Sentences with phrase «plant biologists working»

Genomics gives plant biologists working in related fields «opportunities to start talking about what experiments not only are interesting but are important to do,» he says.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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...

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.

«The data will provide our first detailed look into the Joshua tree genome,» said Michael McKain, an evolutionary biologist working on the project and a post-doctoral associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

A biologist, Schaal was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants and she has worked to advance understanding of plants» molecular systems and population genetics.

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.

«It's becoming impossible to work in Brazil, especially for young scientists,» says plant biologist Marcos Buckeridge, a professor at the University of São Paulo and president of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences.

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.

But recent research by University of Cincinnati Biologist Denis Conover, working alongside Tim Sisson, president of the Western Wildlife Corridor, reveal their approach for safely killing and removing invasive plants, thus leading to a natural resurgence of native species at Bender Mountain Preserve and other natural wooded areas in southwestern Ohio.

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.

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 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.

The work represents «a really nice collaboration between molecular biologists and plant breeders,» says Jan Leach, a plant pathologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

The ferritin rice work heralds a coming age of «designer crop plants» packing a hefty nutritional punch, predicts Michael Sussman, a plant molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin.

The work is a «major step forward,» says Robert Schuurink, a plant molecular biologist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

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.

The American Society of Plant Biologists expects authors submitting to and publishing in its journals to adhere to ethical standards for scholarship and to ensure that the work they submit to or publish in the journals is free of scientific misconduct.

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.

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).

Awardees generally have made contributions to the broader society that are relevant to the work of plant biologists; recipients need not be plant scientists themselves.

Endosymbiotic theory, that attempts to explain the origins of eukaryotic cell organelles such as mitochondria in animals and fungi and chloroplasts in plants was greatly advanced by the seminal work of biologist Lynn Margulis in the 1960s.

Besides its importance to plant biologists, this work will have implications for agricultural science, evolutionary biology, and molecular medicine.

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.

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.

Over her life, she has worked as an envelope licker, tortoise tagger, lifeguard, Senate page, model, editor, water - polo coach, marine biologist, plant grower, software consultant, and 6 - Sigma Black Belt.

These shelter - rescued dogs are changing the world and saving our planet as they work beside their human biologist partners to detect rare species and endangered plants.

Indeed, my first thought was how much it resembled Madagascar, an island I haven't been to yet, but which I've studied quite a bit through the work of biologists examining what's left of its unique array of animals and plants.

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.

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.

The origin, structure and development of animal and plant life are the core work of a biologist.

Depending on their area of study, biologists may study different aspects of life such as plants and small animals and some may work on inventing bio-fuels and drugs.