Sentences with phrase «plant biologists who»

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?).

The study showed that «the control of the secondary cell wall is incredibly complex and detailed, which is important for plant biologists who want to change it to make biofuels,» she said.

Richard Jorgensen, a plant biologist who was the first to observe RNA interference, thinks modifying traits with a spray «might be really patchy» compared with a true GMO.

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.

This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate - change scientists, biologists, geneticists, modellers and engineers who are using and developing new technologies and research platforms to unlock the vast stores of information within plant genomes.

But the company consisted mainly of great molecular biologists producing exciting transgenic plants, and what they really needed was a plant physiologist who could assess these new plants.

«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.

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.

Thanks to a National Science Foundation — funded initiative called the iPlant Collaborative, for example, there's an emerging generation of data - analyzing «plant biologists» who have never gotten their hands dirty digging in soil or watering seeds.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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 quite a striking pattern now that someone has pointed it out,» says plant evolutionary biologist Peter Crane of Yale, who was not involved in the study.

«It's nice to see they came to the same conclusion that we did» about liverworts, says Jim Leebens - Mack, a plant evolutionary biologist at the University of Georgia in Athens who helped gather the data Donoghue used for the new analysis.

It was accomplished by two biologists at UC San Diego working on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster who employed a new genomic technology to change how mutations could spread through a population — a concept long established in plants by the father of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel.

Decisions to deregulate any wild GM plant like the eucalyptus must take into account this lack of research, said Hong Luo, a molecular biologist at Clemson University who has developed a gene containment system for another wild plant, turfgrass.

The standard training of biologists who undertake research and development of agricultural crops involves comprehensive grounding on how plants work in both greenhouse and field situations.

The most recent breakthrough was made by a team of British and American biologists who report they've successfully infused tobacco plants with bacterial genes — a first step towards engineering crops that grow faster, offer higher yields and use less fertilizers.

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.

And a deeper understanding of the genetic basis for resistance will be instrumental in developing and breeding better plants,» says plant molecular biologist John Mundy of Copenhagen University's Institute of Molecular Biology who led the Arabidopsis study.

In the 1970s, biologists who were desperate to study the plants and wildlife of the Costa Rica rainforest canopy designed a series of cables attached to the trees to help them take photos, observe wildlife, and take samples.

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.

«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.

This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate - change scientists, biologists, geneticists, modelers and engineers who are using and developing new technologies and research platforms to unlock the vast stores of information within plant genomes.