Sentences with phrase «plant biologists found»

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.

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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.

From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to field work in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand, evolutionary biologist Barbara Schaal has found science to be «just so much...

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

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.

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.

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.

From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to field work in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand, evolutionary biologist Barbara Schaal has found science to be «just so much fun.»

Plants biologists have engineered flaxseeds to contain heart - friendly fats normally only found in fish.

A biologist surveyed the world's hummingbirds to find one with a bill the right shape to pollinate a variety of plants inside the structure, and without a mating display predisposing it to fatal collisions with the glass.

«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.

But the authors suspect that, with a bit more looking, biologists will find similar strategies in other plants.

As my responsibilities have changed, I have come to realize that professional membership organizations like AAAS (the publisher of Science and ScienceCareers.org) and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)-- the organization I direct — provide among the most effective networking opportunities that you can find, leading more often than you might imagine to new professional opportunities, as well as building a strong and lasting sense of community.

A survey of the local plant community by soil biologist and co-author John Moore found that dwarf birch shrubs increased by 94 percent, while lichens were almost completely wiped out.

And although the focus of this special feature is on academic science, you'll find plant biologists in just about every branch of the career tree.

While introgressive hybridization is thought to be common among plants, the finding suggests that hybridization in mammals may not be the evolutionary dead end biologists once commonly thought.

I applied to openings for generalized biologists, plant biologists, evolutionary biologists, and ecologists, most of which I found via the discipline - specific EvolDir and ECOLOG email listservs, email alerts from Chronicle Vitae and Inside Higher Ed, and referrals from colleagues and social media.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

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Peter Bradbury, a USDA computational biologist who works on TASSEL, a software program that analyzes sequence data to find markers associated with plant traits, also attended the workshop.

LA JOLLA --(June 1, 2017) Once we start coloring our hair, we may be surprised to learn that we begin to have a problem in common with plant biologists: finding the right dye for our roots.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Researchers led by a Washington State University biologist have found the optimal mechanism by which plants heal the botanical equivalent of a bad sunburn.

Learn how biologists managed to bring back the endangered Short - Tail Albatross to nest on the atoll; meet Wisdom, a Laysan albatross who has been nesting on Midway for nearly 60 years; find out the strategies being used to eradicate invasive plant and animal species; discover the beauty of endangered Monk seals, sea turtles, spinner dolphins, corals and so much more.

Some biologists, however, are growing concerned that the placement of new large - scale solar power plants in the Mojave Desert may harm the biological diversity found there.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

These findings provide new understanding of how tree branches and leaves maintain a homeostatic temperature considered ideal for photosynthesis and suggests that plant physiology and ecology are important factors to consider as biologists tap trees to investigate climate change.

Biologists found plants that provide food for caribou calves in Greenland were starting their growing seasons earlier, due to a rise in temperatures linked to melting Arctic sea ice.

Obviously, such unprecedented findings are of note to biologists in that they help to shed light on the role birds play in spreading plant - life, but it's hard not to interpret the Bowerbird's newly discovered courtship gesture as a shot across the bow to aspiring romantics of the human variety.