 years of cultivating some 28,000 pea plants and analyzing seven pairs of seed and plant traits, Mendel uncovered the fundamentals of heredity, including the concepts of dominant and recessive traits, and recombination.

Singh's collaborator, Randall Nelson, the research leader of the ARS soybean / maize research unit, plants seeds from Singh's most promising experiments, grows the plants and distributes their seeds to other scientists, who screen them for desirable traits and conduct their own breeding experiments.

By using an intensified management system that included increased plant population, transgenic (Bt trait) insect resistance, strobilurin - containing fungicide, balanced crop nutrition (phosphorus - sulfur - zinc), and supplemental side - dressed nitrogen, the researchers saw a yield increase of 28 percent more corn grain compared to that of a standard management system.

Further crosses have introduced the tomentella genes into those of the soybean plants, creating soybean plants with 40 chromosomes and some of the most desirable tomentella traits.

As a result, soybean breeders now have access to dozens of new soybean lineages, each with some of the traits of the wild Australian plants.

Xi's work also shows that even the genes that Rafflesia plants inherited from their own ancestors have appropriated the characteristics of the vines» genes; up to 30 percent of the corpse flowers» native genes code for proteins (the process that helps to determine physical traits) in a way that's more like the vines» than like its fellow Malpighiales».

Approximately one - half of the inoculated plants developed symptoms of Goss's wilt, regardless of the presence or absence of transgenic traits.

Seed predation is an important ecological process that can affect the reproductive success of individual plants, the dynamics of plant populations, and the evolution of defensive dispersal mechanisms and plant morphological traits.

Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri), a flowering plant native to the Sonoran desert and southwest United States, has a laundry list of traits that make it a fierce competitor on the farm, said Aaron Hager, a University of Illinois crop sciences professor.

On the basis of dubious experiments, Lysenko postulated that plants could pass environmentally - acquired traits to their offspring, a theory discredited by modern science, not least by the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953.

A new research study from University of Florida Institute for Plant Innovation scientists Jessica Gilbert, Michael Schwieterman, Thomas Colquhoun, David Clark, and James W. Olmstead (HortScience, July 2013) sought to measure the characteristics associated with the «blueberry eating experience» by prioritizing the traits that could help improve flavor.