Sentences with phrase «plant as a model system»

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This study suggests that plants are emerging as model objects to study general questions related to anesthetics, as well as to serve as a suitable alternative test system for human anesthesia.

Cucumber is a major vegetable crop consumed worldwide as well as a model system for sex determination and plant vascular biology.

However, the modeling study showed that the mutually beneficial relationship between the flowering tomato plant and its bee pollinators — as well as the overall system — can persist through higher rates of herbivory than researchers had previously believed.

Hummingbirds and their nectar plants have long served as model system for examining ecological and evolutionary processes because of their strong mutual dependencies.

The wispy, ankle - high mustard plant called Arabidopsis serves as a model system for plant biologists.

«Liverworts are showing great promise as a model plant system and this discovery that they can be colonised by pathogens of flowering plants makes them a valuable model plant to continue research into plant - microbe interactions.»

Approaches successful in other systems, such as modeling signal transduction and synthetic biology methodologies [32] could improve future generations of detector plants by enhancing signal transmission and providing means to deal with biological «noise».

tomato as this process results in bacterial speck, an economically important disease, and also serves as a powerful model system for understanding fundamental mechanisms involved in plant - pathogen interactions.

Makarevitch I, Martinez - Vaz B. (2017) Killing two birds with one stone: Model plant systems as a tool to teach the fundamental concepts of gene expression while analyzing biological data.

Map - based cloning in crop plants: tomato as a model system II.

Implemented algorithms were made use of as the modeling basis on which we developed a geographic information system (GIS), summarizing plant distribution using principal variables of the water - energy dynamic.

If you look around our school on a typical afternoon, you will see sixth graders studying botany and history by planting tomatoes in our garden and building models of ancient aqueduct systems, third graders using research to design proposals for more diverse books in our libraries, and kindergartners buzzing as they return from interviewing local business owners in downtown Durham.

However, even today's most sophisticated Earth system models suffer from uncertainties that stem from the difficulty of simulating small - scale or complex processes, such as raindrop formation and carbon uptake by plants.

The third model of virtual power plants is, like Stem's approach, a mixed bag of assets such as battery storage, solar power, and energy efficiency systems that both reduce consumption and supply clean power in targeted ways.

As of November 2014, there were 14 Earth System Models from 12 centers in eight countries that modeled temperature, soil moisture, and solar radiation at a daily resolution for at least one of the three RCPs (S1 Table)(Note: all Earth System Models that we used include feedbacks of plant production on water balance).