Sentences with phrase «plant biology labs»
Working on Arabidopsis, a model plant used widely in plant biology labs, Cutler and his colleagues focused their efforts on tinkering with one of the plant endogenous systems involved in drought responses.
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In the new study, Dangl and colleagues delved more deeply into this relationship, using mutant versions of Arabidopsis thaliana, a weed that has long been the standard «lab rat» of plant biology research.
«By manipulating photoprotection in plants, it may be possible to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, and one potential outgrowth of that is higher crop productivity,» said Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging and a UC Berkeley professor of plant and microbial biology.
But he took one plant biology course and discovered that one lab, headed by Gerald Fink, a professor of genetics, was working with Arabidopsis and yeast genetics.
«Understanding where FT is located and how it coordinates with other flowering factors is important to breeders; it's useful for breeders for the fine manipulation of flowering times,» said Qingguo Chen, the paper's first author and a research associate in the lab of Robert Turgeon, the paper's senior author and professor of plant biology in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Plant biology researchers, educators and students need products and services such as books, lab equipment and software to assist them in continuing their efforts.
The Li lab uses genomic tools to investigate the evolution and biology of seed - free plants: ferns, fern allies, and bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts).
A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.