Sentences with phrase «other plant scientists»

AeroFarms» micro -, macro -, and molecular biologists and other plant scientists overseeing the operation receive alerts on their phones if anything goes awry.

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Other than Post, only a handful of scientists are working on lab - grown meat; others believe the future lies in plant - based substitutes, ones so good they could fool even the most discerning palate, although Post maintains that we humans will always have an appetite for the real thing.

In genetic modification (or engineering) of food plants, scientists remove one or more genes from the DNA of another organism, such as a bacterium, virus, or other plant or animal, and «recombine» them into the DNA of the plant they want to alter.

The other side of the «green» argument against nuclear power is the fear by some climate scientists that carbon emissions in New York could increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, if a number of nuclear power plants close.

Scientists have honed and developed the tool in the roughly five years it has been around, creating myriad «CRISPR» mice, fish, pigs, cows, plants and other creatures.

Scientists do not completely understand the complex plant - soil - fungus - toxin interaction that infects some plants with aflatoxin and spares others.

But scientists are confident that oxygenic photosynthesis evolved only this one time in Earth's history, only in cyanobacteria, and all plants and other beings on Earth that photosynthesize coopted the development.

The plight of Richmond, within a ring of five refineries, three chemical plants, eight Superfund sites and numerous other pollution sources, has turned many local residents of all colors into activists, and drawn the attention of sociologists, legal scholars and scientists.

To fully understand a plant's nuclear genome, scientists must also study two other genomes found within plant cells — in the «powerhouse» mitochondria and in the photosynthesizing chloroplast organelles.

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.

Interviews with scientists and other experts to assess the relative health of some 60 protected areas of tropical forest in 36 different nations reveal that roughly half are continuing to lose unique species of plants and animals.

For years scientists have been trying to store carbon dioxide captured from exhaust flues at power plants and other emitters, mostly by injecting it deep underground.

But Norby notes the results scientists produce in labs are generally not what happens in the vastly more complex world outside; many other factors are involved in plant growth in untended forests, fields and other ecosystems.

Before the laureates did their work, other scientists had established that plants and animals have circadian rhythms.

But years of data from long - term studies by Doak and other scientists examining plants, birds, mammals and fungi in the field are showing the flaws in these assumptions.

Scientists have discovered how earthworms can digest plant material, such as fallen leaves, that would defeat most other herbivores.

In one of the few such studies, scientists examined how dead leaves, roots, and other plant litter decay over a decade.

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.

George Washington Carver The George Washington Carver Museum in Tuskegee, Alabama, houses the agricultural scientist's plant specimens and lab apparatus, as well as paintings, crochet, and other handicrafts he created in his spare time.

Before this study — the largest of its kind — conducted by a team led by Professor Dirk Inzé, scientists had little insight into the genes and genetic processes that drive some plants to limit their growth under drought conditions while others grow normally.

Scientists from the University of York have developed an innovative new green method of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power stations, chemical and other large scale manufacturing plants.

Inspired by the air - and soil - purifying abilities of plants and fungi, other scientists are developing materials that can help eliminate harmful substances in their immediate vicinity.

Since then, very few plant scientists had questioned whether the equation for soybean also worked in other species.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

The team on the three - year study includes plant pathologists, breeders, crop nutrient managers, economists, weed scientists, entomologists and outreach specialists from Texas, Arkansas and Washington, D.C. Research on organic rice has been in progress at the AgriLife Research facility in Beaumont for at least five years, Zhou said, and results from those studies, along with some from other areas, will be parlayed into the new study.

«The stems and leaves are similar to the ginkgo tree, but the seeds, and especially the structures they are born in, are unlike any other known plant, living or extinct,» says scientist Patrick Herendeen of the Chicago Botanic Garden, co-author of the PNAS paper.

Lily Lewis a PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut explained, «Mosses are especially abundant and diverse in the far Northern and Southern reaches of the Americas, and relative to other types of plants, they commonly occur in both of these regions, yet they have been largely overlooked by scientists studying this extreme distribution.

Even as species around the globe are rapidly falling prey to extinction, and countless others are threatened, scientists are still turning up new species of plants and animals every year — thousands of them.

«Using satellite - based remote - sensing equipment can allow scientists, and therefore policymakers, to determine with accuracy whether carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides detected in the vicinity are truly from the plant, or from other sources,» said Rodica Lindenmaier, postdoctoral research associate and first author of the paper.

By identifying images with changing leaves, blooming flowers, and other easy - to - recognize features, citizen scientists can contribute to a better understanding of how plants are responding to climate change

Scientists already know the general role that ABA plays within plants, but by directly visualizing the hormone they can now better understand the complex interactions involving ABA when a plant is subjected to drought or other stress.

As tropical forests become increasingly broken up by roads, farm fields, pastures and other developments, corridors of trees provide vital pathways for pollinators and contribute to a rich diversity of plant species, scientists have confirmed.

Scientists studying the potential effects of climate change on the world's animal and plant species are focusing on the wrong factors, according to a new paper by a research team from the Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Queensland, and other organizations.

While looking for ways to make tomatoes and other crop plants more productive, BTI Assistant Professor Joyce Van Eck and former postdoctoral scientist Sarika Gupta developed a better method for «transforming» a tomato — a process that involves inserting DNA into the tomato genome and growing a new plant.

The team has made all the information needed to create this system freely available, so that plant scientists in other labs can use ACME in their own research.

Although plants and animals are not typically thought to limit each other's food supply, Rohr says there must be other such competitions that scientists have yet to discover.

The government is counting its chickens before they are hatched, says Fernando Valladares, a plant ecologist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid who is president of the Spanish Association for Terrestrial Ecology and who, with other scientists, critically analyzed the draft strategy.

To make the DNA tags scientists extract genetic code from plants and reassemble it to be distinct from any other DNA on the planet.

SHOULD scientists continue to kill animals and plants to add to museums and other collections for study?

Isabell Albert, Hannah Böhm, Thorsten Nürnberger and other researchers at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), working with scientists at the universities of Utrecht, Würzburg and Tsinghua (Beijing) have identified genes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana which are important for recognising nPlant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), working with scientists at the universities of Utrecht, Würzburg and Tsinghua (Beijing) have identified genes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana which are important for recognising nplant Arabidopsis thaliana which are important for recognising nlp20.

Microbiomes should be part of every study in which scientists are studying the performance of animals, plants, people, oceans or other ecosystems, because microbes have a major influence on all aspects of the planet.

But how do scientists determine which other plants a particular species is related to?

During the BLOOME grant year, Science IRL will create 10 new episodes that feature guest plant scientists at Harvard and other leading plant biology institutions across the country.

However, using modern and highly sensitive instrumentation, scientists have found they can detect and characterize trace amounts of a wide variety of compounds, including proteins, bacterial DNA, starch grains and other plant fibers in dental plaque.

The new method is inspiring scientists to grow human tissues not only on apples but in other plant products as well.

First, agricultural scientists will use the genetic blueprint «to find a cheap and effective means of controlling CVC,» and second, «to gain a deep understanding of plant pathogenic processes, which could then be applied to other pathogenic pests.»

«Across different research areas — sustainability, plants, deconstruction and conversion — GLBRC scientists are working with and learning from each other every single day.

RENO, Nev. - The search for answers to protect Central American frogs from extinction is also giving scientists clues on how to predict and respond to emerging diseases and epidemics in humans, plants and other wildlife.

«Tobacco was used as the model crop plant in this study because it is easy to work with, but we're working to make the same modifications in rice and other food crops,» said co-senior author Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.