Sentences with phrase «plant biologists at»

A group of plant biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University, the University of Tokyo, the Gregor Mendel Institute, and the University of Kentucky, has reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, on their discovery on how the plant's egg cells initially lose their skeletal pattern upon fertilization and are reorganized by two major cytoskeleton components in the cell, microtubules (MTs) and actin filaments (F - actin).

Plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University have discovered the key element, an EPFL2 peptide that is responsible for creating the teeth - like shapes on plant leaves.

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.

A group of plant biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University, have reported in the journal Genes and Development, on their discovery on how plant's maternal and paternal factors cooperate for the child to grow in the proper shape.

«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.

«The wild relatives of crop plants are the most promising reserves of genetic diversity,» say Eric Bishop von Wettberg, a plant biologist at the University of Vermont.

But Dean DellaPenna, a plant biologist at the University of Nevada at Reno, is more concerned that the genetic engineering debate will slow efforts to improve nutrition worldwide.

«You would never guess something happened there 23 years ago,» says Martin Hajduch, a plant biologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra.

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.

Even the Russian Soyuz capsules that are the only route back to Earth since the space shuttle was retired last year are not ideal, because they lack freezers to store the seedlings during the plunge home, says the experiment's lead investigator Imara Perera, a plant biologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

The debate centres on the finer points of flower architecture, but points to a broader concern about using statistical models and large data sets to tackle biological questions, says Pamela Soltis, a plant biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Regulators need to adapt to these new techniques, or run the risk of over - or under - regulating GM plants, says Roger Beachy, a plant biologist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, and former head of the USDA's National Institute for Food and Agriculture.

«We have some very serious problems in agriculture, and we need to use all of the science that we can to solve these problems,» says Robert Goldberg, a plant biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Not exact matches

Jahren «has transformed the sedentary, slow - growing lives of plants into a vibrant series of stories that are interwoven with tales of her own research career in the field of paleo - plant physiology,» wrote reviewer Meg Lowman, a field biologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco who is also an author.

A second scientist, Marcus Heisler, an Australian plant developmental biologist, has 5 years of funding to support an independent lab at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany.

The results are surprising and one is quite amazing — when a plant biologist from the University of Cambridge, Fernan Federici, pairs up with David Benjamin, an architect working at Columbia University.

Daniel Chitwood, a biologist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St Louis, Missouri, and an enthusiastic viola player, wondered whether the software could also give an insight into how violin shape evolved.

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

University of Pittsburgh biologists Matthew Koski and Tia - Lynn Ashman recently looked at 34 different populations of silverweed cinquefoil, a widespread plant native in temperate zones on both sides of the equator, and found that its flowers were darker near the tropics.

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.

In a recent issue of Trends in Plant Science, František Baluška, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Stefano Mancuso, a plant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetaPlant Science, František Baluška, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Stefano Mancuso, a plant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetaplant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Stefano Mancuso, a plant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetaplant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetation.

«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.

The next hurdle becomes how to get these different simulations to talk to one another, says Amy Marshall - Colón, a plant systems biologist at Illinois who leads a lab group independent of Long's and Zhu's.

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have exposed one such interloper by characterizing the unique biochemical pathway it uses to synthesize auxin, a central hormone in plant development.

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.

Biologist Steven Jansen, at the University of Ulm, Germany, and colleagues analysed existing data on the water transportation systems of 226 plant species from 81 forests globally (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11688).

Biologists at UC San Diego have solved a long - standing mystery concerning the way plants reduce the numbers of their breathing pores in response to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

Climate change has altered the plants found in the woods near the pond, according to Charles Davis, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University.

At the meeting, team member Koffi Konan, a plant molecular biologist, showed how the plants were made by inserting shortened or backward versions of each of the genes — Ara h1, Ara h2, and Ara h3 — into cultured cells from peanut plants.

Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

«The data will provide our first detailed look into the Joshua tree genome,» said Michael McKain, an evolutionary biologist working on the project and a post-doctoral associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

To study how violin contours change over time, Dan Chitwood, a plant biologist and avid viola player at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, analyzed photographs of more than 7000 auctioned violins made between the years of 1560 and plant biologist and avid viola player at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, analyzed photographs of more than 7000 auctioned violins made between the years of 1560 and Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, analyzed photographs of more than 7000 auctioned violins made between the years of 1560 and 2003.

These experiments will help biologists understand how plants respond to microgravity, which will improve efforts aimed at growing food in space — a crucial component of long - duration missions to Mars or elsewhere in the solar system.

«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.

To find the missing ingredient, Alan Cooper, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, radiocarbon dated nearly 100 fossils from Patagonia and sequenced their mitochondrial DNA, genes found in the power plants of cells and passed down only from the mother.

But recent research by University of Cincinnati Biologist Denis Conover, working alongside Tim Sisson, president of the Western Wildlife Corridor, reveal their approach for safely killing and removing invasive plants, thus leading to a natural resurgence of native species at Bender Mountain Preserve and other natural wooded areas in southwestern Ohio.

But the group also includes plant developmental biologist Dominique Bergmann, a newly minted associate professor at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California — she also originally trained as an animal biologist before turning to plants.

Yet it was only in the 1990s that Frantisek Baluska, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, began proving Darwin's theory.

Now a research team led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside, has found a new drought - protecting chemical that shows high potential for becoming a powerful tool for crop protection in the new world of extreme weather.

Biologists have long puzzled over why certain mossy plants are found only in the Arctic and at the very tip of South America, but not in between.

Biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in visualizing the movement within plants of a key hormone responsible for growth and resistance to drought.

«It's pretty photogenic,» said corresponding author Cheryl Kerfeld, a Berkeley Lab structural biologist with a joint appointment as a professor at the MSU - DOE Plant Research Laboratory.

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.

«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.

Peter Meyer, a molecular biologist at the University of Leeds, and his colleagues identified a gene they labeled Sho (for shooting), which controls production of cytokinins, hormones that delay aging in plants.

The sequence is a «big deal» says John Taylor, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, because filamentous Ascomycota such as N. crassa are involved in most plant diseases.

Russell Burke, a biologist at Hoftstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., who has studied Italian wall lizards in the U.S., says the species would be «at least as good as, and possibly better than» other bio-indicators, such as mice and plants.

It is a native plant making a comeback, not an invasive on the rampage, says study co-author Alan Tye, a conservation biologist at the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program, based in Samoa.