Sentences with phrase «plant biologists know»

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.

Plant biologists know that stomata open when exposed to light and close in darkness, but the dynamics of this opening and closing have been little studied because there hasn't been a good way to directly measure them in real time.

Not exact matches

Biologists have known for years that plants make their own hemoglobin, the oxygen - ferrying molecule that gives animal blood its red color.

Biologists knew that wild pollinators matter to wild plants as well as to certain crops such as blueberries, but not to commercial agriculture as a whole.

These evolutionary changes, which are known as «sequential» or «cascading» events, may provide additional information to help biologists explain why certain organisms like plants and insects are more diverse and species - rich than other groups are.

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.

Plant biologists have long known that clusters of genes can do related tasks.

Colleagues describe John Browse as simply one of the top plant biologists in the world.Best known for identifying and cloning the desaturase gene in Arabidopsis, which is responsible for the synthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids in plants, Browse has since been a leader in the effort to bioengineer crop plants to produce oils with increased levels of heart - healthy monounsaturated fatty acids.

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

A challenge going forward, whether with introduced animals, plants or pathogens, will be to know when to fight an invasive species (it's worth pushing on pythons, biologists say) and when to accommodate them.

«We really need to know the mechanisms before we can establish any cause and effect,» said Terry Root, a Stanford University biologist who last month published a paper linking changes in timing of migration, and reproduction in hundreds of plant and animal species, to global warming.

It also substantiates what all biologists have always known: that even the most innocent plant is a solar - powered chemistry set in continuous operation throughout the growing season.