Sentences with phrase «plant biologists»

The majority of plant biologists work somewhere in the continuum from basic plant biology on one end — the main focus of this feature — to the development of agricultural products on the other.

Meetings are unique opportunities for plant biologists to network and exchange information on the current state of the science, significant breakthroughs and new areas of inquiry.

Some plants are more resistant to such infections than others, and plant biologists want to understand why.

In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University and other research institutes, have examined the ovules of plant cells by live - imaging to reveal a novel cell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fusion.

In a new study, a team of plant biologists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) found that some plants may selectively kill part of their roots to survive under cold weather conditions.

«We need to find ways to stimulate investment in food and agriculture and this helps accomplish that,» says plant biologist Roger Beachy of the Washington University in St. Louis, the former director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

The pair of German plant biologists who authored the piece argue that nearly extinct varieties of wheat, like einkorn and emmer (aka farro), could create new niche markets for farmers, diversify ecosystems, boost local food security, revive traditional recipes — all while satisfying consumer demand for food that makes you feel like you're traveling back to a simpler time (a Paleolithic time, perhaps?).

A new method by researchers from New England Biolabs and New Mexico State University provides plant biologists with a quick and simple approach for separating plant nuclear DNA from organellar DNA for genomic and metagenomic studies.

They focused on a mustard green called Arabidopsis, the reference organism used by plant biologists in their research.

Plant biologist José Dinneny probes the very beginnings of root development, which may have important implications for growing food in a changing climate.

When plant biologist Bailey Colburn is offered a research job, she knows Justin Mercer is playing her somehow.

This oversight stems in part from the fact that few plant biologists know how — or are naturally inclined — to convert their biological insights into the mathematical equations that modelers need to improve the accuracy of their work, Leakey said.

Moctezuma routinely shows his students science documentaries such as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and the time - lapsed photography movies produced by plant biologist Roger Hangarter, «so they can watch a film and discuss or write how the film relates to the different concepts they would learn in class,» Moctezuma says.

«But as plant biologists, we're kind of frustrated,» said Palmgren.

Scottish plant biologist warns of messy divorce, wants Scotland to remain in the European Union

«Plantae allows me to connect with other plant biologists across the world to exchange not only scientific ideas, but also ideas on science communication, policy, and education.»

The American Society of Plant Biologists expects authors submitting to and publishing in its journals to adhere to ethical standards for scholarship and to ensure that the work they submit to or publish in the journals is free of scientific misconduct.

The aims of FESPB are to advance research, education, and the exchange of information amongst plant biologists within Europe and beyond, and to support the publication of the results of research through its affiliated international journals: Journal of Experimental Botany, Journal of Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Physiologia Plantarum, and Plant Biology.

Doug Hamilton is a molecular plant biologist using current molecular techniques in various projects involving plants, bacteria, and fungi.

«Plants have, for a long time, provided us with valuable products like food, biofuels, construction materials and the oxygen we breathe,» notes plant biologist turned chemical engineer Juan Pablo Giraldo, a postdoctoral fellow in the research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who did the work.

Genomics gives plant biologists working in related fields «opportunities to start talking about what experiments not only are interesting but are important to do,» he says.

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«Seeds are ideally suited to storing life,» says David Tepfer, an emeritus plant biologist at the Palace of Versailles Research Center of the National Institute for Agronomic Research in France.

Domestic chickea in one hand, wild chickpea in the other, University of Vermont plant biologist Eric Bishop von Wettberg led a team of scientists into remote regions of Turkey — hunting for ways to harness the diversity of agricultural plants» wild cousins.

Plant biologist Romain Pierron, who at the time of the survey had a 1 - year contract as a tech transfer officer, went through two periods of unemployment — one between the end of his doctoral contract and his defense in 2015, and another as he was applying for positions the following year — before recently taking a 2 - year postdoc at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

«We are potentially looking at a very fundamental agent for the action of fire in the world's plants,» says plant biologist Kingsley Dixon, also of the University of Western Australia, who helped isolate the molecule.

However, instead of consensus, a new study by an interdisciplinary research team at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) of psychologists and plant biologists found a wide range of different opinions among scientific experts about how to describe invasive plant species, and how severe their effects on the environment are.

Scientists should also recognize that there is a limit to what they can achieve, says Marcel Kuntz, a research director and fundamental plant biologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in the Laboratory of Plant and Cell Physiology in Grenoble, France.

(The others are cancer biologist Beverly Emerson and plant biologist Joanne Chory.)

Berkeley Lab plant biologists are asking that question in an effort to tap into that extra light energy to improve plant growth.

«It's becoming impossible to work in Brazil, especially for young scientists,» says plant biologist Marcos Buckeridge, a professor at the University of São Paulo and president of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences.

For Duke plant biologist Xinnian Dong, who for 20 years has studied plant immune responses in Arabidopsis, HHMI support comes in the nick of time to replace the NSF funding that had supported her early work.

HHMI wanted to see more plant biologists apply, says Jack Dixon, HHMI chief scientific officer, so it and the Moore Foundation set up a special competition just for the field.

«A racecar driver in Monaco wouldn't choose the same tires as a postal worker in the Yukon,» said Douglas Schemske, co-author and MSU plant biologist.

Now plant biologists and immunologists at York have joined forces to examine a very closely related family of these small molecules (flavonoids) to establish how tiny changes to their chemical structures affect their bio-activity.

But two plant biologists credit the leaves instead.

• An unfortunate last - minute editing error made plant biologist Joan Edwards a «he» (25 December 2010, p 45).

Help in identifying the mutant gene came from a team from the University of California, Davis, headed by plant biologist Deborah Delmer.

But few scientists have studied the unusual organism, says plant biologist Thomas Vogelmann of the University of Vermont in Burlington.

In the address that opened the meeting, AAAS President Nina V. Fedoroff described one of these problems in stark relief: Scientists must find ways to double the world's food supply by 2050, the influential plant biologist warned, but major crop yields have declined by roughly 10 % for each degree of global climate warming.

In plant biology as in other disciplines, a profusion of professional opportunities is available to the well - informed, well - prepared, and well - networked plant biologist.

Two years ago, plant biologist Teemu Teeri was walking by a train station in Helsinki when he noticed some vivid orange petunias in a planter.

Soon we will add plant biologists from Asia, Australasia, Central and South America, the Middle East, and Africa.

Send to: American Society of Plant Biologists Institutional Subscriptions 15501 Monona Drive Rockville, MD 20855 - 2768 USA

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

Membership is not a requirement for the award, and, if appropriate, every fifth award should be made to an outstanding plant biologist from outside the United States.