The instrumentation in the facility is optimized for the analysis of plant cellular processes, and the center is dedicated to bringing modern imaging technologies to
plant biologists with all levels of expertise.
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.
Not exact matches
Murphy is a «hunter - gatherer» — a
biologist charged
with cataloguing Earth's rich array of
plants and animals.
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.
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.
«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.
Non-native animals and
plants get a poor press, but this often has more to do
with prejudice than science, says
biologist Mark Davis
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...
When the boy became a
biologist, he recognized that the chaparral was a unique ecosystem,
with its own suite of interdependent
plants and animals, the coastal sage scrub home to fox and bobcats, wrentits and spotted towhees, cactus mouse and California quail.
For three years, Stanford
biologist Jose Fragoso and his collaborators worked
with these people to collect extensive information on local
plant and animal species, as well as demographic information on the nearly 10,000 residents of the Rupununi region.
«Unfortunately, in Hawai`i alone there are 424 federally threatened and endangered
plant taxa
with very few research
biologists and limited funding available to adequately monitor and protect them,» explains the team of scientists.
The research group of LMU
biologist Caroline Gutjahr, in collaboration
with research groups led by Peter Dörmann (Bonn University), Wolfgang Eisenreich (Technical University of Munich) and her LMU colleague Martin Parniske, has now shown that the
plant contributes more than just sugars to the relationship: It also delivers essential lipids to its fungal partner.
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.
Biologist Edward O. Wilson argues that humans are hardwired for biophilia, or a love of wild
plants and animals, and that putting them back in touch
with the environment could resurrect that feeling.
But despite these two tracks being completely separate, two recent rounds of interviews for clients on either side of this divide helped me recognize what a successful Indian
plant breeder has in common
with an equally first - rate American cell
biologist: The passion they have for what they do still drives their career success a decade after leaving the academic lab.
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.
«Through the collaboration
with chemists and
biologists, we were fortunate to discover a new compound that can selectively inhibit the cell division of
plant cells regardless of the cell phase,» says Ueda and Nambo.
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.»
«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.
«
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.
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.
But the authors suspect that,
with a bit more looking,
biologists will find similar strategies in other
plants.
For this, the
biologists subjected
plants to irradiation
with ultraviolet light for about two minutes.
For decades
biologists have been trying to come up
with a reliable birth date for land
plants.
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.
«Plantae allows me to connect
with other
plant biologists across the world to exchange not only scientific ideas, but also ideas on science communication, policy, and education.»
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 instruct
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 instruct
with the release of 20 education kits designed for use in K - 12 and college - level instruction.
Burke has long intersected
with BTI, both as a representative for the Association of Independent Research Institutes (AIRI) since 1989, and more recently through her company's work
with the American Society For
Plant Biologists (ASPB).
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.
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.
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 app
Plant Biologists is open to anyone from any nation engaged
with the full spectrum of
plant science research from fundamental to app
plant science research from fundamental to applied.
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.
Tori Robinson is a Norwegian born
biologist (B.Sc)
with a passion for
plants and their impact on human health.
Katie and Brendan are both
plant biologists so it seemed only natural to have a botanical theme, couple that
with their venue being the Horticulture building it was only fitting to fill this light, airy space
with the most gorgeous booms,
plants and greenery.
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.
«Corals live in a symbiotic relationship
with zooxanthellae, which are
plant - like cells hosted in surface tissues that provide up to 90 % of the energy to the colony,» said Stephen Simpson, a marine
biologist at the University of Exeter in the UK, commenting on the study.
Within 20 days of receiving site access in early October, Bechtel had installed 16 miles of fence around unit one, the common area for the three units and the power block for unit two and working
with BrightSource's
biologists had swept every square foot of the 1,329 acre area of the 3,600 acre site as part of the rare
plant and animal conservation and relocation effort.
This document provides wildlife and conservation
biologists with a technical summary that they can use as an information resource for assessing the vulnerability of Maine's wildlife habitats,
plant communities and species to climate change, which will aid in the development of effective adaptation measures.
It was a rosy wolf snail, a predator of snails that devour garden
plants, said Michael Warriner, invertebrate
biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Agricultural
Biologist II Merced County Agricultural Commissioner, Merced • CA 1999 — 2002 Spearheaded inspections and investigations to verify compliance
with agricultural laws and regulations in pesticide use,
plant and pest quarantine compliance and farming practices designed to limit the spread of pests.