Sentences with phrase «plant biologists from»

This honor, initially given in 1932, provides life membership and Society publications to distinguished plant biologists from outside the United States.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

A group of biologists from the Missouri - based Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have uncovered a genetic mechanism that could increase the yields of some of the world's most important cereal crops, like maize and sorghum.

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The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.&rplant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.&rPlant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»

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).

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.

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.

Biologists from the University of Tübingen have demonstrated that plants can choose between alternative competitive responses according to the stature and densities of their opponents.

With an entire plant genome to work from, biologists can now probe the genes responsible for such basic plant activities as budding, blooming, sleeping and seeding.

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.

The biologists propose to do that by spending $ 60 million to pull together all the known information to assess roughly 160,000 individual species from four groups: chordates (mammals and other vertebrates); invertebrates (insects and worms); plants; and fungi.

But ecologists, in particular, express misgivings about transgenic crops because from their perspective, molecular biologists have a narrow view of how plants work outside the lab.

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.

Evolutionary biologist Christopher Muir has seen plenty of unusual vegetation while exploring tropical rainforests, from a foot - long flower to a plant that uses ants to protect itself.

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Plant evolutionary biologist Steven Franks of the University of California, Irvine, and his colleagues tested the weedy field mustard, introduced to California from the deserts of Mesopotamia by way of Mediterranean climes roughly 300 years ago.

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.

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

Plant molecular biologists Fumiyuki Goto, Toshihiro Yoshihara, and their colleagues first isolated the ferritin gene from soybean sprouts, and then used a soil bacterium to transfer the gene into the DNA of rice cells.

Its 3.8 million bases include the complete mitochondrial genomes of three green algae and one moss, as well as genes from other plants, evolutionary biologist Jeffrey Palmer of Indiana University, Bloomington, and his colleagues report today in another paper in Science.

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.

With funding from the American Society of Plant Biologists and support from the National Science Foundation, ABRC's outreach program kicked off with the release of 20 education kits designed for use in K - 12 and college - level instruction.

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.

Membership in the American Society of Plant Biologists is open to anyone from any nation engaged with the full spectrum of plant science research from fundamental to appPlant Biologists is open to anyone from any nation engaged with the full spectrum of plant science research from fundamental to appplant science research from fundamental to applied.

Hannah De Jong an undergraduate in the Georg Jander lab, received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB).

He has received a number of awards for his research, including the Charles A. Shull (1983), Dennis R. Hoagland (1997) and Stephen Hales Prize (2013) from the American Society of Plant Biologists.

AMHERST, Mass. — A decade or so ago, scientists discovered genes they thought could be turned on to make plants take up more iron from the soil, enriching cereals, grains and other staple foods that feed millions of people around the world an iron - poor diet leading to iron deficiency anemia, says molecular biologist Elsbeth Walker at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

PhD students Emily Larson (in Mary Tierney's lab) and Chang Zhang (in Jeanne Harris's lab) have both been selected from among the students submitting abstracts to the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) to present their work in an oral presentation at the ASPB Annual Meeting in Minneapolis August 6 - 10, 2011.

Channel Islands National Park hosted a lecture about the botanical riches of Guadalupe Island by noted island plant biologist Steve Junak during the November 12, 2014 From Shore to Sea Lecture.

Join artist Mary Miss and St. Louis area architects, urban designers, artists, and biologists from Danforth Plant Sciences Center and the Botanical Gardens on a walk from Pruitt - Igoe to Pulitzer Arts Foundation, to discuss sustainability and design in St. Louis.

I would suggest he set longer term goals, such as avoiding both copper and coal plants, neither of which plays much of a role in life's energy budget - but that is from a biologists point of view.

Benjamin Sulman − a biologist at Indiana University, but then of the Princeton University Environmental Institute in the US − and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they have developed a new computer model to examine what really happens, on a global scale, when plants colonise the soil and start taking in moisture and carbon from the atmosphere.

Despite new methods to probe how an animal or plant forms from a single cell, biologists have much to learn about the unimaginably complex process.

In a bid to put to rest the food versus fuel debate two scientists from NASA, Jelte Rozema and Timothy Flowers, have pointed out in an article for Science magazine that the work of University of Arizona plant biologist Robert Glenn should be seriously considered.

Wildlife Biologists observe plant and animal behavior patterns, collect data and determine conclusions from specific habitats to determine environmental and population dynamics.